[MyAppleMenu] May 12, 2007

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MyAppleMenu
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**** T-Mobile Looks Set To Win Euro Distribution Rights For The iPhone <http://www.marketingweek.co.uk/item/56215/258/262/3>
by MarketingWeek
T-Mobile has emerged as the frontrunner in the race to secure the exclusive European distribution rights for Apple's much-anticipated iPhone. The hotly contested contract will be worth millions of pounds to the winning operator.

**** Maximum Pleasure From Apple Mini <http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/businesstechnology/2003703721_ptgett12.html?syndication=rss>
by Linda Knapp, Seattle Times

**** Analysts Don't See Beatles As Big Cash Cow For iTunes <http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/businesstechnology/2003703716_itune12.html?syndication=rss>
by Ben Charny, MarketWatch
Despite signs that Apple may land a historic deal with The Beatles to make the band's entire catalog of music available on its iTunes store, analysts say such a move would be a "noevent" in terms of the company's profits.

**** Music Man <http://www.macnn.com/reviews/review.php?id=315>
by Rick Curran and Ilene Hoffman, MacNN
This program does a tremendous amount of work for not a lot of money. It is easy to use and the instructios that come with the package are very easy to understand. If you need to convert sound fles, it is likely that Music Man can do it.

The Tomorrow Weblog
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**** Online Ads Vs. Privacy <http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/12/technology/12online.html?ex=1336622400&en=8e8740488d2965b1&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss>
by Dan Mitchell, New York Times
For advertisers, and in many ways for consumers, online advertising is a blessing. But there are huge costs, and many dangers, warns Jennifer Granick, the executive director for the Stanford Law School Center for Internet and Society.

**** Back To The Future <http://www.salon.com/books/feature/2007/05/12/jetpack/index.html?source=rss>
by Simon Reynolds, Salon
Science fiction promised us a tomorrowland of jetpacks, Smell-O-Vision and male mamary implants. So what happened?

MyAppleMenu Reader
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**** The Writing Life <http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/05/10/AR2007051002638.html?nav=rss_artsandliving/books>
by Alberto Fuguet, Washington Post
Look, Ma, no translator! A Chilean writer tries his hand at accent-free prose.

**** Poet's Choice <http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/05/10/AR2007051002686.html?nav=rss_artsandliving/books>
by Robert Pinsky, Washington Post
Poetry appeals to people who get bored esily. It can accomplish a lot in small spaces: sometimes, in almost no time at all.

**** A Moveable Feast Of Essays, Memoirs, Fiction - All Focused On Food <http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/05/10/AR2007051002628.html?nav=rss_artsandliving/books>
by Michael Dirda, Washington Post
Among its other virtues, /American Food Writing/&mdash; a smorgasbord of essays, memoirs, scenes from fiction and even the occasional recipe &mdash; traces our gradual progress toward a "kitchen without walls."

**** The Princess Brides <http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/13/books/review/Kantor-t.html?ex=1336708800&en=028917aebb39a34d&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss>
by Jodi Kantor, New York Times
The late, great writer Marjorie Williams once confesed that reading "Fast Food Nation," Eric Schlosser's investigation into the fast-food industry, left her craving a Burger King fix. I had a similar reaction to "One Perfect Day," Rebecca Mead's dour tour of the American wedding business, which made me suddenly long for a frilly Saturday night nuptial blowout.

**** The Odd Couple <http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/13/books/review/Lawrence-t.html?ex=1336708800&en=20432fe73493cca2&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss>
by Mark Atwood Lawrence, New York Times
Visionaries or cynics? Peacemakers or warmongers? Few individuals in recent times have provoked as much controversy as Richard Nixon and his partner in foreign affairs, Henry Kissinger.

**** Adventures In Dreamland <http://travel.nytimes.com/2007/05/13/travel/13holly.html?ex=1336708800&en=966cca302472abc7&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss>
by A. O. Scott, New York Times
As a tourist destination, Hollywood is a bit of a tease, at once wide-open and hermetic. Its all around you &mdash; the magic of the movies, the homes of the stars, the big sign in the hills &mdash; but where, exactly, is it?

**** Short Cuts <http://www.lrb.co.uk/v29/n09/jone01_.html>
by Thomas Jones, London Review Of Books
There is a wearisome machismo inherent in much of the iconography of typewriting.

**** What's Wrong With Doctors <http://www.nybooks.com/articles/20214>
by Richard Horton, New York Review Of Books
A doctor's mistakes are perhaps best seen as signs of a mind at work. The patient and doctor together share a common purpose in getting this mind thinking straight.

SingaporeSurf
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**** Medical Tourism &mdash; The Singaporean Story <http://www.worldhealthcareblog.org/2007/05/12/medical-tourism%E2%80%94the-singaporean-story/>
by Matthew Holt, World Health Care Blog

**** Paying For Success <http://thestar.com.my/columnists/story.asp?file=/columnists/2007/5/12/insightdownsouth/17691887&sec=Insight%20Down%20South>
by Seah Chiang Nee, The Star
Today's global Singapore &mdash; with hundreds of billions of foreign dollars and a million foreigners &mdash; is slowly taking on a new cost structure similar to other rich cosmopolitan societies.

**** Gay City <http://twostepsfromtwilight.wordpress.com/2007/05/12/gay-city/>
by Two Steps From Twilight
Too many of the execuses used to justify criminalising homosexuality are flimsy, if not wrong.

**** LTA Asked To Review Safety At Bus Stops <http://www.straitstimes.com/portal/site/STI/menuitem.c2aef3d65baca16abb31f610a06310a0/?vgnextoid=6fadbe120b93a010VgnVCM1000000a35010aRCRD&vgnextfmt=vgnartid:acfad65da3c72110VgnVCM100000430a0a0aRCRD>
by Melissa Tan, Straits Times
A member of the government parliamentary committee for transport has called on the Land Transport Authority to review its criteria for the installation of safety bollards at bus stops, in the light of recent accidents.
Mr Seah Kian Peng said since pedestrian safety was at stake, 'LTA might wish to revisit the adequacy of the curent criteria'.