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The Guardian - UK
Technology
Charles Arthur

The Technology newsbucket: Android payments, femtocell charges, Irish 3-strikes and more



BT engineer struggles to get a signal with a Vodafone SIM and a router. Photo by david_terrar on Flickr. Some rights reserved
A quick burst of links for you to chew over, as picked by the Technology team

Vodafone 'home mobile' will still count against voice and data tariffs >> guardian.co.uk
You buy a femtocell, and it sends voice and mobile data over your home broadband. But the mobile data still counts against your mobile allowance - even though Vodafone saves on building its network. Ripe for undercutting by rivals. (Although, let's note, at least one of the commenters is happy with their femtocell.)

Music Biz Set To "3 Strike" Two-Thirds of Irish Broadband >> TorrentFreak
The Irish Recorded Music Association is leaning on Ireland's second-largest ISP, Vodafone: apparently 800 customers there have had "first strike" notices.

Android Market Payouts Total 2% of App Store's $1B >> Larva Labs
Android is getting the market share, but for the moment Apple developers (and Apple) are definitely getting the money.

An iPhone 4 Review Roundup >> AllThingsD
Until we get our own review roundup/review. They all hate it. No, really. Well, something like that. And definitely nobody should buy one. Ever.

Why I'm skeptical of iAds >> Wil Shipley
The indie Apple developer of Delicious Library makes a pithy point about in-mobile advertising run by Apple for the iPhone.

Firefox 3.6.4 Release Notes >> Mozilla
" Firefox 3.6.4 provides uninterrupted browsing for Windows and Linux users when there is a crash in the Adobe Flash, Apple Quicktime or Microsoft Silverlight plugins. "If a plugin crashes or freezes, it will not affect the rest of Firefox. You will be able to reload the page to restart the plugin and try again." We couldn't do anything about, um, the plugins? No?

The UK: The West Ham of broadband >> dot.Rory
Earlier this month the BBC's technology correspondent warned that games developers wouldn't like the Budget. He was right.

iPad: the blog killer >> John Naughton
The Observer columnist and Open University professor on what happens to your blogging if you use an iPad all the time, with the reasons why.

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