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Owners Smash iPhones To Get Upgrades, Says Insurance Company 406

Posted by timothy on Wednesday February 17, 2010 @01:59PM from the dog-ate-it dept.

markass530 writes "An iPhone insurance carrier says that four in six claims are suspicious, and is worse when a new model appears on the market. 'Supercover Insurance is alleging that many iPhone owners are deliberately smashing their devices and filing false claims in order to upgrade to the latest model. The gadget insurance company told Sky News Sunday that it saw a 50-percent rise in claims during the month Apple launched the latest version, the iPhone 3GS.'"

Novell Bringing .Net Developers To Apple iPad 315

Posted by timothy on Friday January 29, 2010 @09:50PM from the odd-confluence dept.

GMGruman writes "Paul Krill reports that Apple's new iPad could be easier to write apps for, thanks to Novell's MonoTouch development platform, which helps .Net developers create code for the iPad and fully comply with Apple's licensing requirements — without having to use Apple's preferred Objective-C. This news falls on the footsteps of news that Citrix will release an iPad app that lets users run Windows sessions on the iPad. These two developments bolster an argument that the iPad could eventually displace the netbook."

Comment Re:Hmm (Score 1) 526

by sailesh on Friday December 05, 2003 @08:53PM (#7644660) Attached to: Gerrymandering by Computer

The term comes from an election (in Chicago?) where the mayor (Gerry) came up with a set of fixed boundaries, one of which was in the shape of a salamander (lizard). Hence gerymander.

You are concluding two incidents .. the infamous chicago election of robert j. daley as mayor (dad of the current mayor) and a 19th century incident involving a redistricting in Massachusetts by a Governor named Gerry. The offending district looked like a "salamander" .. hence the term Gerrymander.

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