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More Features Spotted In iPhone 2.2 Firmware Update
Apple recently gave developers access to a beta version of the upcoming 2.2 firmware upgrade for the iPhone. Several new features have been spotted in the code, including support for emoji icons (addressing a Japanese-specific complaint about the iPhone) and the ability to interact with Google's Street Views.
Serdar Yegulalp
Open Source To The Rescue In Hard Times
It's a spiel that makes a lot of sense on the face of it. Switch to open source and you'll not only save money (who doesn't want to do that?) but guard yourself against the unexpected repercussions of these financially grim days.
Howard Marks
Drop-Testing Drives
I don't know if the it was the heat or just a lack of better things to do, but drop-testing drives seems to have replaced Vespa jousting as the geek sport of the month in August. First Popular Mechanics magazine ran a portable USB hard drive drop test, subjecting several drives to higher and higher drops until they failed. Video here. Then Samsung tossed one of its laptop SSDs off the roof of its building in sillycone valley and, wonder of wonders, it booted the laptop they screwed it into. Video here.
Dave Methvin
Microsoft OOXML Controversy Rises Again
Last week, 13 of 23 members of Norway's International Standards Organization (ISO) committee resigned. They were resigning in protest to Norway's official decision to favor Microsoft's OOXML document format as an ISO standard, despite a "no" vote by 21 of 23 committee members. (Microsoft and Statoil were the Norway committee's only two "yes" votes.)
George Hulme
Fed Stiffens ID Theft Penalties, Schwarzenegger Kills California Breach Bill
Identity thieves, if a new federal ID theft law is enforced, will now face stiffer federal penalties for their crimes. Federal prosecutors also will have increased leeway to pursue more ID theft cases. Also, for the second time in 12 months, California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger vetoed a new California Data Breach Bill. Was that a good idea?
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