Sleek No 3G? 4 or 8GB. No Card Slot? June 2007? Will Linksys sue over the trademarked name? Touch screen? Is it smudge-proof too? Needs two hands to operate! On-screen keyboard = no two fingers typing. $499 and $599 with contract. Ouch! CPU speed anyone? USB vs. iPod connector? Will Mobile Safari support WAP, XHTML-MP, etc.? Calendar & Contacts integration? MS Exchange? iCal? Mobile Safari seems painfully slow over Wi-Fi. Extensible by Third Parties? GPS? No expanded or removable battery. No tunes download/syncing over Wi-Fi. No Java or J2ME?

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• Linksys/Cisco has already filed suit against Apple for trademark infringement.
• Apple will not allow third parties to release applications for the iPhone.

Erik's Pulse has been published.

By default the Bluetooth device name on the Cingular 8525 is the owner's registered name.

The device name can be changed by using a registry editor to modify the following key:

\HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Bluetooth\Settings\Local Name

Worked like charm for me.

Javalobby was under spam attack over the holidays:

We had completely disappeared from Google's main index! If you run a website, then you know how serious a problem this is. On any given day over 10,000 visitors arrive at Javalobby as a result of Google searches, and suddenly they stopped coming! We had apparently been grouped together with the spammer's viagra and casino sites, and poof! Suddenly we no longer existed in the eyes of Google, the world's largest search engine. Countless thousands of well-ranked pages gone in a blink. Perhaps you now understand why I would commit a violent crime if I caught those forum spammers? In essence, they have wiped out strategic positioning that we took years to build.

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