[MyAppleMenu] Oct 13, 2009

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**** Apple Taught Lazard How Not To Talk About CEO Illness <http://news.google.com/news/url?fd=R&sa=T&url=http%3A%2F%2Fblogs.wsj.com%2Fdeals%2F2009%2F10%2F12%2Fapple-taught-lazard-how-not-to-talk-about-ceo-illness%2F&usg=AFQjCNGpmhILg_KNhcTITHU2tdY1GUsWHA>
Michael Corkery, Wall Street Journal

News that Lazard chief Bruce Wasserstein had been hospitalized for an irregular heartbeat didn’t hurt the investment firm’s shares too much, down just 1% in Monday trading. The lesson? Openess can be healthy.

**** Apple "No Refunds" Policy For Better & Worse <http://news.google.com/news/url?fd=R&sa=T&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pcworld.com%2Fbusinesscenter%2Farticle%2F173495%2Fapple_no_refunds_policy_for_better_and_worse.html&usg=AFQjCNHhcu-hnyE_X2RKoacjdYsKQ7LrPw>
David Coursey, PC World

Apple's "no refunds" policy for iPhone App Store purchase is both not as bad--and worse--than it sounds.

**** The iPhone Is Too Cheap <http://news.google.com/news/url?fd=R&sa=T&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.informationweek.com%2Fblog%2Fmain%2Farchives%2F2009%2F10%2Fthe_iphone_is_t_1.html&usg=AFQjCNGZaLpXL3mo3D6kKz1zYwWfFdDS1Q>
Eric Zeman, InformationWeek

The $99 iPhone is turning the wireless industry on its head, and not in a good way. It's having an obvious negative affect on AT&T's bottom line, and it's causing some serious pain for other makers of mobile devices.

**** FTC Chairman Praises Levinson's Resignation From Google Board <http://www.loopinsight.com/2009/10/12/ftc-chairman-praises-levinsons-resignation-from-google-board/>
Jim Dalrymple, The Loop

FTC Chairman Jon Leibowitz feels Arthur Levinson made the right decision leaving Google’s Board of Directors.

**** Logic Pro 9.0.2 Is Out And Ready For Updating <http://www.tuaw.com/2009/10/12/logic-pro-9-0-2-is-out-and-ready-for-updating/>
Joachim Bean, TUAW

This update provides numerous fixes and enhancements, as well as addressing several issues.

**** Prosoft Releases Data Rescue 3 For Mac Hard Drive Recovery <http://www.pheedcontent.com/click.phdo?i=093d8cf6a5b90d8313ab0ef5c859db0d>
Bryan Chaffin, The Mac Observer

Prosoft Engineering announced Monday the release of Data Rescue 3, an update to the company's do-it-yourself data recovery solution for the Mac. The new version includes speed improvements, a new interface, a new feature called FileIQ, support for more file types, and more.

**** Disney’s Retail Plan Is A Theme Park In Its Stores <http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/13/business/media/13disney.html>
Brooks Barnes, New York Times

The Walt Disney Company, with the help of Steven P. Jobs and his retailing team at Apple, intends to drastically overhaul its approach to the shopping mall.

For the first time, Mr. Jobs’s fingerprints can be seen on Disney strategy, in the same way that he influenced the look and feel of Apple’s own immensely popular retail chain. Mr. Jobs provided access to proprietary information about the development and operation of Apple’s highly successful stores, and Disney executives visited Apple’s research operation in Cupertino, Calif.

**** First Look: Popcorn 4 <http://rss.macworld.com/click.phdo?i=2f3ec7c4e5316dfeefa840230be63454>
Jonathan Seff, Macworld

**** Apple: Finding Even More Uses For iTunes <http://news.google.com/news/url?fd=R&sa=T&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.businessweek.com%2Ftechnology%2Fcontent%2Foct2009%2Ftc20091012_054650.htm&usg=AFQjCNHHSXOKeNgWEa7xYZf9CP4jC-F4pA>
Arik Hesseldahl, BusinessWeek

It's taken iTunes six years to grow from an upstart digital music store into something more powerful than may have been imagined. The moment may be here to turn it into something even bigger.

**** On Paying For iPhone Apps <http://forkbombr.net/on-paying-for-iphone-apps/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rss>
ForkBombr

I think the biggest thing that keeps people from dropping a few bucks on a mobile app is that it doesn’t feel like a real app. iPhone apps are usually one trick ponies, while desktop apps are usually more complicated. That, paired with the fact that people don’t view their phones as computers, mean some people don’t view mobile apps as worth anything, while computer programs are worth some money.

**** MobileMe Mixup: Address Book Snafu Exposes Personal Data To Strangers? <http://www.tuaw.com/2009/10/12/mobileme-mixup-address-book-snafu-exposes-personal-data-to-stra/>
Erica Sadun, TUAW

Under certain very specific conditions, Apple is inadvertently sharing data from other people's accounts.

**** Don’t Want To Pay $10,000 To Have An iTunes LP Version Of Your Album? Make Your Own <http://www.crunchgear.com/2009/10/12/dont-want-to-pay-10000-to-have-an-itunes-lp-version-of-your-album-make-your-own/>
Devin Coldewey, CrunchGear

It turns out anyone versed in a little HTML and Javascript can put together an LP that’s just as good as a “real” one. The question is, will Apple take positive measures to lock out third party ITLP files?

**** Review: CodeWeavers CrossOver Mac Pro 8 <http://rss.macworld.com/click.phdo?i=c5daec734e29d0a0de24d9a53cdf90d1>
John Brandon, Macworld

Program that lets you run Windows apps on your Mac adds support for Office 2007, Quicken 2009.

**** Microsoft Extends Support Period For Office For Mac 2004 <http://rss.macworld.com/click.phdo?i=44021786c1d4a58b58a5a657f2884aaf>
Aulia Masna, Macworld



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**** The Collider, The Particle And A Theory About Fate <http://feeds.nytimes.com/click.phdo?i=a0f9beb082a1cdc339d3a2b9565cfc03>
Dennis Overbye, New York Times

More than a year after an explosion of sparks, soot and frigid helium shut it down, the world’s biggest and most expensive physics experiment, known as the Large Hadron Collider, is poised to start up again. In December, if all goes well, protons will start smashing together in an underground racetrack outside Geneva in a search for forces and particles that reigned during the first trillionth of a second of the Big Bang.

Then it will be time to test one of the most bizarre and revolutionary theories in science. I’m not talking about extra dimensions of space-time, dark matter or even black holes that eat the Earth. No, I’m talking about the notion that the troubled collider is being sabotaged by its own future. A pair of otherwise distinguished physicists have suggested that the hypothesized Higgs boson, which physicists hope to produce with the collider, might be so abhorrent to nature that its creation would ripple backward through time and stop the collider before it could make one, like a time traveler who goes back in time to kill his grandfather.

**** You've Got Mail <http://www.newyorker.com/talk/2009/10/19/091019ta_talk_widdicombe>
Lizzie Widdicombe, New Yorker

The thinking goes like this: It’s perfectly legal for Halderman to write, or threaten to write, a screenplay (or an e-mail to TMZ) exposing the fact that David Letterman had flings with “Late Show” employees. It’s also legal for Halderman to ask Letterman for money as part of a business transaction. So why are the two things illegal when you put them together?



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**** Despite The Green Shoots, Concerns About Economy Still Reign <http://www.todayonline.com/Singapore/EDC091013-0000087/Despite-the-green-shoots,-concerns-about-economy-still-reign>
Leong Wee Keat, Today

Singapore may have reported its first year-on-year gross domestic product (GDP) growth in five quarters yesterday - but if your first instinct is to demand a restoration of pay cuts or salary increments, the advice from economists and employers is to keep that in check. Well, at least for another six months.

**** Indonesia To Help Secure APEC Summit In Singapore <http://www.antara.co.id/en/news/1255362372/indonesia-to-help-secure-apec-summit-in-singapore>
ANTARA News

Indonesia will help secure the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation Forum (APEC) summit to be held in Singapore next month, National Police Chief General Bambang Hendarso Danuri said here on Monday.

Indonesia had been asked to help secure border regions while the summit is in progress, he said when visiting the Riau Islands regional police command.

**** Third-Rate Television For A Third-World Country <http://www.yawningbread.org/arch_2009/yax-1075.htm>
Yawning Bread

The crisis in local television is a harbinger of the crisis that Singapore as a whole will soon face. In a nutshell, it's an inability to compete in a world of ideas. Censorship and authoritarian politics are the root causes. While occasionally a direct connection can be made, the truly damaging effects are indirect. That is to say, even if censorship is lifted tomorrow, it will still take a long time to overcome the effects.

**** Third Of RBS Coutts Singapore Staff Quit <http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/2009/10/12/business/business-uk-rbs-coutts-singapore.html>
Christopher Johnson, Reuters

A third of the staff of the Singapore office of RBS Coutts, a private bank that is part of the Royal Bank of Scotland Group (RBS), have quit in a mass resignation, the bank said on Tuesday.

**** 宫殿里的李光耀 <http://yanglanvip.blog.sohu.com/133780882.html>
杨澜的博客

在采访的一个多小时的时间里，这位依旧保持挺直腰杆的老人，对上面的问题一一作了回答，思维敏捷，反应迅速，根本看不出他已经86岁了。

**** Paradise Home, But Nowhere To Buy Groceries <http://business.asiaone.com/Business/My%2BMoney/Property/Story/A1Story20091012-173217.html>
Tay Shi'an, New Paper

**** 新加坡商界：中国成功源自与邻国分享繁荣愿望 <http://news.dayoo.com/world/57402/200910/13/57402_100201746.htm>
顾时宏, 中国新闻网

**** 新加坡法轮佛学会关于鱼尾狮事件的声明 <http://www.epochtimes.com/gb/9/10/12/n2686635.htm>
新加坡法轮佛学会, 大纪元

我们严正呼吁新加坡政府及警察悬崖勒马，不与行将灭亡之中共为伍，与全世界正义国家、善良人民一起制止对法轮功的非法迫害，为新加坡及其民众选择光明美好的未来。

**** 新加坡晚报受免费报和新媒体冲击巨大 <http://www.nanyangpost.com/money/singapore_business/3178.html>
南洋视界

新加坡报业控股说，互联网的影响是晚报发行量大幅下跌的其中一个主要原因。同时，报业控股最新的年报显示，报业控股过去一个财政年度的广告收入大幅减少。

**** Government In Denial Mode Over Reach Of “Reinvented” Portal <http://www.temasekreview.com/2009/10/13/government-in-denial-mode-over-reach-of-reinvented-portal/>
The Temasek Review

**** 万捷通卡与易通卡“相克” 两卡放一起 车资无法扣 <http://www.zaobao.com/sp/sp091013_014.shtml>
李静仪, 联合早报

刚面市的免触式多用途“万捷通”现金卡与易通卡“水火不容”，两张卡如果摆放在一起，是无法顺利用来扣除车资的。

**** Budget 2010 To Help Firms Grow <http://www.straitstimes.com/Breaking+News/Singapore/Story/STIStory_441552.html>
Straits Times

Next year's budget will provide new and enhanced programmes to support companies' efforts to grow, innovate and compete based on higher productivity, said prime minister Lee Hsien Loong.

**** 话题“女兵”回应争议 张元元：我挺爱中国 但也喜欢新加坡 <http://www.zaobao.com/sp/sp091013_005.shtml>
韩咏红, 联合早报

“我确实是挺爱国的，但是我想每个人都是爱国的吧。”说起自己的爱国心，张元元总会直觉地补上这一句。她小心地说明“爱国”与“喜欢新加坡”即有区别又不相互排斥，同时暗示永久居民爱祖国（中国）与新加坡人爱国都是同一种感情，应该得到理解。

**** Who Should HDB Work With For Lift Upgrading Program <http://urbanrant.blogspot.com/2009/10/who-should-hdb-work-with-for-lift.html>
Urbanrant

The letter is a clear indication to the extent for which the civil service believes it is an instrument of the ruling party. The lack of a regular 'check' of the systems causes the system to be rigid and non-responsive.

**** Staying Vocal For Umno's Sake <http://news.google.com/news/url?fd=R&sa=T&url=http%3A%2F%2Fthestar.com.my%2Fnews%2Fstory.asp%3Ffile%3D%2F2009%2F10%2F13%2Fnation%2F4891422%26sec%3Dnation&usg=AFQjCNEMgTDF60VgmmpRR1A01ZmQvsDaUA>
Malaysia Star

The Johor bridge project is still an issue. Is the bridge so important to Dr Mahathir because it will boost the economy or is it because it is part of his vision?

“It’s not about my vision. There is this perception that the Government is afraid of Singapore, that it does not want to build it because Singapore is against it.”

**** Singapore To Extend Wage Subsidy Program To Curb Job Losses <http://news.google.com/news/url?fd=R&sa=T&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bloomberg.com%2Fapps%2Fnews%3Fpid%3D20601087%26sid%3DaCyoXkuRiv8c&usg=AFQjCNEVEQZesh3FHMtE17l9Qg3xEXeFSA>
Shamim Adam, Bloomberg

Singapore will extend a wage subsidy program for employers set to expire this year to avoid an increase in job losses that may derail the city-state’s economic recovery, prime minister Lee Hsien Loong said.

**** Singapore: India's Latest 'Round-Trip' Destination <http://business.in.com/article/breakpoint/singapore-indias-latest-roundtrip-destination/5722/1>
RN Bhaskar, Forbes India

How Singapore became the most attractive route for the flow of money in and out of India.

**** Singapore’s Age Limits <http://mathialee.wordpress.com/2009/10/13/singapores-age-limits/>
Mathia Lee, Plans and Preoccupations

**** Singapore's M1 To Offer iPhones <http://news.google.com/news/url?fd=R&sa=T&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com%2Fhostednews%2Fafp%2Farticle%2FALeqM5icoq2TIn8K7VziI6GKSuxo6uNKxg&usg=AFQjCNHisXES8BORmUbpwXq53S3mDAqKZA>
AFP

Singapore's MobileOne Ltd (M1) said Tuesday it has reached an agreement with US computing giant Apple to sell the iconic iPhone to customers later this year. However, the telecommunications firm said that information on pricing, tariffs and availability dates will be released later.

**** Zahari's 17 Years Remains Banned : MICA <http://singaporerebel.blogspot.com/2009/10/zaharis-17-years-remains-banned-mica.html>
Martyn See, Only "Objective" And "Factual" Political Films Please, We're Singaporeans

"The prohibition stands as the film gives a distorted and misleading portrayal of Said Zahari's arrest and detention under the Internal Security Act (ISA) and is an attempt to exculpate him from his past involvement in communist united front activities against the interests of Singapore. The film was assessed in its entirety, and every part of the film should be taken in the context of the entire film which presents a distorted portrayal of Said Zahari's arrest and detention under the ISA."

**** HDB's Sale Of Balance Flats Nearly Nine Times Oversubscribed <http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/singaporelocalnews/view/1011111/1/.html>
Joanne Chan, Channel NewsAsia

The Housing & Development Board (HDB) has seen strong demand for the 2,100 flats being offered under its "Sale of Balance Flats" exercise. The HDB received more than 19,000 applications, just a day before the exercise closes, which means that the flats are nearly nine times oversubscribed.




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