[MyAppleMenu] Aug 18, 2005

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Mac news for Mac people

[News]

*** Security Update 2005-007 v1.1
<http://www.drunkenblog.com/drunkenblog-archives/000624.html>
DrunkenBlog

"Update 2005-007 v1.1 provides a combined 32- and 64-bit version of LibSystem to replace the 32-bit version that was delivered in v1.0.

*** Paper: iPod-Related Orders Benefiting Taiwan Suppliers
<http://www.digitimes.com/news/a20050818PR204.html>
Jessie Shen, DigiTimes

*** iTunes 'Could' Work On Nokia Mobile
<http://www.macworld.co.uk/news/index.cfm?RSS&NewsID=12384>
Macworld UK

Nokia has swiftly denied reports claiming it had reached a deal with Apple to include iTunes support in a future mobile phone.

*** Apple Acts Against OS X x86 Hackers
<http://www.macworld.co.uk/news/index.cfm?RSS&NewsID=12382>
Macworld UK

Apple legal has forced the removal of links to videos showing Mac OS X x86 working on non-Apple certified PCs.

*** Nokia's Music Phone To Use Apple's iTunes -- Paper
<http://ca.today.reuters.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=technologyNews&storyID=2005-08-18T055343Z_01_DIT821233_RTRIDST_0_TECH-NOKIA-APPLE-C-COL.XML>
Reuters

Nokia will bring Apple's iTunes music service to its upcoming music phone N91, Finnish daily Taloussanomat reported on Thursday, without disclosing sources.

*** The Free Toaster? Today, It's An iPod
<http://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/18/technology/circuits/18ipod.html?ex=1282017600&en=245c834493946bff&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss>
David Bernstein, New York Times

To lure customers these days, marketers at corporations and small businesses are capitalizing on the iPod craze by giving away the popular digital music players made by Apple. iPod minis are the No. 1 "motivational" electronics product, according to the trade publication Incentive.

[Opinion]

*** Mac OS X Is Almost As Popular As Windows
<http://news.softpedia.com/news/Mac-OS-X-Is-Almost-as-Popular-as-Windows-6525.shtml>
Softpedia

According to the Softpedia poll.

[Review]

*** Watch The Wax WIth Ear Headphones
<http://www.fortwayne.com/mld/journalgazette/business/12406986.htm>
Peter Svensson, Associated Press

Would you buy a pair of headphones that need an ear wax remover?

The Tomorrow Weblog
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Emerging Technologies. Innovative Applications. New Economy

[News]

*** The Rise Of RSS
<http://www.forbes.com/columnists/2005/08/17/rss-venture-capital-entrepreneurs-cx_tt_0817straightup.html?partner=rss>
Tom Taulli, Forbes

What's the hottest brand on the web these days? The orange RSS icon.

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The other things in life

[World]

*** Junk Food Nation: Who's To Blame For Childhood Obesity?
<http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=20050829&s=ruskin>
Gary Ruskin and Juliet Schor, The Nation

The recent conflict over what America eats, and the way the government promotes food, is a disturbing example of how in Bush's America corporate interests trump public health, public opinion and plain old common sense.

[Life]

*** Deadline Hollywood
<http://www.laweekly.com/ink/05/39/deadline-finke.php>
Nikki Finke, LA Weekly

Hollywood to Newsosaurs: Drop dead.

*** Thigh The Beloved Country
<http://www.salon.com/mwt/feature/2005/08/18/nike_ads/index.html>
Rebecca Traister, Salon

Muscle-bound models sporting "big butts" star in Nike's fall ad campaign. Can this real-women marketing craze be real?

*** I Go To AWP
<http://www.poetrymagazine.org/magazine/0705/comment_171211.html>
Kay Ryan, Poetry

I have always understood myself to be a person who does not go to writers conferences. How, then, one wonders, can it be that I have just come back from AWP's annual conference in Vancouver, treading upon a lifetime of preferring not to?

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Life in the city

[News]

*** Singapore Seeks To Reinvent As Fun Business Center
<http://in.today.reuters.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=businessNews&storyID=2005-08-18T093344Z_01_NOOTR_RTRJONC_0_India-213005-1.xml>
Sebastian Tong, Reuters

Singapore government is trying to cast off its safe-but-dull image by building casinos and exotic venues to entertain tourists and lure lucrative business travellers as part of a plan to make the city-state the venue of choice for international conferences.

*** Singapore Arrests Three For Music Piracy
<http://www.smh.com.au/news/breaking/singapore-arrests-three-for-music-piracy/2005/08/18/1123958162971.html>
Sydney Morning Herald

Singapore police say they have arrested three people, including a student, in the city-state's first online music piracy case.

*** Clarifications On President's Role
<http://www.todayonline.com/articles/67406.asp>
Janaine Lau, Press Secretary to Minister for Law, Today

*** Lessons Learnt From The NKF Saga?
<http://www.todayonline.com/articles/67383.asp>
Tan Hui Leng, Today

Time for the three kidney foundations to work together, says KDF chairman.

*** Neighbors Calling: Malaysian Government Gets A Large Slide Of M1
<http://www.todayonline.com/articles/67423.asp>
Christie Loh, Today

Underlining how deals get clinched when ties get warmer, the Malaysian government yesterday bought a sizeable stake in local telco MobileOne (M1).

*** TM To Buy Up To 30% Stake In M1
<http://biz.thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2005/8/18/business/11808536&sec=business>
B.K. Sidhu, The Star

*** Singapore's NKF Requests CAD Help In Probe Into "Matters Of Grave Concern"
<http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/singaporelocalnews/view/163779/1/.html>
Channel NewsAsia

The interim board of the National Kidney Foundation has come across certain "matters of grave concern" in the course of its work over the last one month. An NKF statement says it has requested the assistance of the Commercial Affairs Department (CAD) to look into these matters.

*** Singapore's Internet Controls Shun Filters
<http://www.centredaily.com/mld/centredaily/business/technology/12408554.htm>
Anick Jesdanun, Associated Press

Singapore maintains some of the world's tightest restrictions on free expressions on the internet, but unlike other regimes, it doesn't do it with technological filters. Instead Singapore controls the web through an unusual mix of legal pressures and access restrictions, according to a new study from three universities.

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[Tunes]

*** Fall Apart Again
<http://www.brandicarlile.net/media.php>
Brandi Carlile
<http://www.brandicarlile.net/media/bc_fall.mp3>