[MyAppleMenu] Monday, Dec 1, 2003

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MyAppleMenu Newsletter
Monday, Dec 1, 2003

MyAppleMenu : News
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Steve Jobs Tops List Of Forbes' 'The Most-Improved CEOs' List (MacDailyNews)
<http://www.macdailynews.com/comments.php?id=P2251_0_1_0_C>

Apple: Haute Couture Computers (JapanConsuming.com)
<http://www.japanconsuming.com/apple.html>
Tokyo was the obvious choice for Apple's first directly operated store outside the US, and Japanese from all over the country and even overseas flocked to see it open on 30 November.

Apple Store Boss: 'Crisis Under Control' (Macworld UK)
<http://www.macworld.co.uk/news/top_news_item.cfm?NewsID=7394>
"We have fixed the broken parts, and have the capacity to respond."

Business Healthy For Apple's iPod (Kat Gresey, Columbia Chronicle)
<http://www.ccchronicle.com/back/2003-12-01/arts1.html>
Some people are so into the Apple iPod it hurts.

MyAppleMenu : Reviews
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iPod For Photos (Globe And Mail)
<http://www.globetechnology.com/servlet/ArticleNews/TPStory/LAC/20031201/TCIPODS/TPTechnology>
Moving with the trend in technology toward convergence, the dockable iPod can now be a voice recorder, photo vault and music player wrapped into one.

Mac.Ars Takes On Holiday Shopping (Eric Bangeman and Erik Kennedy, Ars Technica)
<http://www.arstechnica.com/etc/mac/index.html>
Gifts for the Mac user in your life.

MyAppleMenu Tomorrow: News & Opinions
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Google To Limit Some Drug Ads (Gilbert M. Gaul and Mary Pat Flaherty, Washington Post)
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A23588-2003Nov30.html>
Web giants asked to help discourage illicit online pharmacies.

What To Look For In '04 (Philip D. Long, Syllabus)
<http://www.syllabus.com/article.asp?id=8584>
The most striking thing about the current trends in technology, as this issue will catalog in detail, is that the 'next big thing' doesn't leap from the pages, at least not as a product.

7 Hot Projects (Erika Jonietz, MIT Technology Review)
<http://www.techreview.com/articles/jonietz1203.asp>
These seven technologies are about to make their way out of the lab, onto the market -- and into our lives.

MyAppleMenu SingaporeSurf : Top Stories
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Trying Time Wheeling Round Singapore (Theresa Tan, Straits Times)
<http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/singapore/story/0,4386,222863,00.html?>
Hurdles, obstacles everywhere...

MyAppleMenu SingaporeSurf : News & Opinions
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Singapore To Amend Law To Stem SIA-Pilots' Union Disputes (Dow Jones)
<http://sg.biz.yahoo.com/031201/15/3gbvc.html>
In a statement from the Prime Minister's Office, the government said the Ministry of Manpower will amend the Trade Unions Act to enable trade union executive committees to negotiate and commit to collective agreements without having to seek ratification from their members.

Film About Street Kids Shows Seedy Side Of Singapore (Alexa Olesen, Associated Press)
<http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-0311300457nov30,1,5984432.story?coll=chi-newsnationworld-hed>
Heavily censored at home, '15' wins praise abroad with its hard look at a place that prides itself on cleanliness, propriety and a strict sense of order.

Study Downside Of Media Competition (Warren Fernandez, Straits Times)
<http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/commentary/story/0,4386,222902,00.html>
What Singapore needs is not more blind faith in competition and what its advocates promise, but a hard-headed look at whether competition in this market and in its present form needs fixing or is best left alone.

SIA Pilots: Law To Be TIghtened (Rebecca Lee, Straits Times)
<http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/topstories/story/0,4386,222873,00.html?>
Changes will mean leaders of pilots' union won't need to get members' approval for agreements, a right now unique to Alpa-S.

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