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Daily SG: 2 Dec 2009

Posted by singaporedaily on 2nd December 2009

Road to Election: An Extra Cooling Off Day for the Fixin
- Asian in America: Time to think before voting rationally?
- Gerald Giam’s Blog: Fixing a problem that doesn’t exist
- Today In Singapore: Dirty Harry Would Be Proud
- journalism.sg: Pre-election “cooling-off” period should not freeze citizen journalism.
- Singaporean Skeptic: PAP Already Has An Unfair Edge.
- The Temasek Review: “Cooling-off” day for voters to reflect “calmly” on their decisions or for the PAP to do last minute campaigning?
- The Temasek Review: Low Thia Kiang: “Cooling-off” period will give PAP an extra day of campaigning
- Singapore Democrats: Proposed Cooling-off Period Designed To Benefit PAP
- Kelvin Teo Writes: Own victim of the GRC success

Strangers in a Strange Land: Falling Productivity
- Sgpolitics.net: There is a productivity revolution sweeping the world and Singapore is not part of it: WHY?
- TOC: “Cheaper, better, faster” may just break the camel’s back
- Temasek Hedge: Falling productivity: Krugman may be right about Singapore after all [Thanks Bink]
- Under the Willow Tree: PAP’s Quick-Fix Mentality will Exacerbate Singapore’s Economic Challenges

Mainstream or X-Stream Media
- Blowin’ In The Wind: Singapore & the Economist: After the sentence cut
- Gerald Giam’s Blog: Where is Singaporekini?
- Jacob 69er: Singapore: Censorship city – The real victims of this repression are Singaporeans
- Singapore Dino: Deja vu: Govt interferes with mr brown’s work again

Singaporeans are fed up with progress!
- Diary of A Singaporean Mind: Meritocracy and an unequal society..

Re education: To Bi or not to Bi
- Times They Are A-Changin’: Truth Hurts..

Re education
- Singapore Alternatives: Education Hub of Degree Mill?

Housing
- The Temasek Review: Immigration and public housing: Should the govt or the people plan ahead?

A jobless recovery
- Blowin’ In The Wind: DBS’ Dubai loans exceed most foreign banks’ UAE loans

We are against capital punishment
- Rachel Zeng’s blog: Final court appeal for Yong Vui Kong
- Jaslyn Go’s Blog: To err is human; to forgive, divine – Yong Vui Kong is human too!

Daily Discourse
- Mathia Lee: World AIDS Day
- work class historian: The Weakening of Empathy: A University Case
- running legs: We are one!
- journalism.sg: IPS Report Refutes Criticisms Of Straits Times’ Aware Coverage
- Seelan Palay’s Blog: The art of diversity [Thanks Seelan]
- Knowledge@SMU: Thio Li-ann on Free Speech, Social Values and Sustainable Democracy [Thanks Jack H]

Life, the universe and everything
- Ian On The Red Dot: Welcome To Singapore … Here’s How We Don’t Do Business
- SGEntrepreneurs: RIP CrunchPad [Thanks BL]
- Icarus Flew Too High: “Haven’t I Seen This Somewhere Before?”

Infoblogaramous
- AngryAngMo: List Of Singapore Clubs/Bars That Charge For Tap Water! (Please Help)

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Daily Tech: 2 Dec 2009

Posted by dk on 2nd December 2009

Not sure if you heard the news. CrunchPad is over. Dead. No more. I always thought that if CrunchPad die, it would be because of pricing or usability. Never did I expect it to be a disagreement between TechCrunch and Fusion Garage. So far, we only heard Mike Arrington’s story. We are not sure what is Fusion Garage’s CEO, Chandra Rathakrishnan’s story.

It is a very wrong move to kick Mike Arrington out of his project. He is an asset to the team. It just don’t make sense to remove him. And even if Fusion Garage managed to settle the lawsuit that Mike is going to file against them, they will never be able to sell the CrunchPad. Judging from the influence of TechCrunch, you can be sure that people are going to boycott that product.

All I can say is, only Leo Laporte can screw Mike Arrington and still walk away with it. Good luck to the folks at Fusion Garage.

News
- TechCrunch: The End Of The CrunchPad
- CNA: Four MediaCorp radio stations back on Internet
- Tech65: Our Fellow Tech Podcasters
- Cnet: ‘Twitter’ top word of 2009
- danielhosheng: Swype
- Life Hacker: BitTorrent Tracker Mininova Goes Legal-Only
- Gizmodo: LEAK: The Google Phone “Is a Certainty”
- PC World: Porn App Store Lands on Android Phones
- TheNeoDimension: Jaymee Ong Demo Yoga On Wii’s Balance Board
- TechGoondu: A goondu’s shopping experience at Sitex 2009

Reviews | Guides
- The Lycan Times: Free Software Recommendation
- Sweska Says: Sync Contacts across Google, MAC & iPhone
- Tech65: HP TouchSmart 300 Unbox
- The Gal: HP Mini Tord Boontje Unboxed
- JustinLee.sg: Nokia E72 Social Messaging Workshop

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