ApolloX - Slashdot User

Nintendo 4DS Announced-> 0

Submitted by ApolloX on Friday April 01 2011, @01:06PM

ApolloX writes "Following the successful launch of the Nintendo 3DS last week, Nintendo fans got a treat when it was unveiled this Friday morning that the next version of the handheld portable would be called the Nintendo 4DS, and support, what game industry experts, call “time altering software"
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Maryland Attorney General Upholds Right to Video T-> 0

Submitted by ApolloX on Friday August 13 2010, @11:53AM

ApolloX writes "Following up a story Slashdot previously covered, Maryland attorney general has announced that state police were wrong to charge Anthony Graber with a felony for recording his traffic stop, since a police stop is not considered a private conversation and therefore not covered by the state wiretap law. Slashdot readers may recall, Anthony Graber was arrested at gunpoint during a traffic stop while riding his motorcycle. Weeks later he was charged with felony wiretaping for video recording the traffic stop, after it was posted online. Despite the ruling by the attorney general, Maryland State Police have yet to drop charges against Graber."
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Adobe Axes Flash CS5 iPhone Exporter-> 0

Submitted by ApolloX on Wednesday April 21 2010, @12:01PM

ApolloX writes "As previously reported, Apple has made it quite difficult for Adobe by banning its Flash CS5 Flash-to-iPhone converter a mere 4 days before the public release of Adobe Flash CS5. Nearly two weeks later, Adobe has responded by announcing that they are ending development on the Flash CS5 iPhone compiler."
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Review of Flash Builder 4 - Defective By Design?-> 0

Submitted by ApolloX on Friday April 02 2010, @03:01PM

ApolloX writes "Adobe has released its new version of the Flex Builder, now renamed Flash Builder 4. This version is radically different from previous versions of Flex, introducing the new Spark architecture and theme support. While I a(TM)m pleased Adobe has finally added support for Eclipse 3.5, I am disappointed with some of the new architecture changes that make doing simple things, such as skinning a button, now quite cumbersome."
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T-Mobile Warns Sidekick Data Might Be Gone Forever-> 0

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Selikoff

on Sunday October 11 2009, @04:10PM

Selikoff writes "From the article, "The big story today is about Microsoft subsidiary Danger losing all T-Mobile Sidekick customer data from their servers. Valued T-Mobile Sidekick customers received a notice today from the company updating them on the "data disruption" problem. The good news is that data is no longer being disrupted. The bad news is that there is no data left to be disrupted.""
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Push Gmail for iPhone and Windows Mobile-> 1

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Selikoff

on Tuesday September 22 2009, @03:08PM

Selikoff writes "Google has expanded service to now include push Gmail for iPhone and Windows Mobile, previously only supporting limited Exchange services such as Calendar. It seems Google didn't work directly with Apple on this subject, instead choosing to leverage the existing Exchange protocol previously available within the iPhone. From the article "Google rolled out an upgrade to Google Sync which now provides the ability for Gmail messages to be pushed to mobile devices rather than pulled. That means that e-mail messages sent to Gmail accounts will be received immediately on mobile devices rather than having to be summoned at 15 or 30 minute intervals by the device.""
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MacRumors MacWorld Feed Hacked-> 0

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ApolloX

on Tuesday January 06 2009, @01:37PM

ApolloX writes "During the live Macworld 2009 keynote, hackers hijacked the MacRumors live feed including such gems as:

9:34 am we are from ebaumsworld. we are hackers on steroids.
9:24 am STEVE JOBS JUST DIED :
9:29 am SEX ME
9:32 am Steve is gay.
9:32 am OMG HACKED"
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Time Warner to lose MTV, Comedy Central, and More-> 1

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Selikoff

on Wednesday December 31 2008, @04:01AM

Selikoff writes "Viacom has started flooding airwaves (in the form of a scrolling banner on certain channels) announcing Time Warner customers will lose a number of channels at midnight tonight including: Comedy Central, MTV, Nickelodeon, Noggin, Nicktoons, Spike, VH1, TV Land, and more. The banner encourages customers to call Time Warner to complain and even provides a support number. Apparently, the issue stems from Viacom raising rates as much as 22 and 36 percent per channel. Funny, they didn't post a customer support number to call Viacom in the scrolling banner, but according to their website its (212) 258-6000. Read more about it at: here and here."
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T-Mobile agent encourages iPhone on their network 0

Submitted by ApolloX on Friday March 07 2008, @05:14PM

ApolloX writes "Earlier today I called T-Mobile to find out how much time I have left on my contract before I can cancel it and get an iPhone with AT&T. To my surprise, the support agent told me I could get an iPhone and use it on their network, using such reassuring terminology as "I've seen it done" and "you can just reuse your SIM card". I brought up the obvious objections such as "It's sort of illegal" and "It involves hacking the iPhone", to which she responded I should contact AT&T for assistance about unlocking the phone. At this point I could barely contain my laughter.

I'm sure in the last year many people have called T-Mobile (and every other carrier) asking to cancel because of the iPhone, but honestly, telling people they can use an iPhone on their network is just ridiculous... unless of course T-Mobile plans to support helping people unlock their iPhone?"

Voyager 2 finds solar system's shape is 'dented'-> 0

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Selikoff

on Tuesday December 11 2007, @06:34AM

Selikoff writes "NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft has found that our solar system is not round but is "dented" by the local interstellar magnetic field of deep space, space experts said on Monday. The data was gathered by the craft on its 30-year journey into the edge of the solar system when it crossed into a sweeping region called the termination shock, they said. It showed that the southern hemisphere of the solar system's heliosphere is being pushed in or "dented." Voyager 2 is the second spacecraft to enter this region of the solar system behind Voyager 1, which entered the northern region of the heliosheath in December 2004."
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