[MyAppleMenu] Mar 27, 2012

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**** Apple's CEO Meets With Beijing's Mayor, Calls For Cooperation ****
<http://www.macworld.com/article/1166086/apples_ceo_meets_with_beijings_mayor_calls_for_cooperation.html#lsrc.rss_main>
Michael Kan, IDG News Service


> Apple’s CEO Tim Cook met with Beijing’s mayor on Monday, and called for increased cooperation with China’s capital city along with market expansion, according to a report from Chinese state-run press.



**** Convert Songs At Higher Bit-rates In iTunes 10.6 ****
<http://www.macworld.com/article/1166073/convert_songs_at_higher_bit_rates_in_itunes_10_6.html#lsrc.rss_main>
Kirk McElhearn, Macworld



**** Australian Consumer Watchdog Alleges Apple Of Misleading 4G Claims ****
<http://www.macstories.net/news/australian-consumer-watchdog-alleges-apple-of-misleading-4g-claims/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+macstoriesnet+%28MacStories%29>
Graham Spencer, MacStories


> The ACCC (Australian Competition and Consumer Commission), Australia’s competition watchdog has just announced it will tomorrow seek orders against Apple for allegedly making misleading iPad “4G” claims in its marketing of the new iPad in Australia. It alleges that Apple’s promotion of the new “iPad with WiFi + 4G” is misleading “because it represents to Australian consumers that the product “iPad with WiFi + 4G” can, with a SIM card, connect to a 4G mobile data network in Australia, when this is not the case.”



**** Apple Releases Safari 5.1.5 ****
<http://www.macrumors.com/2012/03/26/apple-releases-safari-5-1-5/>
Jordan Golson, MacRumors


> "Safari 5.1.5 contains a fix for an issue that could affect website usability when running Safari in 32-bit mode."



**** Analysis: iPad Battery Allegations Unwarranted ****
<http://www.macworld.com/article/1166074/analysis_ipad_battery_allegations_unwarranted.html#lsrc.rss_main>
Lex Friedman, Macworld


> Carl Howe, the vice president for data sciences research for mobile-focused market research company The Yankee Group, told <i>Macworld</i> that “There is no damage caused [to the iPad’s battery] by leaving it plugged in. … There’s a charging circuit that makes sure that doesn’t happen.

> Trickle charge mode explains Soneira’s other concern regarding how full the battery is when the new iPad first reads 100 percent. Howe agrees that, at that point, the battery can indeed get fuller, but says that’s not a problem. “The capacity that [Apple is] advertising is based on when the iPad first says 100 percent—everything you get over and beyond that at the trickle charge stage is just kind of gravy.”






The Tomorrow Weblog
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**** Why Youth Has An Advantage In Innovation & Why You Want To Be A Learn-It-All ****
<http://abovethecrowd.com/2012/03/26/why-youth-has-an-advantage-in-innovation-why-you-want-to-be-a-learn-it-all/>
Abovethecrowd.com






MyAppleMenu Reader
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**** Inquest ****
<http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/poem/2012/03/_inquest_by_paul_breslin_.html>
Paul Breslin, Slate



**** Why Magicians Are A Scientist’s Best Friend ****
<http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2012/03/opinion-randi-magic-scientists/all/1?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+wired%2Findex+%28Wired%3A+Index+3+%28Top+Stories+2%29%29>
James Randi, Wired


> We can’t make magicians out of scientists — we wouldn’t want to — but we can help scientists “think in the groove” — think like a magician. And we should.



**** Do We Need Stories? ****
<http://www.nybooks.com/blogs/nyrblog/2012/mar/26/do-we-need-stories/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+nybooks+%28The+New+York+Review+of+Books%29>
Tim Parks, The New York Review Of Books


> Of course as a novelist it is convenient to think that by the nature of the job one is on the side of the good, supplying an urgent and general need. I can also imagine readers drawing comfort from the idea that their fiction habit is essential sustenance and not a luxury. But what is the nature of this need?



**** Cameras At The Table: Snapping Point? ****
<http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/wordofmouth/2012/mar/27/cameras-at-the-table-snapping-point>
Sue Quinn, The Guardian


> From slices of toast to smears of jus, countless millions of us now feel so compelled to snap our dinner it seems that our ability to sit down and just enjoy a meal is in danger of being lost.



**** Hollywood's Highway To Hell ****
<http://blogs.suntimes.com/ebert/2012/03/hollywoods_highway_to_hell.html>
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times


> When I began as a film critic, the word "genre" suggested a type of film that had highly developed traditions, possibilities and richness. Now it suggests a marketing decision.






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**** South Africa, Singapore Airlines Fined For Price-fixing ****
<http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5hSL7rC-Mcd0sUopu0UKHcf4uTUIA?docId=CNG.3e4c9598eb8547d5a3263fb76791da5d.81>
AFP


> South African Airways and Singapore Airlines have been fined several million dollars for price-fixing on routes between Johannesburg and Hong Kong, the anti-trust authority said Monday.



**** Bukit Brown Crossroad – A Viable Alternative ****
<http://theonlinecitizen.com/2012/03/bukit-brown-viable-alternative/>
Goh Si Gium, The Online Citizen



**** Strange Call ****
<http://hardhitting-nobs.blogspot.com/2012/03/strange-call.html>
Musings From The Lion City


> To me, Mr. Yeo’s statement does not seem like an off-the-cuff remark. After his defeat in the GE, Mr. Yeo said that he will help the PAP to reform itself for the Singapore public. Dr. Tan Cheng Bock went even further after his defeat in the Presidential Elections, publicly stating that there was a spilt in the PAP, and that the grassroots were not happy with the PAP leadership.

> You put two and two together and it seems to me that Mr. Yeo’s statement reflect that of a frustrated man. Any reform Mr. Yeo seems to want has failed and the spilt within the PAP stated by Dr. Tan Cheng Bock is still there. Time will tell if the spilt will hurt the PAP in the next GE.



**** Double-standards By S'pore, Say M'sian Campaigners ****
<http://www.publichouse.sg/categories/topstory/item/548-double-standards-by-spore-say-msian-campaigners>
Andrew Loh, Publichouse.sg


> The Malaysian campaign to save death row inmate, Yong Vui Kong, has accused the Singapore authorities of “discrimination based on nationality.” At a press conference held at the Malaysian Parliament on Monday, 26 March, Save Vui Kong Campaign coordinator, Ms Ngeow Chow Ying said: “This is discrimination of nationality, because they are Singaporeans and they have escaped that (death row), whereas Malaysians have no chance against it.”

> She pointed to how two other drug traffickers, Koh Bak Kiang and Chia Choon Leng, both Singaporeans, have been given lighter sentences or not prosecuted at all while Yong “was prosecuted with a capital offence.”



**** More Measures On The Way To Improve Bus Travel Experience ****
<http://www.todayonline.com/Singapore/EDC120327-0000053/More-measures-on-the-way-to-improve-bus-travel-experience>
Sumita Sreedharan, Today



**** NUS Ain't Got No Bite ****
<http://singaporedesk.blogspot.com/2012/03/nus-aint-got-no-bite.html>
Singapore Notes


> The ministers seem to work at their laggardly speed when it comes to national issues, but they sure are pretty quick about helping themselves to the new National Bonus.



**** Got Primary One Registration Priority? Think Again! ****
<http://pratapolitics.blogspot.com/2012/03/got-primary-one-registration-priority.html>
Prata Politics


> PRs should be restricted to Phase 3 registration only, and not anything earlier. PRs can enrol their kids into a primary school only when all the citizens who want to put their son or daughter in that school have done so under Phase 1 or Phase 2. Any remaining seats can then be given to PRs. That is what priority is about. Simple as that.