[MyAppleMenu] Nov 9, 2007

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MyAppleMenu
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**** Apple iPhone Fees Prompt Analysts To Revalue Earnings <http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601109&sid=aMncIvRWImtA&refer=home>
by Connie Guglielmo, Bloomberg
Chief executive officer Steve Jobs jumpstarted optimism about the power of the iPhone, the $399 web-surfing mobile device he introduced in June, to generate a steady flow of cash. Analysts are revaluing the stock because each sale brings Apple a cut of monthly wireless service fees from AT&amp;T Inc., and sales of the phone are recognized over 24 months.

**** France Upsets Apple's iPhone Party In Europe <http://money.cnn.com/news/newsfeeds/articles/djf500/200711080756DOWJONESDJONLINE000623_FORTUNE5.htm>
by Dow Jones
After France Telecom SA's Organe brand and Apple made a meal out of unveiling Ornge as the chosen distributor in France, doubt lingers over just how much exclusivity Orange will have over the sought-after handset, due to French consumer law.
The situation threatens to scupper Apple's fiercely defended business model of distributing the iPhone through one operator exclusively. It could also gnaw at iPhone revenue for France Telecom and Apple while potentially benefitting other operators and phone phone distributors.

**** Apple Fails In Attempt TO End Burst.com Lawsuit <http://www.macworld.co.uk/ipod-itunes/news/index.cfm?RSS&NewsID=19638>
by Jonny Evans, Macworld UK
Apple met just partial success in persuading court to declare Burst.com's iPod patents invalid.

**** Adobe Photoshop Express Beta By End Of Year <http://www.macworld.co.uk/macsoftware/news/index.cfm?RSS&NewsID=19639>
by Jonny Evans, Macworld UK

**** Apple Releases iPhone 1.1.2 Update <http://www.tuaw.com/2007/11/08/apple-releases-iphone-1-1-2-update/>
by Erica Sadun, The Unofficial Apple Weblog

**** Will Apple's Control Issues Hurt The Company? <http://bigtech.blogs.fortune.cnn.com/2007/11/08/will-apples-control-issues-hurt-the-company/>
by Jon Fortt, Fortune
Jobs has thrived by owning the user experience - but rivals hope he's going too far.

**** Freezing iMacs May Be Victims Of Hardware, Not Software <http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/07/11/08/freezing_imacs_may_be_victims_of_hardware_not_software.html>
by Aidan Malley, AppleInsider

**** MacBooks Going To Low-Income Students In Kansas And Louisiana <http://arstechnica.com/journals/apple.ars/2007/11/08/macbooks-going-to-low-income-students-in-kansas-and-louisiana>
by Justin Berka, Ars Technica

**** iPhone Gains Business Following <http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/139448/iphone_gains_business_following.html>
by Brad Reed, Network World
Despite what skeptical industry analysts and leery CIOs may say, a new poll shows that a large majority of iPhone fans want to use their favorite device for work and play.

**** Under-The-Hood Changes Boost MacBook Performance <http://www.macworld.com/2007/11/firstlooks/macbook_bench/index.php>
by James Galbraith, Macworld
Graphics, frontside bus team with processor bump to speed up laptops.

**** How Stacks Stacks Up <http://www.macworld.com/2007/11/features/stacks/index.php?lsrc=mwrss>
by Dan Frakes, Macworld
What works&mdash;and what doesn't&mdash;with Leopard's organizational feature.

**** Little Snitch 2.0: Networking Monitor For Leopard <http://www.macnn.com/articles/07/11/08/little.snitch.20.ships/>
by MacNN
The latest release of the internet traffic montioring and management utility introduces predefined "smart rule suggestions" to help less experienced users choose a reasonable action for each connection query.

The Tomorrow Weblog
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**** An Abrupt Slide For Technology Shares <http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/09/business/09stox.html?ex=1352350800&en=ff3d046a585f02b1&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss>
by Michael M. Grynbaum, New York Times

MyAppleMenu Reader
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**** Happy Ever After? <http://www.guardian.co.uk/women/story/0,,2208192,00.html>
by Emma Campbell Webster, Guardian
Romantic comedies often close with a wedding, implying that marriage is 'the end' of all adventure. Does this message encourage women to stay single?

**** Need A Life? She'll Arrange One <http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/08/fashion/08storr.html>
by Deborah Schoeneman, New York Times
Looking for someone to curate your life? Need a personal concierge whose expertise is not picking up dry-cleaning but helping chose your wardrobe, your tastes, your friends? Ms. Storr calls herself a personal manager, but her duties go far beyond that. Her clients, all of them men, pay monthly fees of $4,000 to $10,000 to have her be their personal decider in nearly all things lifestyle-related.

**** Indecent Exposure <http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1682277,00.html>
by Carla Power, Time
Reams have been written on the differences between Islamic and Western societies, but for sheer pithiness, it's hard to beat a quip by my former colleague, a Pakistani scholar of Islamic studies. I'd strolled into his office one day to find him on the floor, at prayer. I left, shutting his door, mortified. Later he cheerfully batted my apologies away. "That's the big difference between us," he said with a shrug. "You Westerners make love in public and pray in private. We Muslims do exactly the reverse."

**** A Billion-Dollar Romance Novel Industry, And Its Lnely Black Author <http://www.seattleweekly.com/2007-11-07/news/a-billion-dollar-romance-novel-industry-and-its-lonely-black-author.php>
by Brian Miller, Seattle Weekly
Between the kitty litter and the toothpaste, on a lonely aisle of your supermarket, they cry out for love. /Highlander Untamed! Unleash the Night! To Pleasure a Prince! The Boss's Wife for a Week! Willingly Bedded, Forcibly Wedded!/ Carrying an average price of $7.42, these paperbacks are cheap and hardly literary, yet carefully crafted by an industry that annually produces some 6,000 titles.

SingaporeSurf
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**** No 'Change Of Heart' In PAP, Opposition Tie-Up To Upgrade Estates: Mah <http://www.straitstimes.com/Latest%2BNews/Singapore/STIStory_175128.html>
by Melissa Kok, Straits Times
Responding to the gesture by the two PAP representatives, Mr Mah pointed out the CIPC funds had always been there for opposition MPs to make use of.

**** Higher CTE Charges Keep Traffic Jams At Bay - For Now <http://www.straitstimes.com/Latest%2BNews/Singapore/STIStory_175214.html>
by Maria Almenoar, Straits Times

**** Muslim Indonesia Considers Building Its First Casino On Island Near Singapore <http://www.thejakartapost.com/detailgeneral.asp?fileid=20071109195920&irec=0>
by Associated Press
Politicians want to built Indonesia's first casino on an island near wealthy Singapore - a potentially lucrative but highly sensitive venture in mostly Muslim Indonesia.
It remains to be seen whether Bintan island's local government will be able to push the plan through.

**** Increase In Prices Of Food Items To Be Discussed In Parliament <http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/singaporelocalnews/view/310608/1/.html>
by Channel NewsAsia

**** Singapore Airlines, Temasek Landmark Deal With China Eastern <http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5jOjpDPJwHy3_zsBbQDEUgDjumHOQ>
by AFP
Singapore Airlines and the city-state's Temasek Holdings have signed a final agreement to buy 24 percent in China Eastern Airlines, the nation's third-largest carrier, the firms said Friday.
The agreement is seen as a key move in the battle for Shanghai, a city with a population of 17 million which, next to Beijing, is the most important aviation hub in the rapidly expanding Chiense market.

**** Gardens By The Bay - Phase 1 Ready By End 2010 <http://www.straitstimes.com/Latest%2BNews/Singapore/STIStory_175123.html>
by Straits Times
The first of three waterfront gardens broke ground on Friday morning, setting in motion Singapore's bid to create the world's premier public gardens in the tropics.

**** I Weighed In The 377A Debate And All I Got Was This Lousy T-Shirt <http://akikonomu.blogspot.com/2007/11/i-weighed-in-377a-debate-and-all-i-got.html>
by Illusio
Astonishingly for a legal experts charged with educating the nation's future lawyers, there is not a bit of legal theory in it.

**** $2.8Bil Surplus A Year, And Can't Afford $300 A Month For Some Destitute 85 Year Olds? <http://theonlinecitizen.com/2007/11/08/28bil-surplus-a-year-and-can%e2%80%99t-afford-300-a-month-for-some-destitute-85-year-olds/>
by Leong Sze Hian and Yeo Toon Joo, theonlinecitizen

**** NUS Still Elite... Despite Drop In Ranking <http://mollymeek.livejournal.com/171053.html>
by Mollymeek

**** Threatening Thio <http://mollymeek.livejournal.com/171322.html>
by Mollymeek
I don't mean to be harsh on Prof Thio here. To threaten her or to play a prank with a letter threatening her is wrong. But even though she is the victim, her words and actions regarding the threat still raises questions for me. And being a victim does not make her flawed arguments about homosexuality any better.

**** Dead End Ahead For Taxi Touts <http://tnp.sg/news/story/0,4136,147199,00.html?>
by Shree Ann Mathavan, New Paper

**** Think About Ren Ci's Beneficiaries <http://www.todayonline.com/articles/221226.asp>
by Leong Sze Hian, Today
Since the inquiry will take three months, why not let Ren Ci's IPC status continue for another two-and-a-half months, before deciding once the inquiry has been conducted?
See Also:
Ren Ci Charity Under Investigation <http://blog.alicecheong.com/?p=45>, by Alice In Wonderland.
Maintain Ren Ci's IPC Status Until Inquiry Is Completed <http://theonlinecitizen.com/2007/11/09/maintain-ren-cis-ipc-status-until-inquiry-is-completed/>, by Leong Sze Hian, theonlinecitizen.

**** Jump In Number Of New PRs, Citizens <http://www.straitstimes.com/Free/Story/STIStory_174948.html>
by Li Xueying, Straits Times
About 7,300 Singapore citizenships were granted in the first half of this year, deputy prime minister Wong Kan Seng told the Straits Times. If the trend continues, Singapore will have 14,600 new citizens this year.
The figure is about 10 per cent higher than the record 13,200 citizenships granted last year.

**** The New Paper To Become Daily Morning Paper <http://www.asiamedia.ucla.edu/article-southeastasia.asp?parentid=81537>
by Straits Times

>From next week, it will be a full-fledged breakfast paper, seven days a week. On two days of the week, it will produce two editions of the paper: the usual mrning edition and a noon sports edition.

/Like it or not, we are moving straight into a 24-hour news-cycle./

**** 'Malaysia Did Not React To Work On Island' <http://www.todayonline.com/articles/221266.asp>
by Channel NewsAsia
In day three of the hearing at the INternational Court of Justice (ICJ), lawyers acting for Singapore said the republic had consistently carried out activities and maintaine dpublic works on the island since the 1800s. Malaysia did not react to all this work.
See Also:
Singapore Had 'Control Of Island Sicne 1851' <http://www.nst.com.my/Current_News/NST/Friday/National/2079758/Article/index_html>, by V. Anbalagan, New Straits Times.
No Protest From Malaysia On Singapore's Activities On Island, Court Told <http://www.bernama.com/bernama/v3/news_lite.php?id=295057>, by Bernama.
Public Sitting <http://www.icj-cij.org/docket/files/130/14173.pdf>, Held On Thursday 8 November 2007, At 10 a.m., At The Peace Palce, Vice-Preisdent Al-Khasawneh, Acting President, Presiding, In The Case Concerning Sovereignty Over Pedra branca/Pulau Batu Puteh, Middle Rocks And South Ledge (Malaysia/Singapore).