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I Keep Coming Back to this Question
Kindle for the iPad
Wired has the details. It raises two obvious questions:
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Will Apple reject this app like they rejected Google Voice?
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How long until “Kindle” is just a service and not a device.
It’s About People, not Devices
Developer Craig Hockenberry, on testing software on iPhone OS devices:
Apple currently lets each iPhone developer, whether a company or an individual account, assign 100 devices for testing purposes. A large chunk of those available devices get used by employees with multiple devices. We also have a valuable group of external testers that we use for Ad Hoc beta testing. Many of these individuals buy the latest and greatest hardware, so each time there is a new product introduced, we use up more devices from our list.
Google Re-directs Chinese Traffic
So earlier today we stopped censoring our search services—Google Search, Google News, and Google Images—on Google.cn. Users visiting Google.cn are now being redirected to Google.com.hk, where we are offering uncensored search in simplified Chinese, specifically designed for users in mainland China and delivered via our servers in Hong Kong. Users in Hong Kong will continue to receive their existing uncensored, traditional Chinese service, also from Google.com.hk. Due to the increased load on our Hong Kong servers and the complicated nature of these changes, users may see some slowdown in service or find some products temporarily inaccessible as we switch everything over.
Effects of Healthcare Reform
This is a great interactive page by the New York Times.
On Pre-existing Conditions
This year, thousands of uninsured Americans with pre-existing conditions will have the opportunity to purchase quality, affordable health insurance. Beginning in 2010, small business owners will no longer be forced to choose between offering health care and hiring new employees because they’ll be offered tax credits of up to 35 percent of premiums to help insure their employees. Medicare beneficiaries will no longer wonder how they’ll afford their prescription drug bills because they’ll be given a rebate of $250 if they hit the prescription drug donut hole in 2010. And early retirees will be provided help through the creation of a temporary re-insurance program to help offset the costs of expensive premiums.
Ubuntu Gets a Makeover
Looking good, my Linuxy friend.
219 to 212
CNN:
All 178 Republicans opposed it, along with 34 Democrats.
As a father of a terminally ill child, I know better than most how complicated and evil the insurance companies can be. If it weren’t for St. Jude and their paying for Josiah’s treatments, I don’t know what we would do. His care over the last ten months has totaled well over $1 million, with no end in sight. Is this bill perfect? No. Will it help millions of people retain coverage and protect them from being excluded for preexisting conditions? Yes. Can the GOP suck it? Yes.
The Sabbath Manifesto
CNN:
Reboot — a nonprofit organization aimed at reinventing the traditions and rituals of Judaism for today’s secular Jews.
Composed of Internet entrepreneurs, creators of award-winning television shows, community organizers and nonprofit leaders, these “Rebooters” are people who typically have their cell phones glued to their palms. Several of them go so far as to say they have an addiction to their devices.
But this weekend they will be observing 24 hours of freedom from their devices: a National Day of Unplugging lasting from sundown Friday to sundown Saturday, the Jewish Sabbath.
ABC News Paid for Rights to Murder Case
ABC News is facing sharp criticism over the disclosure that it paid hundreds of thousands of dollars to a Florida woman who now stands accused of killing her own daughter.
The $200,000 payment in August 2008 to Casey Anthony was used for exclusive rights to reproduce family photographs and videotape of her then-missing 2-year-old, Caylee.
The pictures and footage were used on Sept. 5, 2008, as the heart of a story on ABC’s Good Morning America and a full-hour treatment later that night on the prime-time newsmagazine 20/20. Casey Anthony was charged with child neglect and endangerment that day. The next month, she was indicted by a grand jury on charges of murder.
Flip-flop
Gruber has posted two snippets from Windows guru Paul Thurrott, regarding copy and paste on mobile devices:
Unreal, indeed.
Boom; roasted.