[MyAppleMenu] Nov 26, 2005

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Mac news for Mac people

[News]

*** Apple's iPod Nano A Holiday Hit
<http://today.reuters.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=businessNews&storyID=2005-11-26T023402Z_01_ARM582258_RTRUKOC_0_US-APPLE-IPOD.xml&archived=False>
Reuters

Apple's sleek iPod nano music player was among the top-selling electronic items on Amazon.com on Friday and some models sold out on a top retailer's web site as consumer stocked up on holiday gifts on one of the year's busiest shopping days. Retailer Best Buy's web site was sold out of both the white and black versions of the 4-gigabyte nano prived at $249.99.

*** Apple Readies Rome Retail Site
<http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/11/25/apple_preps_rome_store/>
Tony Smith, The Register

Apple has begun recruiting staff for its first store on mainland Europe.

*** Apple Success Ejects BenQ From MP3 Market
<http://www.macworld.co.uk/news/index.cfm?RSS&NewsID=13217>
Jonny Evans, Macworld UK

BenQ will withdraw its Joybee music players from sale in Taiwan, due to strong competition from the iPod. It plans to introduce a series of MP3-playing mobile phones.

[Opinion]

*** Steve Jobs Ruined My Thanksgiving
<http://jeremy.zawodny.com/blog/archives/005732.html>
Jeremy Zawodny

Do not upgrade from iTunes 4.9 to iTunes 6.0 if you value your time, music, and sanity. Steve Jobs, you owe me an apology.

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Life in the city

[News]

*** Unlimited Flights Within Region Possible Soon
<http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/free/story/0,6418,355018,00.html?>
Karamjit Kaur, Straits Times

*** Singapore Press Unmoved By Clemency Pleas For Nguyen
<http://www.abc.net.au/pm/content/2005/s1517099.htm>
Lisa Millar, ABC

"They feel that they are so right with this decision, that this is their laws, it's their country and they almost cannot understand that Australians think that it can just be altered, that leniency can be granted, that clemency can be granted just like that. This is the message they're trying to get through."

*** Ex-Hostage Wood Begs For Nguyen's Life
<http://www.smh.com.au/news/National/Exhostage-Wood-begs-for-Nguyens-life/2005/11/26/1132703401140.html>
AAP

Douglas Wood, the man Australia fought to bring home after he was taken hostage in Iraq, has begged for the same support for Nguyen Tuong Van, on death row in Singapore. And New Zealand Prime Minister Helen Clark will join the growing cries for clemency for the Melbourne man by making an informal plea to her Singaporean counterpart.

[Opinion]

*** Is The Life Of A Singaporean That Cheap Compared To A Foreigner's?
<http://www.singaporedemocrat.org/articlenguyen15.html>
Chee Soon Juan

I have been raising these questions since 1997 but each time the local media assiduously blacks them out. Other arguments against the mandatory death penalty for drug peddlers raised by people like Dr Antohny Yeo, Mr J B Jeyaretnam, Mr M Ravi, Mr Alex Au, Mr Sinapan Samydorai, and Brother Michael Broughton have similarly been censored.