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The AT&T hot zone coverage in Charlotte extends along South Brevard Street near the NASCAR Hall of Fame Plaza to East Trade Street, as well as the Lynx light rail. A similar coverage will be installed in Chicago as well in the next few weeks. AT&T did not specifically identify parts of the city included in the hot zone.
AT&T first introduced the hot zones in NYC last May. It is focusing on areas where there is consistently large volume of 3G traffic and mobile data usage. This has been a welcome change for most AT & T users in New York.
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The granting of the clearance was made public on Monday. It means that Google Inc.'s online applications such as word processing and spreadsheets have complied with the federal government's security standards for data storage. This is the first time the U.S. government has allowed software programs to be delivered over the Internet, also known as cloud computing.
Google hopes to build on the endorsement by offering its package of online programs to more government agencies. This will most probably intensify Google's rivalry with Microsoft Corporation, whose Office programs are used extensively by most government agencies and businesses.
Google has already designed versions of its applications specifically for use by government agencies in an effort to boost sales to the US government.
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The latest Apple smartphone will begin selling on Friday in Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Finland, Hong Kong, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, New Zealand, Singapore, Spain, Sweden and Switzerland. Currently the iPhone 4 is being sold only in France, Germany, Japan, the United Kingdom and the United States.
The iPhone 4 is being sold for $199 for the 16-GB model and $299 for the 32-GB model with a two-year service contract from carriers in the five countries where it is available. However, there is no word about pricing in the 17 new countries the iPhone will start selling on Friday. Apple is planning to go into more countries later this year.
Apple has reportedly sold more than 1.7 million units during the first three days after its release on June 24. The company also experienced a 61% increase in iPhone sales year to year to 8.4 million units, most of them older iPhone models.
Many experts believe that how strongly iPhone 4 sells eventually will depend on whether potential buyers are satisfied with Apple's fix for what industry experts describe as a design flaw in the antenna that causes dropped calls when users hold the phone in particular way.
Apple has never accepted that the iPhone 4 is flawed, although CEO Steve Jobs this month announced that the company is offering free covers for the iPhone 4.
Still, iPhone 4 sales have shown no signs of decreasing.
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Besides, California already has a problem with information disclosure. For example, people may walk into an apartment displaying a big sign in the lobby saying that the residence is loaded with chemicals known to cause cancer.
California's attitude with cancer-causing agents originates from Proposition 65, a 1986 law that requires warning labels for anything containing chemicals known to cause cancer. The San Francisco cell phone radiation law is an example of useless information to the ordinary buyer. Radiation levels cannot be compared to calorie counts displayed in restaurants where people would sort of know what is too much.
The FCC already regulates cell phone radiation. It requires phones to go below Specific Absorption Ratio of 1.6 watts per kilogram. But people also have to consider other things like how the phone is held, whether a case is used and the amount of time spent on the phone. And most importantly, there is no proof that cell phone radiation causes cancer.
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Jailbreaking Phones
According to the Library of Congress there are six cases where copy protection circumvention does not infringe on copyright:
- Taking short clips from DVDs for education, documentary filmmaking, and noncommercial videos.
- When "jailbreaking" software is used to install third-party applications on mobile phones "where circumvention is accomplished for the sole purpose of enabling interoperability of such applications, when they have been lawfully obtained, with computer programs on the telephone handset."
- When using firmware or software to unlock phones from a particular wireless carrier.
- When testing for, investigating and correcting security flaws.
- When the security dongle is malfunctioning or obsolete.
- When all e-books are blocked from screen readers or e-reader read aloud functions, and no digital edition is available with such accessibility features.
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