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**** Is Iskandar The Start Of A Beautiful Relationship? <http://bernardaw.wordpress.com/2009/06/25/is-iskandar-the-start-of-a-beautiful-relationship/>
by Bernard Aw's Blog
When the world geo-political and economical play changes, Singapore, Malaysia and the rest of ASEAN will be well-positioned to meet the new world order.
**** iPhone 3.0 Adoption Rate Estimates In Question <http://rss.macworld.com/click.phdo?i=a9eb01b5aa5ca237568f386ae80544d4>
by Aayush Arya, Macworld
Even if you take five million off that number to account for the ones that may not be in use anymore, a figure of six million downloads still means that only about 17 percent of all those users had ventured forth and downloaded firmware 3.0 in its first week. Although that would be an impressive statistic for most phones, we’ve all come to expect a bit more from the iPhone.
**** For Steve Jobs, 35,420 Reasons To Talk <http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/06/24/35420-reasons-for-steve-jobs-to-talk/>
by Tara Parker-Popet, New York Times
I would argue that Mr. Jobs has 35,420 far better reasons to start talking about his health. That’s the number of people expected to die of pancreatic cancer this year. I can only imagine the impact a person of Mr. Jobs’s global stature would have on awareness and fund-raising if he braved public disclosure of his condition.
**** Flicking The Apple TV <http://rss.macworld.com/click.phdo?i=b301d5c96dd83e37e2e5091fec83aeb3>
by Christopher Breen, Macworld
**** Evernote Enables Collaborative Notebooks, With A Catch <http://rss.macworld.com/click.phdo?i=6e24a3d714c9ba04a47883feff02786f>
by David Chartier, Macworld
Evernote, the ubiquitous digital-scrapbook service that wishes it were your third arm, has finally taken the next logical step and enabled sharing. Users can now open up their notebooks for collaborative editing to a select few individuals, or even the entire world.
**** Apple Sued Over ITunes Pricing And "fraudulent" Gift Cards <http://feeds.arstechnica.com/~r/arstechnica/apple/~3/RRNEKDA3I48/apple-sued-over-itunes-pricing-and-fraudulent-gift-cards.ars>
by Chris Foresman, Ars Technica
A couple is suing Apple because some songs purchased on the iTunes Store after April 7 cost more than the 99¢ they were "promised" by some iTunes gift cards purchased at Walmart and Sam's Club. The lawsuit is seeking class action status for all others similarly "wronged."
**** Mac News Briefs: Snowtape Adds Online Radio Directory <http://rss.macworld.com/click.phdo?i=d160393e73f5eaf1fce130a273dfb8c5>
by Macworld
Also announced: Updates for Profcast, SQLiteManager.
**** Missing Sync For iPhone 2.0.2 Syncs Voicemail, More <http://feeds.macnn.com/click.phdo?i=2fef4314c675f4de38f807f62d95e141>
by MacNN
The update adds support for transferring and saving both voicemail and voice memos as well as brings iPhone 3.0 compatibility.
**** More Than Jobs Vision Keeping Apple Ripe <http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/f445afde-61b9-11de-9e03-00144feabdc0.html>
by Joseph Menn, Financial Times
The former company officers agree that Apple would be different without Mr Jobs. But it would still be solid if the right person was tapped as CEO. In some ways, they say, it might be better, in that project leaders who hindered by fear of getting it wrong in Mr Jobs’ eyes might take more risks.
**** Apple's Silence On Steve Jobs' Health May Have Broken Federal Securities Rules <http://www.latimes.com/news/la-fi-apple-jobs25-2009jun25,0,6550014.story>
by David Sarno and Walter Hamilton, Los Angeles Times
Firms aren't required to disclose medical details about executives, lawyers say. But they are required to divulge 'material' information investors should know before buying or selling stock.
**** The Steve Jobs/SEC Question, Take II: Did Apple Say Enough? <http://news.google.com/news/url?fd=R&sa=T&url=http://blogs.wsj.com/law/2009/06/25/the-steve-jobssec-question-take-ii-did-apple-say-enough/&usg=AFQjCNFd6otMx_I_CBmupelQJFeX1SQ3YA>
by Ashby Jones, Wall Street Journal
**** Why I'll Finally Buy An iPod Touch <http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=T&ct=us/0-0&fd=R&url=http://www.kombo.com/article.php%3Fartid%3D12959&cid=1379819220&ei=UJtDSpjfOubymQfnv_yoAw&usg=AFQjCNGuDF2-hEgjPkjc9Nwk2xb59mSGjw>
by Eric Frederiksen, Kombo.com
With many of those most fun and popular touch games hovering between $0.99 and $4.99, you can grab a whole bevy of games for the price of a single DS game.
**** There May Be 50,000 Apps For The iPhone, But Only A Select Few Become Popular <http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/06/25/there-may-be-50000-apps-for-the-iphone-but-only-a-select-few-become-popular/>
by Robin Wauters, TechCrunch
**** Toon Boom 5 Features Stop-motion Style Animating <http://feeds.macnn.com/click.phdo?i=b20c273f054b220be9a559cf1d3fcbef>
by MacNN
The update features stop-motion capabilities and time-lapse Imagery that is used to edit the speed of video frames. Toon Boom 5 also boasts a new interface and Chroma Key tools enabling users to replace the background in a video. User's can also position elements of their project more accurately using Onion Skinning.
**** Making Calls Within Your iPhone App - iPhone OS 3.0 Breaks Existing Paradigm <http://blog.ablepear.com/2009/06/making-calls-from-within-your-iphone.html>
by AblePear
**** Long Tail Of iPhone Apps Is Extra Long — And Not In A Good Way <http://gigaom.com/2009/06/25/long-tail-of-iphone-apps-is-extra-long-and-not-in-a-good-way/>
by Jordan Golson, GigaOM
With more than 50,000 apps available on the iPhone, the long tail is in full effect — but even so, the steepness of the curve is impressive.
**** Review: Caboodle 1.3 <http://rss.macworld.com/click.phdo?i=6742375675c8f51b0d707e23899ee8c2>
by Nathan Alderman, Macworld
Organizer’s great ideas marred by shaky execution.
**** Review: VideoDrive 1.9.6.03 <http://rss.macworld.com/click.phdo?i=26ce6327f39417e470567147b2abb29a>
by Jeff Carlson, Macworld
Acting as a friendly middleman between your video files and iTunes, it encodes videos using QuickTime (and, optionally, El Gato’s Turbo.264 hardware device and software for faster performance), pulls metadata from IMDB.com over the Web, and hands the formatted files to iTunes.
**** Apple Ups Stake In iPhone Graphics Chip Designer <http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/09/06/26/apple_ups_stake_in_iphone_graphics_chip_designer.html>
by AppleInsider
**** Twin 1.1 Adds FTP, Snow Leopard Support <http://www.pheedcontent.com/click.phdo?i=3b8c43cf7aa9c164360b0c7eecb3df67>
by The Mac Observer
The update for the automated data backup application added support for FTP transfers, and is now Mac OS X 10.6-ready.
**** Sexy iPhone App Funds A Startup <http://news.google.com/news/url?fd=R&sa=T&url=http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/06/26/AR2009062600199.html&usg=AFQjCNF7Nu3c4EMaYpoZDSrU2aczwWtRcQ>
by Darren Gladstone, PC World
The true story of how one goofball iPhone app saved a company and funded a new MMO game.
**** Avoid Disneyland Lines? New iPhone App For That! <http://news.google.com/news/url?fd=R&sa=T&url=http://www.examiner.com/x-9209-LA-Disneyland-Examiner~y2009m6d26-Avoid-Disneyland-Lines-New-iPhone-App-for-that&usg=AFQjCNEdeuVFDGVMFfWrFTqIc1QdnBXueQ>
by Jodi Jill, Examiner.com
Using reports filed by individuals who are currently waiting in line or have reported the line wait, you can quickly find out the time of the expecting wait period if you don't have a fastpass.
**** Documents Show Apple's Tax-break Quest For NC Site <http://www.boston.com/business/taxes/articles/2009/06/26/documents_show_apples_tax_break_quest_for_nc_site>
by Emery P. Dalesio, Associated Press
North Carolina's General Assembly changed its corporate tax law to favor Apple Inc. after fears the technology giant would take its $1 billion data center to Virginia, state documents released Thursday show.
**** Complaint Box | iPod Volume <http://news.google.com/news/url?fd=R&sa=T&url=http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/06/26/complaint-box-ipod-volume/?hp&usg=AFQjCNGuENmyd32tDLBLVM93Q2q-ZOcoZg>
by Ray Rivera, New York Times
My wife and I were on a crowded 1 train last year when a young red-haired woman turned to the woman seated next to her, who was playing her iPod way too loud.
**** The Curious Case Of Flash On The iPhone <http://news.google.com/news/url?fd=R&sa=T&url=http://www.popsci.com/gear-amp-gadgets/article/2009-06/curious-case-flash-iphone?page=&usg=AFQjCNEpJ4xdkcLEiVO9HThTZFTkrFz82g>
by Popular Science
**** Apple Rejects Soft-Core Porn iPhone App <http://scitech.blogs.cnn.com/2009/06/25/apple-approves-soft-core-porn-for-iphone/>
by CNN
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**** Salesforce.com's Marc Benioff: The Future Of Computing Looks Like Twitter <http://digital.venturebeat.com/2009/06/25/salesforcecoms-marc-benioff-the-future-of-computing-looks-like-twitter/>
by Anthony Ha, Venture Beat
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**** How McDonald's Conquered France. <http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/slate/~3/a3S8e4bH1UY/>
by Mike Steinberger, Slate Magazine
The fast-food chain's most surprising success.
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**** The Right To Offend <http://www.yawningbread.org/arch_2009/yax-1048.htm>
by Yawning Bread
How do we ensure that the public space is sensitive to all religions? We shouldn't, I said.
**** S'pore Could Move Into Full H1N1 Mitigation Phase As Early As Next Week <http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/singaporelocalnews/view/438504/1/.html>
by Imelda Saad, Channel NewsAsia
Clinical evidence shows that the H1N1 situation in Singapore is past the tipping point. And the island state could move into a full mitigation phase as early as next week as flu cases spike, according to the National Scientific Committee which was tasked to study local cases and make recommendations for treatment guidelines.
**** Recession Causing Employees To Work Longer Hours <http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/singaporebusinessnews/view/438501/1/.html>
by Mok Fei Fei, Channel NewsAsia
An online survey by recruitment consultancy Robert Walters found that three in five respondents were working between one and ten hours of overtime per week.
**** Tamiflu Is Still As Potent <http://www.straitstimes.com/Breaking+News/Singapore/Story/STIStory_395431.html>
by Jessica Jaganathan, Straits Times
Roche, the manufacturer of the drug, had asked that two more years be added to the five-year shelf-life of the drug in July last year. The HSA okayed the application after checks against the manufacturer's data to ensure that the drug would be as potent as ever.
**** Getting Straits Times Articles Online For Free <http://www.techgoondu.com/2009/06/26/getting-straits-times-articles-online-for-free/>
by Oo Gin Lee, Techgoondu
The articles will appear under Red Nano’s archives a day after the news went to print.
**** 从“街头一厨一èœâ€æƒ³åˆ°çš„ <http://inachang.wordpress.com/2009/06/26/一厨一èœ/>
by 艾娜
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**** More Than Nostalgia Behind Kuan Yew’s Visit <http://www.sun2surf.com/article.cfm?id=35058>
by Lim Boo Chang, The Sun
**** Visitor Arrivals Down 13% <http://www.straitstimes.com/Breaking+News/Singapore/Story/STIStory_395702.html>
by Lim Wei Chean, Straits Times
May saw the return of double digit decline in tourism arrivals just when tourism industry thought the worst was over when the rate of decline stopped falling so sharply in April.
**** Household Electricity Tariff To Go Up From July 1 <http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/singaporelocalnews/view/438673/1/.html>
by Lee Siew Hoon, Channel NewsAsia
After two quarters of downward adjustment, household electricity tariff will go up by 6.93 per cent or 1.25 cents per kilo watt hour (kWh) from July 1 to September 30.
**** Burger King Backlash: Seven Inches Too Much <http://marketing-interactive.com/news/13676>
by Ben Burrowes, Marketing Interactive
The huge stir which Burger King's new ‘Super Seven Incher' outdoor ad has created within the international blogging community has come as somewhat of a surprise to Religion - the Singapore agency which created the not-so subtle work.
**** The Khaw Strategy – Myth Or Fact? <http://theonlinecitizen.com/2009/06/the-khaw-strategy-%e2%80%93-myth-or-fact/>
by Vicky Yang, The Online Citizen
Perhaps my experience was an exception in the larger scheme of H1N1 testing so far. “The Khaw Strategy†was a myth for the 9 hours I was at TTSH. Yet, the long-asserted conviction that the ground is well-prepared, seems to have fallen through that night.
**** Economic Strategies Committee In Safe Hands <http://www.yawningbread.org/arch_2009/yax-1049.htm>
by Yawning Bread
A 25-member committee has been formed to identify ideas how Singapore can grow economically, but it is stuffed with government ministers and corporate bigwigs. Intellectuals prone to question prevailing wisdom are conspicuous by their absence.
**** Hawkers And Haute Cuisine <http://news.google.com/news/url?fd=R&sa=T&url=http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/travel/hawkers-and-haute-cuisine-20090624-cwi3.html&usg=AFQjCNHyELyckRlbd89u1AkW9H2_yFtZAg>
by Rita Erlich, Brisbane Times
If food is an index of prosperity, Singapore is one of the richest nations in the world. Singaporeans eat with unbridled enthusiasm, discussing the next meal before they have finished the last, enjoying cuisines that make even cosmopolitan Australia look restrained.
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