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   ExtraBITS for 24 September 2012

   TidBITS Staff

   Two quick ExtraBITS for you this week ' an explanation of why the CDMA
   iPhone 5 has an unlocked GSM SIM slot and Glenn Fleishman's Boing Boing
   report from the unusual XOXO conference.

   [1]Verizon's Unlocked iPhone 5 Due to FCC Requirement? -- As the iPhone
   5 got into people's hands last Friday, several Verizon Wireless
   subscribers noted that their iPhones were unlocked both for
   international use and for other U.S. carriers. James Duncan Davidson
   explains that Verizon isn't doing this out of the kindness of its
   corporate heart, but rather due to an agreement with the FCC for
   licensing the 700 MHz C block of spectrum for its LTE network.

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   [3]A Conference About Tech That Is Full of Love -- If you regularly
   attend technology or engineering conferences, you might enjoy editor
   Glenn Fleishman's account at Boing Boing of the recent XOXO Festival in
   Portland, Oregon. XOXO brought people who make things together with
   those who have new methods of reaching customers, an audience, fans, or
   colleagues directly, such as Kickstarter and Etsy. Beyond the content,
   the conference captured a magic that's rarely found in such events.

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References

   1. http://duncandavidson.com/blog/2012/09/verizon_iphone5_unlocked
   2. http://tidbits.com/article/13295#comments
   3. http://boingboing.net/2012/09/19/xoxo.html
   4. http://tidbits.com/article/13283#comments

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