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Heather Smith / Bloomberg:
IPhone Cracks, Explosions in France Caused By External Force, Apple Says — Aug. 28 (Bloomberg) — Apple Inc. said iPhones turned in by customers in France and elsewhere in Europe with shattered screens showed outside pressure caused the cracking. — Apple is investigating reports …
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Robin Wauters / TechCrunch Europe:
Belgian teenager latest victim of exploding iPhone phenomenon — A 15-year old Belgian by the name of Salvatore is the latest victim in a series of mysterious iPhone explosions that have captured the attention of France's and the European Commissions' consumer affair watchdogs.
BBC:
Apple denies ‘exploding’ iPhones — A number of iPhones that reportedly “exploded” in France were not due to the battery overheating as had been suggested, Apple has said. — The firm said that all of the handsets they had seen with broken screens were caused by an “external force”.
Jesus Diaz / Gizmodo:
Rumor: Apple May Be Working on XL Tablets Running Full Mac OS X — This one caught us by surprise, but it comes from a source that has always been 100% reliable: Not only Apple may be working on a 10-inch tablet, but also in 13" and 15" models, one running Mac OS X.
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Sam Gustin / DailyFinance:
Microsoft's secret ‘screw Google’ meetings in D.C. — Microsoft's chief Washington lobbyist has been convening regular meetings attended by the company's outside consultants that have become known by some beltway insiders as “screw Google” meetings, DailyFinance has learned.
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Declan McCullagh / CNET News:
Bill would give president emergency control of Internet — Internet companies and civil liberties groups were alarmed this spring when a U.S. Senate bill proposed handing the White House the power to disconnect private-sector computers from the Internet. — They're not much happier …
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Investor Group Makes Play For Skype — A group of well known venture capital and large private equity firms are pooling resources to make a bid to acquire eBay-owned Skype, according to a source close to the deal. — Investors in the proposed purchase may include newly-formed Andreesen Horowitz …
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Pete Wylie / FierceVoIP:Report: Mark Andressen, others aim to purchase Skype
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WM Professional / Phone Arena:
Storm 2, Touch Pro2, Omnia II and possibly the Pre - all in Verizon's inventory database — Published on: Today by PhoneArena Team — One of our most loyal tipsters has just shared some quite spicy info with us. Hi-end handset lovers will be delighted to know that the RIM BlackBerry Storm 2 …
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Wall Street Journal:
China Unicom Strikes iPhone Deal — Apple Device Set to Enter World's Largest Mobile Market — China Unicom (Hong Kong) Ltd. announced a deal with Apple Inc. to sell iPhones in China starting later this year, bringing the popular device to the world's largest mobile market for the first time.
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Live Mesh:
Live Mesh and Mac OS X Snow Leopard (10.6) incompatibility — With the recent Apple announcement regarding the availability of Mac OS X Snow Leopard (10.6), we want Live Mesh Mac users to be aware the current Live Mesh Mac software is not compatible with the new OS X version (10.6).
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Intel:
Intel Raises Third-Quarter Revenue and Gross Margin Expectations — As a result of stronger than expected demand for microprocessors and chipsets, Intel Corporation now expects revenue for the third quarter to be $9.0 billion, plus or minus $200 million, as compared to the previous range of $8.5 billion, plus or minus $400 million.
Dancho Danchev / Zero Day:
Snow Leopard's malware protection only scans for two Trojans — The much hyped built-in malware protection into Apple's Snow Leopard upgrade appears to be nothing more than a XProtect.plist file containing five signatures for two of the most popular Mac OS X trojans - OSX.RSPlug and OSX.Iservice.
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Melissa Reeder / Creative Commons:
Anne Wojcicki and Sergey Brin Support CC with $500,000 Gift — Creative Commons is honored to have received an incredibly generous gift of $500,000 from 23andMe co-founder Anne Wojcicki and Google co-founder Sergey Brin. We are delighted that the couple recognizes the importance …
Mark / Tapbots:
A Well-Timed Letter of Rejection — We're no strangers to silly app rejection emails from Apple, but this one seems to take the cake (at least in our opinion). Convertbot 1.4 was rejected because our icon for Time is too similar to one of Apple's default resource icons for History/Recent.
Thomas Claburn / InformationWeek:
Apple, AT&T Sued For Misleading MMS Marketing — Apple and AT&T promised MMS messaging for the iPhone, but haven't delivered. Despite a disclaimer, a dissatisfied iPhone user believes laws have been broken. — A lawsuit filed in Ohio on Wednesday on behalf of plaintiff Deborah Carr charges Apple …
Todd Bishop / TechFlash:
Video: How Google is changing its approach to the real-time web — Google's Seattle engineering office last night held a series of “tech talks” for Seattle-area computer science academics and engineers. Yes, it's hard think of a nerdier way to spend a Thursday evening …
Farhad Manjoo / Slate:
How To Beat the Kindle — Study everything the iPod's rivals did. Then do the exact opposite. — You might argue that Sony was visionary. In the fall of 2006, it introduced the first eBook with an E Ink screen—long before Amazon's Kindle rolled out with the same technology.
Greg Sterling / Search Engine Land:
Google Expanding Access To Wave Soon, First “Hands-On” Impressions — At the end of next month, September 30, Google will expand the current “developer preview” of Google Wave to roughly 100,000 consumer users. According to Google, “included in this group of early testers will be some of the businesses using Google Apps.”
Elinor Mills / CNET News:
Readers as patrons in the digital age — A few months ago someone sent me a link to a short story a friend of his had written and posted online. I made the mistake of glancing at it while at work and then got so absorbed I couldn't stop reading until I was done.
Daily Mail:
Weather supercomputer used to predict climate change is one of Britain's worst polluters — The Met Office has caused a storm of controversy after it was revealed their £30million supercomputer designed to predict climate change is one of Britain's worst polluters.
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Robin Wauters / TechCrunch:
25 Years Later, First Registered Domain Name Changes Hands — Did you know the first .com domain name that was ever registered was Symbolics.com, on the 15th of March 1985 by the now defunct Massachusetts-based computer manufacturer Symbolics? — While the first that was created in January …
internetnews.com:
Report: Virtualization Market Up for Grabs — Microsoft is a come-from-behind favorite in at least one area of virtualization led by VMware. — Many technology areas are still hurting due to the long-running recession. However, one area that appears to be a harbinger of good news is virtualization, according to a new report.
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Duncan Graham-Rowe / Technology Review:
Quantum Cryptography for the Masses — A new partnership will make quantum cryptography more widely available. — Quantum cryptography could finally hit the mainstream thanks to a deal that will allow customers to adopt the technology without having to install dedicated optical fibers.
Ellen Nakashima / Washington Post:
Bush's Search Policy For Travelers Is Kept — Obama Officials Say Oversight Will Grow — The Obama administration will largely preserve Bush-era procedures allowing the government to search — without suspicion of wrongdoing — the contents of a traveler's laptop computer …
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Joanna Stern / Gizmodo:
GScreen's Dual-Screen Spacebook Coming Soon(ish) — This is one of the first photos of an actual gScreen's dual 15.4-inch screen Spacebook—two full screens (not just an extra 10-inch one like Lenovo's W700. Really. There were renders before, but here are the photos.
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Donald Melanson / Engadget:
TomTom's Car Kit for iPhone hits the FCC — Still not convinced of the benefits of TomTom's upcoming Car Kit for iPhone? Then perhaps a little FCC approval will change your mind. In addition to offering a bit more reassurance that the thing is actually coming, the new listing also reveals …
Economist:
Now pay up — Newspapers have plenty of options for charging online, but no sure bets — IF NEWSPAPER bosses keep their promises, the next few months will see a decisive retreat from free news online. This summer senior figures at big media firms such as News Corporation …
