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Lack IOS API support for call and text detail sux

Without jail breaking, the lack of API support for call and text detail records on the iPhone is infuriating. Apple claims this is done as a security measure. Why is exposing this data more of a privacy threat than exposing location to 3rd party apps? There are many application types that would benefit greatly from having user-approved access to this data.

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Re:Surprise: Most Top Donors Lean Strongly Democrat on Wednesday December 28, 2011 @08:51AM (#3399729)
According to this: http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=a... Obama spend $740M to McCains's $228M.
Re:Verizon Galaxy Nexus is a Hog on Saturday December 17, 2011 @11:42PM (#3365948)
What is the point of making a thin smart phone with no battery life? I'll take a larger form factor with great battery life all day long. I played with the phone on Friday and it is gorgeous, but battery life is a killer feature.

Intuit Quickbooks Online is SOTA

Intuit Quickbooks Online is down and they have a refreshingly retro way of communicating system status to their customers:Internal Server Error The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request.Please contact the server administrator, [email protected] and inform them of the time the error occurred, and anything you might have...

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Walled Garden 2.0

Did Amazon, with the release of Kindle Fire, just raise the stakes for the requirements of a walled garden that Apple, Google and Facebook will try to match? "Machine Learning. Finally, Silk leverages the collaborative filtering techniques and machine learning algorithms Amazon has built over the last 15 years to power features such as “customers who bought this also bought…” As Silk serves up...

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