Welcome back to Memory Protection! This month we get lost in Apple's web of mergers and acquisitions as we close on the miWillenium. We get to a point where we don't know how to end the show, similar to the point in these show notes, I just don't know how to stop...

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Follow Up:

• Was the iMac upgraded between launch and iMac DV? Yes - the life-savers colors were release in early 1999

Hot Cocoa:

• Apple gets into the spooky spirit
  
• Matt’s Quicktime Corner:
  • Phil Schiller gives the keynote speech for the new QuickTime Live! Conference
  • Steve Jobs To Deliver Webcast Speech As Pixar CEO, QT Not To Be Used
  • Apple adds 6 new Quicktime TV channels to “The Drawer”
  • Use of QuickTime is declining
• iMac Alarm Clock
  • Another one!
  • American Girl Performa
• Apple, ever vigilant about protecting its intellectual property announces an injunction against Future Power & Daewoo from selling it’s iMac ripoff, the E-Power computer.
• Microsoft and RadioShack team up to “acquire new customers”
  • Federal judge rules that Microsoft has monopoly powers
• Apple is hoping for a dope xmas season
• Between The Apple Store and other mail order sources on one side and CompUSA and Sears on the other, the days of the independent dealer appear numbered.
• One of the first people convicted for copyright infringement for MP3 distribution
• Interesting article on what Apple looks like after Steve Jobs is gone, again
  Will ‘i’ stay or go? (Search for “stay or go”)
• Site vision - cool web site article by Jason Snell
• Y2K Prep (Search “end of the world”)

Topics:

• Apple's Upcoming Acquisition Of Chip Maker Could Hint At Future Products
  • Bob Mansfield
• ARM holdings
  • Apple was one of original founding members of the company, but sold off their shares in Feb 1999!
• Complete list of of mergers & acquisitions by Apple

Recommendations:

• Josh:
  • Movie: Pokémon the First Movie. A boldly named film
    • Roger Ebert’s review
  • Music: Willenium
• Matt:
  • Movie: American Movie
  • Music: Beck - Midnite Vultures

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