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T-Mobile Sues Starbucks Over Free AT&T Wi-Fi [Starbucks]
T-Mobile is suing Starbucks over its free Wi-Fi from AT&T. The gist is that Starbucks and AT&T are promoting free Wi-Fi in markets where T-Mobile still has the exclusive right to “sell, market and promote its services” since the infrastructure transition to AT&T isn’t complete. In fact, technically, the only two markets running Death Star-certified equipment are San Antonio and Bakersfield, California, meaning the rest of the stores are still on T-Mobile’s network. So AT&T’s making bank on T-Mobile’s dime.
I’ve been seeing “attwifi” access points at every Starbucks I’ve been to in NYC, and used the free Wi-Fi at two of them, so I figured the transition was complete at those stores, even though the T-Mobile network was still lingering in the background. Can any Starbucks employees lay out more info as to what’s going down with the transition? [Reuters via GigaOM]
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Spot Faked Photos Using Light Sources, Eye Positions [Digital Forensics]
With all the Apple fakes being tossed around the internet in the hours leading up to WWDC, how can us unassuming consumers figure out what’s real and what’s not? Luckily, Scientific American has got our backs with several ways photo editing masters spot a fake photo.
The first thing to look for is lighting, an always difficult element for fakers to get right. Shopped photos usually have light-source directions that don’t match. For instance, in the picture below, the ducks are obviously glowing from a different time of day than the riot police.
The next thing to check out is the eyes. Eyes have very consistent shapes, and a person can approximate how eyes are supposed to look by tracing rays of light running from them to a point in the camera’s center. If two people’s eyes orient at different centers, then it’s possible that the photo’s been altered.
Related to the first two points, specular highlights—that white dot on the eye in pictures—can also tell you a lot about lighting. If people in the picture have different specular highlights, then the photo is faker than your office manager’s toupee.
On second thought—while interesting, these techniques won’t help us figure out if that second coming of the Jesusphone ad is real or not. Darn! Foiled again! [Scientific American via Lifehacker]
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Dell Inspiron 1525 
Dell notebooks are seen usually as computers for work, because Dell is basing very much on corporate contracts. Fortunately Dell, remembered about simple users and Inspiron 1525 model is a proof for this. This model is firstly distinguished for variety of colors that are available: black, red, yellow, and brown, pink, green.