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GP/Göteborg:
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 …
Kit Eaton / Gizmodo:
Leaked Document Shows Verizon's Psyops Anti-iPhone Propaganda — Oh, deary deary me... Verizon's tactics to combat the JesusPhone 3G now include briefing its employees about the iPhone's failings, so they can answer customer questions about why it doesn't carry the device.
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Digital Daily, Portfolio.com, 9 to 5 Mac, Valleywag, Boy Genius Report, iPhone Buzz, MobileCrunch and Digg
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 …
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Portfolio.com, TeleRead, Epicenter, GMSV, Valleywag, PalmAddicts, WebProNews, Chronicle of Higher Education and Engadget
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Dan Frommer / Silicon Alley Insider:Kindle Sales To Get A Boost? Chase, Amazon Push $100-Off Deal
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Andrea on Amazon.com …
John Biggs / CrunchGear:
OpenClip, she is dead — For those of you who do not remember - or do not care to remember - OpenClip was supposed to be an open framework for implementing the Cocoa NSPasteboard functionality to the iPhone. While I'm thinking that if Apple wanted to implement copy/paste into the iPhone …
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Electronista:
Nokia unveils N79, N85 smartphones [U] — (Update: official release due tomorrow) Nokia today fulfilled a promise from earlier this month with two new Nseries devices both aimed at driving down the cost of getting into full smartphones. The N85 as flagship appears set to replace the N81 …
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Pocket-lint.co.uk, IntoMobile, Unwired View, MobileCrunch, CrunchGear, Crave, Gizmodo, Engadget Mobile and Phone Scoop
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 …
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
No Matter How NBC Spins It, Olympics Web Strategy Comes Up A Loser — Despite its special Silverlight-powered Website and more than 2,000 hours of online video, it looks like NBC flubbed its opportunity to make its Olympics Web revenues more than a rounding error.
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Portfolio.com, Contentinople, Business Technology, NewTeeVee, Ars Technica, DailyTech, BloggingStocks and dailywireless.org
Mahalis / Two Finger Play:
Over, for now — Well — I've received notice from Apple that they've been contacted by The Tetris® Company about Tris. That, I'm afraid, is essentially game over. Do they have a case? No. Not really. I am convinced that if it went to court, the “copyright” claim would get thrown out completely.
Jason Chen / Gizmodo:
Open Tech Mac Clone Company Wants To Sell Itself For $50,000 — It's only been three weeks since the Mac “clone” company Open Tech made its debut, but it's already putting itself up for sale for $50,000. In an email on July 20, their Vice President Elijah Samaroo said that they were going to …
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Owen Thomas / Valleywag:
Dinner saved for Google's geeks — Google's food cutbacks are more targeted than we'd first heard. Dinner will still be served in buildings which house engineers, according to a former Google chef who's made his own inquiries about the changes at the Googleplex cafeterias.
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Owen Thomas / Valleywag:Google's food perks on the chopping block
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Portfolio.com, Tech Trader Daily, The Social, WebProNews, AppScout, Beyond Search, Silicon Alley Insider, WebGuild, Mashable! and Digg
Kevin Rose / Digg the Blog:
Introducing Digg Dialogg — Hey Everyone - — We want to give the Digg community an opportunity to pose questions to some of the individuals and leaders of the moment (sans editors), who are taking action to change the world in cool ways. To do this, we're launching a new program called “Digg Dialogg.”
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TechCrunch, ReadWriteWeb, Mashable!, Homotron.net, muhammad saleem, webmonkey, WebProNews, inside-ireport and Digg
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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Search Engine Land, Valleywag, WebProNews, Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim, TECH.BLORGE.com, Ars Technica and Digg
Vasanth Sridharan / Silicon Alley Insider:
How To Follow The Democratic National Convention LIVE On The Web — If you're a political junkie but couldn't take the week off to trek to Denver, have no fear. With journalists, delegates and bloggers toting minicams, and multiple live feeds emanating from the floor …
Michael Schneider / Variety:
Fox to stream premieres for dorms — ‘Fringe,’ ‘Terminator’ bow to college audiences — In a first, Fox will stream the premiere of “Fringe” and season opener of “Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles” online at the same time as they bow on TV. — But there's a catch …
