[MyAppleMenu] Dec 22, 2007

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**** Apple Updates Safari Security Update <http://www.macnn.com/articles/07/12/22/safari.security.update/>
by MacNN

**** Does Japan Need The iPhone? <http://www.businessweek.com/globalbiz/content/dec2007/gb20071220_152247.htm>
by Kenji Hall, BusinessWeek
The world's most sophisticated users of wireless technology may be unimpressed by Apple's high-tech gadget.

**** Inside Apple's iCal Server <http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9053921&source=rss_topic123>
by Ryan Faas, Computerworld
Apple's new software for shared calendars has much to recommend it. We give you an in-depth look, and some tips and tricks for implementation.

**** Liquid Ledger 2: Personal Financial Application Offers Simplicity But Has Some Missteps <http://www.macworld.com/article/131141/2007/12/liquidledger2.html>
by Jeffery Battersby, Macworld
Those accustomed to more mature programs may be left cold by Liquid Ledger's limited reporting tools and the way the program handles the entry of new transactions.

**** Apples For The Army <http://www.forbes.com/home/technology/2007/12/20/apple-army-hackers-tech-security-cx_ag_1221army.html>
by Andy Greenberg, Forbes
Given Apple's marketing toward the young and the trendy, you wouldn't expect the U.S. Army to be much of a customer. Lieutenant Colonel C.J. Wallington is hoping hackers won't expect it either.

**** Newsflash: Apple And RIM Are Competitors <http://www.businessweek.com/technology/ByteOfTheApple/blog/archives/2007/12/newsflash_apple.html?campaign_id=rss_blog_byteoftheapple>
by Arik Hesseldahl, BusinessWeek
Apple's advantage is media. It has iTunes and music and video behind it, which RIM doesn't do all that well, at least not yet. RIM's advantage is its established relationships with corporate IT departments, and with many many carriers.

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**** Graying For Keeps <http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/display.php?id=34302>
by David Dunlap Jr., Washington City Paper
When it comes to archival music, being a Luddite means embracing new technology.

**** My Long Bet With Martin Nisenholtz <http://www.scripting.com/stories/2007/12/21/myLongBetWithMartinNisenho.html>
by Dave Winer, Scripting News

MyAppleMenu Reader
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**** Disappear <http://www.chicagoreader.com/features/stories/fiction07/eusebio/>
by Eduardo Cruz Eusebio, Chicago Reader
When Sam was born he was chubby and round, with slits for eyes. We called him Baby Buddha. But as he's gotten older he's started to look less and less Asian. His hair has grown curly and brown with red highlights like his mother's. He actually has a bridge on his nose, something I didn't enjoy until I reached my teens. His face has grown longer, his eyes wider.

**** Stopping By <http://www.chicagoreader.com/features/stories/fiction07/bell/>
by Heidi Bell, Chicago Reader
J calls it boredom, which M knows from adolescent psychology is another word for age-appropriate restlessness but feels like a squirming desire to burst out of the shell of useless skin. M thinks about how it's still a town where people leave their doors unlocked at night and in the winter warm up their empty cars at the curb.

**** The Whore On Christmas <http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/Content?oid=464318>
by Mistress Matisse, The Stranger
The ups and downs of being a sex worker during the holidays.

**** A Tsar Is Born <http://www.time.com/time/specials/2007/personoftheyear/article/0,28804,1690753_1690757_1690766,00.html>
by Adi Ignatius, Time
No one is born with a stare like Vladimir Putin's. The Russian president's pale blue eyes are so cool, so devoid of emotion that the stare must have begun as an affect, the gesture of someone who understood that power might be achieved by the suppression of ordinary needs, like blinking. The affect is now seamless, which makes talking to the Russian president not just exhausting but often chilling. It's a gaze that says, I'm in charge.

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**** Little Island That Could <http://online.wsj.com/article/SB119828054994846017.html?mod=googlenews_wsj>
by Laura Santini, Jason Leow and Yaroslav Trofimov, Wall Street Journal
Significantly, many investments like these are in the form of minority stakes, rather than controlling stakes, presumably to diminish possible political fallout.
See Also:
Buying Quest Sees Temasek Looking West <http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/2f5294ee-b030-11dc-b874-0000779fd2ac.html>, by John Burton, Financial Times.
Sticky Deal At Merrill Lynch <http://mijkasamora.blogspot.com/2007/12/chewing-gum-at-merrill-lynch.html>, by Noele Kensut, Mijka Samora's Reality Journal.

**** Public Cry Foul Over Recent Policies <http://thestar.com.my/columnists/story.asp?file=/2007/12/22/columnists/insightdownsouth/19824855&sec=Insight%20Down%20South>
by Seah Chiang Nee, The Star
A succession of unpopular policies &mdash; incredibly ill-timed, if not ill-planned &mdash; has rduced the government's public popularity to the lowest level in many years.
It is ironic because the economy and the job market are on a roll, which should have resulted in a high level of optimism and improved feelings for the ruling People's Action Party.
Instead the opposite is happening.

**** Singapore's Quiet Giant <http://www.portfolio.com/news-markets/top-5/2007/12/21/Singapores-Quiet-Giant>
by Pranay Gupte, Portfolio.com
For the emerging sovereign wealth funds of the Persian Gulf and China, Temasek Holdings of Singapore is looked to as the model.
Temasek is a secretive company whose executive director and chief executive is Ho Ching, the wife of prime minister Lee Hsien Loong.

**** SIA Ads To Show Full Fares <http://www.straitstimes.com/Free/Story/STIStory_189292.html>
by Karamjit Kaur, Straits Times

>From next month, Singapore Airlines (SIA) will advertise full fares so travallers will know right away how much their air ticket will cost.


**** Prima Gets Baking Go-Ahead <http://www.straitstimes.com/Free/Story/STIStory_189139.html>
by Sumathi V. Selvaretnam, Straits Times

**** $2B Mega Project To Expand Singapore Port <http://www.straitstimes.com/Free/Story/STIStory_189138.html>
by Bryan Lee, Straits Times
Singapore is spending $2 billion to expand its port to beef up annual capacity by about 40 per cent.

**** A Question On Renumeration <http://www.todayonline.com/articles/228738.asp>
by Leong Sze Hian, Today
Including bonus, is minister's pay about the 77% of private sector benchmark?