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Lev Grossman / Time:
"I Take the iPhone Home" — Somewhere in the unwritten amendments to the U.S. Constitution it is stipulated that every gadget reviewer is entitled to his or her personal iPhone quibble. Here's mine: when you're transferring content from your computer to the iPhone, you can't simply drag …
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Ken Mingis / Computerworld:
The iPhone: Two reviews, one conclusion — it's a glimpse of the future — The must-have phone of '07 lives up to its hype — It's been almost six months since Apple Inc. CEO Steve Jobs took the wraps off the iPhone, which has been touted as a game-changing device for the mobile phone industry.
Ken Fisher / Ars Technica:
iPhones iPlenty: the sell-out that wasn't — Doesn't it seem like January 9th of this year was much, much more than just a half year ago? In the nearly six months since it was announced, the iPhone has dominated the technology press. Coverage online reached such a feverish pitch …
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Donna Bogatin / Insider Chatter:Apple Retail: Who Needs Woodstock, iGot iPhone!
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Neha / Google Health Advertising Blog:
Does negative press make you Sicko? — Posted by Lauren Turner, Account Planner, Health — Lights, camera, action: the healthcare industry is back in the spotlight. (Not that it ever left the stage.) Next week, Michael Moore's documentary film, Sicko, will start playing in movie theaters across America.
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Philipp Lenssen / Google Blogoscoped:
Google Criticizes Moore's Sicko — It's unusual for a Google department to do peppered movie reviews. In Google's health advertising blog - which is, well, trying to sell Google ads to the health industry - they talk about Michael Moore's movie Sicko: — While legislators, litigators …
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Chris Ziegler / Engadget:
iPhone activations hosed until morning? — We've been hearing scattered reports some that newly-christened iPhone owners are having a heck of a time finalizing the activation process in iTunes. That sucks for a couple reasons: first, these puppies are darned near useless without being activated …
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Declan McCullagh / CNET News.com:
Big iPhone headache: Waiting for AT&T activation — So I admit it: I bought an iPhone. — That was the easy part. But I should have realized that if the customer service whizzes at AT&T could find a way to mar what was otherwise a perfectly pleasant experience, it would.
Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Apple 2.0:Glitches at AT&T Bedevil Apple iPhone Owners
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iPhone madness: This hot phone now sold through malware — This morning, Sunbelt researchers discovered a new custom Trojan that attempts to steal money by selling a fake iPhone. This Trojan looks custom-built and has very poor coverage by AV vendors (report here).
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Tim Wu / Slate:
iPhony — WHY APPLE'S NEW CELL PHONE ISN'T REALLY REVOLUTIONARY. — When the word iPhone appears in Apple press releases, the word revolutionary is rarely far behind. But what counts as revolutionary? In Apple's case, the bar is high. Since the 1970s, the firm has changed both the personal computer and music industries.
Miguel Helft / New York Times:
Can She Turn Yahoo Into, Well, Google? — IN early May, a little more than a month before she became president of Yahoo, Susan L. Decker found herself dining at Gorat's Steak House in Omaha along with her husband and two of the restaurant's most famous regulars: Warren E. Buffett and Bill Gates.
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Eric Butterfield / PC World:
How Tough Is the iPhone? — PC World manhandles the new Apple phone to see how much abuse it can take. — Recommend this story? — It would be a shame—after waiting hours in line and spending $500 to $600 on an iPhone—to lose it to a minor mishap. To see how well Apple's phone …
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Duncan Riley / TechCrunch:
Eventstreaming: The Seed Of A Revolution — An interesting thing happened during yesterdays iPhone launch and it wasn't just observing Robert Scoble's mastery of self promotion (in a good way of course). Thousands of people* who were not lining up for an iPhone, be that because they simply …
Rodney Rumford / FaceReviews.com:
Yahoo Facebook Music Videos Application Rocks — Rating: — Yahoo has joined facebook and hit a home run in the process with the Yahoo Music Videos Application. This is an official application from Yahoo Music. This application is one of the best designed, executed and deeply integrated facebook applications we have seen yet.
Thomas Ricker / Engadget:
iPhone not supported under 64-bit Windows XP or Vista — oops — Struggling with your new iPhone on a 64-bit Windows Vista or XP system? Take solace, you're not alone. The error message, "The software required for iPhone is not installed. Run the iTunes installer to remove iTunes …
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Pete Cashmore / Mashable!:
Rise of the Rose Bashers? — A curious thing has happened with Kevin Rose's new startup Pownce: the Digg users really hate it. For a service whose success will rely on the founder's credentials and referring traffic over from the popular news site, that's a little worrying.
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Darren Murph / Engadget:
Toshiba kicks out its own 4GB microSDHC card — Oh, Toshiba. Usually we wouldn't react too kindly to jumping in the game nearly half a year late, but considering just how rare these 4GB microSDHC cards still seem to be, we'll give you a pass on this one. Sure enough, Tosh is finally ready …
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