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**** 2010: The Year Apple Enters A New Golden Age <http://bullcross.blogspot.com/2010/07/2010-year-apple-enters-new-golden-age.html>
Bullish Cross

To get an idea of how deeply Apple continues to penetrate the market, Apple will produce 50% more in sales and 71% more in earnings in 2010 than it did last year. If this growth continues into 2011, Apple will surpass Exxon to become the largest corporation in America. Not to mention that it already has more cash than any other company in the United States - $41 billion.

**** BusyCal Not Ready For MobileMe Calendar Beta, Fix Coming <http://www.macworld.com/article/152598/2010/07/busycal_mobileme_calendar_beta.html?lsrc=rss_main>
David Chartier, Macworld

Apple is switching its calendar technology to CalDAV, a standard Internet format that makes sharing calendars between multiple users easier (CalDAV is also built into Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard Server). Because of this, BusyCal (and possibly other third-party iCal clients and add-ons) will need an update to work properly with the new MobileMe Calendar technology.

**** My Trip Through Time Capsule Hell Leads To A Different Backup Approach <http://www.tuaw.com/2010/07/09/my-trip-through-time-capsule-hell-leads-to-a-different-backup-ap/>
David Winograd, TUAW

The take-away from all of this: although it's easy and transparent to use a Time Capsule and Time Machine as a backup strategy, it's only a partial solution. There can still be major problems, and it's not enough to give you the security you need.

**** Solving The Mystery Of Blank E-mails In An iOS 4 Inbox <http://www.macworld.com/article/152612/2010/07/blank_ios4_mail.html?lsrc=rss_main>
Lex Friedman, Macworld

**** Google's Schmidt Undaunted By Apple Or Facebook <http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE6682JA20100709?feedType=RSS&feedName=technologyNews&rpc=22&sp=true>
Alexei Oreskovic and Paul Thomasch, Reuters

On Thursday, Google's Page suggested that Jobs' assessment was "a little bit of rewriting history."

"We had been working on Android a very long time, with the notion of producing phones that are Internet enabled and have good browsers and all that because that did not exist in the marketplace," Page said. "I think that characterization of us entering after is not really reasonable."

**** Apple Sues Resellers Over Power Adapters <http://news.cnet.com/8301-13579_3-20010156-37.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=News-Apple>
Tom Krazit, CNET

Apple has filed a lawsuit against three companies it alleges are selling knockoff power adapters for MacBooks and MacBook Pros, according to court filings.

**** Fraudulent Apps Now Appear In Travel Section? <http://appadvice.com/appnn/2010/07/fraudulent-apps-travel-section/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+AppAdvice+%28AppAdvice%29>
Joe White, App Advice

Be sure to view the App Store with wary eyes today, because it appears that iTunes has been hacked once again.

**** Apple Opens Shanghai Store To Spur Sales In China <http://www.businessweek.com/news/2010-07-10/apple-opens-shanghai-store-to-spur-sales-in-china.html>
Mark Lee, Alfred Cang, Bloomberg

Several hundred people lined up outside a 40-foot cylindrical glass wall that contains the Apple logo at the 1,500-square-meter (16,000-square-foot) store in the Pudong district of Shanghai, China’s financial hub, before it opened at 10 a.m. local time.

**** Apple Store Opens In Shanghai, Second Store In China <http://blogs.wsj.com/chinarealtime/2010/07/10/apple-store-opens-in-shanghai-second-store-in-china/>
Wall Street Journal

Shanghai has two Ferrari dealerships, two Ritz-Carlton hotels, 120 Starbucks stores, but it was only as of today that China’s wealthiest city got its first Apple store.

**** The iPad's Threat To PCs <http://online.barrons.com/article/SB50001424052970203296004575351030757230808.html>
Mark Veverka, Barron's

The bad news for PC makers is that, unlike the iPod, a portable music device that had little bearing on their sales, the iPad can have a big impact on them.



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**** Until Cryonics Do Us Part <http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/11/magazine/11cryonics-t.html?partner=rss&emc=rss>
Kerry Howley, New York Times

The one death-related phrase she will not abide, will not let into her house under any circumstance, is “cryonic preservation,” by which is meant the low-temperature preservation of human beings in the hope of future resuscitation. That this will be her husband’s chosen form of bodily disposition creates, as you might imagine, certain complications in the Jackson household.

**** The Curious Mystery Of The Sidewalk Tombstone <http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/08/nyregion/08tombstone.html?partner=rss&emc=rss>
Sam Roberts, New York Times

How did a tombstone wind up propped against a fire hydrant on East Fourth Street between Avenues C and D? And who was Hinda Amchanitzky?

**** The Apostate <http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/11/books/review/Winner-t.html?partner=rss&emc=rss>
Lauren F. Winner, New York Times

Lax, best known for his biography of Woody Allen, has written a steady, quiet love letter to a faith he has lost.

**** Postcards From The Edge <http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/11/books/review/Emmons-t.html?_r=1&partner=rss&emc=rss>
Josh Emmons, New York Times

Vida is a subtle writer whose voice is spare and authoritative, at times sounding like a less gothic Paul Bowles, and her third novel is further evidence that she can fashion characters as unpredictable as they are endearing.



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**** YOG – Another Farce? <http://theonlinecitizen.com/2010/07/yog-%e2%80%93-another-farce/>
Andrew Loh, The Online Citizen

The 320,000 YOG tickets mysteriously became 245,000 tickets – leaving 75,000 tickets “missing”.

20,000 tickets were sold in two months. MOE stepped in and bought 80,000 tickets in May but refuses to disclose how much it paid for them.

**** New Book Puts Death Penalty On Trial <http://yawningbread.wordpress.com/2010/07/10/new-book-puts-death-penalty-on-trial/>
Yawning Bread

With the release of this book, we cannot now say we can’t take in the bigger picture. Once a Jolly Hangman allows us to compare how one case was handled with another that had similar circumstances or gravity. What emerges is a very unflattering pattern of inconsistent “justice”, the dispensation of which is compromised in three important ways:

1. When foreign governments have clout over our economic interests and are willing to use that clout, their citizens will not face the death penalty;

2. When local citizens come from rich, well-connected families, or when a case threatens to involve others from this stratum of society, a way is found to avoid having them face the death penalty or even severe penalties;

3. When the state is convinced that an accused who is poor and “low-class” is guilty, and provided that exception no. 1 above does not apply, due process is less important than putting him on the fast-track to the noose.

**** 车资涨了，还是降了？ <http://www.zaobao.com/yl/yl100710_004.shtml>
赵琬仪, 联合早报

而这63%的受惠者，主要是那些在一周乘搭公交的总趟次里，有转车习惯或车程较短的乘客。对于那些不转车、“一车到底”的乘客，他们会发现车资涨价，而这类乘客估计是以乐龄人士为多。如何说服他们多利用转车便利来看待这次的新车资结构，是决策者需要正视的问题。

**** Refining The Art Of Mocking The Law <http://singaporedesk.blogspot.com/2010/07/refining-art-of-mocking-law.html>
Singapore Notes

**** Where S'pore, Switzerland Differ <http://www.todayonline.com/Singapore/EDC100710-0000111/Where-Spore,-Switzerland-differ>
Leong Wee Keat, Today

Mrs Leuthard noted that the practice of corporal punishment has ceased "in Europe and in many other countries". "The perception in our country is not a positive one," she added. "It has been a long time that we have moved from such penalties to others."

**** Johor To Discuss The Building Of Replacement Bridge <http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2010/7/10/nation/6639000&sec=nation>
The Star

Johor will discuss the building of a new bridge to replace the 87-year-old Johor causeway with Singapore after issues relating to the points of agreement (POA) are resolved.

Mentri Besar Datuk Abdul Ghani Othman said there were matters that needed attention, including the cost of untreated water to Singapore.

**** Past Exam Papers Hot Items <http://thestar.com.my/columnists/story.asp?col=insightdownsouth&file=/2010/7/10/columnists/insightdownsouth/6631151&sec=Insight%20Down%20South>
Seah Chiang Nee, The Star

Just as in societies like China, Japan, Taiwan and South Korea, Singaporeans worship academic achievement, maybe a little too excessively, some believe.

**** Has ST And The Law Ministry Hammered The Final Nail Into His Coffin? <http://feedmetothefish.blogspot.com/2010/07/has-st-and-law-ministry-hammered-final.html>
Feed Me To The Fish

Signals signifying justice? I'm confused.

**** Pulau Pisang To Be Gazetted As Part Of Johor <http://www.nst.com.my/nst/articles/24SANG/Article>
New Straits Times

The state government has reiterated that Pulau Pisang is part of the Johor sultanate to defuse any potential dispute between Malaysia and Singapore over the sovereignty of the island.




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