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iPhone Video Chat and Sam Mendes Rumors, Times Square Gets Free Wi-Fi

by Warren Riddle on May 25, 2010 at 11:35 AM

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Highlights from this morning's other big tech headlines....
  • The latest episode in the intensifying iPhone 4G soap opera seems to indicate that the ambiguous, and perhaps dangerous, gadget will indeed provide video chat capabilities. Director Sam Mendes has also apparently been tapped to create iPhone 4G ads, prompting an excited auditioning actor to drop an f-bomb in a tweet. Yeah, potential employers love it when social networkers use profanity on their public profiles. [From: Engadget]
  • AT&T is installing its first free outdoor Wi-Fi hotspot in New York City. Instead of choosing a wide-open, relaxing area like Central Park, though, the company is providing it in the congested, cacophonous and chaotic Times Square. [From: Engadget]
  • Audi introduced the world's first automobile equipped with Google Earth, and the manufacturer now plans to transform its 2011 A8 models into roving Wi-Fi hotspots. The technology will apparently enable the simultaneous tethering of up to eight devices. [From: Engadget]
  • In the wake of almost a dozen suicide attempts at China's Foxconn factory, an undercover intern recently revealed a bleak and intimidating atmosphere of oppression. The factory, which is responsible for producing iPhone prototypes, promised to combat the tragic trend, but another employee has apparently become the eleventh attempt and ninth fatality. [From: The New York Times and Gizmodo]
  • The transistors used in current processors typically measure 42 atoms across, but a team of researchers has significantly reduced that number. Scientists from the University of New South Wales and the University of Wisconsin-Madison have constructed a transistor with only seven atoms, reportedly "the world's first electronic device in silicon systematically created on the scale of individual atoms." [From: Geekosystem]
  • Rupert Murdoch has been grumbling about implementing a pay model for his various News Corp publications, and two of his British papers have now fully employed the plan. The London Times and the Sunday Times will now be available online for a fee of one-pound-per-day or two-pounds-per-week. [From: Reuters]


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