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Submission + - iPhone now has more apps than Windows Mobile (arstechnica.com)

Submitted by Usman Ismail on Monday March 09, 2009 @11:26AM

Usman Ismail writes: Apple's App Store has reached the 25,000 applications mark with 5000 more applications added in less than a month.surpassing the application base that Windows Mobile to 9 years to build.

Comment Re:non-issue (Score 1) 324

by usman_ismail on Thursday March 05, 2009 @07:32PM (#27084687) Attached to: Doctors Silencing Online Patient Reviews Via Contract

Have you seen some of the waiver forms we are forced to sign. It might not be all that easy to sue a doctor.

Comment Re:missing option (Score 1) 549

by usman_ismail on Wednesday March 04, 2009 @05:00PM (#27069169) Attached to: I would install the following technology in my current/future children:

But in reality it comes out to parents in China and India only want male children and parents every where else want to control the appearance of their children (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29489602/)

Comment New Technology? (Score 1) 265

by usman_ismail on Thursday February 12, 2009 @04:22PM (#26832731) Attached to: New Tool Promises To Passively ldentify BitTorrent Files

They use packet sniffing and maintain a database of hashes of "bad" files. Does this qualify as new technology? So this is where the air force (Air Force Institute of Technology) spends their R&D budget.

Submission + - Shoe hurled as Chinese PM speaks (bbc.co.uk)

Submitted by usman_ismail on Monday February 02, 2009 @06:03PM

usman_ismail writes: A protester has thrown a shoe at Wen Jiabao during a speech at Cambridge University and called the Chinese prime minister a "dictator".

Submission + - Details of all E-Mails in UK to be stored (bbc.co.uk)

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usman_ismail

on Friday January 09, 2009 @11:42AM

usman_ismail writes: "From March all internet service providers (ISPs) will by law have to keep information about every e-mail sent or received in the UK for a year.

Human rights group Liberty says it is worried what will happen next.

The Home Office insists the data, which does not include e-mails' content, is vital for crime and terror inquiries.

Some three billion e-mails are thought to be sent each day in the UK."

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