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Submission + - Find my iPhone used to locate plane crash in Chile (9to5mac.com)

Submitted by spagiola on Wednesday September 07, 2011 @02:10PM

spagiola writes: Late last week, a military transport aircraft with 17 people on -board went missing near Robinson Crusoe, Chile. The relatives of one of the crash victims logged into Find My iPhone and were able to isolate the coordinates of the last known whereabouts of the plane before it crashed.

Submission + - Sherlock Holmes and the copyright tangle (nytimes.com) 2

Submitted by spagiola on Tuesday January 19, 2010 @03:22PM

spagiola writes: The New York Times has an interesting piece on the copyright travails of Sherlock Holmes: "At his age, Holmes would logically seem to have entered the public domain. But not only is the character still under copyright in the United States, for nearly 80 years he has also been caught in a web of ownership issues so tangled that Professor Moriarty wouldn't have wished them upon him."

Submission + - Dilbert goes Flash and readers revolt

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on Saturday April 19, 2008 @07:30AM

spagiola writes: "The Dilbert.com website just got an extreme makeover. Gone is the old, rather clunky but perfectly functional, website, replaced by a Flash-heavy website that only Mordac the Preventer of Information Services could love. Users have been pretty unanimous in condemning the changes. Among the politer comments: "Congrats. Vista is no more lonely at the top in the Competition For The Worst Upgrade In Computing Industry, this web site upgrade being a serious contender." You have to register to leave comments, but many seem to have registered for the express purpose of panning the new design."

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