[MyAppleMenu] Jan 16, 2010

[applesurf at myapplemenu.com]

MyAppleMenu
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**** Prevent The iPod Touch From Launching IPhoto <http://db.tidbits.com/article/10916?rss&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+tidbits_main+%28TidBITS%3A+Mac+News+for+the+Rest+of+Us%29>
Adam C. Engst, TidBITS

Although the cause of Warren's problem may seem obvious to anyone who has taken a photo with an iPhone, the iPod touch's lack of a camera muddied the issue for him.

**** Apple Needs To Go On A Shopping Spree <http://blogs.zdnet.com/Apple/?p=5717&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+zdnet%2FApple+%28ZDNet+The+Apple+Core%29>
Jason D. O'Grady, ZDNet

Apple is notoriously stingy with its bankroll only acquiring 10 companies in the past 13 years. It's high time that Apple open up the vault and make some acquisitions.

**** Is Gawker's "Apple Tablet Scavenger Hunt" Illegal? <http://www.slate.com/id/2241692/pagenum/all/#p1>
Ben Sheffner, Slate Magazine

Apple is threatening to sue over Valleywag's tablet stunt. It's got a pretty good case.

**** Solving 'circular Loop' Problems In iPhone Apps <http://www.macworld.com/article/145728/2010/01/circularloop_iphoneapp.html?lsrc=rss_main>
Ted Landau, Macworld

**** AppOmator Offers A New Way To Build iPhone Apps <http://news.cnet.com/8301-13579_3-10436093-37.html?part=rss&amp;subj=news&amp;tag=2547-1_3-0-20>
CNET News

Building an iPhone app is going to be much easier very soon. A Mac application called AppOmater will allow you to build custom iPhone apps with no coding experience.

**** AT&T Drops Price Of iPhone's Unlimited Voice And Data Paln <http://www.macworld.com/article/145747/2010/01/att_pricing.html?lsrc=rss_main>
Philip Michaels, Macworld

Starting Monday, iPhone users can get an unlimited voice and data plan from AT&amp;T for $100 a month -- less than they currently pay.

**** Psystar Files Appeal Against Apple Win <http://www.macnn.com/articles/10/01/15/psystar.formally.disputes.apple.case/>
MacNN

**** Apple: Still Kowtowing To Chinese Censorship <http://blogs.computerworld.com/15412/apple_still_kowtowing_to_chinese_censorship>
Preston Gralla, Computerworld

Apple has worked for years to build a company image as freedom-loving and iconoclastic. But the truth is far darker: Apple is cooperating with the Chinese government to ban iPhone applications in China related to the Dalai Lama and Uighur activist Rebiya Kandeer, even though it once highlighted the Dalai Lama in its "Think Different" campaign. One word describes Apple's behavior: hypocritical.

**** Behind Apple's Iron Curtain <http://www.ctv.ca/generic/generated/static/business/article1432726.html>
Omar El Akkad, CTV

It's the most highly anticipated product in years, and there's no proof it actually exists.

**** Apple Files New Trade Complaint With US Agency Against Nokia <http://www.businessweek.com/news/2010-01-16/apple-files-new-trade-complaint-with-u-s-agency-against-nokia.html>
Susan Decker, Bloomberg

Apple Inc. filed a new patent- infringement complaint against Nokia Oyj, seeking to block U.S. imports of mobile phones and increasing the legal battle between the two over smartphone technology.



The Tomorrow Weblog
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**** Can Google Beat China? <http://roomfordebate.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/01/15/can-google-beat-china/?partner=rss&emc=rss>
New York Times

Is it just a matter of time before technologists find a way to defeat censorship?



MyAppleMenu Reader
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**** funhouse <http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2010/jan/16/saturday-poem-funhouse-charles-bukowski?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+theguardian%2Fbooks%2Frss+%28Books%29>
Charles Bukowski, The Guardian

**** When War Is Peace And Right Is Center <http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2010/01/15/newspeak_open2010/index.html>
David Sirota, Salon

It's not 1984, but Newspeak lives on in the media's skewing of the terms of our political debate

**** The D.I.Y. Book Tour <http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/17/books/review/Elliott-t.html?partner=rss&emc=rss>
Stephen Elliott, New York Times

Reading in private homes ensures that at least one other person will be embarrassed if nobody shows up.



SingaporeSurf
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**** Fifa Asking For Too Much <http://www.straitstimes.com/BreakingNews/Singapore/Story/STIStory_478141.html>
Wang Meng Meng, Straits Times

**** A Hint Of Assertiveness <http://theonlinecitizen.com/2010/01/toc-editorial-a-hint-of-assertiveness/>
The Online Citizen

The Court of Appeals’ Yong Vui Kong ruling could signal a change in criminal jurisprudence.

**** HDB Mortgage Slaves <http://singaporealternatives.blogspot.com/2010/01/hdb-mortgage-slaves.html>
Goh Meng Seng, Singapore Alternatives

**** Why Dissent Needs J. B. Jeyaretnam <http://enquirer.sg/2010/01/16/why-dissent-needs-j-b-jeyaretnam/>
Belmont Lay, The Enquirer

In 20 years’ time, we might be wondering whether this present epoch was the turning point where we might have missed an important transition.

**** Car Population Up <http://www.straitstimes.com/BreakingNews/Singapore/Story/STIStory_478187.html>
Christopher Tan, Straits Times

NEW car sales slowed by nearly 30 per cent last year on the back of a big cut in COE supply, according to Land Transport Authority data. But because far fewer cars were scrapped or exported, the car population grew despite the drop in sales.

**** Malaysia Hopes Singapore Will Also Help Ease Causeway Lorry Congestion <http://www.bernama.com/bernama/v5/newsindex.php?id=468648>
Bernama

Malaysia hopes Singapore will also help in easing the congestion of lorries heading to the republic via the Johor Causeway, finance minister Datuk Seri Ahmad Husni Hanadzlah said on Friday.

**** Readying For The Real Cyberbrawl <http://thestar.com.my/columnists/story.asp?col=insightdownsouth&file=/2010/1/16/columnists/insightdownsouth/5476829&sec=Insight%20Down%20South>
Seah Chiang Nee, The Star

Many tech-savvy Singaporeans expect the next national election to be fought mainly in cyberspace, hopefully through superior logic rather than using high technology to silence the other.

**** Minimum Wage Not The Answer To High-Income Economy <http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2010/1/16/nation/5483536&sec=nation>
Joshua Foong, The Star

A minimum wage will not contribute to the development of a high-income economy, says an academic from the National University of Singapore.

**** Singapore Retail Sales Decline The Least In 11 Months <http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601080&sid=aiipP21see2c>
Shamim Adam, Bloomberg

Singapore’s retail sales declined the least in 11 months in November as year-end holidays drew tourists and an economic recovery boosted consumer spending.

**** Germany, Singapore Top World Bank Trade Logistics Survey <http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5iF_LaIDQtwzYlUOyXEmGqS7S-IbA>
AFP

Germany has emerged top and Singapore second in a new World Bank logistics survey that measures how efficiently countries trade their goods around the world.

**** Animal Protection Activists Meet In Singapore <http://www.bernama.com/bernama/v5/newsindex.php?id=468780>
Bernama

Nearly 400 international animal protection activists gathered here today to discuss concrete long-term solutions for ongoing animal protection and cruelty problems in the Asia region.