But they have an alternative: Call a cease fire and upgrade what they have: Put in energy-efficient appliances, update that pink-tiled bathroom, and give the place a fresh paintjob.

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Well-known HTC phone modder Football doesn't want us to get comfy: he claims to have both obtained a leaked version of Sense 4.1's ROM Upgrade Utility (RUU) and folded it into the 2.2 update to his Maximus firmware for the international One X.

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Both features came from user requests and both update to all Pogoplugs worldwide via an automatic firmware upgrade today.

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Now that the new standard is ratified, Wi-Fi equipment makers, such as Cisco Systems , Netgear , Apple Computer and others will incorporate the new security features into new Wi-Fi products, and in some cases, may be able to update them with a simple firmware upgrade available from a Web site.

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So, without a dual-core processor, Apple would have been giving an update on iOS 5 and iCloud, releasing some slightly altered iPods and announcing a camera upgrade on the iPhone 4 - and if you think this event was underwhelming, imagine that one.

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