[MyAppleMenu] Jun 26, 2006

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Mac news for Mac people

[News]

*** Lack Of Clarity At Apple
<http://www.marketwatch.com/News/Story/Story.aspx?guid=%7BEE4732BB%2DBCFC%2D49FE%2D9CA3%2D6E11FC25122D%7D&dist=rss&siteid=mktw&rss=1>
Herb Greenberg, MarketWatch

For all of its terrific marketing, superb products and highflying stock, there's another side to the revival of Apple that gets less airplay: Its lack of a certain type of disclosure.

*** Apple Confirms WWDC 2006 Steve Jobs Keynote
<http://www.macworld.co.uk/news/index.cfm?RSS&NewsID=15064>
Jonny Evans, Macworld UK

*** Foxconn Admits Breaking Labor Laws In China
<http://www.chinatechnews.com/index.php?action=show&type=news&id=4120>
ChinaTechNews.com

Foxconn, an original equipment manufacturer for Apple's iPod, has admitted that their employees work about 80 extra hours each month, which is against the law in China.

*** MagSafe Not So Safe?
<http://www.macuser.com/hardware/magsafe_not_so_safe.php>
Dan Moren, MacUser

[Review]

*** Airline Tycoon Deluxe
<http://www.insidemacgames.com/reviews/view.php?ID=704>
Nuno Alves, Inside Mac Games

[Wintel]

*** We Come To Bury WinFS...
<http://fishbowl.pastiche.org/2006/06/25/we_come_to_bury_winfs>
Charles Miller, The Fishbowl

Meet the new boss, same as the old boss.

The Tomorrow Weblog
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Emerging Technologies. Innovative Applications. New Economy

[News]

*** No Neutral Ground In This Internet Battle
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/06/25/AR2006062500735.html>
Jeffrey H. Bimbaum, Washington Post

*** Coming Soon -- Mind-Reading Computers
<http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1981451,00.asp?kc=EWRSS03119TX1K0000594>
Patricia Reaney, Reuters

A raised eyebrow, quizzical look or a nod of the head are just a few of the facial expressions computers could soon be using to read people's minds.

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The other things in life

[Life]

*** Golden Eggs
<http://www.boston.com/news/globe/magazine/articles/2006/06/25/golden_eggs/>
Carlene Hempel, Boston Globe

Drowning in credit-card debt and student loans, young women are selling their eggs for big payoffs. But can they really make the right medical and moral decisions when they're tempted with $15,000?

*** A Slow-Road Movement?
<http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/25/magazine/25wwln_idea.html?_r=1&oref=slogin>
Robert Sullivan, New York Times

Call it the Slow Road movement, but not the No Road movement, because another thing that a 50-year-old crumbling Interstate System brings is opportunity, a chance for a giant retrofit.

[Expressions]

*** I Remember Rosemary Fishman
<http://www.latimes.com/features/magazine/west/la-tm-calstory26jun25,1,1366259.story?coll=la-headlines-west>
Josh Deutchman, Los Angeles Times

Nineteen eighty one. If you were an 11-year-old boy, and you lived in the San Fernando Valley, and you owned a dirt bike, there was nowhere you could not go.

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Life in the city

[News]

*** Casino Bidders Warned Of Bad Vibes
<http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/worldbiz/archives/2006/06/23/2003315177>
DPA

Bidders for Singapore's second casino resort on Sentosa island were warned not to ignore the site's bloody World War II past.

*** Singapore Set For Bigger Bite Of Info Economy
<http://www.theage.com.au/news/business/singapore-set-for-bigger-bite-of-info-economy/2006/06/25/1151174072278.html>
Garry Barker, The Age

A measure of how far behind Australia is running in the great global broadband race lies in an ambitious plan by Singapore's equivalent of Senator Helen Coonan, the city-state's Minister for Information, Communications and the Arts, Lee Boon Yang.

*** Concern That Senai Will Lose Out
<http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2006/6/26/southneast/14613432&sec=southneast>
Meera Vijayan, The Star

The Senai airport continued to be a hot topic at the state assembly meeting recently with concerns that the airport would lose out to its Singaporean counterpart if AirAsia took over all domestic routes.

*** Big Savings For Cabbies
<http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2006/6/26/nation/14653006&sec=nation>
The Star

The 400-odd taxi drivers plying the Johor Baru-Singapore route can now save by not having to renew their passports so frequently, thanks to a new immigration ruling.

*** World Cup Seen Free Via 'Loophole'
<http://www.todayonline.com/articles/126833.asp>
Lee Ching Wern, Today

*** A 9am Wish Come True
<http://www.todayonline.com/articles/126775.asp>
Lee U-Wen, Today

More sleep and flexibility for Kuo Chuan students thanks to launch of 'Manic Mondays.'

[Opinion]

*** Who's Afraid Of Big Bad Baby Lee, The Angry Asian Autocrat?
<http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,3711596a1861,00.html>
Tze Ming Mok, New Zealand Stuff

Dear Xiao Lee, you're turning out a bully just like your old man. But maybe after the PAP's worst election result ever, you too are "a little bit scared."

*** SDP: Once More Into The Breach
<http://chemgen.blogspot.com/2006/06/sdp-once-more-into-breach.html>
Chemical Generation Singapore

Why is the SDP continuing to use civil disobedience when it is not producing results and winning votes?

*** Bring It On!
<http://cobaltpaladin.blogspot.com/2006/06/bring-it-on.html>
Cobalt Paladin, A Long And Arduous Road Of An Entrepreneur

Even if there isn't these GLCs, there would be rival companies doing the same business except that they are headquartered in foreign country.

*** Ad Unfairly Portrays The Disabled
<http://www.todayonline.com/articles/126783.asp>
Ow Chee Chung, Society for the Physically Disabled, Today

*** Update MDA If Status Of TV Licence Changes
<http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/portal/site/STI/menuitem.c2aef3d65baca16abb31f610a06310a0/?vgnextoid=7532758920e39010VgnVCM1000000a35010aRCRD&vgnextfmt=vgnartid:24e40cff2db0c010VgnVCM100000430a0a0aRCRD>
Regina Chang, Media Development Authority, Straits Times

We would like to take this opportunity to remind our licensees to update MDA promptly on any change in their TV licence.