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I think Apple is still peeved about Cisco suing them over the iPhone name.

Apparently they are now taking revenge by knocking Cisco’s Wireless Access Points off-line. Or at least, so says Duke University. According to the IT department at Duke, the iPhones periodically flood the school’s WLAN with MAC address requests, knocking several access points off-line for 10 to 15 minutes.

Duke has submitted a trouble ticket with Apple, because Cisco claims the problem is not on their end.

Personally, I think Apple found the perfect DDOS attack against Cisco. Cisco may need to revise their opinion, and fix this possible Denial of Service.

Eliot van Buskirk reports in his blog:

I just spoke with Tim Westergren, founder of Pandora, and he told me a SoundExchange exec just promised — in front of Congress — that SoundExchange will not enforce the collection of webcaster royalties under the new rates that would have driven many of them out of business.

Good news – in so far as that this is a promise not to enforce collection. The rates are still there as far as I understand. And apparently SoundExchange can change their mind – even after promising things in front of Congress…

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