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The Inquirer posted a news story that the Sydney Morning Herald knows of 30 or 40 people in Australia who are running the Apple phones using local SIM cards issued by carriers such as Telstra and Optus.

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Some of your favorite NBC shows may soon be canceled by iTunes, thanks to a standoff between NBC Universal and Apple. However, don't start fretting. Yes, NBC has threatened to pull its TV shows, including The Office and Battlestar Galactica, from iTunes by December, and yes, Apple has responded by promising not to sell any new episodes of NBC's shows starting next month.

Why the Show Must Go On for iTunes and NBC

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Whenever anything complex is manufactured in large quantities, there's bound to be a certain amount of failure. When the product being manufactured is as complex as an iPhone, where there are a scores of components, each of them complex in their own right and subject to their own potential failures, then the mathematical likelihood of a glitch in the final product increases.

Apple's First-Gen Learning Curve

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As soon as Kerry Triffin spotted a bed crafted from New Zealand rimu wood at a New York design show last year, he wanted to carry it in his Connecticut furniture shop. His wife had a different idea. She pointed to another bed from the same collection, made of the same sustainable wood but equipped with a Bose surround-sound speaker system and an iPod docking station.

iPod and the Rise of Tech-Friendly Furniture