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Japanese government plans to remove SIM locks for phones

The Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications is housed at the Central Government Building in Tokyo.Wiiii/Wikipedia Commons The Japanese Internal Affairs and Communications Ministry has plans to remove the SIM locks for mobile phones that are currently in place which prevent customers from using another SIM card on their devices. This is based on a report from Jiji Press, in …

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Where were you when the iPhone launched?

Jeremy Bachrach, far right, with his friends and little brother outside The Oaks mall in Thousand Oaks, Calif., the night before the original iPhone launch. Courtesy of Jeremy Bachrach Seven years ago, Jeremy Bachrach, then a 17-year-old high school student, waited in line outside a mall in Thousand Oaks, Calif., with his 12-year-old brother Harry. They’d been there for more …

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