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Submission + - Should Apple License OS X 'Mobile'? (blogspot.com)

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An anonymous reader writes: This author, hypothesizes that Apple might decide to license OS X for mobile devices. The reason? Unlike 3rd party licensing for PCs, Apple currently has no cell phone sales to cannibalize. Plus, every unit sold would be one less Windows Mobile license, and one more potential customer for the iTunes Music Store.
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Submission + - Amazon Offers DVD for 14 Million Dollars (dvddossier.com)

Submitted by Frank
Frank writes: The DVD Dossier is reporting that Amazon.com is selling the Kevin Costner film "The Gunrunner" on DVD for only fourteen million dollars. That represents a 30 per cent savings off the regular price, which is a little over twenty million. And at that price, this DVD had better have some very special special features! By the way, Amazon's standard pre-order price guarantee is in effect. So you can buy with confidence: if the price drops by a million or two before it ships, you'll pay the lower price.
Programming

Submission + - Apple's New Animation/UI Framework (neosmart.net)

Submitted by mqudsi
mqudsi writes: Apple is show-casing a new animation/user-interface framework due to ship with OS X Leopard. According to Apple, this new API will make it possible for software developers to easily and quickly add advanced custom 3D animations and interactions to their applications — in effect creating a new 3D UI — with little time and difficulty. While this concept isn't new, it's up to Apple to prove if they can make it easy, seeing as previous attempts by Microsoft and Adobe have failed to do what some say Apple just might accomplish: bring on desktop 2.0.
Censorship

Submission + - Video game systems and the rise of drug use! (olgn.net)

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Blah Blah writes: I found a Great Story Here "With all the data we as a society track now days this is one that has been over looked. All the talk about violent video games and what they are doing to our kids, I thought I would look at the numbers a little more. Scanning the U.S. Department of Justice crime numbers thinking I would not find anything new. I found something so crazy that I could not even believe what I was looking at. If you will look at the numbers you will see what I see. Game console systems are directly linked to the rise in Drug use in people ages 18 +."
Communications

Submission + - Phone Patent Battle Hurts Millions of Consumers (pcmag.com)

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CorinneI
CorinneI writes: "The patent battle, brewing since May 2005 when Broadcom Corp. filed suit against Qualcomm for infringing upon 10 Broadcom patents related to wired and wireless communications, has resulted in a International Trade Commission's decision to ban the import of new models of cell phones containing Qualcomm 3G broadband chipsets. This strikes a serious blow to consumers hoping to buy any one of Verizon's and Sprint's high-speed models and many AT&T phones. Collateral damage from this legal dirty bomb will hit Motorola, Samsung, LG, and HTC, all of whom use some Qualcomm components."
Google

Submission + - Google DDoS'ed?

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Dr.BackTrack
Dr.BackTrack writes: "Today, Google was offline for an Entire hour. The buzz quickly spread across IRC and Forums. Now Google have recovered from the Unexpected outage. The Rumour is that there was a DDoS on the Google Server. This has not been confirmed but expect news soon from Google or somewhere else."
The Internet

Submission + - iPredict a Cease-and-Desist letter.

Submitted by palewook
palewook writes: Last week, MSNBC debuted a new service on their news site. Rex Sorgatz, Executive Producer at MSNBC.com, calls the service, "answers visualized over time". The service, iPredict is aggregated news. Propelled by user's votes with annotated changes in the news story marked on a graph. IPredict resembles a Statistical Process Control graph compressed into a timeline covering topical news headlines. Presently, MSNBC has yet to ask the risky questions using the service. When should the USA leave Iraqi? Should Paris have been released? When will Apple send a Cease-and-Desist letter over the name?
Editorial

Submission + - Apple Making Money Internationally More So Than US

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kobe_2104
kobe_2104 writes: "Is Apple making more money through the international exchange markets than what many people are lead to believe? A recent example was used to see if Apple updated their prices in local countries based on the current exchange rates between those countries and the US. A MacBook Pro with the following additional extras was used a the example: 160Gb 7200RPM HDD, 17" High Res Glossy Widescreen Display. Pricing this on the US Apple Store shows the price as being $3049 US. Pricing this on the AUS Apple Store shows the price as being $4368.99 AU. Using the $0.8436 AU to US conversion rate at the time of writing this, one could buy the MacBook Pro in the US for $3614 AUS. Why is there a $750 difference in price between the two countries? One would think the prices can't be THAT far apart because of shipping costs, especially considering China is a closer relation of Australia than it is the US. Does Apple have a reason for this and are other countries experiencing the same discrepancy in prices compared to the US? This certainly looks like a money grab by Apple based on fluctuating exchange rates which would "advantage" Apple, especially in Australia."
Networking

Submission + - iPhone Won't Be Barred under Qualcomm Import Ban (tidbits.com)

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Glenn Fleishman
Glenn Fleishman writes: "The US International Trade Commission issued an order this afternoon barring imports of cell phones containing third-generation (3G) networking chips from Qualcomm. They'll allow more shipments of any model imported before today, but new models are on hold. But not the iPhone! First, the iPhone doesn't use Qualcomm chips; second, it's only a 2.5G/Wi-Fi device — no 3G chips inside. The ruling comes after Broadcom (a cell and Wi-Fi chip maker) won a patent dispute in front of the commission last year. Qualcomm's 3G chips are used in handsets by all the major US cell operators, who are spitting mad right now. Apple might get the last laugh, though: they might have the most advanced smartphone on the market unless President Bush or his trade representative overturn the ruling (which they have the power to do)."
Announcements

Submission + - 25 Most Influential Techs for Mac Community (mactech.com)

Submitted by masumph
masumph writes: MacTech has released the results from their annual "MacTech 25". While there are some repeats from last year, there are a number of new folks and the list has more developers since last year. The list is derived from public voting, and MacTech internal staff and Apple employees are not eligible. The full list and article are published in the June issue and are also online as of today.

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