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When will you be eligible for an upgrade to the iPhone 4S? AT&T says “It depends” [Updated]

Keep up with all the latest Apple and iPhone news atTNW Apple. Every time a new iPhone gets released, everyone rushes to check to see if they are eligible for upgrade to Apple’s newest device. Today’s announcement of the iPhone 4S has been no different and just minutes after the eligibility checker went live on Apple’s site, we were already seeing indications that not everyone was going to be happy about the results....

Whenever you hit Facebook’s “Like” button you’re signing up for a subscription.

Almost every popular website has a Facebook “Like” button. Millions of people press that button everyday, unaware of the full consequences that Facebook has recently implemented. Aposton the Facebook developer’s blog highlighted the ability for site owners to directly post in user’s newsfeeds. This option for site owners, launched at last year’s Facebook f8 conference is not a new feature, but not every publisher knows about it. It allows admins to engage a subset of their audience with highly relevant updates, and the worst part is that users have almost no control over managing this incoming information....

When’s your carrier getting the WP7 NoDo update? Here’s what we know

By now everyone in the world of Windows Phone 7 knows that the much awaited, and nowpartially launched, NoDo update to the WP7 platform will make it to marketat the whim of individual carriers. Why? Because every carrier has their own testing rules for new phone updates, forcing Microsoft to work with each individually. We searched through a great host of official Twitter accounts from carriers around the world and found a somewhat disappointing number of updates on the matter....

Where are all the robotaxis and autonomous cars we were promised?

We’re a couple weeks away from All Hallows Eve and there are plenty of things that go bump in the night for us to fear this year. Things such as dumb cars thatcan’t figure out how cul-de-sacs workwithout a human operator. And Tesla FSD’s proclivity towardsdriving the wrong waydown clearly-marked one-way streets, for example. Up front:Rumors of the advent of truly driverless cars have been, for the most part, widely exaggerated....

Where are they now? New York City’s Dot Com Entrepreneurs: Part One

The early days of the New York Internet scene were similar to the early days of the Industrial Revolution in the 19th century. The men and women who pioneered the Internet in the mid-late 90s lived in a time marked by freneticism, enthusiasm and rapid hiring. Innovation was celebrated and there was a real spirit ofanything’s possible. It’s similar in many ways to the pervasive spirit in NYC’s tech community today....