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    Sync it up: Hands on with the preview of Windows 8's cloud sync service

    The original comparison screenshots are also a bit unfair as live.com would sync the mail, contacts and calendars via adding the appropriate Exchange account to whatever Outlook equivalent program in included with Windows 8 (unless Microsoft is still not bundling calendar applications with the...
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    Apple: publishers "expressed varying degrees of unhappiness" with Amazon

    I think the agency model makes a lot more sense in electronic distribution... You aren't dealing with competing with a few similar titles in even a huge bookstore, you may be competing against hundreds of similar titles all of which have easily available ratings on how you compare to the...
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    "Makers Against Takers": Viacom drums up 'Net censorship support with tasty half-muff

    You realizing you are talking about the same product? Either it can be stolen or it can't. Either both of you are thieves or neither of you are. Copyright defines intellectual property. Copyright infringement is to take without permission or payment something you are not entitled to have...
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    Meet the new iPhone, visually identical to the old iPhone, October 14

    2010 - Apple offers iPhone 4 unlocked in UK. iPhone 4 16GB and 32GB is available for £499 and £599 2011 - Apple offers iPhone 4s unlocked in UK. iPhone 4s starting 16GB available for £499 True the UK unlocked price with VAT is slightly higher over the US unlocked post-tax but it seems that...
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    How Apple tracks your location without consent, and why it matters

    If somebody has physical access to your computer your are screwed. The boogeyman would just jailbreak the device (iOS or otherwise) and install tracking software anyway if they cared. I'm surprised the article didn't go on about how your private texts to your mistress were also saved in your...
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    Poll Technica: 20% of current iPad owners expected to buy iPad 2; will you?

    I had a first gen iPhone and waited for the 4 to upgrade. I will likely to do the same for iPad. Apps would probably quit a lot less often on the new one because of the memory limitations (of the 256MB that is there most of that is currently OS). iPad 2 would not be any better at what I use...
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    Forum user gets banned, loses access to <em>Dragon Age II</em>

    I saw a nice video recently of somebody still able to launch Doom after upgrading many versions from dos up to windows 7 and that would never happen any more as you'd have to activate it every single time and it would complain too many changes in too short a time. (Unrelated I will be sad if...
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    Xcode 4 unifies design and code view, available to all for $4.99

    As Lion is going to ship with server features it may indicate that Xcode also considered server level or that it has matured the point it can be priced. Not than anybody ever considered Xcode to be "free" in comment forums as it requires specific hardware/OS versions to use it. It took me a...
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    Report: iPad 2 coming in April

    An unannounced slip for an unannounced ship date for rumored product… But given the yearly release cycle and as the last one was released in April, releasing the next one in April seems dead on track so this news is even more stock manipulative than usual.
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    Embedded SIM could cause carrier conflict for Apple

    I can see many drawbacks: - A phone locked to iTunes would mean that as Apple stops supporting legacy hardware you can no longer activate legacy devices. - Only carriers with a contact with Apple would be available in the iTunes store as Apple likes to keep things simple and would likely prevent...
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    The VLC-iOS license dispute and how it could spread to Android

    On the "The requirement that you also open source any tools used to create and install the binary" note… is DRM wrapper any different from a RAR? In which case you have to release the RAR compression code as open source and distribute it in your RAR? On the whole I think this is playing out in...
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    Apple may cut out carrier middleman with custom SIM chip

    This seems like just another effort to reduce hardware complexity. One less part that may be lost or may break or have a mechanism fail. Reduces space for tray material and ejection mechanism (microSIM was just a start). Removes need to reseat the SIM card as it would be soldered and not...
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    iTunes 10 hands-on: snappier performance, questionable UI choices

    Changing playlist views quickly: You can use up and down arrows to switch playlists (something new I think) and use the shortcut key command+option+3 to change the view for that playlist. You would need many to take 15 minutes to fix that. Vertical buttons: There have been many articles on this...
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    How <em>Star Trek</em> artists imagined the iPad... 23 years ago

    I should imagine even Android would be terribly overpowered and unnecessary. More efficient would be just let the ships computer render the interface and broadcast whatever interface pushing new contexts as required the situation required. All the device would do is charge via ambient RF, play...
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    Teardown shows power savings eliminated Mac mini power brick

    I seem to recall the original mini being about $200 less than the iMac. Apple is pretty good about making sure the price point on one product line doesn't eat the lunch of the others. I'm sure Apple could put together cheap looking $200 of hardware that runs OS X fine and destroys the rest of...
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    A closer look shows Apple's A4 is "tailored," not "bespoke"

    Apparently the author at least read the thread and changed the title appropriately as the chip is very clearly not tailored per customer or even custom for apple as there are many off the shelf A8 cuts left untouched on the chip. Hopefully the readers catch on to the title change soon. I...
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    Reports: FTC to investigate Apple for mobile policies

    This. Pretty much proof that the DOJ is at the mercy of lobby groups. This is like the 5th-6th anti-trust probe announced in the last year? Over a single line of products just attempting to maintain some sort of quality assurance that the items works and don't violate contracts?? Bullying the...
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    iPad sales hit the 1 million mark in less than a month

    If you messed with iPhone at all it is a similar OS. You can email profiles or configure the iPad by connecting to iTunes directly. Hopefully 4.0 supplies more magic on this front. http://www.apple.com/support/ipad/enterprise/