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Comment Complete Non Story (Score 0, Insightful) 286

by birdowner on Tuesday November 27, 2007 @03:37PM (#21495859) Attached to: Verizon Wireless To Open Network

While this sounds like a grand announcement, compare this with GSM networks (like T-mobile or AT&T). You can already use any GSM phone, even one that T-mobile does not sell. You don't need their permission, and it doesn't have to be approved in their "state of the art" testing facility. If anything, this news brings them closer to the device independence of GSM, but is still not completely there.

Feed news.com: AT&T admits it censored other bands (com.com)

From feed by cnetfeed on Monday August 13, 2007 @07:12PM

Blog: AT&T has apparently deleted portions of other bands' performances, the company admitted.

Submission + - Worm Threat Forces Apple to Disable Software? (beskerming.com)

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SkiifGeek

on Wednesday August 01, 2007 @09:51PM

SkiifGeek writes: "After the debacle that surrounded the announcement and non-disclosure of a worm that targets OS X (Rape.osx), did the claimed but not disclosed vulnerability in mDNSResponder force Apple to remove support for certain mDNSResponder capabilities with the recently released Security Update 2007-007?"

Gates Mocks MIT's $100 Laptop 816

Posted by Zonk on Thursday March 16, 2006 @11:28AM from the at-leat-they're-trying dept.

QuietLagoon writes 'Reuters is reporting that Bill Gates is making fun of the one laptop per child initiative to revolutionize how the world's children are educated. 'The last thing you want to do for a shared use computer is have it be something without a disk ... and with a tiny little screen,' Gates said at the Microsoft Government Leaders Forum in suburban Washington. 'Hardware is a small part of the cost' of providing computing capabilities, he said, adding that the big costs come from network connectivity, applications and support. 'If you are going to go have people share the computer, get a broadband connection and have somebody there who can help support the user, geez, get a decent computer where you can actually read the text and you're not sitting there cranking the thing while you're trying to type,' Gates said.'

Windows XP on Intel Mac Confirmed 627

Posted by Zonk on Thursday March 16, 2006 @09:57AM from the what-do-you-want-to-do-tonight-pinky dept.

niemassacre writes "According to winxponmac.com, the contest has been won - nearly $14k to narf2006 for submitting a working solution to dual-booting Windows XP and Mac OS X on an Intel-Powered mac. A thread on osx86project.org has confirmations from several testers that the procedure works on the 17" iMac, the Mac mini, and the MacBook Pro. Many sets of pictures and videos (such as this installation video) are floating around (and mentioned in the thread). The solution itself should be posted soon." Poit! Congratulations to narf.

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