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Iphone 3G antenna test — Is there a problem with Iphone's antenna? Is the coverage worse than for other mobiles? There are many rumors on the internet. In the USA someone is going to sue Apple. We took our iphone to a test chamber for fact-finding.
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Brian X. Chen / Gadget Lab:
Wired.com's iPhone 3G Survey Reveals Network Weaknesses — Wired.com's survey of iPhone 3G users suggests that widespread data speed problems have more to do with carriers' networks than with Apple's handsets. — Recently Wired.com asked iPhone 3G users all around the world to participate in a study …
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Thomas Ricker / Engadget:
iPhone 3G reception just fine say curious Swedes with engineering degrees — There's been a lot of discussion lately about iPhone 3G reception issues. Whether they exist or not is largely irrelevant in a world dominated by sound-bite driven perceptions. Nevertheless, some industrious Swedes decided …
Steven Musil / CNET News.com:
Google finds no privacy on private roads — Google's Street View service apparently thinks your “no trespassing” and “private road” signs are just for decoration. — The service, which gives Web users a driver's perspective of hundreds of cities around the world, has raised the ire …
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Eric Savitz / Tech Trader Daily:
Broadcom To Buy AMD Digital TV Chip Unit For $192.8M — Broadcom (BRCM) this morning announced a deal to buy Advanced Micro Devices' (AMD) digital TV chip business for $192.8 million in cash. The deal is expect to close in the fourth quarter. — In connection with the deal, 530 AMD employees will join Broadcom.
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Rory Cellan-Jones / BBC NEWS:
Scrabulous users - stunned, bemused,baffled. — My inbox is filling up with the grief-stricken, the angry, the lost and the desperate. Who are they? Sad obsessives who played Scrabulous on Facebook. They had been through a spasm of anxiety a few weeks back when the word game …
Sarah Halzack / Washington Post:
Marketing Moves to the Blogosphere — Business Model Shifts to Engage Customers Online — Jason Calacanis, who got into blogging early and big, has quit. — He co-founded a network of blogs called Weblogs in 2003, before the medium cracked the mainstream, and then sold it to AOL in 2005, working there until 2007.
Jacqui Cheng / Ars Technica:
Amazon may enter college textbook market with new Kindle — The student textbook market will soon welcome another newcomer to the market in the form of a revamped Amazon Kindle, according to McAdams Wright Ragen analyst Tim Bueneman. If true, it will have to compete with a number …
Tim Leberecht / CNET News.com:
The Obama SMS: (Un-)gratifying instantification — So the SMS went out to hundreds of thousands of Obama supporters. Not everyone got it at the same time (according to Textually.org, it took about 15 minutes for the bulk of the messages to get through the carriers' systems) or, in some cases …
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Larry Dignan / Between the Lines:
Qwest CTO on FTTP, bandwidth caps and integrated services — Qwest plans to roll out integrated home services where it ties its services in with those from its partners such as MSN and DirecTV in a move enabled by a thin layer of software, according to Qwest CTO Pieter Poll.
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Duncan Graham-Rowe / Technology Review:
Road Tolls Hacked — A researcher claims that toll transponders can be cloned, allowing drivers to pass for free. — Drivers using the automated FasTrak toll system on roads and bridges in California's Bay Area could be vulnerable to fraud, according to a computer security firm in Oakland, CA.
Ed Sperling / Forbes:
Jitters Over Virtualization — The easy stuff is already done in enterprise virtualization. What comes next is much more complex. — Virtualization has been proved to boost utilization of individual servers, particularly those powered by multicore processors.
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Nicola Leske / Reuters:
T-Mobile sold more than 120,000 3G iPhones — FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Deutsche Telekom's (DTEGn.DE) wireless business T-Mobile has sold more than 120,000 new 3G iPhones since its sales launch on July 11 despite distribution problems, its chief executive told a German weekly magazine.
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Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Can You Guess Which Facebook App Is Making A Million Dollars A Month? — Facebook is a famously difficult place to make money. Despite the popularity of the social network, most ads go for pennies per thousand impressions (CPMs). Even Social Media, a Facebook ad network that is able …
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The Blog Herald
Thomas Ricker / Engadget:
FCC outs HTC Dream's dimensions: it's smaller than the iPhone 3G — Attempts to keep the most hotly anticipated consumer electronics devices under wraps these days are getting more and more futile. It's hard enough for companies to control disgruntled employees and leaks in the international supply chain …
