[MyAppleMenu] Mar 20, 2006

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Mac news for Mac people

[News]

*** New MagSafe Power Adaptor Ablaze
<http://www.macworld.co.uk/news/index.cfm?RSS&NewsID=14146>
Macworld UK

Apple's engineering teams are furiously engaged in finding out what went wrong when a MacBook pro's MagSafe power adapter caught fire.

*** Samsung And SanDisk Compete To Drive NAND Flash Prices Downward
<http://www.digitimes.com/bits_chips/a20060320PR202.html>
Josephine Lien and Esther Lam, DigiTimes

With weaker-than-expected iPod nano sales this year, Samsung has been trying to maintain control over its inventory levels buy dumping excess stock with memory module makers, according to sources at downstream players.

*** Apple Shareholders Meet April 27
<http://www.macworld.co.uk/news/index.cfm?RSS&NewsID=14140>
Macworld UK

*** Hey Teacher, Thanks For The Apple
<http://home.hamptonroads.com/stories/story.cfm?story=101710&ran=55002>
Michelle E. Shaw, The Virginian-Pilot

The iPod, one of the most popular electronic devices purchased last Christmas, is popping up in capus classrooms across the country.

[Opinion]

*** From The Scene: Everybody Has Music In Their Ears
<http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/spt/colleges/national/tournament/ncaamen/stories/032006dnspodallasscene.4723884.html>
Steve Davis, Dallas Morning News

Now hear this: You cannot be a college basketball player unless you are among the iPod enabled. Rare is the college basketball player who gets off the bus without his personal selection of tunes.

*** Make .Mac Mobile
<http://www.powerpage.org/archives/2006/03/make_mac_mobile.html>
O'Grady's PowerPage

Apple needs a more vocal mobile strategy.

The Tomorrow Weblog
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Emerging Technologies. Innovative Applications. New Economy

[News]

*** China To Launch Indigenous Low-Cost Computers
<http://onlypunjab.com/fullstory2k5-insight-news-status-10-newsID-90664.html>
Onlypunjab.com

A Chinese company has claimed to have developed the nation's first low-cost computer priced at 125 US dollars, using an digenous central processing unit and the new product will hit the market in June, a report said today.

*** Is The Next Silicon Valley Taking Root In Bangalore?
<http://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/20/business/worldbusiness/20bangalore.html?ex=1300510800&en=993a11e65908ab91&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss>
Saritha Rai, New York Times

*** 'Patent Trolling' Firms Sue Their Ways To Profits
<http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11860819/from/RSS/>
MSNBC

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The other things in life

[Life]

*** Where Showing Skin Doesn't Sell, A New Style Is A Hit
<http://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/20/international/africa/20kenya.html>
Marc Lacey, New York Times

All these young women dream of is a sporty hijab, one that covers them but doesn't cramp their style.

*** Taco Bell Nation
<http://www.latimes.com/features/magazine/west/la-tm-tacobell12mar19,0,3787670.story>
Dagoberto Gilb, Los Angeles Times

Look around any of these fast-food franchises, and you'll see the mosaic of people we've become Maybe a little too portly. And way too ignorant of what a real chalupa is.

*** Wanted: A Few Good Sperm
<http://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/19/magazine/319dad.html?_r=1&oref=slogin>
Jennifer Egan, New York Times

Tired of waiting for the right guy to come along, more and more women are just looking for the right sperm. But for a woman trying to have a child alone, choosing a donor is only the beginning.

SingaporeSurf
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Life in the city

[GE06]

*** Nee Soon East MP Ho Peng Kee Confident Of Chances In Upcoming GE
<http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/singaporelocalnews/view/198849/1/.html>
Joanne Leow, Channel NewsAsia

*** 'Old Face' Is Not Worried
<http://www.todayonline.com/articles/107749.asp>
Loh Chee Kong, Today

Chiam on SM's involvement and Sitoh's banquets.

*** SM's Task: Win Back Opposition Wards
<http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/free/story/0,6418,379206,00.html?>
Li Xueying, Straits Times

*** NSP Steve Chia To Launch Book To Raise Funds For Election Campaign
<http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/singaporelocalnews/view/198716/1/.html>
Wong Siew Ying, Channel NewsAsia

[News]

*** Singapore Reverses Decision Not To Broadcast Games
<http://www.abc.net.au/worldtoday/content/2006/s1595941.htm>
James Panichi, ABC

*** Indonesia, Singapore Want To See More Solid ASEAN
<http://www.bernama.com.my/bernama/v3/news.php?id=186755>
Bernama

*** Card to Beat The Jam
<http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2006/3/20/southneast/13637888&sec=southneast>
Teh Eng Hock, The Star

In a bid to reduce traffic congestion at the new Customs, Immigration and Quarantine (CIQ) complex here, PLUS, the highway concessionaire for the Causeway, has been told to promote Touch n'Go cards among Singaporean motorists.

[Entertainment]

*** Welcome To Singapore, Have You Eaten?
<http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/7/story.cfm?c_id=7&objectid=10373553>
Sharleen Heijstra, New Zealand Herald

Turns out shopping comes second to eating but both arenational pastimes for Singaporeans. So, in order to fully experience Singapore, I gave myself up to feast after feast of culinary delights, and some essential worshipping at the temple of shoes.

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Life is random. More tunes, less talk.

[Tunes]

*** Ghostbusters
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