[MyAppleMenu] May 27, 2010

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**** VMware Fusion 3.1 Gets Faster, Stronger <http://www.macworld.com/article/151557/2010/05/vmware_fusion.html?lsrc=rss_main>
David Chartier, Macworld

Leading VMware’s list of improvements in Fusion 3.1 is performance. The company claims that the new version provides a 35 percent boost in application performance over Fusion 3.0. Likewise, scrolling and 2D graphics in Windows Vista and Windows 7 are almost four times faster than in 3.0, and 3D graphics performance is up to five times better. VMware Fusion 3.1 also now supports hardware-accelerated OpenGL 2.1 under Windows Vista and Windows 7 as well.

**** MacBU Moving Into Microsoft Business Division <http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/10/05/26/macbu_moving_into_microsoft_business_division.html>
AppleInsider

As part of its corporate infrastructure shakeup revealed this week, Microsoft will consolidate its Mac Business Unit -- the team that produces software for Mac OS X -- into the company's Business Division.

**** New King Of Technology: Apple Overtakes Microsoft <http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/27/technology/27apple.html?partner=yahoofinance>
Miguel Helft and Ashlee Vance, New York Times

Wall Street has called the end of an era and the beginning of the next one: The most important technology product no longer sits on your desk but rather fits in your hand.

The moment came Wednesday when Apple, the maker of iPods, iPhones and iPads, shot past Microsoft, the computer software giant, to become the world’s most valuable technology company.

**** As iPad Goes Global, The Birth Of A New Market? <http://edition.cnn.com/2010/BUSINESS/05/27/apple.ipad.international/?hpt=C1>
Kevin Voigt, CNN

As Apple's iPad is released in nine overseas markets on Friday, industry watchers wonder if they are seeing the birth of a new market or a geek niche product.

**** Parallels Offers Upgrade To Windows 7 As VMWare Issues Fusion 3.1 <http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/10/05/26/parallels_offers_upgrade_to_windows_7_as_vmware_issues_fusion_3_1.html>
AppleInsider

Two of the leading solutions for running Microsoft's Windows operating system within Mac OS X received new feature improvements over the past week, including Parallel's Upgrade to Windows 7 and VMWare's Fusion 3.1. 

**** FSF: Apple's iTunes Store Terms Of Service At Odds With GPL <http://arstechnica.com/apple/news/2010/05/fsf-apples-itunes-store-terms-of-service-at-odds-with-gpl.ars?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rss>
Chris Foresman, Ars Technica

Since Apple is the distributor of any App Store software, then according to the terms of the GPLv2 Apple must also comply with all terms of the GPLv2. According to Smith, that means not placing any restrictions on what a user can do with the software. "Even if the original developers distributed the software to Apple in full compliance with the GPL's terms, Apple would still violate the license when it distributed the software through the App Store and subjected the program to their terms of service's usage rules," he said.



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**** The Foodie Indictment Of Feminism <http://www.salon.com/life/broadsheet/2010/05/26/foodies_and_feminism/index.html>
Anna Clark, Salon

Michael Pollan blames the movement for our fast-food culture. What about untold men who've never tied on an apron?



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**** Shooting Incident: Mindef Should Have Told Public <http://www.straitstimes.com/STForum/Story/STIStory_531934.html>
Matthias Chew, Straits Times

As citizen soldiers and taxpayers, we have a right to expect that Mindef will account for all military casualties - whether in training or actual operations -where there are no national security implications.

**** Civil Servants To Get 0.5 Month Mid-year Bonus Plus S$300 In July <http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/singaporelocalnews/view/1059367/1/.html>
Channel NewsAsia

The government has decided to pay civil servants a mid-year Annual Variable Component (AVC) of 0.5 month and a dollar quantum of S$300 in July.

**** Ex-detainee Vincent Cheng Barred From Speaking In History Seminar <http://singaporerebel.blogspot.com/2010/05/ex-detainee-vincent-cheng-barred-from.html>
Martyn See Tong Ming

Former detainee Vincent Cheng has been prohibited from speaking at the NUS History Seminar to be held on June 4th at the National Library. The organiser NUS History Society has apologised to Mr Cheng and offered to read his speech at the event. Over the phone, Cheng told me he was not surprised and is looking forward to speak when another occasion arises. Last year, police harassed the venue owners of a forum I had planned on the 1987 arrests.

**** The Bilateral Relations <http://www.mysinchew.com/node/39607?tid=14>
Lim Mun Fah, Sin Chew Jit Poh

I do not agree with the speculation saying that the relocation of the railway station is actually "an effort of the Singapore government to gradually 'drive' Malaysia's sovereignty and rights out of Singapore". I am afraid that there is no single country in the world will allow another sovereign country to forever extend its railway station and immigration checkpoints into its own territory, right?

**** A Good Deal For Malaysia <http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2010/5/27/nation/6350588&sec=nation>
Mergawati Zulfakar, The Star

Under Najib, Malaysia is quite clear about where it is heading. We cannot wait for another 20 years to get things moving forward. Sentimental and emotional reasons alone will not get us anywhere.

**** Electricity, Unemployment, Healthcare, CPF : Why Is Transparency Of Statistics So Important? <http://theonlinecitizen.com/2010/05/electricity-unemployment-healthcare-cpf-why-is-transparency-of-statistics-so-important/>
Leong Sze Hian, The Online Citizen

**** Shahrir: Ridiculous To Pretend KTM Land In Singapore Is Malaysian Territory <http://www.bernama.com/bernama/v5/newsgeneral.php?id=501689>
Bernama

Datuk Seri Shahrir Samad, the MP for Johor Baru, said it was "hysterically ridiculous to pretend" that the KTM track, its station and other plots are Malaysian territory when they are actually land leased from Singapore purely for the purposes of the rail service run by KTM Bhd.