[MyAppleMenu] Sep 19, 2010

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**** Did Apple Kill Smashing Ad For Newsday iPad App? <http://news.cnet.com/8301-17852_3-20016901-71.html?part=rss&amp;subj=news&amp;tag=2547-1_3-0-20>
Chris Matyszczyk, CNET

**** Apple Approves Another Google Voice App For iPhone <http://mashable.com/2010/09/18/google-voice-iphone-apps/>
Samuel Axon, Mashable

The developer of another Google Voice app for iPhone — “GV Mobile +” — said that Apple approved his app today.

**** Is Apple's Ban On iPad Porn Damaging The Future Of Media? <http://www.zdnet.com/blog/foremski/is-apples-ban-on-ipad-porn-damaging-the-future-of-media/1503?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+ZDNetBlogs+%28ZDNet+All+Blogs%29>
Tom Foremski, ZDNet

If this is truly an important new technology platform for media, why does it specifically exclude the most innovative sector in media of our modern and historical times?!

**** Apple And A Music Revolution <http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/apple/8007343/Apple-and-a-music-revolution.html>
Claudine Beaumont, Telegraph

The iPod has become the iconic portable music device of the 21st century.

**** Skeptic Says Apple Got It Right With iPad <http://www.heraldnet.com/article/20100919/BIZ/709199945>
Peter Svensson, The Associated Press

At first glance, the iPad looked like a heavy, overgrown iPod Touch. After just a few months of use, however, this iPad skeptic realized that it’s so much more — it’s one of those devices I’ve always needed. Those don’t come around very often.



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**** The Fry Chronicles By Stephen Fry <http://feeds.guardian.co.uk/~r/theguardian/books/rss/~3/s-sN4DlKM7s/the-fry-chronicles-stephen-fry>
Euan Ferguson, The Guardian

The second volume of Stephen Fry's memoirs recalls his Cambridge years and rise to fame in perfect prose and excruciating honesty.

**** Limning A Controversy <http://feeds.boston.com/click.phdo?i=5c2dd59f5245f6517163da0908efbd38>
Erin McKean, Boston Globe

It is probably a bit too harsh to call those upset by The Baltimore Sun’s recent use of the word limn in a headline word-haters, but I assume they’d be even more offended by the fancy word misologists.

**** Lost Libraries <http://feeds.boston.com/click.phdo?i=8fdfcb0a9d1e2cf47e184c61fe62c048>
Craig Fehrman, Boston Globe

What Markson’s fans had stumbled on was the strange and disorienting world of authors’ personal libraries. Most people might imagine that authors’ libraries matter--that scholars and readers should care what books authors read, what they thought about them, what they scribbled in the margins. But far more libraries get dispersed than saved.



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**** NTU’s Ranking – what now? <http://enquirer.sg/2010/09/19/1021/>
Ng Kaijie, The Enquirer

Perhaps a more compelling reason for the drastic drop is this: NTU could have been focusing on the wrong things. If this is true, it cannot afford to stay in its ivory tower and decry unfavourable criteria as baseless whilst mopping up sympathetic ones such as the QS ranking, which used the old criteria.

**** Vui Kong's Story In A Play Produced By Amnesty International M'sia <http://savevuikong.blogspot.com/2010/09/vui-kongs-story-in-play-produced-by.html>
Save Vui Kong

**** Despite Wind Of Change In Africa, Nepotism Networks Remain Strong <http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/Opinion/-/440808/1013586/-/nxwqswz/-/>
Gitau Warigi, Daily Nation

Nepotism is by no means genetically African or Arab. Far from it. The fabled John F. Kennedy planted his younger brother, Robert, in his Cabinet as Attorney-General.

Singapore, which certain of our politicians practically drool over in a rather silly way, is quite embarrassingly a family fiefdom. The founding prime minister Lee Kuan Yew was succeeded in 2004 by his eldest son Lee Hsien Loong. The senior Lee remains in Cabinet as “Senior Minister” – just in case.

**** Government Urged To Reveal Latest Malay Economic Participation <http://www.bernama.com.my/bernama/v5/newsgeneral.php?id=528667>
Bernama

On hurtful remarks about Malaysia made by Singapore Minister in an interview with the New York Times, Mohd Puad said Lee was suffering from "amnesia" on the reasons Singapore left Malaysia.

"He (Lee) knows his Malaysian Malaysia agenda would never have succeeded if Singapore was part of the federation," he said.

**** Minimalism <http://piaroh.wordpress.com/2010/09/18/minimalism/>
Words Of The Cze

**** Fewer M'sians Cheated In S'pore <http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2010/9/19/nation/7057634&sec=nation>
Nelson Benjamin, The Star

Cases of Malaysians being cheated in Singapore have dropped following restrictions by the island republic on foreign workers, including imposing a higher levy and tightening entry rules.

**** Singapore Invites Indian Investments In Pharma, Solar Energy <http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/economy/foreign-trade/Singapore-invites-Indian-investments-in-pharma-solar-energy/articleshow/6583874.cms>
Economic Times

Singapore has invited Indian businesses to collaborate with its local players in sectors like solar power, pharmaceutical and chemicals.

**** Growing Asian Middle Class Fuels Theme Park Boom‎ <http://www.abs-cbnnews.com/business/09/19/10/growing-asian-middle-class-fuels-theme-park-boom%E2%80%8E>
AFP

Asia has become the new frontier for large-scale outdoor entertainment complexes thanks to growing affluence in large emerging economies like China, India and Indonesia, and cheaper air travel.

**** ‘Cycling’- The New Fad In Singapore <http://topnews.co.uk/213214-cycling-new-fad-singapore>
Rasik Sharma, TopNews

**** MICA Unlikely To Agree To All Proposals Of Censorship Review Report <http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/singaporelocalnews/view/1082134/1/.html>
Channel NewsAsia

The acting information, communications and the arts minister said his ministry is unlikely to agree to all the recommendations made by the Censorship Review Committee in its report issued on Wednesday.

**** æ–°åŠ å¡å…¬åŠ¡å‘˜ä¸åƒé¦™ <http://finance.ifeng.com/job/zcgs/20100919/2637160.shtml>
合肥晚报

**** "Never Retire" Message Gets Louder.... <http://singaporemind.blogspot.com/2010/09/never-retire-message-gets-louder.html>
Diary of A Singaporean Mind