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Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Why The FCC Wants To Smash Open The iPhone — Right about now, Apple probably wishes it had never rejected Google Voice and related apps from the iPhone. Or maybe it was AT&T who rejected the apps. Nobody really knows. But the FCC launched an investigation last night to find out …
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Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Brainstorm Tech:
The FCC is asking Apple and AT&T all the right questions — Google Voice. Art: Google Inc. — Sometimes you've just got to love the government. — Case in point: the inquiry that the U.S. Federal Communications Commission launched Friday into why exactly Apple (AAPL) decided to reject Google's …
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Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:FCC Takes On Apple And AT&T Over Google Voice Rejection
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Eric Slivka / MacRumors:
Amazon Begins Accepting Pre-Orders for Mac OS X Snow Leopard — Several MacRumors readers have reported that Amazon has begun taking pre-orders for Apple's forthcoming Mac OS X Snow Leopard. Amazon is currently offering Snow Leopard at Apple's announced price of $29 for OS X Leopard users …
Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:
Defcon air traffic control hacker: Excuse me while I change your aircraft's flight plan — In a scary presentation at the Defcon hacker conference, a security researcher showed how easy it is to compromise the Federal Aviation Administration's air traffic control system.
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Ross Miller / Engadget:
Leaked Sprint WiMAX roadmap names new cities for 2009 rollout — Well, what do we have here? One of our readers sent us a screenshot from Sprint's Sales Portal that included the above roadmap for its WiMAX rollout this year. A number of the yet-to-be-launched cities we've already heard about …
Jason Fitzpatrick / Lifehacker:
FreeAppAlert Notifies You When For-Pay iPhone Apps Become Free — iPhone: There are thousands and thousands of iPhone applications, but you hardly have time to keep up with their pricing changes, let alone new releases. The FreeAppAlert web service will keep you updated.
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Jarrod Booker / New Zealand Herald:
Kiwi jetpack invention gets ready for domestic takeoff — The chance to fly a Kiwi-invented jetpack will be available in New Zealand early next year. — Almost a year to the day after it first got worldwide attention, the Martin Jetpack is back on show at the United States' annual EAA air show in Oshkosh …
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New York Times:
Halted '03 Iraq Plan Illustrates U.S. Fear of Cyberwar Risk — It would have been the most far-reaching case of computer sabotage in history. In 2003, the Pentagon and American intelligence agencies made plans for a cyberattack to freeze billions of dollars in the bank accounts of Saddam Hussein …
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University of Michigan News Service:
Game utilizes human intuition to help computers solve complex problems — ANN ARBOR, Mich.—A new computer game prototype combines work and play to help solve a fundamental problem underlying many computer hardware design tasks. — The online logic puzzle is called FunSAT …
Constanze Roman / The Windows Blog:
Ready to Port your iPhone App to Windows Mobile? — Hello, my name is Constanze Roman and I'm a Community PM with the Windows Mobile Community Team. If you've been curious about porting an iPhone app to the Windows Mobile platform, then I have exciting news for you!
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The Future of Journalism's Open Salon Blog:
Photog thrilled to get peanuts from Time — By King Kaufman: In April, Time magazine used a stock photo of coins in a jar on its cover to illustrate a story about “the new frugality.” — Last week, the photographer who took the picture, Robert Lam, proudly pointed out his achievement …
Mscorp / Microsoft On The Issues:
Windows 7 and Browser Choice in Europe — Vice President and Deputy General Counsel — A week ago the European Commission said it welcomed our proposal to provide Windows users a “consumer ballot screen” to select the Web browser of their choice to surf the Internet.
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Robert McMillan / Computerworld:
Defense Deparment eyes hacker con for new recruits — IDG News Service - The U.S. Air Force has found an unlikely source of new recruits: The yearly Defcon hacking conference, which runs Thursday through Sunday in Las Vegas. — Col. Michael Convertino came to Defcon for the first time last year …
