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**** Apple Bars 'All Single-station Radio Apps' From iPhone <http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/11/24/apple_rejects_single_station_iphone_radio_apps/>
Cade Metz, The Register

Apple is now barring all single-station radio applications from the iPhone and iPad, insisting that "single station apps are the same as a fart app and represent spam in the iTunes store." So says Jim Barcus, the president of DJB Radio Apps, an outfit that has long helped build iPhone apps and other mobile apps for radio stations across the country.

According to Barcus, Apple began rejecting single-station radio apps on November 10, declaring that it "will no longer approve any more radio station apps unless there are hundreds of stations on the same app." Barcus can't see the logic. "[Apple doesn't] understand that radio stations are in fierce competition," he tells The Reg. "[Apple] just wants all radio stations to be on one big fat app, and that's just not going to happen."

**** Supply Data Now A Focus Of Probe <http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703730304575633173086330184.html>
Susan Pulliam, Wall Street Journal

Wall Street analysts have been left bewildered in recent days, as federal prosecutors begin to home in on insider-trading cases that appear to involve routinely published information about public-company supply chains.

Case in point: Apple Inc., one of the hottest stocks of the past year, for which an entire industry of well-known and obscure analysts and "expert networks" scramble to report every detail of the company's undisclosed production plans.

**** Amid Economic Doldrums, Apple Has A Spectacular Year <http://www.mercurynews.com/business/ci_16703362?nclick_check=1>
John Boudreau, San Jose Mercury News

As 2010 draws to a close, much of the tech world is struggling to regain its footing after a difficult recession. Then there's Apple.

**** iPad Keyboard Has Broken Shift-drag Capitalization Under iOS 4.2.1 <http://www.tuaw.com/2010/11/24/ipad-keyboard-has-broken-shift-drag-capitalization-under-ios-4-2/>
Richard Gaywood, TUAW

Since upgrading, I have found myself unable to use the handy shift-drag trick to type capitals.

**** Kiwi Twitter Client Gets More Flexible, Powerful <http://www.macworld.com/article/155950/2010/11/kiwi_2.html?lsrc=rss_main>
David Chartier, Macworld

New in Kiwi 2.0 is a tabbed interface, allowing greater flexibility if you manage multiple accounts or check in on other conversations or timelines often. Each account can have its own tab, and viewing a reply chain between multiple users will open a separate tab as well.

**** Freeverse Brings Field Of Glory To Mac <http://www.loopinsight.com/2010/11/24/freeverse-brings-field-of-glory-to-mac/>
Peter Cohen, The Loop

Field of Glory is a turn-based strategy wargame originally developed by HexWar and published for the PC by Slitherine. It’s based on an eponymous tabletop gaming system. The Mac release of Field of Glory comprises the original game and three expansion packs – Rise of Rome, Storm of Arrows and Immortal Fire.

**** The Apps That Make Your Mac Mouse Lazy <http://mac360.com/index.php/mac360/comments/the-apps-that-makes-your-mac-mouse-lazy/>
Alexis Kayhill, Mac360

For Mac users, beyond the keyboard, which Mac device do we use the most? It’s the mouse, right? How can you make left-click or right-click more productive than just a click?

**** Stopping Background Applications On iOS 4 <http://whereoscope.wordpress.com/2010/11/25/stopping-background-tasks-on-io/>
Whereoscope Blog

Turning off location access will remove an application’s ability to turn on the GPS chip, but that is only one of the ways to drain your battery. Continually sending data over the network via Edge or 3G is almost as bad, and the only way to stop that is to delete the app.

**** Apple Makes Big Land Purchase In Cupertino <http://www.mercurynews.com/business/ci_16706216>
Brandon Bailey, San Jose Mercury News

At a time when Apple is adding new workers almost as fast as it sells new iPhones and iPads, the pioneering computer maker has made a 98-acre land purchase that will roughly double the size of its home base in Cupertino.

Apple's latest acquisition is the longtime Cupertino campus of rival tech giant Hewlett-Packard, the Mercury News learned Wednesday. HP announced over the summer that it planned to move out of that site, which it had occupied for decades, as it consolidates operations at its Palo Alto headquarters over the next two years.

**** Singapore Pledges Property-Bubble Prevention <http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703572404575635661782637520.html>
Sam Holmes, Wall Street Journal

The Singapore government Thursday said it plans to pump more land into the city-state's private residential property market in the first half of next year to help temper building price pressures.

The continuation of the aggressive land supply program seen in the second half of this year comes amid signs the government remains concerned about the formation of a significant housing bubble despite three rounds of measures to curb speculative activity since September 2009. Singapore's home property prices rose 14.4% in the third quarter of this year from the fourth quarter of last year, according to data from the URA.



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**** Enticing Readers To A Long Road With Sudden Shocks Of Self-Recognition <http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/25/books/25book.html?_r=1&partner=rss&emc=rss>
Adam Langer, New York Times

And yet the further you delve into “In a Strange Room,” Damon Galgut’s taut, mesmerizing novel, a finalist for the 2010 Man Booker Prize, the more you realize that the shocks of recognition do not arise so much from any particular artwork you may have encountered but from the uncanny relevance that the novel ultimately seems to have for your own life. Or perhaps more impressively, from how deftly Mr. Galgut uses rhetorical devices to intermingle his narrator’s thoughts with your own, even if you have little in common with his narrator, a tragically isolated South African traveler named Damon.

**** The Things I Learned At Dinner <http://www.nybooks.com/blogs/nyrblog/2010/nov/24/things-i-learned-dinner/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+nybooks+%28The+New+York+Review+of+Books%29>
Charles Simic, New York Review Of Books

Back in the early 1970s, when I was teaching in California, I had a colleague named Bob Williams who taught fiction writing and was famous for beginning each semester with a lecture on the art of cooking. He’d tell his students, for example, how to prepare a dish of sausages, onions, and peppers—elaborately describing how to chose the right frying pan, olive oil, and sausages, explaining next how they ought to be cooked till browned and then removed from the pan—so that the sliced onions, garlic and peppers, and whatever fresh herbs could be introduced in their own proper order—until he had the entire class salivating. The point, of course, was not just to stimulate their appetites, but to show them the degree of love and devotion to the smallest detail required to turn this simple Italian dish, often poorly made, into a culinary masterpiece. Writing stories and poems was like that too, he told them. Instead of the ingredients he had just conjured, there would be words, experiences, and imaginings to combine. Actually, what he demonstrated to his students was the ancient relationship between cooking, eating well, and storytelling.

**** All The Things That Remind Me Of Her <http://www.salon.com/life/life_stories/index.html?story=/mwt/feature/2010/11/24/jennifers_40_birthday_seitz_essay>
Matt Zoller Seitz, Salon

After my wife died, music and movies we once loved became the very triggers I tried my hardest to avoid.



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**** 'No' To Compulsory Preschool <http://www.todayonline.com/Singapore/EDC101125-0000140/No-to-compulsory-preschool>
S Ramesh, Today

Despite a robust debate on the subject, Parliament yesterday once again turned down calls to legislate preschool education and make it compulsory.

**** Blaming Malay-Muslim Community? Who? <http://theonlinecitizen.com/2010/11/blaming-malay-muslim-community-who/>
The Online Citizen

Is this true? Are Singaporeans (particularly those online) blaming the Malay-Muslim community for the escape of the alleged terrorist?

It appears that this is not so. Instead, netizens are asking for the government to accept responsibility for its failure to first keep Mas Selamat under detention and later to capture him after he gave the police the slip. Netizens are calling for the Government to step up and take responsibility and for Wong Kan Seng in particular to own up to his failures.

**** “藏马”案的道德困惑 <http://www.zaobao.com.sg/yl/yl101125_001.shtml>
叶鹏飞, 联合早报

俗话说：自古忠孝难两全。“藏马”案尖锐地提出了这个难解的矛盾。从公共安全的角度（忠），阿斯蒙一家应该大义灭亲，向警方举报马士沙拉末的行踪；从亲情伦理的角度（孝），阿斯蒙一家不告密出卖亲人的做法，显然又不违反人性。

**** 国会报道 议事条规修改建议获通过 议员发言时间将缩短 <http://www.zaobao.com.sg/sp/sp101125_018.shtml>
李静仪　林慧慧　陈能端　周殊钦　吴淑贤, 联合早报

据林瑞生介绍，这次修订的议事常规主要是在发言时间、拨款辩论及议长延长国会开会时间这三方面。其他还包括对部长向国会作出澄清、特选委员会、提交陈情书和议事规矩等方面，作出小幅度的修订。

他说：“修订议事常规的目的是要使国会能落实与时并进的必要条规及提高效率，并满足议员在国会上履行职责时所需的程序需求。”

**** 国会侧记 时间不够用吗？ <http://www.zaobao.com.sg/sp/sp101125_017.shtml>
郭丽娟, 联合早报

实际上，长篇幅的演讲早已不符合现代人的生活节奏。在这个信息发达的时代，一般人都希望在最短的时间内获得最多的信息，而不愿花很长的时间去重复听几乎一样的演讲内容。

更何况是在庄严的国会殿堂里，我们对国会议员肯定有更高的要求。议员应该简单扼要地表达自己的观点，提出明确具体的建议，在必要时附上强而有力的数据来巩固自己的论点，而不是带着议员同僚“游花园”，模糊了辩论焦点。

**** 虽还未决定明年是否参选 纳丹：欢迎任何人挑战总统选举 <http://www.zaobao.com.sg/sp/sp101125_003.shtml>
许建明 麦纳麦, 联合早报

虽然纳丹总统尚未决定是否参加明年的总统选举，以寻求三度连任，但是他对任何人提出的挑战表示欢迎。不过，他强调国人应该更关注的是挺身出来竞选总统的候选人，到底合不合适。

**** ‘IRs Will Add S$1.38 Billion To Government Funds’ <http://sg.yfittopostblog.com/2010/11/25/irs-will-add-s1-38-billion-to-government-funds/>
Angela Lim, Yahoo!

Singapore is hot on its heels to become the world’s No. 2 gaming market next year, a report says.

According to a new report, the government stands to gain a substantial S$1.38 billion from taxes, duties and levies from both integrated resorts (IRs) this year. This may even help the Government turn a projected fiscal deficit of roughly S$2.96 billion this year into a small surplus.

**** Transitlink Clarifies That Commuters Only Need To Go To Top-up Machines For Refund <http://theonlinecitizen.com/2010/11/breaking-news-transitlink-clarifies-that-commuters-only-need-to-go-to-top-up-machines-for-refund/>
The Online Citizen

The Online Citizen has just learnt from regular columnist Mr Leong Sze Hian that Transitlink has called him to clarify that from Dec 18th, commuters who had been overcharged on their bus fares could get their refund by placing their EZ-link cards on the top-up machine and press the ‘bus stop refund button’. The refund would be automatically credited into the cards. According to Transitlink, this is because the computer system has all the travel records over the last five months.

**** Feasibility Study On Malaysia-Singapore Bullet Train To Start Jan 2011 <http://www.bernama.com/bernama/v5/newsbusiness.php?id=545346>
Bernama

The feasibility study on high speed bullet train connecting Malaysia and Singapore will be carried out starting January next year, said minister in the prime minister's department Datuk Seri Idris Jala.

"By middle of next year, if we are okay with it we will approach the Singapore government," he said during question and answer session at the 29th MAJECA-JAMECA Joint Conference here Thursday.

**** About That Get-Out-Of-Jail-Free Card <http://singaporedesk.blogspot.com/2010/11/about-that-get-out-of-jail-free-card.html>
Singapore Notes

Buried somewhere in the diplomatic jargon must be a coded message that caused the foreign affairs ministry and/or judicial officials to soil their underwear.

**** Rep: Singapore Casinos Ruining Johor Families <http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2010/11/25/parliament/7493792&sec=parliament>
The Star

Tang Nai Soon (BN-Pekan Nenas) said about 30% of the gamblers, mostly local housewives, opted for “free” packages ar ranged by private individuals and companies for daily trips to the casino. “Some housewives would even secretly borrow from Ah Longs and pay high interest rates to hide their gambling activities from their husbands,” Tang added.

Tang suggested that the Government hold diplomatic talks with Singapore to stop such free packages as soon as possible.

**** Singapore Rebukes Water Polo Team's Racy Swimsuits <http://www.usatoday.com/sports/olympics/2010-11-25-397574277_x.htm>
Alex Kennedy, Associated Press

The ministry, which normally evaluates the use of the flag on uniforms on a case-by-case basis, declined to specify which part of the design was objectionable.

**** Singapore Says Low Borrowing Costs, Excess Cash May Spur Property Market <http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-11-25/singapore-says-low-borrowing-costs-excess-cash-may-spur-property-market.html>
Shamim Adam, Bloomberg

Singapore’s central bank said low borrowing costs and excess liquidity globally may push the island’s property prices higher again, setting back government efforts to cool the market.

There is a risk that financial institutions may ease lending standards and extend more loans to make up for narrowing interest margins, the Monetary Authority of Singapore said in its Financial Stability Review today. Buyers may also take on “excessive leverage” amid expectations of a sustained period of low rates, the central bank said.

**** Housing Minister’s Frustratingly Incomplete Sales Job, Part 2 <http://yawningbread.wordpress.com/2010/11/25/housing-ministers-frustratingly-incomplete-sales-job-part-2/>
Yawning Bread

In his second commentary written for Today newspaper, Minister for National Development Mah Bow Tan addressed complaints that public housing is becoming unaffordable. I wonder how many people he managed to convince when much needed data was missing and there were considerable holes in his arguments.




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