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iphoneSimFree.com:
Seems there is a bit of confusion about our last post. Here are some of the most common questions, with some corresponding answers. — Q. Why do you say it is unlocked if you can't activate a non AT&T sim? — A. There is a difference between unlocking and activation.
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Paul Miller / Engadget:
iPhone update: facts and fiction — If you haven't already bitten the bullet and taken your unlocked iPhone down that scariest of paths, the 1.1.1 update, we're here to sort out a bit of the hearsay from the actual and fairly inconvenient truth. Even if you have already updated …
Erica Sadun / The Unofficial Apple Weblog:
5 things you need to know about the iPhone 1.1.1 update — Before you hit that 'Upgrade' button, here are a few items of community interest to consider. — 1. It's a one-way street. You cannot downgrade the firmware back to 1.0.2, not even using the alt-Restore trick that lets you pick an ipsw file to restore from.
Doc Searls Weblog:
Go from hell — Why do we continue, in 2007, to believe that markets are all about What Big Companies Do? Worse, why do we continue to take advertising for granted as the primary source of the the Bux DeLuxe required to fund technical, social and personal progress?
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Business Week:
Google's Game-Changing Phone — Mobile biggies are quaking at the idea of competition from a free, ad-based service — Imagine your cellphone as a mini marketing machine. As you head into your car after dinner, a text alert pops onto the screen of your handset announcing the 9 p.m. lineup at a nearby cineplex.
John Paczkowski / Digital Daily:
Act Now and Get a Downgrade to the OS You Really Want, ABSOLUTELY FREE! — It's looking more and more like the pent-up demand for Windows Vista we've heard so much about this past year is really just pent-up demand for Windows XP. — With Vista failing to win over the consumer …
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Eric Bangeman / Ars Technica:Amid disappointing Vista uptake, Microsoft relents on XP execution
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Chris Morrison / VentureBeat:
Sony now streaming music for free on imeem — Sony BMG has become the latest music label to offer its entire music and video catalog for free streaming on imeem, a Web site focused on letting users share music playlists. — Warner Music Group did the same in July (our coverage).
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Adena DeMonte / GigaOM:Ad-Supported "Free" Music Plays On: SpiralFrog, Imeem, QTrax
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Heather Havenstein / Computerworld:
Yahoo tops Google in quality of searches, study says — While Google dominates market share, Yahoo gets more users to click on results — September 28, 2007 (Computerworld) — While Google Inc. dominates the search query business, results generated by Yahoo Inc.'s search engine result …
Rebecca Dana / Wall Street Journal:
CBS Creates 'EyeLab' To Woo Web Surfers — CBS Corp. thinks Web surfers would rather watch a blooper reel from the sitcom "How I Met Your Mother" than an actual episode of the show. — To cater to what it believes is the short attention span of online audiences, the network today is launching CBS EyeLab …
Jeff Jarvis / BuzzMachine:
The problem with newspaper blogs is . . . . . . they are on newspaper sites. — I've come to argue that newspapers should not be big brands but big collections of brands. — If I develop a relationship with a blog, I don't go searching for it through the many layers of an adventure game that is newspaper-site navigation.
BBC:
Apple update disables iPhones — An Apple software update is disabling iPhones that have been unlocked by owners who wanted to choose which mobile network to use. — Earlier this week Apple said a planned update would leave the device "permanently inoperable".
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Kasper Jade / AppleInsider:
Apple, Jobs, AT&T sued over iPhone price cut, rebates — Apple Inc., along with its chief executive and exclusive U.S. iPhone wireless partner AT&T, have been hit with a new lawsuit from a disgruntled customer who charges the trio with a variety of offenses stemming from the recent iPhone price cut.
Larry Dignan / Between the Lines:
Gap says laptop with applicant data stolen — The Gap said Friday that a laptop containing personal information of about 800,000 job applicants was stolen from a third party vendor. — The vendor, which wasn't named, manages job applicant data for the Gap.
Darryl K. Taft / eWEEK.com:
AJAX and the Mobile Web — A workshop will allow leading vendors to address the mobile Web and the need for more applications. — With smart phones becoming more prevalent among users and delivering greater capability than ever before, where are the applications to take advantage of all this power?
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Verizon:
Verizon Wireless Introduces The Ultimate Consumer Entertainment Source: The MOTORIZR Z6tv — The MOTORIZR Z6tv is Motorola's First Device to Premiere V CAST Mobile TV — BASKING RIDGE, NJ, and SCHAUMBURG, IL — Verizon Wireless, the leading wireless company with the nation's …
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Business Wire:
3Com Announces Agreement to Be Acquired by Bain Capital Partners for $5.30 Per Share in Cash — Transaction valued at $2.2 billion — MARLBOROUGH, Mass.—(BUSINESS WIRE)—3Com Corporation (NASDAQ: COMS - News) today announced that it has signed a definitive merger agreement to be acquired …
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