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iPods to Become Flight Data Recorders

Flight is reporting that U.S. light aircraft manufacturer LoPresti Speed Merchants plants to include the iPod into its “Fury” model’s avionics system. The iPod, which will be outfitted with specialized softwre, will act as a hard disk (or “black box”) and be able to record more than 500 hours of flight time data. Collected data […]

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Software

Democracy Player Receives Important Bug Fix in New 0.9.5.1 Version

Democracy Player, the popular open source media player program in the vein of VLC, has been updated to version 0.9.5.1. The new version, an 8.9 megabyte download, repairs bugs between the program’s python code and Mac management favorites such as Growl and Camino. Other repaired bugs included a Linux error that prevented preferences from being […]

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Apple and Cisco Reach Settlement Regarding iPhone Trademark

On Wednesday, Apple Inc. and Cisco Systems announced that they have reached a settlement over the much-contended “iPhone” trademark. While details of the settlement are sparse, the announcement cited that both companies acknowledge that trademark rights to the name have been granted and each side will dismiss legal actions regarding the trademarks. Cisco had filed […]

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Verizon and Vonage to Face Off in Patent Infringement Suit

Voice over Internet Protocol carrier Vonage and long-standing telephone carrier Verizon will lock legal horns in court this June. The suit, filed by Verizon under the claim that Vonage had violated several of its patents, specifically the technology Vonage uses to connect calls from Internet Protocol-based phones to traditionally networked phones. Vonage has denied any […]

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Mobile Phone

Dear Apple, Fix iSync for S60.

Once you have your most important contacts put to positions on the SIM you can dial them easily from any S60 handset by dialing “(SIM position)#” which will then pull the number up for you, and then you just hit the Talk (green) button…. iSync eats your speed-dials (but you can use SIM dialing of course) iSync eats your all-day appointments and breaks them into 24-hour appointments.