[MyAppleMenu] Sep 20, 2010

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**** Where's The Beep In Apple Mail? <http://www.tuaw.com/2010/09/19/wheres-the-beep-in-apple-mail/>
Mel Martin, TUAW

**** Words To Describe The Glory Of Apple <http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/6770a2b8-c2a1-11df-956e-00144feab49a.html?ftcamp=rss>
Lucy Kellaway, Financial Times

Given the towering superiority of the first linguistic style over the second, will it catch on? Will other companies copy Apple’s language just as they have copied its design?

**** Steve Jobs, Franz Kafka & George Orwell Walk Into A Bar... <http://www.huffingtonpost.com/michael-b-laskoff/steve-jobs-franz-kafka-ge_b_730691.html>
Michael B. Laskoff, Huffington Post

I was caught in in a bureaucratic hellhole in which the orderly functioning of an efficient system was more more important than a few crushed cogs while a crime was being perpetrated.

**** Apple Mends A Few Fences <http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2010/09/19/apple-mends-a-few-fences/>
Philip Elmer-DeWitt, Fortune

**** iPhone Launch In China Gets Official Date Of 9/25 <http://www.tuaw.com/2010/09/19/iphone-launch-in-china-gets-official-date-of-9-25/>
Michael Rose, TUAW

In a Sunday press release, Apple announced an on-sale date for the iPhone 4 in China. Saturday, September 25, 8 am is when customers in the world's largest market can get their hands on the new phones; both the Apple Store Hong Kong Plaza in Shanghai and the Apple Store Xidan Joy City in Beijing will be carrying them, coinciding with the opening of the Bejing store.

**** Nuance Releases Dragon Dictate For Mac 2.0 <http://rss.macworld.com/click.phdo?i=2bf90e1be95320d7cb5bf4b8ad8622b8>
Roman Loyola, Macworld

According to Nuance, Dragon Dictate 2.0 is faster and more accurate than MacSpeech Dictate 1.5. Dragon Dictate is based on the same software engine used by Dragon 11 for the PC. But the engine, according to Nuance product marketing manager Kristen Wylie, is not just ported over from the PC. “It was designed from the ground up to work on a Mac,” said Wylie during a product demo.

**** Apple iPad: The Low-Price Leader? <http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/205722/apple_ipad_the_lowprice_leader.html?tk=hp_new>
Jeff Bertolucci, PC World

No one will ever accuse Apple of being a bargain brand, but the company's iPad tablet may prove to be more affordable than the first generation of Android slates, particularly the Dell Streak and Samsung Galaxy Tab.

**** Chinese Upstart Imports Apple Brand And More <http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/businesstechnology/2012937106_btchinameizu20.html>
Joshua Frank, Los Angeles Times

In a trendy mall just west of Tiananmen Square, a cellphone shop with minimalistic décor displays the store's only product inside a clear geometric case on the center of its floor.

**** Analyst: Over-The-Top Video Won’t Replace Pay Tv <http://www.rbr.com/tv-cable/27624.html>
Radio Business Report

Predictions that many consumers will drop cable and satellite TV in favor of over-the-top (OTT) video services like Apple TV and Google TV are being dismissed by Wells Fargo Securities analyst Marci Ryvicker as misguided speculation. Rather, she says, OTT will be a complement to, not a replacement for, pay TV.

**** Apple Clears The Way For An App Revolution <http://www.theaustralian.com.au/australian-it/apple-clears-the-way-for-an-app-revolution/story-e6frgakx-1225926932563>
Chris Griffith, The Australian

The likelihood of more apps that run on all styles of new-age phones has increased with Apple's stunning reversal of its decision to reject apps created using cross-platform tools such as Adobe Flash CS5.

**** Lily Allen Sues Apple <http://www.thinq.co.uk/2010/9/20/lily-allen-sues-apple/>
Thinq

Lily Allen is launching a legal assault against Apple in an attempt to ascertain the identity of ne'er-do-wells who attacked her laptop.

**** Holiday Inn Pilot Lets Iphone, Blackberry Double As Your Hotel Room Key <http://travel.usatoday.com/hotels/post/2010/09/holiday-inn-guests-can-use-smartphone-as-room-key-in-new-test/114843/1>
Barbara De Lollis, USA Today

Two Holiday Inn properties have officially started letting guests use their Apple iPhone, Blackberry or Android smart phone as a 21st-Century room key, enabling customers to bypass the front desk.

**** Overseas Traders Blamed For Iphone Shortage <http://www.channelweb.co.uk/crn/news/2270045/overseas-traders-blamed-iphone>
Caroline Donnelly, CRN

Bulk-buying overseas traders are causing supplies of the latest version of the iPhone to run low at Apple’s Covent Garden store.

**** Steve Jobs Was Mean To You? Boo Hoo <http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/the-lay-scientist/2010/sep/20/steve-jobs-journalist>
Martin Robbins, The Guardian

Trainee journalists should learn that getting information out of people is not easy.

**** The Truth About iPad: It's Only Good For Two Things <http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/hiner/?p=5941>
Jason Hiner, TechRepublic



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**** "Ah-Choo!": What You Didn't Know About The Common Cold <http://www.salon.com/books/feature/2010/09/19/jennifer_ackerman_common_cold_interview/index.html>
Michael Humphrey, Salon

The common cold makes fools of us. It's not just the runny nose and Daffy Duck speech; it's our naiveté about preventing, alleviating and curing the mess. Despite spending millions of dollars on preventions such as Airborne and immunity enhancers and endlessly washing our hands, we humans are still constantly undone by the minuscule menace. On average, we catch between 100 and 200 colds in our lifetime, and in the coming weeks, as the weather cools off, it will likely reduce millions to heaps of mucous and lethargy.



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**** Minimum Wage Not Necessary In “Today’s World”? <http://theonlinecitizen.com/2010/09/minimum-wage-not-necessary-in-%e2%80%9ctoday%e2%80%99s-world%e2%80%9d/>
Kirsten Han, The Online Citizen

As the government has pointed out, there is actually no shortage of jobs in Singapore. However, what they have constantly overlooked is the fact that many of these jobs pay so little that Singaporeans are simply unable to accept them. The government then brands such Singaporeans as “choosy” and begins to import migrant workers by the truckload to fill these jobs. It all feeds into a vicious cycle.

**** 0.01 Gram And All That <http://yawningbread.wordpress.com/2010/09/19/0-01-gram-and-all-that/>
Yawning Bread

The more one reads our laws, with their sweeping scope and trip-wire presumptions, the scarier everything seems.

**** State If The Film Released Is An Edited Version <http://www.todayonline.com/Voices/EDC100920-0000063/State-if-the-film-released-is-an-edited-version>
Lau Chee Nien, Today

Our current film ratings do not inform consumers if a film released in the cinemas is an edited version.

**** Singapore Jobs Costlier To Come By <http://www.thefinancialexpress-bd.com/more.php?news_id=112335&date=2010-09-20>
Munima Sultana, Financial Express

Migration costs to Singapore have increased by four times in a decade, touching to Tk 700,000 as fat commission by job intermediaries is pushing up expenses, officials and workers said.

**** Minimum 4% Interest Rate For Special, Medisave And Retirement Account Monies To Extend Until 31 December 2011 <http://mycpf.cpf.gov.sg/CPF/News/News-Release/N_20Sept2010.htm>
CPF Board, Singapore Government

The government has decided to further extend the 4% floor rate for interest earned on all SMRA monies for another year until 31 December 2011.  Thereafter, interest rates on all CPF account monies will be subject to a minimum rate of 2.5% per annum.

Minister for manpower Mr Gan Kim Yong said, “Despite our strong economic recovery, interest rates have remained low this year.  The sharp drop in interest rates at the expiry of the 4% floor rate may impact CPF members who may not have benefited fully from the economic recovery yet.  Therefore, the Government has decided to extend the 4% floor rate on SMRA monies for another year.”

Can't have too much bad news right before elections.

**** 纪念性节日能否随意更改？ <http://www.zaobao.com/yl/yl100920_006.shtml>
陈文坪, 联合早报

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**** Where To Find The Best Kaya Toast In Singapore <http://www.cnngo.com/singapore/eat/best-kaya-and-toast-singapore-970708>
Dawn Victoria Wee, CNNGo

Coffee shops selling kaya toast are a dime a dozen. However, a coffee shop selling good kaya toast is hard to come by, and will have loyal fans traveling from all parts of Singapore just to savor this tasty treat.

**** Singapore, Malaysia Finalise Land Swap Deal <http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/singaporelocalnews/view/1082285/1/.html>
S Ramesh, Channel NewsAsia

Singapore and Malaysia have settled a land swap agreement for four land parcels in Marina South and two land parcels in the Ophir-Rochor area.

PM Lee added that both countries have different views relating to the development charges payable on the three parcels of POA land in Tanjong Pagar, Kranji and Woodlands. Both leaders have agreed to settle this issue amicably through arbitration under the Permanent Court of Arbitration.

**** Ukraine Is Interested In Studying And Implementation Of Experience Of Singapore–Yanukovych <http://unian.net/eng/news/news-396773.html>
UNIAN News Agency

**** PM Lee Presents Najib Photo Of Their Fathers <http://www.bernama.com.my/bernama/v5/newsgeneral.php?id=529022>
Bernama

Singapore prime minister Lee Hsien Loong on Monday presented his Malaysian counterpart Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak a 40-year old photograph of their fathers who were then the prime ministers of their countries as a memento when they met for their bilateral talks here Monday.

The photograph taken in January 1971, showed Lee Kuan Yew with the late Tun Abdul Razak Hussein, the second Malaysian prime minister, together with British Prime Minister Edward Heath and two others on board a British warship, HMS Intrepid.

**** M'sia, S'pore To Settle KTM Land Development Charges In Court <http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2010/9/20/nation/20100920200137&sec=nation>
Bernama

Malaysia and Singapore have agreed to bring the outstanding issue on the development charges payable on Keretapi Tanah Melayu Berhad (KTMB) land in the city-state that will be jointly developed by both countries, to the international court for arbitration.

It is understood that the development charges, which applied to any business that wants to develop any land in Singapore, will be significant if the three parcels of land are going to be developed. The contention now is that based on the POA entered into, by both countries in 1990, the clause on who should pay the development charges was not clear enough. Singapore interpreted that the company should pay for the development charges but Malaysia said there should be no cost at all.

**** S'pore GIC Says About 25 Pct Of Investments In Europe <http://www.lse.co.uk/FinanceNews.asp?ArticleCode=98h7ziwj3a8tfsx&ArticleHeadline=Spore_GIC_says_about_25_pct_of_investments_in_Europe>
Kevin Lim, Reuters

Government of Singapore Investment Corp (GIC), the world's fourth largest sovereign wealth fund, on Monday indicated it had further reduced its exposure to Europe to about a quarter of its portfolio.