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iPhone 4 Teardown — Join us live and follow iFixit on twitter as we disassemble the newly released iPhone 4. Stay tuned! Being the resourceful tinkerers that we are, we scoured the depths of this great nation, and we have emerged victorious. At long last, the journey to the iPhone 4 teardown …
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Walter S. Mossberg / Personal Technology:
New iPhone Keeps Apple Top of Class — Just three years ago, Apple wasn't in the mobile-phone business at all. Since then, its game-changing iPhone has become the most influential smartphone in the world. Now, on June 24, the company will roll out the fourth generation of the device, called the iPhone 4.
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Joshua Topolsky / Engadget:
iPhone 4 review — The iPhone 4 is no small thing to review. As most readers of Engadget are well aware, in the gadget world a new piece of Apple hardware is a major event, preceded by rumors, speculation, an over-the-top announcement, and finally days, weeks, or months of anticipation from an ever-widening fan base.
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David Pogue / New York Times:
New iPhone Arrives, Rivals Beware — Apple's new iPhone, its fourth in four years, reaches stores on Thursday. Ordinarily, this is where you'd expect to find a review of it. But honestly — what's the point? — The iPhone 4 is already a hit. AT&T says that it received 10 times …
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Arn / MacRumors:
iPhone 4 is Faster than 3GS and Slower than iPad in Early Benchmarks — iPhone 4 results on left, 3GS on right — Early benchmarks of the iPhone 4 show it to be 31% faster than the iPhone 3GS according to the Geekbench 2 app. Geek Bench has been a popular benchmarking utility on the Mac …
Yusuf Mehdi / Search Blog:
A New Entertainment Experience for Bing — In this release of Bing one of the biggest investments we are making is in the area of entertainment. As the content on the web has exploded, it has become difficult to navigate and find what you are looking for.
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Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Bing Entertainment Brings Full Music Streams To Search, Plus Games, Movies, And TV Shows — Bing's iPhone app isn't the only thing getting an upgrade today at Microsoft's search engine. Bing is also starting to roll out close to 100 new features to its main search engine on the Web.
Ina Fried / Beyond Binary:
Microsoft, Hollywood debate future of entertainment
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MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Facebook Has Been Massively Underreporting Twitter App Users — By Over 6 Million — Inside Network's AppData is a goldmine of information about third-party applications on Facebook. With it, you can see stats like: FarmVille has 63.9 million monthly active users — making it well over twice …
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Google Voice Blog:
Google Voice for everyone — A little over a year ago, we released an early preview of Google Voice, our web-based platform for managing your communications. We introduced one number to ring all your phones, voicemail that works like email, free calls and text messages to the U.S. and Canada …
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Mike Beltzner / The Mozilla Blog:
Firefox 3.6.4 with Crash Protection Now Available — Today, Mozilla is happy to release Firefox 3.6.4, the latest security and stability release for Firefox, used by nearly 400 million people around the world to browse the Web. This release provides crash protection for Windows and Linux users …
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Ina Fried / Beyond Binary:
How Microsoft foresaw—and still missed—the iPad — The technology icon stands before a crowd, holding in his hands a prototype that embodies his vision for the future of computing. It's a touch-screen tablet that is thinner than a magazine, has all-day battery life, and sells for less than $800.
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Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Fortune:
App Store: 1% of Apple's gross profit — Since its launch in July 2008, it has generated revenue of $429 million for the company — Click to enlarge. Source: Piper Jaffray — Apple (AAPL) claims to run the App Store at or near break even, and apparently that's not terribly far from the truth.
Ian Paul / PC World:
Google Under Multistate Privacy Microscope: How We Got Here — Google's Wi-Fi data snooping brouhaha just got worse. Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal on Monday announced his office is leading a multistate investigation into Google's Wi-Fi data snooping gaffe.
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Elinor Mills / CNET News:
Report: A fifth of Android apps expose private data — About 20 percent of the 48,000 apps in the Android marketplace allow a third-party application access to sensitive or private information, according to a report released on Tuesday. — And some of the apps were found to have the ability …
Andrew Oplinger / Google Mobile Blog:
Google Maps for Android Helps You Find the Right Place, Catch a Train, and Add Latitude Friends — Labels: android, google latitude, google maps for mobile, transit — Hot off the presses, Google Maps for Android version 4.3 has added a couple new features to help you quickly choose …
Nate Anderson / Ars Technica:
P2P lawyers tell judge: suing 5,000 “Does” at once is fine — The US Copyright Group, a business name for the group of Virginia lawyers filing suits against tens of thousands of alleged US peer-to-peer movie downloaders, has been sharply criticized by the EFF and ACLU for suing up to 5,000 anonymous defendants at once.
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