Archive for November, 2009

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The iPhone is coming to South Korea. Finally.

South Korean carrier KT will start selling the iPhone this month, the company said Monday, bringing the hit device to another Asian country.

KT will start offering the 32GB and 16GB versions of iPhone 3GS on Nov. 28, the company said in a statement on its Web site. It will also offer the 8GB iPhone 3G.

My wife would collect a nice amount of life insurance if I ever had to go without my iPhone. I thought I was the last one to get one.

You watch, Microsoft is going to make a deal with News Corp. Microsoft couldn’t hide their flaws even if they tried. If they were bald and used hair supplements, we’d still see their bald spot.

Microsoft Corp has had talks with News Corp about a tie up, which would involve News Corp getting paid to take its news websites off Google Inc, a source familiar with the matter said on Sunday.
News Corp, which owns such papers as the Wall Street Journal and the Sun, started the discussions, which were at an early stage, the source said.

Whether or not you’re on some sort of weight loss diet, this new game sounds very entertaining. Nothing like seeing your chubby self on screen, eh?

French videogame powerhouse Ubisoft will have a virtual fitness coach whipping Wii users into shape starting Tuesday.

“Your Shape” ramps up the healthy videogame genre with a custom camera that puts people on-screen and under the scrutiny of an animated coach devoted to making workouts go strong.

When you’ve walked a mile in worn out shoes, it only makes sense that you pass on a few tips for the next guy. It’s nice to see the guys from Canonical helping out with the new Chrome OS, under contract of course. If you’re going to help you may as well get some new shoes while you’re at it. I wonder if those shoes will be Naot?

Google has an important ally in its newly revealed Chrome OS. Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu–one of the more user-friendly versions of Linux around–has agreed to contribute engineering to the project, under contract.

I can’t believe it took this long for this to play out. It only makes sense that it would end this way. It makes you wonder if the executives at Psystar could have looked better if they had tried to burn fat rather than provoke Apple.

Psystar can’t catch a break. After spending more than a year in a legal battle with Apple for selling Intel based systems pre-loaded with Mac OS X, the company lost its battle on Friday when a federal judge ruled in favor of Apple.

Apparently the federal government doesn’t support companies violating copyright law, EULA restrictions, and the Digital Millennium Copyright Act — too bad for Psystar.

Cyber-criminals have started preying on Verizon Wireless customers, sending out spam e-mail messages that say their accounts are over the limit and offering them a “balance checker” program to review their payments.

The e-mail messages, which look like they come from Verizon Wireless, are fakes; the balance checker is actually a malicious Trojan horse program.

Have you ever noticed the great number of attacks which strike people with email, usually from their bank? I think the banks should reward customers who don’t click on those emails with cancun vacations or something similar.

What do you think?