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Submission + - Almost arrested for using iPhone on plane

Submitted by PadRacerExtreme on Friday October 12, 2007 @08:42AM

PadRacerExtreme writes: Using 'airplane mode' on you iPhone was not enough for this guy on an ATA flight.

We land and there are police waiting for me, the flight attendant that started this whole thing makes me walk to the front of the plane while everyone else has to stay in their seats and I stand there for 10 minutes. I kind of feel like I am standing in front of class as punishment because I was disruptive, not that this has ever happened to me in school, ok maybe it has.
Told all first person of this argument with two flight attendants and the discussion with the police after words.

Submission + - Unlocked Iphone in French Supermarkets (lemonde.fr)

Submitted by yannack on Friday October 12, 2007 @08:32AM

yannack writes: A major French supermarket chain is now selling IPhones (French), unlocked and free from any operator lock-in!
Apparently, these are US-bought IPhones, and fully unlocked.
This may come as a blow to Orange, leading French telecom operator, planned to distribute said IPhone. According to a spokesman from the supermarket, this deal is completely legal.
Warning is included: do not upgrade the firmware via iTunes...

Submission + - Madonna Signals Death of the Record Industry (timesonline.co.uk)

Submitted by siriuskase on Friday October 12, 2007 @06:50AM

siriuskase writes: Madonna is poised to leave her record company of 25 years to sign a $120 million (£60 million) deal with Live Nation, a concert promotion firm, in a move that many may regard as further evidence that the music industry of the last century is officially dead. The expected deal comes as Madonna's record sales are falling — despite her concerts attracting huge audiences — and is the latest in a series of moves by big-selling acts to bypass traditional record companies.

Submission + - Assassin's Creed struggling to fit on 360 DVD disc (pro-g.co.uk)

Submitted by

JamesO

on Friday October 12, 2007 @06:06AM

JamesO writes: "The developer behind hotly anticipated stealth game Assassin's Creed has revealed details of its struggle to make the game as good on the PS3 as it is on the 360.

The game's creative director, Patrice Desilets, told Pro-G in an interview that one of the biggest challenges the team is currently facing is fitting everything into a 360 DVD disc compared with Sony's Blu-ray format. Conversely, he revealed that the team was "really struggling right now on PS3" because of memory problems specific to Sony's console.

He added that the developer, Ubisoft Montreal, had drafted in help from both Microsoft and Sony to make sure the game has "the same quality on both systems".

"The PS3 version is as good as the 360 version. We've been showing the PS3 version at E3 this year, but we've done a lot of events and it's just easier for us and for people from the press to have a 360. But the versions are the same, basically," he said.

He added: "Both have their own challenges. Right now we have a big challenge on the 360 to make it fit on a DVD, to put five languages, to put all the data on eight gigs. On the Blu-ray side we're really good, but then the memory is quite different. How we handle memory is really different between the two machines and we're struggling right now on the PS3. But we have people who are really dedicated and we're having help from Microsoft on one side and Sony on the other side to have the same quality on both systems. It really depends on the week basically as to who's best."

Owners of the PS3 will find comfort in the comments, having suffered some poor quality ports of 360 games since Sony released the console in March this year."

Submission + - Microsoft admits all 360s sold so far are flawed

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 12, 2007 @04:01AM

An anonymous reader writes: CNN reports that Microsoft has admitted all xbox 360 consoles sold in the past 19 months suffer from a design flaw. But it does not have any plans to start a recall program.

It seems like everyone with a functional (like myself) are lucky. This seems to be a bad time for Microsoft. But as a 360 owner, I am glad they actually admitted this instead of denying and repeating their line on how the actual failure rate is very low.

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