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Submission + - Apple Responds to FCC Inquiry of Google Voice App

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on Sunday August 23, 2009 @03:33AM

Zerocool3001 writes: "Apple has posted an open response to the FCC's inquiry into the rejection of Google Voice apps from the App Store. The full text of the letter can be found here"

Submission + - C&C 4 Requires Continuous Internet Connection (arstechnica.com)

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on Wednesday July 15, 2009 @12:57PM

Zerocool3001 writes: "Arstechnica is reporting that EA's new Command and Conquer 4 will require an active internet connection at all times, even to play single player. The reasons for this requirement seem to change with the day. According to the article, EA has said the move is to:

"This is primarily due to our 'player progression' feature so everything can be tracked."

EA is arguing that you'll like what it's doing with the game enough to put up with this inconvenience.

Designer Samuel Bass claimed "as a nice side effect, since C&C4 requires players to be online all the time in order to prevent cheating, we'll be shipping without any form of DRM.""

Submission + - Snow Leopard to Switch to Base 10 Byte Counting (hardmac.com)

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on Saturday June 20, 2009 @12:08AM

Zerocool3001 writes: "In a follow up to recent WWDC '09 coverage on Snow Leopard features, Ars Technica has discovered that calculation of hard drive capacities in Snow Leopard will now be base 10. They speculate the change is to bring drive capacities into line with hard drive manufacturer's labeled capacities (i.e. 200gb instead of 185.99gb). While they seem to think this is a good thing, won't it clash with the ^2 calculation of file sizes and won't it mean that a drive will fill up before it reaches its reported capacity? Seems like it could be a problem to me.

On the plus side, the other new features look pretty appetizing."

Submission + - Nightly Chromium Build Releases "Pre-Alpha" (launchpad.net) 1

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on Saturday May 23, 2009 @09:55AM

Zerocool3001 writes: "Perhaps due to the popularity of their nightly builds the maintainers of a Debian Linux build of the web browser Chromium (not to be confused with Google's Chrome, which is built on the open source Chromium) have refined the quickly changing and highly unstable nightly builds into a "Pre-Alpha" release. This release, while still relatively unstable and under constant revision, removes a few of the barriers to getting Chromium working on the average system. The browser will now build and install successfully on most systems and has a somewhat functional TLS/SSL authentication system. While the browser is still unstable and is missing key parts, the brave (or bored) can build it and take it out for a spin on Linux. From a quick test run (this post was written on it) it seems as though a fully operational Linux Chromium may not be far off.
P.S. Only the Ubuntu PPA is cited here."

Submission + - Fox Columnist Loses Job for Reviewing Leaked X-Men (cnet.com)

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on Tuesday April 07, 2009 @01:33AM

Zerocool3001 writes: "Roger Friedman, an entertainment columnist for Fox.com, was fired shortly after writing a review of the recently leaked X-Men: Origins. Despite the glowing review ("exceeds expectations at every turn") Friedman was fired after 10 years of working for Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. A press release from News Corp claimed the termination was the result of Friedman's review promoting piracy. It is interesting to note that Friedman describes the easy of downloading a copy of the movie as "so much easier than going out in the rain.""

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