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So the cartoon app gets reinstated, but the author is more than a little cynical. He sounds like a decent chap.
“It feels a little weird, it feels almost a little dirty, like I got preferential treatment because of the Pulitzer and press hubbub because of the rejection of my app,” Fiore told the SF Gate. “If it weren't for the Pulitzer, I wouldn’t be in the App Store. What I want to come out of this is to change this policy so people don’t have to make a stink to make decent political satire for the App Store.“

http://www.macworld.co.uk/mac/news/index.cfm?RSS&NewsID=3221143
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Technically, Fiore is still in violation of the developer agreement. He wants those restrictions to come down and said that even as a private firm, Apple has a responsibility as a media company to open its door to more content.

"I'm clearly in violation now of Apple's developer agreement," he said. "What I'm hoping this means is they're closer to altering the developer agreement."

Until that happens, he said these special cases for himself and others seem to be rewarding popularity. Fiore hopes that the rules would instead be officially relaxed so everyone can participate.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/techchron/detail?&entry_id=61738
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Not sure if anyone is interested in this but iPhone Lonely Planet guides ( European) are free on the itunes store until Thursday (22) instead of the 9 quid they usually are
 
Free cloud abroad? Since when?

Thats one thing i didn't consider swapping from O2 to T Mobile by buying a Desire.

My mobile internet is miiiiiiles better. But I've lost access to tons of free WiFi hospots.

Still Whetherspoon and MacDonalds should still be free yes?
 
FridgeMagnet said:
That'll be very handy, if it works, anyway. I've never been able to connect to any of the wifi I'm supposed to be able to with O2. Admittedly it's never been a serious issue with free data anyway but if I go abroad, that's very different.
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You have to register with them 1st. Find a wifi spot like a station or a McDonalds and then look at the list for cloud or BT Openzone.

Connect to that, its no secure. When you do all you can browse to is the login page. Enter your mobile number and wait a while. Took mine about 5 minutes before it came back. Now I don't have to do anything.
 
Sunray said:
You have to register with them 1st. Find a wifi spot like a station or a McDonalds and then look at the list for cloud or BT Openzone.

Connect to that, its no secure. When you do all you can browse to is the login page. Enter your mobile number and wait a while. Took mine about 5 minutes before it came back. Now I don't have to do anything.
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Took me under thirty seconds when I did it...
 
I've registered, I do all the stuff on the connection page with the number and so on, nothing ever happens. Possibly there's some extra problem with PAYG. I'm not vastly fussed to be fair.
 
I have seen a few rumors about Apple offering a fully connected TV, one that both looks cool as stuff from Apple generally does but might actually be quite easy to use and had full connectivity to iTunes.

I think that they might have a bit of a winner with that even in such a crowded market.

If hell froze over and make it divx compatible so I could play my stuff off the network or a NAS then I'd be well interested.
 
Sunray said:
You have to register with them 1st. Find a wifi spot like a station or a McDonalds and then look at the list for cloud or BT Openzone.

Connect to that, its no secure. When you do all you can browse to is the login page. Enter your mobile number and wait a while. Took mine about 5 minutes before it came back. Now I don't have to do anything.
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Yeah, see I have done this and everytime I connect to a BT Openzone free wifi point it doesn't work, I have to turn off wifi and stick with 3g.
 
Tbh, I've usually found that 3g is as quick, or even quicker than most of the BTOpenzone/Cloud WiFi hotspots I've tried to use.

My 3g appears to have died a death this morning. The home button is completely dead. This, as you can imagine, is problematic.

I was hoping it would last, oh say... another couple of months.

:(
 
Yeah btopenzone spots rarely work at all for me, its always the connection on the internet side is fooked rather than the wifi..... just stick with 3g.......

how long til wimax starts rolling out do we all think? Id liek to see this on the iphone in the future.
 
It was in the reg yesterday as well.

London's financial district is "aflame" with rumors of a possible takeover of ARM by a company that only yesterday announced that it was sitting on a cash reserve of $41.7bn: Apple.

With that amount of liquidity sloshing around, such a takeover would be by no means unrealistic for Jobs & Co.
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"A deal would make a lot of sense for Apple," one trader told the Standard. "That way, they could stop ARM's technology from ending up in everyone else's computers and gadgets."

Which would, shall we say, send shockwaves throughout the "computers and gadgets" industry.

Apple was recently reported to have bagged all or part of chip-designer Intrinsity, (one of) the alleged brains behind the A4 chip powering the iPad. Also, Cupertino acquired chipmaker PA Semi back in 2008, although word on the street is that many of the engineers that came along with that deal have moved on to their own start-up, Agnilux - which was just acquired by Google.

But those acquisitions would be small potatoes compared to an Apple acquisition of ARM. Although the Cambridge-based chipmaker's stock closed today at 251.1p, the Standard's sources are of the opinion that a takeover offer would be in the 500p per share range - which would place ARM's value at more than £5.2bn ($8bn).

That figure would amount to nearly 20 per cent of Apple's war chest - but the competitive advantage of acquiring ARM might very well make such an expenditure a long-term bargain.

After all, Apple is essentially minting money right now. Why not spend a good chunk of it to both enhance your chipmaking expertise and kneecap your competitors? ®
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The fallout from Gizmodo's unsavoury 4G exclusive continues with this damning piece from Daring Fireball

I have two issues regarding Gizmodo’s actions regarding this story.

First, I’m fascinated by their apparently cavalier attitude regarding the legal implications of their actions. I’m not offended by their decision to obtain this unit and publish everything they were able to ascertain regarding it. It simply boggles my mind the stakes they have effectively wagered that Apple will not pursue this legally.

Second, publishing the name, photographs, and personal information of the Apple engineer who lost the phone is irrelevant to the story. It was the dick move to end all dick moves. Gizmodo is, ostensibly, a gadget site. The interest of their readers in this saga regards the phone. Publishing his name did not clarify in the least bit how they obtained the phone. The people whose identities I’d like to know are those who obtained and then sold the phone, not the guy from Apple who lost it. There is no interest served by outing him other than taking sociopathic glee in making a public spectacle of someone who made a very serious but honest mistake.

This, I’m deeply offended by.

http://daringfireball.net/2010/04/gizmodo_prototype_iphone
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I was pretty appauled by Gizmodos publishing of the guys name & photo, I would boycott them but I dont look at their site very often anyway.
 
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The fallout from Gizmodo's unsavoury 4G exclusive continues with this damning piece from Daring Fireball
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Daring fireball is an apple groupie, so I wouldnt expect anything less from him.

To longer this goes on with no legal action the more it supports the theory that its a PR stunt.
 
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