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[News]

*** iPod Manufacturer Sees Revenue Double
<http://www.infoworld.com/article/05/09/01/HNipodmanudoubles_1.html>
Dan Nystedt, IDG News Service

Inventec is one of principal suppliers to Apple.

*** T-Mobile To Ship iTunes Phone
<http://www.macworld.co.uk/news/index.cfm?RSS&NewsID=12521>
Macworld UK

During a German press conference yesterday, the company hinted at its plans in a slide that looks at its mobile music strategy.

*** Apple Uses iTunes To Collect Donations For Hurricane Victims
<http://www.macworld.com/news/2005/09/01/hurricane/index.php?lsrc=mwrss>
Jim Dalrymple, Macworld

Apple is now accepting donations on behalf of the Red Cross for victims of Hurricane Katrina through its iTunes music Store. Donation amounts to $5 to $200 are available on the site hosted free of charge by Apple.

*** Apple Joins With O2 To Launch iPod Mobile Phone
<http://www.timesonline.co.uk/newspaper/0,,173-1759197,00.html>
Dan Sabbagh, The Times

Apple is preparing to bring its combined iPod and mobile phone to Britain in the next few weeks in conjunction with mobile operator O2, The Times has learnt.

*** Creative Could Find It Hard To Take A Bite Out Of Apple
<http://it.asia1.com.sg/newsdaily/news001_20050902.html>
Uma Shankari, Business Times

Some observers believe the patent 'victory' could turn out to be a moral one.

*** Apple Discontinues Mac Mini 'Test Drive' Offer
<http://www.macworld.com/news/2005/09/01/minidrive/index.php?lsrc=mwrss>
Jim Dalrymple, Macworld

Apple confirmed that an offer the company made available just yesterday to test drive the Mac mini has been discontinued. The company offered no reason why the promotion had been discontinued or what would happen to customers that had already placed an order.

[Opinion]

*** Apple vPod Concept Hasn't Ripened Yet
<http://www.thestreet.com/_mktwrm/comment/theteleconomist/10240609.html>
Cody Willard, RealMoney.com

*** A Windows Media Tip
<http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/wlg/7708?CMP=OTC-13IV03560550>
Francois Joseph de Kermadec, O'Reilly Network

It looks like Windows Media Player 9 for Mac OS X expects to find something, be it a library or a file, that belongs to Mac OS 9 on the drive and fails f it doesn't.

[Review]

*** Tricking Out iTunes
<http://playlistmag.com/features/2005/09/tickitunes/index.php?lsrc=mwrss>
Mathew Honan, Playlist

Plugins and hacks to max out your music.

[Sidetrack]

*** Some Encouraging Words From Google
Heng-Cheong Leong

Google -- the great internet application company -- has tons of applications that requires the Windows operating system. Afterall, the richness of desktop GUIs pioneered by Apple is still not matched by the web yett.

Today, Google tipped its little toe into the aqua water of Mac OS X with the release of Gmail Notifier for Mac OS X <http://toolbar.google.com/gmail-helper/index.html>

But the better news is in the last paragraph of this blog entry <http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2005/09/gmail-notifier-for-mac-os-x.html>: "Though this is the first, it won't be the last native Mac application that Google delivers", promised Greg Miller. "So please, Mac users, stay tuned!"

*** Rumor Today: Windows Vista (codenamed Longhorn) Has Been Pushed back
Heng-Cheong Leong

The latest rumor: Windows Vista's release has been pushed back <http://svmblogs.vnunet.fr/svm/2005/08/vista_internet_.html> to September/October 2006.

In the great OS battle of the 2006, Apple has not even showed its real hand -- all we know is that it will also run on Intel platform -- and Microsoft has already fallen behind. :-)

*** Before And After
Heng-Cheong Leong

... detailed satellite pictures of New Orleans, as collected by Don Park <http://www.docuverse.com/blog/donpark/EntryViewPage.aspx?guid=02bf1b61-5b8d-4ad1-a6a5-5ceb35ea7ec2>.

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Emerging Technologies. Innovative Applications. New Economy

[News]

*** Hitachi To Introduce Tiny Drive
<http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/02/technology/02tele.html?ex=1283313600&en=1ee83aa64b3c0433&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss>
Damon Darlin, New York Times

In the race to make ever-smaller disk drives for hand-held consumer appliances, Hitachi will announce today that it has matched Seagate with what it says is the smallest drive on the market, a one-inch-diameter hard drive that holds eight gigabytes of data.

*** Craigslist Versus Katrina
<http://www.wired.com/news/planet/0,2782,68720,00.html?tw=rss.TOP>
Keith Axline, Wired News

With cell and land-line phones mostly down, the web has emerged as a champion amid the wreckage.

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The other things in life

[World]

*** Inside New Orleans
<http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2005/09/01/neworleans/index.html>
Kathryn Jezer-Morton and Gray Miles, Salon

Sneaking past the police lines, we find a surreal scene where tourists are sleeping on bridges, restaurateurs are eating high on the hog, and looters lurk on every corner.

[Life]

*** Lost And Found
<http://newyorkmetro.com/nymetro/shopping/fashion/12544/>
Amy Larocca, New York Magazine

Marc Jacobs is fashion's awkward, lonely outsider. Marc Jacobs is fashion's coolest, most influential designer. The paradoxical triumph of a lost city boy.

*** Where Was Delta?
<http://online.wsj.com/public/article/0,,SB112560314335429342-rOLb2WC99mmLt_r0Dgj7WfxwSeU_20060901,00.html?mod=rss_free>
Scott McCartney, Wall Street Journal

The contrast between what American, Continental and Southwest did Sunday and what Delta did is startling. Airlines have to be safe, but they also have to be mindful of their obligation as public transportation. In this case, they were the lifeboat for many customers, and some of the lifeboats didn't show up.

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Life in the city

[News]

*** Indonesia's Oil Struggle May Hurt Singapore's Growth, Goh Says
<http://www.thejakartapost.com/detaillatestnews.asp?fileid=20050902115518&irec=0>
Bloomberg

Indonesia is taking the right measures to tackle rising oil prices, though its struggle with its falling currency and stocks may hurt Singapore's economy, the island's Senior Minister Goh Chok Tong said.

*** Singpaore Press: Police Seize Passport Of NKF's Ex-Chief
<http://sg.biz.yahoo.com/050902/15/3uo8j.html>
Dow Jones

Singapore's police have impounded the passport of the former chief executive of the city-state's biggest charity, the National Kideny Foundation, following a scandal that broke out in July that funds of the charity had been mishandled, the Business Times newspaper reports.

*** Investigation Into Cut-Outs Near Buangkok MRT Surprises Residents, Community Leaders
<http://www.asiaone.com/st/st_20050902_338201.html>
Aaron Low, Straits Times

Police are investigating a complaint about 'white elephant' cut-outs placed on a road divider outside the Buangkok MRT station last Sunday.

*** IR Licences Only By Next Year?
<http://www.todayonline.com/articles/70109.asp>
Val Chua, Today

STB says tender guidelines will be issued 'no earlier than the last week of September.'

*** Singapore Excalates Fight Against Record Surge Of Dengue Fever
<http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000080&sid=a3F.RLduW_2E&refer=asia>
Bloomberg

Singapore said it's stepping up efforts to fight dengue fever, which infected a record number of people last week and has already killed eight people this year, as many as it claimed in all of 2004.

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