[MyAppleMenu] Oct 10, 2010

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**** Apple Forces Meizu To Halt Sales Of iPhone-Lookalike <http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/10/10/09/apple_forces_meizu_to_halt_sales_of_iphone_lookalike.html>
Josh Ong, AppleInsider

Apple has pressured the Chinese smartphone maker into halting production and freezing sales of its M8 smartphone due to alleged patent violations.

**** Eminem Publisher Wants Apple To Pay Up <http://www.upi.com/Entertainment_News/Music/2010/10/09/Eminem-publisher-wants-Apple-to-pay-up/UPI-44661286653292/>
UPI

Eminem's publisher is demanding Apple pay more than $2 million in a settlement over iTunes downloads, court records in Detroit reveal.



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**** A Stimulus Plan, Disguised As Censorship <http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/10/business/mutfund/10essay.html?partner=rss&emc=rss>
John Schwartz, New York Times

Could it be that President Obama has found an innovative way to inject financial adrenaline into the beleaguered publishing industry? And the beauty of the maneuver is that the military is a part of the executive branch, so he doesn’t have to ask obstructionists in Congress for permission.

**** Get a Real Degree <http://www.lrb.co.uk/v32/n18/elif-batuman/get-a-real-degree>
Elif Batuman, London Review Of Books

The world of letters: does such a thing still exist? Even within the seemingly homogeneous sphere of the university English department, a schism has opened up between literary scholarship and creative writing: disciplines which differ in their points of reference (Samuel Richardson v. Jhumpa Lahiri), the graduate degrees they award (Doctor of Philosophy v. Master of Fine Arts) and their perceived objects of study (‘literature’ v. ‘fiction’). Mark McGurl’s The Programme Era: Postwar Fiction and the Rise of Creative Writing, a study of Planet MFA conducted from Planet PhD, might not strike the casual reader as an interdisciplinary bombshell, but the fact is that literary historians don’t write about creative writing, and creative writers don’t write literary histories, so any secondary discourse about creative writing has been confined, as McGurl observes, to ‘the domain of literary journalism’ and ‘the question of whether the rise of the writing programme has been good or bad for American writers’: that is, to the domain of a third and completely different group of professionals, with its own set of interests, largely in whether things are good or bad. McGurl’s proposal to take the rise of the programme ‘not as an occasion for praise or lamentation but as an established fact in need of historical interpretation’ is thus both welcome and overdue.



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**** SDP: Stop Harrassment Of Temasek Review <http://yoursdp.org/index.php/news/singapore/4224-sdp-stop-harrassment-of-temasek-review>
Singapore Democrat Party