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As you may know I have an iPhone and now I have the iPhone 2.0 software. It is all good. I have the MobileMe trial going and I am going to do some limited testing. If it is good, I may migrate from GMail back to that (it was .Mac and I was a member […]

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This Memorial Day (tomorrow night) on A&E channel, Ridley and Tony Scott’s version of Michael Chrichton’s seminal techno-thriller, The Andromeda Strain is premiering. I will see it and report back (there will probably be spoilers). Before I do, I want to deal with the reviews that are coming out and some big picture issues about […]

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Rumor: AT&T to Subsidize New 3-G iPhones | Gadget Lab from Wired.com:
If our math is correct (and Apple keeps the same pricing scheme), that should bring the final price of the 3-G iPhone down to $200 and $300 for the expected 8- and 16-GB versions. Not bad if you can stomach a two-year commitment.
It will […]

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Judge Says Music Sharing Doesn’t Necessarily Equal Infringement (Updated) | Listening Post from Wired.com:
The RIAA appeared stymied by this result and indicated it will press the issue. “This is a strange decision that is outside of the mainstream and inconsistent with countless court rulings on these issues,” said an RIAA statement. “We are currently considering […]

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AT&T providing free Wi-Fi to iPhone users | iLounge News:
AT&T has begun offering free Wi-Fi to iPhone-using customers at some of its Wi-Fi hotspot locations, according to several reports. When a participating AT&T Wi-Fi network is accessed by an iPhone user, a specially-formatted page appears offering “Free AT&T Wi-Fi for iPhone.” iPhone users must enter […]

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Psystar Corporation - Reinventing The Wheel: Open Computing:
I’ve been looking at this Psystar story now for the last couple of days. For those of you that aren’t aware, on Monday, they announced the Open Computer (OC). A PC that’s been designed to run a hacked version of Mac OS X.
Suffice it to say, I think […]

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Macworld | How the iPhone is killing the ‘Net:
Is the iPhone killing the ’Net? That’s the question posed by Oxford University Professor Jonathan Zittrain in his new book, The Future of the Internet and How to Stop It .

Zittrain is a bona fide member of the digiterati—a cyberlaw scholar with multiple degrees from Yale and […]

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From Griffin Technology: ClearBoost
ClearBoost
Antenna-boosting case for iPhone
We all wish we could carry around an external booster antenna for our cell phones. ClearBoost lets you do exactly that for your iPhone.
This clever case conceals a built-in booster antenna that captures more of the available wireless signal and sends it to the internal antenna of your iPhone. […]

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Flock, a browser designed on the Mozilla engine that powers Firefox and many others, like the Mac only Camino, is probably the only tool you will ever need if you are into social networking. It is designed around blogging and new media per se, with hooks to Weblogs like Wordpress, Movable Type, TypePad, and LiveJournal. […]

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From Macworld
Analysis: Yahoo bid could backfire lest Microsoft change its ways:
But the cultural implications of the move are so tricky that the deal could end up backfiring for both vendors if Microsoft doesn’t take care to learn from its past and use Yahoo to transform its business, not just help bolster its unproven efforts in […]

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