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Arn / MacRumors:
Steve Jobs on iPhone 4 Signal Issue: ‘Stay Tuned.’ — One MacRumors reader emailed Steve Jobs in a followup about the widely publicized iPhone 4 signal issues that have been reported across the web. In particular, rfbandit was asking about Apple's policy on giving free bumper cases to alleviate the issue.
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Jason Hiner / Tech Sanity Check:
iPhone 4 upgrades to HSDPA/HSUPA can double 3G bandwidth speeds — The iPhone 4 is catching a lot of criticism for an antenna issue that is causing some users to lose connectivity when holding the iPhone 4 in a way that blocks the lower left corner of the device.
Zee / The Next Web:
DailyFail: Newspaper quotes (Fake) Steve Jobs tweet in story about iPhone 4 recall … The above quote is the opening to an article in the UK's DailyMail this morning [back up screenshot] claiming that Steve Jobs had confirmed an iPhone 4 recall was on the cards after issues with the phone's antenna had surfaced.
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Vlad Savov / Engadget:
iPhone 4 antenna problems were predicted on June 10 by Danish professor — Well, this must be one of the most epic “I told you so” moments in the history of consumer electronics. Professor Gert Frølund Pedersen, an antenna expert over at Denmark's Aalborg University …
Alexia Tsotsis / The Snitch:
Is Google About to Launch a Facebook Killer? Kevin Rose Says So. — Should we brace ourselves for another round of tech news headlines with the word “killer” in them? According to Digg founder Kevin Rose, Google is about to launch a social profile service called, aptly, “Google Me.”
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Taimur Asad / Redmond Pie:
iPhone 4 Jailbroken Already ! — Yes you read that right! iPhone 4 has been successfully jailbroken only within a few days of launch! It looks like the “userland” jailbreak vulnerability which was used by Spirit jailbreak tool was not all that properly patched by Apple, and hence @planetbeing …
Jean-Louis Gassée / Monday Note:
Intel's bold bet against ARM: visionary or myopic? — Today, Intel's x86 architecture reigns supreme on PCs (and millions of servers, such as Google's, that use the PC organ bank). Anywhere else, the ARM processors have won; they're in billions of devices, regular cell phones, smartphones …
Frank X. Shaw / The Official Microsoft Blog:
Microsoft by the numbers — You probably saw the news this week that we've sold 150 million Windows 7 licenses in 8 months. That's more than 600,000 per day. And, perhaps fittingly for a product called Windows 7, it adds up to 7 copies every second of every day since launch.
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ZDNet, Life On the Wicked Stage, Neowin.net, Techie Buzz, Maximum PC, TomsTechBlog.com, Pulse2, WMPoweruser.com, BoomTown, IntoMobile and PC World, Thanks:rawmeet
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Audrey Watters / ReadWriteWeb:
Google Moves Encrypted Search to New Domain — Google announced today that it was moving domains for its encrypted search from https://www.google.com to https://encrypted.google.com. — In May Google launched an encrypted version of its Web search, allowing users to enable a Secure Sockets Layer …
Drew Wilson / ZeroPaid.com:
Creative Commons Responds to ASCAP — Yesterday, we reported that ASCAP said that organizations like Creative Commons were undermining their copyrights. Today, we've received an official response from Creative Commons with regards to the letter writing campaign.
Paul Kedrosky's Infectious Greed:
[Updated] The Coming Super-Seed Crash — Unnoticed by almost no-one, the startup financing landscape has been transformed: a combination of ease of entry, lower capital requirements, failing incumbent venture capital (VC) firms, and general fervor has driven the emergence of a host of new “super-seed” firms.
Seth Weintraub / 9 to 5 Mac:
White iPhones appearing in UK stores? — WTF? How are these people on Sky News (1:23 and 1:31) rolling with white iPhones? Were these store models? We haven't even been able to check out white iPhones at our local Apple Store. (Thanks Conner) What say you, UK shoppers?
