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Peter Burrows / Business Week:
What May Be Behind the iPhone 3G Glitches — Dropped calls and choppy Web surfing on Apple's latest smartphone may stem from an Infineon chip. A fix is on the way — Complaints over dropped calls and choppy Web connections on Apple's iPhone 3G have sparked a wave of debate in the blogosphere over the root cause of the problems.
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Peter Burrows / Byte of the Apple:
Coming in September: Better 3G In The iPhone 3G — As we reported last night, two reliable sources say Apple will issue a software fix that will address the widespread complaints regarding lost calls and inconsistent 3G access with the iPhone 3G. The problem (and it is a real issue …
Jim Goldman / Tech Check with Jim Goldman:
Netflix Goes Dark And Finds It's No Place To Be — It started this morning with an email apology from online movie rental powerhouse Netflix, confirming to its 8.4 million users that the company was suffering a shipping and distribution outage. — I called the company this morning …
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Nancy Gohring / Network World:
Facebook faces class-action suit over Beacon — A class-action suit filed in California charges Facebook and a handful of other companies, including Blockbuster, Fandango and Overstock, with violating online privacy and computer fraud laws related to Facebook's controversial Beacon system.
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Caroline McCarthy / The Social:
Class action suit means Facebook's Beacon just won't go away — A class action lawsuit filed earlier this week targets Facebook and eight of the participants in Beacon, its ill-fated advertising product that shared information about third-party site activity with the social network.
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Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:Facebook Gets Slapped With Another Lawsuit Over Beacon, Wishes It Could Opt Out
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Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
Ben Ling Lands (Back) at Google-This Time, at YouTube — Ben Ling-the high-profile Facebook platform exec who came from Google less than a year ago and then up and left the social networking site earlier this week-is about to head back to...Google, this time taking a job leading monetization efforts …
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Owen Thomas / Valleywag:Ben Ling boomerangs from Facebook to Google
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Vasanth Sridharan / Silicon Alley Insider:
Indie Game Developer Finds Success On Xbox 360 — Est. $825K Sales In First Week — Console game developers — people who make games for the Xbox, PlayStation, etc. — have mostly been big companies — EA, Activision, etc. — because of the high cost of game development and retail distribution.
Jack Davis / Docu-Drama:
Heinen settles with SEC over Apple option backdating complaint — In doing so, Heinen neither admitted or denied the Commission's allegations. — According to the complaint, “Heinen caused Apple to fraudulently backdate two large options grants to senior executives of Apple …
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Ed Bott / Ed Bott's Microsoft Report:
Sinofsky dishes on Windows 7 — The incredibly tight veil of secrecy around Windows 7 is about to lift, at least a little. — After months of information lockdown, Microsoft is ready to begin talking about the next version of Windows. The first bits of information come from the very top …
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Emil Protalinski / One Microsoft Way:
A closer look at the technology behind the Microsoft Sphere — Back in March when we first got a whiff of the Microsoft Sphere, we were intrigued that the software giant had managed to take the technology used in the Microsoft Surface, and put it to use in a sphere.
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Markus Jakobsson / Markus Jakobsson's blog:
What is worse than reusing passwords? — 9 I like it! — Do you use the same password all over the place? Yes, you probably do - whether you know it or not. — The fact is, while some people still casually use the same password for many sites, almost all of us reuse what we may think of as …
Christopher Price / PhoneNews.com:
MacBook Air Revision Imminent, Penryn, More Power — PhoneNews.com can confirm that Apple is preparing to release an new revision of the MacBook Air. While that in and of itself is not a surprise to many, we can confirm some of the specifications of the unit. — Much of the MacBook Air's external design will not change.
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Paul McDougall / InformationWeek:
Psystar ‘Definitely Still Shipping’ Mac Clones — In further defiance of Apple, Psystar also this week said it is making Leopard OS restore disks available to its customers. — In the latest sign that it has no intention of backing down in its copyright dispute with computing giant Apple …
Sarah Lacy:
Stop Whining UK; Twitter Is Building a Business — In case you don't start your day with a way-too-early alarm, way-too-strong coffee, way-too-much on-camera makeup, interspersed with a quick doses of TechMeme, let me fill you in that the talk of the tech blogosphere today is that people …
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Saul Hansell / Bits:
AT&T Mulls Watching You Surf — AT&T is “carefully considering” monitoring the Web-surfing activities of customers who use its Internet service, the company said in a letter in response to an inquiry from the House Committee on Energy and Commerce. — While the company said it hadn't tested …
Matthaus Krzykowski / VentureBeat:
Sources: HTC's Google Android phone is “weeks away” from launching — Over the past few days, we've gotten multiple confirmations from reliable sources that the first phone built on Google's Android platform will launch in the next several weeks. It will be an HTC phone, likely the HTC Dream …
Eric Savitz / Tech Trader Daily:
Beware The Strengthening Dollar — The steady crumbling of the value of the U.S. dollar over the last two years has given a big boost to reported earnings at many U.S. companies which sell goods overseas in local currencies but report in dollars. That group includes a host of large tech companies …
InfoWorld:
MobileMe users fall prey to phishing scam — A recent phishing scam targeting users of Apple Inc.'s .Mac and MobileMe online services has successfully duped hundreds into divulging credit card and other personal information, a security company said Thursday.
