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by Brian Leahy, Jan 06, 2011 5:00pm PST

Time to go record a new episode of Weekend Confirmed. How's everyone finding the Mac App Store so far? The offerings are pretty slight for the moment as far as major stand-out applications and games, but everyone should get the official Twitter client (Tweetie 2.0).

What gems have you found on there?

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Microsoft announced a few things at CES.

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This morning's Mac App Store discussion.

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I did a winchatty search and didn't see this

Welcome to the wonderful world of "4G Networking", AT&T Costumers. Congratulations. Also, lol.

http://www.newser.com/story/109146/att-renames-its-3g-network-a-4g-network.html

Jan 06, 2011 10:56pm PST

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  fuck everything, we're going to 5Gs : GloriousCow
  - 5 blades! : crust
- LOL. Well 3G is single channel 4G. It's like calling a single 64kbps channel "T1 technology." Bloody fuck... : anhero
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  I think T-Mobile is doing the same thing and both Verizon and Sprint refer to their networks at 4G when t... : Dechter
  - Although it is not a full 14 channels, at least it is more than 1. : anhero
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    tmo's calling their hspa+ network 4g, and it's really not. the providers pulling this shit have made the... : harold.johnson
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      Tmo's at least is faster than their "3G" network. AT&T is the same old 3G. : cltcprd
      
      At&t is switching on their hspa+, which is why they're going with the 4g name : harold.johnson
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      honestly who cares what term they use. just tell us what the speed is we are paying for so we can actuall : smacknca
      
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      I think of it more as having isdn and the isp deciding to call is dsl because both run over the telephone... : harold.johnson
      
      I like my T1 analogy better. : anhero
- For once I hope the FCC steps in and is like 'lol no.' : cetra00
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  4G is all marketing bullshit anyway. Sprint tells everyone that they're 4G, but they're not. WiMax and ev... : K1Bond007
  - everything this man says is true. : radula
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    True, but I don't think even Verison will initially be using all fourteen (or is the spec 12 max) 3G chan... : anhero
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      They say you'll get 5 to 12 Mbps from Verizon's LTE (real world). AT&T's HSPA+ is something like 6 to 10 ... : K1Bond007
      
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      Which is still 3g. shit you can get 40Mbps* down here with Telstra.
      
      Jan 07, 2011 2:55am PST
      
      Which is still 3g. shit you can get 40Mbps* down here with Telstra. : CoRDS
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  The difference between this and e.g. Verizon's "4G" is that Verizon will not need to upgrade their entire... : Skrynkelberg
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    It's wrong for everyone. Verizon won't be done with their LTE rollout for a few more years and it doesn't... : K1Bond007
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      So you basically "believe" AT&T will be better than Verizon? Can't argue against faith. Though I'd stick ... : Skrynkelberg
      
      AT&T's speeds have on average been higher than Verizon actually. The biggest problem is getting a signal ... : ovrlrd
      
      I didn't say that. I said that the AT&T will have a robust and more consistent network, but Verizon will ... : K1Bond007
    - if they dont have the bandwidth between nodeB's than all the software wont mean shit. they need to increa... : CoRDS
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  Actually not even LTE is true 4G, LTE advanced is that is still a few years out : shack_konto
  - At this point whenever they do a refresh on their network they're going to add an extra 'G' : taylorwp2
- They make it seem here that they are actually doing something http://www.att.com/network/?rel=nofollow&wt... : FirstPersonCooter
- which was the one with the bigger gees again : razorblade79
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  It might not be false advertising, but it IS dishonest. : Robotic Puppy Eater
  - Telecom companies being dishonest?! Well, I never! : BlackCat9
- What's the difference besides speed anyway? : romulan
- oh man I hope they upgrade iOS to enable this upgrade : yoonix