If you’ve unlocked your iPhone, because you wanted to choose which airtime provider to use, or because you live outside the US, then be warned; Apple will be disabling your handset with their future software updates. Not only will Apple’s future updates turn a working handset into a brick, users who suffer this because they [...]

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So, Steve Jobs has called on the music industry to start selling music online without any DRM? I think this has less to do with Steve wanting what’s best for the consumer and more to do with the recent news that Norway declared Apple’s DRM - specifically the way iTunes is locked into iPod - violates their [...]

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A worker from Boeing has been fired, after their laptop was stolen. The laptop was holding data for nearly 400,000 retired Boeing workers, and included home address, home telephone number, social security and salary details (I’m guessing that person had something to do with the Boeing pension scheme….). My first reaction to this story was, [...]

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