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Submission + - AT&T Terminating iPhone Pay-As-You-Go

Submitted by ackthpt on Tuesday June 16, 2009 @02:05PM

ackthpt writes: Users of the popular iPhone are now receiving text messages informing them they will need to upgrade to 2 year commitment plans. According to PC World "AT&T currently offers two types of prepaid plans: GoPhone, its "pay as you go" plan, and Pick Your Plan, its "prepay once a month" plan. AT&T's statement says that GoPhone will not be available for either original iPhones or iPhone 3Gs; Pick Your Plan will only continue to work for existing subscribers using the original iPhone, as long as they have an unlimited data plan. Current Pick Your Plan users who don't have an unlimited data plan will be asked to add one. iPhone 3G users are not eligible for Pick Your Plan.

According to Erica Sadun at TUAW, who's been investigating this issue, all pay-as-you-go users are being strongly encouraged to sign up for a postpaid plan, which includes making a new two-year commitment."

Looks like I'll be waiting a year for the Apple/AT&T agreement to time-out. I'll not do a two year agreement again, ever.

Submission + - Autistics Up To 40 Percent Faster At Problem Solvi (scientificblogging.com)

Submitted by

ghostlibrary

on Tuesday June 16, 2009 @12:29PM

ghostlibrary writes: "A news staffer at ScientificBlogging reports on the journal article "Enhanced Visual Processing Contributes to Matrix Reasoning in Autism", in Human Brain Mapping. Their summary includes this gem, "Some critics argued that autistics would be unable to complete the RSPM because of its complexity, yet our study shows autistics complete it as efficiently and have a more highly developed perception than non-autistics.""

Submission + - Could HTML 5 Kill Flash And Silverlight? (infoworld.com) 4

Submitted by

snydeq

on Tuesday June 16, 2009 @11:11AM

snydeq writes: "While Adobe, Microsoft, and Sun duke it out with proprietary technologies for implementing multimedia on the Web, HTML 5 has the potential to 'eat these vendors' lunches,' offering Web experiences based on an industry standard. In fact, one expressed goal of the standard is to move the Web away from proprietary technologies such as Flash, Silverlight, and JavaFX. 'It would be a terrible step backward if humanity's major development platform [the Web] was controlled by a single vendor the way that previous platforms such as Windows have been,' says HTML 5 co-editor Ian Hickson, a Google employee. But whether HTML 5 and its Canvas technology will displace proprietary plug-ins 'really depends on what developers do,' says Firefox technical lead Vlad Vukicevic. It also depends on Microsoft, the only company involved in the HTML 5 effort that is both a browser developer and an RIA tool developer. 'That's a big elephant in the room for them because you can imagine the Silverlight team [whose] whole existence is to add [this] functionality in. [But] if Internet Explorer puts it already in there, why do we have Silverlight?' asks Mozilla's Dion Almaer."

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