[MyAppleMenu] Feb 27, 2010

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**** Apple Files For Ownership Of 'Magic Trackpad' Trademark <http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/10/02/26/apple_files_for_ownership_of_magic_trackpad_trademark.html>
AppleInsider

Apple this week filed for ownership of the term "Magic Trackpad" with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, perhaps signaling the name for a new product, or a rebranding of the company's existing trackpads.



**** Yet More On The Unfolding Future-of-Flash-and-the-Web Saga <http://daringfireball.net/2010/02/flash_saga>
John Gruber, Daring Fireball


>From Apple’s perspective, when it comes to software platforms, theirs is best (Cocoa/Cocoa Touch), because they have complete control. Everyone’s is good (the web), because Apple has control over their own implementation and can influence the future direction of the standards. What Apple doesn’t want is someone else’s proprietary platform, where they have no control at all. That’s what Flash is.


**** Apple Admits To Yellow-tint iMac Issues <http://rss.macworld.com/click.phdo?i=93d8cc32745a4bc53ad4edaf63c32da1>
Serenity Caldwell, Macworld

Apple confirmed the existence of yellow-tint and display issues in new iMacs and counsels users to contact AppleCare for a fix.

**** Who Cares If Apple Bans Some Porn In Apps Store? Overheated Bloggers, That’s Who! <http://kara.allthingsd.com/20100223/who-cares-if-apple-bans-some-porn-in-apps-store-overheated-bloggers-thats-who/>
Kara Swisher, Wall Street Journal

What Apple is doing is not unlike any big retailer, like Walmart (WMT), banning porn sales in stores.

**** Is Monogamy Good For Technology? <http://news.cnet.com/8301-13505_3-10456164-16.html?part=rss&amp;subj=news&amp;tag=2547-1_3-0-20>
Matt Asay, CNET News

Apple creates wonderful technology. I've long been a customer. But I don't want it to be my only vendor, any more than I wanted Microsoft to be such. I'm therefore betting on Google to break the choke hold and will happily pay it for its troubles.

**** Half Of iPhone Users Buy At Least An App A Month <http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-10459753-1.html>
Lance Whitney, CNET

Although iPhone and Android users download and spend time using about the same number of applications, iPhone users are more apt to buy one, according to a report released Thursday by AdMob.

**** iTunes Prize Winner To Steve Jobs: “Yeah Right, Who Is This Really?” <http://www.rollingstone.com/rockdaily/index.php/2010/02/25/itunes-prize-winner-to-steve-jobs-yeah-right-who-is-this-really/>
Rolling Stone

When Steve Jobs personally called Woodstock, Georgia native Louie Sulcer to tell him he’d won Apple’s iTunes Store 10 Billion Song Sold contest, Sulcer first thought was that he was being pranked.

**** iPhone Backup Battery Damage <http://rss.macworld.com/click.phdo?i=144a96c547b84196fa6ce4096fbcbfd9>
Ted Landau, Macworld

In the future, whenever I have any accessory connected to my iPhone, it will staying far away from my pants pocket.

**** Was Apple's Bikini Ban Too Reactionary? <http://www.cio.com/article/558363/Was_Apple_s_Bikini_Ban_Too_Reactionary_?source=rss_news>
Tom Kaneshige, CIO

An app developer gets swept up in Apple's raid on "sexy apps" and becomes collateral damage for four days before Apple mysteriously reinstates the app.

**** Accessory Makers Hope To Profit Off iPad <http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703795004575087583594732288.html?mod=rss_Today's_Most_Popular>
Yukari Iwatani Kane, Wall Street Journal

A month before Apple Inc.'s iPad tablet computer is due to ship, accessory makers are already lining up cases, batteries and other products in the hopes of profiting off the device.

**** The iPhone’s Peephole <http://techcrunch.com/2010/02/26/the-iphones-peephole/>
MG Siegler, TechCrunch

The iPhone may be a closed door, but there is a peephole, Safari. And if you can’t find what you’re looking for on the device, you might want to look through it.



The Tomorrow Weblog
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**** The Medium: Framing Childhood <http://feeds.nytimes.com/click.phdo?i=03d78646316bd6aba3f5ca1b3d26b865>
Virginia Heffernan, New York Times

American children in 2010 have a bright, clear reason for being. They exist to furnish subjects for digital photographs that can be corrected, cropped, captioned, organized, categorized, albumized, broadcast, turned into screen savers and brandished on online social networks.



MyAppleMenu Reader
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**** I Was A Teenage Illiterate <http://feeds.nytimes.com/click.phdo?i=d2fc3d857a6c62394d629df6b5ec584f>
Cathleen Schine, New York Times

At the age of 26, when I returned to New York after an inglorious stab at graduate work in medieval history on the frozen steppes of Chicago, I had a horrifying realization: I was illiterate. At least, I was as close to illiterate as a person with over 20 years of education could possibly be. In my stunted career as a scholar, I’d read promissory notes, papal bulls and guidelines for Inquisitorial interrogation. Dante, too. Boccaccio. . . . But after 1400? Nihil. I felt very, very stupid among my new sophisticated New York friends. I seemed very, very stupid, too. Actually, let’s face it, I was stupid, and it was deeply mortifying, as so many things were in those days. But I have since come to realize that my abject ignorance was really a gift: to be a literarily inclined illiterate at age 26 is one of the most glorious fates that can befall mortal girl.

**** Subcontinental Tour <http://feeds.nytimes.com/click.phdo?i=85e94b9fbce75b38b0b80038bc1c7311>
Jason Goodwin, New York Times

Jerry Delfont, the narrator of Theroux’s latest novel, “A Dead Hand,” is a travel writer firmly embedded in the transactional side of the business. For him, it’s a question of cadging free flights from airline press agents or being “comped” to a hotel room in return for mentioning the donor in his articles. Theroux is spilling a few industry beans here. Hard though it is to get a travel book off the starting block, travel itself has never been easier. Worldwide, the travel industry is a behemoth, employing millions of people and taking in billions of dollars. Air fares are still comparatively low, and the Russians, the Indians and even the Chinese are taking the place of the once ubiquitous Japanese tourist, complete with luxury bus and long-lensed Nikon. We harness the power of the Internet to search out new places, cheaper fares, discounted rooms, bargain packages. With television travel shows, travel magazines and guided tours on your iPod, who needs books anymore?

**** In Richard Bausch’s Stories, Peril And Temptation <http://feeds.nytimes.com/click.phdo?i=16727a6d86906307019aac9e19f359bb>
Maria Russo, New York Times

This collection’s characters circle a disturbing truth: the power to shape our lives can be as terrifying as it is liberating.

**** Depression’s Upside <http://feeds.nytimes.com/click.phdo?i=8b5ca91309791d9ebbbad91bc43556a7>
Jonah Lehrer, New York Times

The persistence of this affliction — and the fact that it seemed to be heritable — posed a serious challenge to Darwin’s new evolutionary theory. If depression was a disorder, then evolution had made a tragic mistake, allowing an illness that impedes reproduction — it leads people to stop having sex and consider suicide — to spread throughout the population. The alternative, of course, is that depression has a secret purpose and our medical interventions are making a bad situation even worse.



SingaporeSurf
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**** No Singapore Fears <http://www.macaubusiness.com/2349_2_No-Singapore-fears>
MacauBusiness.com

Macau officials and casino operators are unfazed by Singapore's new gaming adventure.

**** No Clarity Yet But More Questions On HDB Survery <http://singaporealternatives.blogspot.com/2010/02/no-clarity-yet-but-more-questions-on.html>
Goh Meng Seng, Singapore Alternatives

It is very strange that HDB has refused to release the questionnaire. This is a basic requirement in all research so that those reading the numbers can understand how the numbers were derived. The Singapore Department of Statistics releases all questionnaires from their surveys. Questionnaires cannot be classified as being Confidential or Secret. They belong in the public domain since to use them to gather information, you have to show them to the public. This is especially so when it is claimed that internet survey was carried out.

**** Public Transport Should Cover Remote Areas Too <http://www.straitstimes.com/STForum/Story/STIStory_495524.html>
Ivy Singh-Lim, Kranji Farmers Association, Straits Times

Transport is key to moving an economy. Ms Saw Phaik Hwa, chief executive officer of SMRT, said it herself in The Business Times a few weeks ago ('Joint effort by one and all', Feb 8). It therefore amazes me that Singapore's public transport system, so often toted as 'excellent', can have such gaping holes.

**** 多点一道菜 <http://www.zaobao.com/yl/yl100227_014.shtml>
白士德, 联合早报

新一代工人的教育与技术水平比上一代来得高，说明我国的经济发展处于良性循环之中，未来在成为先进经济体的过程中，我们还会培养或引进一批又一批的新专才，不但能使经济取得质量更高的发展，以制造工资更高的高技术工作，也将使我们的收入增加。这是经济保持良性发展的关键，无论如何都必须看好。

**** 屋价问题恐难让反对党博取选票 <http://www.zaobao.com/yl/yl100227_006.shtml>
陆威量, 联合早报

一言以蔽之，反对党那种在大选将至时，刻意批评政府局部政策在推行过程中的小瑕疵，明眼人也会觉得对这类瑕不掩瑜、已为广大民众带来数十年福利的正确政策吹毛求疵，用意只不过是在争取选票。然而，80%住在组屋的居民中，多数都从屋价上涨中获得资产增值的利益，反对党以此做文章，很可能反而会令许多选民反感，难获选民拥戴。

**** Population Target In Doubt <http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2010/2/27/focus/5758448&sec=focus>
Seah Chiang Nee, The Star

The public housing crisis has revived the question whether Singapore, with only 700sq km of land, can continue to accommodate the current five million residents, let alone increase it by a further one-third.

**** The Chinese Love For Properties <http://biz.thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2010/2/27/business/5749135&sec=business>
The Star

**** Is Singapore Ready For A Renewed Domino’s Pizza Effect? <http://www.media.asia/Opinionarticle/2010_02/Is-Singapore-ready-for-a-renewed-Dominos-Pizza-effect/38906>
Media

Domino’s Pizza is staging a comeback after a ten-year absence in Singapore, making it the latest American food brand to return to the city-state after a failed first attempt in the market.

**** Spare Us The Fake Disappointment: Singapore Government Is Such Good Friends With Burmese Junta <http://singaporedino.blogspot.com/2010/02/spare-us-fake-disappointment-spore-govt.html>
Singapore Dino

**** Singapore `Dominates Frequency' Along Border <http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2010/02/27/s039pore-dominates-frequency039-along-border.html>
Fadli, The Jakarta Post

The frequency range in border areas such as Batam in Riau Islands, is being dominated by Singapore, as demonstrated by high quality transmission from the neighboring television and radio stations, says an official of the local broadcasting regulator.




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