Apple has joined Google in publicly opposing a California ballot initiative that would deny marriage rights to same-sex couples.
The company announced Friday that it would donate $100,000 to the No on Prop 8 campaign, which opposes a measure to ban gay marriage that California voters will consider a week from Tuesday. Google has also spoken out against the ballot measure.
"Apple was among the first California companies to offer equal rights and benefits to our employees' same-sex partners, and we strongly believe that a person's fundamental rights--including the right to marry--should not be affected by their sexual orientation. Apple views this as a civil rights issue, rather than just a political issue, and is therefore speaking out publicly against Proposition 8," the company said in a statement posted to the Hot News section of its Web site.
The Obama iPhone call tally as of 4:33 p.m. Oct. 3.
(Credit: CNET News)It looks like either somebody drinks a lot of coffee and talks really fast, or somebody diddled with the results of the phone recruitment feature in the Barack Obama campaign's iPhone application.
When I tried the application before 8 a.m. PDT Thursday, only 12 calls had been made, and the top-ranked caller had made 6 of them. But 30 hours later, the top caller had made 9,648 calls, according to the application.
That works out to more than five calls per minute, which means somebody would have been spending less than 12 seconds per call on average. And it accounted for nearly half of the 22,597 calls made by 4:33 p.m. Friday.
But by 5:41 p.m., the top caller had made a more reasonable 48 calls and the total calls dropped to 13,076, the software reported, so it looks like the application engineers figured out what happened and updated the statistics.
The Democratic presidential candidate's campaign released the iPhone application on Thursday. Its most notable feature lists who on a person's contact list lives in key battleground states at the top and keeps track of who's been called to keep track of recruiting efforts.
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