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Technology (Apple)

Submission + - Telstra to Apple - "Stick to your knitting"

curmi writes: "The Sydney Morning Herald reports that Telstra, Australia's biggest telecommunications company and previously hot favourite to add the iPhone to their network, has told Apple "Stick to your knitting" with regards entering the mobile phone business. Telstra's operations chief says of the iPhone "I think people overreacted to it — there was not a lot of tremendously new stuff" and suggests that other mobile phone manufacturers will have similar functionality soon anyway. With Telstra having the only EDGE network in the country, will this delay access to the iPhone in Australia as Apple updates the hardware for 3G networks?"
Portables

1 Million OLPCs Already On Order 158

alphadogg writes "Quanta Computer has confirmed orders for 1 million notebook PCs for the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project. The article goes into some background on the project, and lays out the enthusiastic adoption that the project is seeing overseas. The company estimates they'll ship somewhere between 5 and 10 Million units this year, with 7 countries already signed up to receive units. The machines currently cost $130, but with that kind of volume the original goal of $100 a machine may be viable. Even with the low cost, Quanta expects to make a small profit on each machine, making charity work that much easier."
Television

Submission + - Cable Companiy Vs Local Broadcaster

doroshjt writes: "I haven't seen a fox broadcast in over a month. My local cable company, Time Warner, is in a contract dispute with Fox 28 out of Spokane Washington. The dispute is over payment of rebroadcasting over the air signals. Fox believes that they should be paid for their signal, time warner thinks it shouldn't be forced to pass on the buck to customers who could get the signal free OTA. http://www.timewarnercable.com/northwest/kayufaqs. html for Time Warner's side and http://www.fox28spokane.com/faq.php#gen_40 for fox's side. Who's right?"

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