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Verizon To Allow Skype Calling On Its Network 98

The Verizon press release begins: "At the 2010 Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Verizon Wireless and Skype today announced a strategic relationship that will bring Skype to Verizon Wireless smartphones in March." What used to be one of the most protective carriers anywhere has been opening up in major ways since the introduction of the Motorola Droid. Phandroid summarizes: "Starting next month, Verizon Smartphone users with data plans will enjoy free and unlimited Skype-to-Skype calls to anyone on the planet. And you’ll enjoy amazingly cheap Skype International calls as well. All this from Verizon Wireless’ 3G network." Some are wondering how the DoJ and law enforcement will react to a major upsurge in fully encrypted traffic.

Comment Re:Seriously?!? (Score 1) 648

It's illegal for them to do this, IMO. And I am not a lawyer, however, if someone wants to buy a computer from Psystar, then go buy OSX Leopard and install OSX Leopard on the computer, that's the users's prerogative. The problem comes up when Psystar is installing the OS on the machine and selling it. That's the illegal part. I guess?

Comment Re:Berne convention? (Score 1) 648

Comment Re:Berne convention? (Score 1) 648

Being Pedantic -- OSX is Darwin. Darwin is Apple developed code based on Nextstep, FreeBSD, and OpenStep. When Apple bought OpenStep (which was NextStep), they developed an OS named Rhapsody. Rhapsody was forked into Darwin. Darwin is the basis of OSX. The major difference in all is the Mach kernel.

Comment Re:Berne convention? (Score 1) 648

I think they only did that with 10.3, I had the same problem going from 10.2 to 10.3. But after 10.3, they have been full install disks. On the other hand, we were installing them on Apple Hardware, right? Which means that if the "original media" is OSX based hardware, Apple *could* claim that the disks were "upgrades"? I'm not a lawyer, and don't pretend to play one.

Comment Look, really? (Score 2, Insightful) 371

We know Steve is going to die, someday. As much as we'd probably like to put him in some cryogenic container, thaw him out every few years when products start to suck ass -- we know he's going do die AT SOME POINT. Why is this blowing up to be such a freakish crazy thing? So he's turning over the keynotes to someone else!? How about he's turning THIS one over to someone else. Will he still headline his own events, that Apple throws? Probably. How about WWDC? Come on. I don't blame them for pulling out of macworld: http://www.joelesler.net/finshake/Blog/Entries/2008/12/16_Apple_pulls_out_of_MacWorld%2C_OH_NOEZ.html But CNBC said it best, IMO: http://www.cnbc.com/id/28265938
Operating Systems

Submission + - Apple site reduces bad rumors to desires and wishe (digg.com) 1

An anonymous reader writes: Dear Cupertino is a blog where some guy writes little letters to Apple, asking for something to be fixed in an Apple product. You can also submit letters to him and he will publish them, with your credit and a link to your site if you want
Portables (Apple)

Submission + - Flash Lite Ported To Apple's iPhone (iphone-hacks.com)

Alias420 writes: "A French hacker Joos has managed to port Flash Lite for the iPhone. This was all done for the "Rock Werchter Mobile Guide," a mobile phone-based music festival handbook. The guide requires a Flash Lite-enabled device, and since Joos wanted to reach the iPhone and iPod touch audience, he ported the environment to Mobile OS X. This port uses a framework that sits atop of eyeGT, a graphic renderer capable of handling vector graphics and bitmaps."

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