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Alright, we’ll definitely cop to having broken off a relationship or two via text message, but we don’t think we’ve ever heard of a high-ranking executive discovering he’d been fired when his phone stopped working — which is exactly what happened to Roy Kosuge, COO of Voce, that “luxury” MVNO. We’d heard rumors of Voce’s demise, but it looks like ol’ Roy wasn’t so plugged in, only finding out that his company was dead when his phone stopped making calls. Of course, when a company’s chief operating officer doesn’t know that you’re about to kill the lights, it’s a safe bet that things a pretty screwed up, so if you were among the few who signed up for Voce’s premium services, we’d recommend calling your credit card company immed — oh, right. Sorry about that.

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We’ve definitely been curious about the difference sticking an SSD would make in the MacBook Air’s otherwise average performance and battery life, and it looks like the answer is a resounding “meh.” The crew at Ars Technica ran an SSD-equipped Air through a battery of tests, and found that while the increased random disk read / write speeds and slightly faster processor led to a minor overall speedup and less pinwheeling, the dramatically lower sequential read/ write speeds of the SSD made things essentially a wash. What’s worse, battery life — where the SSD should have shone — was decidedly mediocre. Ars was able to coax the SSD model in to lasting 29 minutes longer than the HDD version they tested, but on average the SSD-equipped MBA didn’t have the juice to last any longer than the HDD model, getting to about 2 hours and 31 minutes before petering out. All said, Ars says the extra $1300 for the SSD MacBook Air just isn’t worth it — but c’mon, you know that’s not stopping the people who are buying Airs in the first place.

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Apple has posted an update to Quicktime bringing it to version 7.4.1 today. Updates are available for Leopard, Tiger, Panther, and Windows.

Apple reports the new Quicktime addresses security issues and improves compatibility with thir…

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