Engadget: iPad won't handle GSM voice calls -- or will it?

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Like the camera references, this could just be another case of vestigial SDK weirdness -- but for whatever reason, devs have noticed (and we've been able to reproduce) a "Touch to return to call" bar in the iPad emulator just like you'd expect to find on an iPhone during a traditional GSM call. It certainly seems like Steve would've bothered to mention during today's festivities if you could do something crazy like pair up a Bluetooth headset and go to town (and you'd need a voice plan on top of that $29.99 data anyway), so who knows: either Apple's just made every UI element as adaptable as possible regardless of whether it's applicable to a particular device, they're planning a higher-res iPhone down the road, or they're integrating the bar into some VoIP action. Or... you know, none of the above.

[Thanks to everyone who sent this in]

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Techcrunch: Our Lives Caught on Tape: Creepy, Entertaining or Just Reality?

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Fifteen years ago the Web was a newborn and filmmaker Adam Rifkin had never heard of it. He was visiting a friend in New York when he heard about another Adam Rifkin who was "on the computer." This Adam Rifkin had an early Web page and people kept confusing him with, let's call him, Hollywood Adam Rifkin. So Hollywood Adam Rifkin called Valley Adam Rifkin. Apparently, back then it wasn't insane to put a phone number on your homepage. "Hello, Adam Rifkin? This is Adam Rifkin," Adam Rifkin said. To his surprise, Valley Adam Rifkin knew who Hollywood Adam Rifkin was and they had a nice chat about how the Web was confusing identity and connecting people who may have never met before that had random things in common. I can relate to the weirdness, having just discovered there's another Sarah Lacy working at a VC firm in Silicon Valley. I felt like Milhouse in the Simpsons episode when he met his Shelbyville doppleganger also named Milhouse. "So this is what it sounds like when doves cry." Fifteen years later, the two Adams lives have collided again thanks to the Internet, which has also collided their respective Hollywood and Valley worlds.
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