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3. Skimpy Outfits Over at Texas TV Station ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
4. Verizon Copper Cutoff Traps Customers ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
5. Digital S.L.R.'s That Let You Shoot Like a Pro (Monty Solomon)
6. iPhone: The Musical (Monty Solomon)
7. All Shook Up, Right Down to the Musical Core (Monty Solomon)
8. NASA Mission to Asteroid Belt Rescheduled for September
Launch (Greg Williams)
9. Gillmor: Waiting for iPhone 2.0 (Monty Solomon)
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Message: 1
Date: Sun, 08 Jul 2007 11:33:32 -0500
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Subject: [Medianews] NASA Buys $19 Million Toilet System
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NASA Buys $19 Million Toilet System
Associated Press
Jul 5, 2007 10:06 PM (ET)
http://apnews.myway.com//article/20070706/D8Q6Q86G1.html
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - In space, a loo costs a lot.
NASA has agreed to pay $19 million for a Russian-built toilet system for
the international space station. The figure may sound astronomical for a
toilet in space, but NASA officials said it was cheaper than building
their own.
"It's akin to building a municipal treatment center on Earth," NASA
spokeswoman Lynnette Madison said Thursday, explaining the cost of the
new toilet system.
Also, astronauts are familiar with how it works since it's similar to
one already in use at the space station. The new system will be able to
transfer urine to a device that can produce drinking water.
The new system is scheduled to be delivered to the U.S. side of the
space station in 2008. It will offer more privacy than the old toilet
system, which will definitely be needed: The space station crew is
expected to grow from three to six people by 2009.
The system will be installed on the American side, and the current
toilet system on the Russian side will remain in place.
The space station toilet physically resembles those used on Earth,
except it has leg restraints and thigh bars to keep astronauts and
cosmonauts in place. Fans suck waste into the commode. Crew members also
have individual urine funnels which are attached to hoses, and the urine
is deposited into a wastewater tank.
Crew members using the current toilet system on the Russian side must
transfer tanks of their urine to a cargo ship, which burns up in Earth's
atmosphere once undocked from the station.
The $19 million toilet system was part of a larger contract valued at
$46 million that NASA signed this week with RSC Energia, a Russian
aerospace company. The extra equipment includes software updates for the
station's inventory management system, a spare air pump and engineering
support for a mechanism which allows space shuttles to dock with the
space station.
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Message: 2
Date: Sun, 08 Jul 2007 11:41:24 -0500
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Subject: [Medianews] Time to break up Microsoft, which has too many
balls in the air
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Time to break up Microsoft, which has too many balls in the air
Commentary: Time to break up a company with too many balls in the air
By John C. Dvorak
MarketWatch
Last Update: 12:01 AM ET Jul 7, 2007
http://custom.marketwatch.com/custom/myway-com/news-story.asp?guid={AE94D3EC-D464-4F1B-8AC2-0B8FE9C7E5B0}
BERKELEY, Calif. (MarketWatch) -- There's a worldwide initiative to push
out the de facto standard for the storage of word-processing documents,
Microsoft Corp.'s ".doc" file format, and replace it with Open Document
Format, a supposedly universal and open format.
This kind of sniping will never end as long as Microsoft is Microsoft.
Maybe it's time to seriously think of breaking up the company into
smaller companies. The individual parts would flourish and benefit the
stockholders to an extreme.
In the meantime, the attacks on Microsoft are set to continue the world
over.
Some of the rationale is the fear outside the United States that
Microsoft already has too much power. There's also the fear, which is
discussed less, that Microsoft has been compromised by American spy
agencies, and for all anyone knows secret documents saved in Word could
be sent to the NSA with the push of a button.
This would be kind of like the zombie bot-networks that use compromised
machines to send out spam. The problem is that nobody has ever found any
evidence of anything like this.
Microsoft worries less about Asia, since it has allowed rampant piracy
of its products to continue unabated. In this case, piracy is a weapon
against Linux and open source. But where's the profit in this defensive
measure?
I love to tell the story about a speech I gave in Kuala Lumpur. I asked
a large audience of techies, "How many of you use Linux?" Something like
two out of 500 of them raised their hands. This is abnormally low
anywhere in the world.
It turned out that you could buy any Microsoft product or any of its
operating systems openly in retail storefronts for a $1 a disc. "Why
should we use Linux when Windows is free?" I was told.
This is the equivalent of a holding pattern for a company that has too
many balls in the air to deal with Asia properly, with a real strategy.
In Europe, where piracy is controlled, a few too many European countries
and municipalities discuss using Linux on the desktop, by fiat.
This is Microsoft's biggest fear. Microsoft can tolerate the Linux
server platforms and all the homebrew Web servers running Linux. It just
cannot let Linux migrate to the desktop.
So the company obsesses on the possibility that there will be a
groundswell of support for Linux and a desire for users to use it as
their main OS.
I'd argue that if Apple Inc., with its appealing desktop platform and
amazing marketing machine cannot unseat Microsoft, then how can the
slow-moving open source manage to do it? Is it just because Linux is
cheaper?
The perception that Linux is a serious problem is there with Microsoft
stuck in the mud, and the stock reflects it. So after you look over the
situation and look at the Microsoft share price, you have to wonder if
the halcyon days of the stock doubling every year will ever return.
I have always believed that the best thing for Microsoft to do is break
itself up into three or maybe four separate companies, and go from
there. It has distinct mini-corporations within the structure already.
This breakup would benefit the shareholders with diversity, and probably
result in the sum of the parts being greater than the whole. In other
words, the separate businesses would be worth more overall than what we
now have.
As things stand, Microsoft has become stodgy and rumpled. I cannot
imagine what would happen to the stock price if the company ever turned
in a bad quarter. And that has to happen someday.
I can assure you that when you read about Microsoft in the news, it's a
mundane story about the software giant's defensive strategy against one
thing or another. It's old. Break up the company while it makes sense.
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Message: 3
Date: Sun, 08 Jul 2007 11:49:29 -0500
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Subject: [Medianews] Skimpy Outfits Over at Texas TV Station
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Skimpy Outfits Over at Texas TV Station
Jul 7, 2007 5:59 PM (ET)
By GRANT SLATER
Associated Press
http://apnews.myway.com//article/20070707/D8Q80Q3O0.html
DALLAS (AP) - No longer breaking stories in high heels and skimpy
outfits, Lauren Jones has signed off from the KYTX-TV "Eye of East
Texas" news team and returned to modeling swimsuits.
Rival stations in Tyler weren't entertained by the monthlong ratings
stunt by Jones, the star behind the upcoming Fox reality show
"Anchorwoman" and a former hostess for World Wrestling Entertainment.
She spent June traipsing around the east Texas city in tight tops and a
miniskirt, hunting down scoops for the CBS affiliate. Her on-air
reports, which included toeing through penguin droppings at the zoo in
stiletto heels, are intended to get laughs when "Anchorwoman" premieres
Aug. 21.
"She definitely wasn't your typical, Day 1,
trying-to-break-into-the-business newsperson," said Bryan Houston, a
KYTX anchor who worked alongside the 24-year-old former New York beauty
pageant contestant.
Not everyone was smiling. Residents of the rural area about 100 miles
east of Dallas worry that "Anchorwoman" will portray their city as
backwoods.
And news professionals said the show will further blur the line between
news and entertainment.
"What they're doing is making a mockery of every legitimate local news
station in the country, the people that work there and the viewers whose
trust they and we, as an industry, try to earn every day," Brad Streit,
general manager of ABC affiliate KLTV in Tyler, said this past week on
ABC's "Good Morning America."
Jones walked into the newsroom June 1 with no journalism experience and
a revealing outfit. The station's news director, Dan Delgado, put her
through a crash course in writing, reading a prompter and reporting.
As with any "green" reporter, mistakes were made and tempers flared in
the newsroom, he said.
"Early on, it was a matter of damage control," Delgado said. "There were
times when buttons were pushed."
Station owner Phil Hurley turned around two struggling stations before,
and says he thought Jones' looks could help make KTYX his third.
Hurley said Jones worked only on the station's softer 5 p.m. newscast,
not the more straightforward news shows at 6 p.m. and 10 p.m. Outtakes
from Jones' day on the job were aired each day on the later broadcasts.
He said he let "Anchorwoman" producer Brian Gadinsky, who co-produced
"American Idol," into the newsroom hoping attract new viewers who would
then stay for the hard-hitting local news on the three-year-old station.
"Changing people's habits is a slow process and we wanted to speed that
up," Hurley said.
Viewers responded with calls and critical e-mails. Hurley once appeared
on the station's morning newscast to defend his decision.
Houston said the station was upfront about Jones' role and doesn't need
to apologize. He said the line between entertainment and news blurred
long ago on local TV.
"We took their best shots and didn't duck anything," he said. "We're not
single-handedly bringing down journalism here."
---
On the Net:
KTYX-TV: http://www.cbs19.tv/
Anchorwoman: http://www.fox.com/programming/new/anchorwoman.htm
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Message: 4
Date: Sun, 08 Jul 2007 13:17:16 -0500
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Subject: [Medianews] Verizon Copper Cutoff Traps Customers
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Verizon Copper Cutoff Traps Customers
Associated Press
Sunday July 8, 2007 7:32 AM EDT
http://finance.myway.com/jsp/nw/nwdt_rt_top.jsp?news_id=ap-d8q8cng80&;
PHILADELPHIA (AP) ? When Henry Powderly II ordered Verizon
Communications Inc.'s FiOS fiber-optic service, he knew he was about to
be connected to the future of telecommunications. He also got unplugged
from its past. Which meant that while Powderly was gaining features, he
was losing some telecommunications options.
Verizon's installer ? without warning, Powderly says ? removed the
copper wires that used to carry his phone calls. For most of the world,
copper still links homes and businesses, as it has for a century.
Verizon's new high-bandwidth fiber lines are fully capable of carrying
not only calls but also Internet data and television with room to grow.
But once the copper is pulled, it's difficult to switch back to the
traditional phone system or less expensive Digital Subscriber Line
service. And Verizon isn't required, in most instances, to lease fiber
to rival phone companies, as it is with the copper infrastructure.
What's more, anyone who owns Powderly's house in the future will face
higher bills with FiOS than another home with copper. Right now, for
instance, Verizon's DSL plans cost as little as $15 a month. FiOS
Internet starts at $30 a month.
"I was not given an option," said Powderly, a 30-year-old Long Island,
N.Y. resident.
As it hooks up homes and businesses to its fiber network, Verizon has
been routinely disconnecting the copper and, many subscribers say, not
telling them upfront or giving them a choice. More than 1 million
customers have signed up for a FiOS service, which is offered mainly in
the suburban areas of 16 states.
Verizon spokesman Eric Rabe said customers should have been notified at
least three times ? once by the sales representative when FiOS is
ordered, by the technician before copper is cut and through paperwork
given to the customer. Some customers say that hasn't happened.
The New York phone company has made it clear its entire network is going
to fiber-optics. Verizon has decided to spend $23 billion to make fiber
available to 18 million homes by 2010. Network maintenance savings could
top $1 billion a year, Verizon said.
"It's a huge expense to maintain those copper networks," said Scott
Randolph, federal regulatory director at Verizon. "At some point in
time, it would not make sense to operate two networks."
Mark Cooper, research director at the Consumer Federation of America,
says there are other reasons for snipping the wires.
"They don't want to maintain it ? they don't want the expense and they
don't want the competition," he said.
Under the Telecommunications Act of 1996, incumbent phone companies like
Verizon must lease to rivals their copper network. That's generally not
the case for next-generation fiber systems. And so far, Verizon has
filed more than 100 notices with the Federal Communications Commission
to retire portions of copper throughout its network.
The FCC allows the retirement of copper as long as public notice is
given so the phone companies can work together to ensure the smaller
companies' access. But rivals say access at reasonable prices is not
guaranteed and it's just a matter of time before they're cut off.
"It's a horrendous situation ... We don't let General Motors build a
highway and decide what size cars to let on the road," said Joe Plotkin,
marketing director for Bway.net, a New York Internet provider. "The
small guys have tried to fight this re-monopolization of the network
infrastructure."
He and other smaller rivals contend the communications market is fast
becoming a two-player game between giant phone and cable companies ?
diminishing consumer choice.
While AT&T Inc. and Qwest Communications International Inc. are also
retiring their copper networks, they're not touching the so-called "last
mile" of copper wiring that runs from each customer's dwelling to the
central office where other lines aggregate. Laying fiber, a robust
pipeline, through the last mile is much more expensive because each line
goes to a particular home or business.
Verizon is taking the pricey route because it believes fiber offers a
superior service that will lure customers away from cable operators, who
now offer telephone service in addition to television and high-speed
Internet.
Besides limiting options down the road, the switch to FiOS can have
other implications. Unlike copper-connected phone service, FiOS doesn't
work during power outages once a backup battery goes out ? not even for
emergency calls. Home-alarms and certain other devices work best with
copper.
Rabe, the Verizon spokesman, said the company will restore copper to
homes if the customer insists, but Verizon would rather not reconnect
the copper and will try to convince the customer to agree. At any rate,
the phone giant provides ample warning, he said.
An example of what Rabe describes as adequate notice is the fine print
on Verizon's FiOS policy, which is printed on its Web site. It says
"current Verizon Online DSL customers who move to FiOS Internet service
will have their Verizon Online DSL permanently disabled after their FiOS
conversion."
Bill Kelm, a FiOS customer in suburban Dallas, filed a complaint with
the Federal Trade Commission last year because of Verizon's
"inconspicuous" policy rules.
"It's buried within these long terms of service that people never take
the time to read," he said. "It needs to be more conspicuous."
While Kelm has no quarrel with FiOS itself ? he pays $145 a month for
TV, Internet and phone ? he would like to have been told before he
signed up that Verizon would cut the copper. He was counting on
Verizon's clearly advertised 30-day money back guarantee in case he
didn't like the service and wanted to switch back.
"I blew a gasket," Kelm said. "The 30-day money back guarantee was
worthless in my opinion."
He's also concerned that Verizon initially priced its current FiOS
service lower only to jack rates up once the subscriber is reeled in.
"Then, you're stuck," Kelm said.
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Message: 5
Date: Sun, 8 Jul 2007 20:05:34 -0400
From: Monty Solomon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: [Medianews] Digital S.L.R.'s That Let You Shoot Like a Pro
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State of the Art
Digital S.L.R.'s That Let You Shoot Like a Pro
By DAVID POGUE
The New York Times
June 21, 2007
To an ordinary person, the summer might mean barbecues, baseball
games and trips to the beach. To a photography nut, however, it means
longer days of sunlight, brighter subject colors (beach balls,
bathing suits) and more people who don't have to be told to "Smile!"
Nothing has turned more ordinary people into shutterbugs than recent
price drops in digital S.L.R. (single-lens reflex) cameras. These
big, black, interchangeable-lens cameras may not fit in your pocket,
and they may scream, "I'm a tourist" when hanging from your neck, but
their photos blow those little shirt-pocket cams out of the water.
Digital S.L.R.'s turn on instantly, can take three shots per second,
offer optional manual controls, go for weeks on a battery charge and
have zero shutter lag. In short, they're awesome.
In the last few months, Canon, Nikon, Pentax, Olympus and Sony have
each started selling new advanced S.L.R.'s in the $700 to $800 range.
There are even cheaper S.L.R.'s, but these models have some useful
features that justify the price.
For example, most can shake dust off their sensors - dust that may
have entered the camera during a lens change, and would otherwise
cast a shadowy spot in the same places on every picture.
Three of these five models offer built-in stabilizers, too. Without a
tripod, a stabilizer can mean the difference between a blurry shot
and a sharp one. Stabilization also lets you get long-range shots
without blur.
All of these are 10-megapixel cameras. It's a shame the camera
companies continue to flog this measurement as though it's important;
more than six megapixels adds only negligible sharpness and may
introduce random speckles in the photograph, something the pros call
"noise."
You gain some freedom to crop enlargements, but you also fill up your
memory card and hard drive faster. Factors like lens quality and
sensor size are far more important.
Here's what the 10-megapixel $800 camera category has in store. Don't
miss the photo samples that accompany this review at nytimes.com/tech.
...
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/21/technology/21pogue.html?ex=1340078400&en=8021bc8c4392d8c7&ei=5090
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Message: 6
Date: Sun, 8 Jul 2007 20:22:14 -0400
From: Monty Solomon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: [Medianews] iPhone: The Musical
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IPhone: The Musical
David Pogue ditches his old cellphone for the iPhone in this sing-along sequel.
http://nytimes.feedroom.com/?fr_story=f390265dcbb9e1f1da97a69637e921d39b6c99aa
http://video.on.nytimes.com/?fr_story=f390265dcbb9e1f1da97a69637e921d39b6c99aa
"iPhone: The Musical" Lyrics
http://pogue.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/07/06/iphone-the-musical-lyrics/
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Message: 7
Date: Sun, 8 Jul 2007 20:16:00 -0400
From: Monty Solomon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: [Medianews] All Shook Up, Right Down to the Musical Core
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Media Frenzy
All Shook Up, Right Down to the Musical Core
By RICHARD SIKLOS
The New York Times
July 8, 2007
SO omnipotent is the Apple digital music machine that just the
possibility of one of its main suppliers holding back some of its
music from Apple's iTunes music store is enough to make headlines and
send shock waves.
That is what happened last week when the Universal Music Group let
Apple know that it would no longer grant the company guaranteed
access to its coming releases. Officially, Universal had no comment,
but an executive briefed on the negotiations said the music company
was merely interested in keeping its options open as it does with
most other retailers in the brick-and-mortar world.
The upshot is that Universal will provide music to iTunes on an "at
will" basis. Thus, if someone offers Universal a boatload of cash for
the right to sell the latest Bon Jovi or Rihanna singles exclusively
on a rival download service, Universal is saying that it is open for
business.
This bit of news could shake up the digital music business because
Universal, owned by Vivendi, is the world's largest music
conglomerate, representing one of every three albums sold in the
United States. And it underscores the longstanding and increasing
tension between Apple and the entertainment industry, not to mention
the scores of rivals who spend days and nights plotting for ways to
chip away at the primacy of the Apple iPod. (That primacy has already
bolstered sales of Macintosh computers and, if all goes as Steve Jobs
plans, will soon spread to mobile phones and home video.)
Theoretically, Apple may be concerned because of Universal's market
clout; an Apple spokesman did not return calls seeking comment. On
the other hand, Universal is not about to turn its back on Apple,
given that 15 percent of its global sales come from digital downloads.
...
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/08/business/yourmoney/08frenzy.html?ex=1341547200&en=b96317541abeb5b4&ei=5090
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Message: 8
Date: Sun, 08 Jul 2007 22:54:11 -0400
From: Greg Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: [Medianews] NASA Mission to Asteroid Belt Rescheduled for
September Launch
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NASA Mission to Asteroid Belt Rescheduled for September Launch
Posted : Sat, 07 Jul 2007 21:30:00 GMT
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WASHINGTON, July 7 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The launch of NASA's Dawn
spacecraft, a mission that will explore the two largest objects in the
asteroid belt in an effort to answer questions about the formation of
our solar system, has been rescheduled to September.
The decision was made today to move the launch to September after
careful review by NASA's Science Mission Directorate officials, working
with Dawn mission managers, the Dawn principal investigator, and with
the concurrence of the NASA Administrator.
Primary reasons for the move were a combination of highly limited launch
opportunities for Dawn in July and the potential impact to launch
preparations for the upcoming Phoenix Mars Lander mission, set for early
August. A September launch for Dawn maintains all of the science mission
goals a July launch would have provided.
NASA will hold a news briefing at 11:30 a.m. EDT on Monday, July 9, to
preview the launch of the Phoenix Mars Lander. Prior to the Phoenix
presentations, media will have the opportunity to learn in more detail
about the rescheduled Dawn launch. The briefing will originate from the
NASA Headquarters auditorium, 300 E St., S.W., Washington. It will air
live on NASA Television and be streamed online at:
http://www.nasa.gov/ntv
The Phoenix mission, scheduled for liftoff in early August from Cape
Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla., will examine whether the icy soil on
Mars could have been a habitable environment for microbial life.
For more information about the Phoenix mission, visit:
http://www.nasa.gov/phoenix For more information about Dawn, visit:
http://www.nasa.gov/dawn NASA
CONTACT: Dwayne Brown, NASA Headquarters, Washington, +1-202-358-1726
Web site: http://www.nasa.gov/ntv
http://www.nasa.gov/phoenix
http://www.nasa.gov/dawn
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Gregory S. Williams
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Message: 9
Date: Mon, 9 Jul 2007 01:50:17 -0400
From: Monty Solomon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: [Medianews] Gillmor: Waiting for iPhone 2.0
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Waiting for iPhone 2.0
July 6, 2007
by Dan Gillmor
Director, Center for Citizen Media
Apple's new iPhone may well be a revolutionary product in some ways.
But after testing one of the devices that went on sale late last
month, I'm steering clear, at least for now, of the most shamelessly
overhyped consumer product since Windows 95.
For all its admirable features-the large screen, gorgeous industrial
design and advanced user interface in particular-the iPhone feels
like a beta product. It's still early in development and suffers from
deal-breaker drawbacks.
The worst is the overall control-freakery from Apple, the
manufacturer, and its telecom partner, AT&T. You want choice? Not a
chance.
Consumer Reports notes that AT&T is one of the least-favored U.S.
mobile carriers, for network quality and customer satisfaction.
Worse, the company's low-speed digital network is inadequate for a
device that boasts of being Internet-native, and the Wi-Fi
capabilities don't make up for that lapse. (And never mind AT&T's
recent decision to become Hollywood's accomplice in tracking
customers' Internet activities, not to mention its Big-Brotherish
coziness with government snoops.)
I'm a frequent traveler outside the U.S., and this phone doesn't cut
it for serious international use. If I want to make GSM calls, I'm
stuck with AT&T's roaming rates; with my current phone I can swap SIM
cards to use another carrier's cheaper local service if I don't like
the international roaming rates from T-Mobile, my current carrier.
Apple can't fix AT&T. But the device itself, however alluring, needs
upgrades. For example, on the international roaming front, the iPhone
provides no access to other carriers' 3G networks, which means the
phone won't work at all in places like Korea, where my 3G-equipped
GSM phone works fine.
...
http://voices.allthingsd.com/20070706/waiting-for-iphone-20/
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