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Thomas Ricker / Engadget:
Apple hiring iPhone antenna engineers for some reason — Three Apple job postings for iPhone / iPad antenna engineers to “Define and implement antenna system architecture to optimize the radiation performance for wireless portable devices.” All three were posted on June 23rd …
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Leaked: Apple's internal iPhone 4 antenna troubleshooting procedures — The antenna issues plaguing the iPhone 4 have infuriated many iPhone users (and rightfully so), but have you ever wondered how Apple is training its employees to deal with the fiasco? Well thanks to one of our Apple connects …
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Richard Gaywood / fscked.co.uk:
More on the iPhone 4 signal issue — Previously, I did some simple testing of reception strength on my iPhone 4 and concluded that I couldn't see any problems. I've now done some more thorough testing, however, and have reason to think I was wrong. Warning: this is very long and nerdy.
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Arn / MacRumors:
Detailed Analysis of iPhone 4 Signal Strength Dropoff
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Staska / Unwired View:
Android 3.0 Gingerbread details: 1280×760 resolution, 1Ghz minimum specs, mid-Oct. release — We've been hearing about the upcoming Android Gingerbread release in Q4 for a while now. And also how the new Android user interface will blow our socks off.
Bret Taylor / Facebook Blog:
Applications Ask, You Receive: Simplified Permissions Launch — Last month, we announced a number of changes to make privacy simpler and to give you more control over the information you share with other people. Today, we're taking the next step by providing more transparency and control …
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Fred / A VC:
Some Thoughts On Foursquare — Our portfolio company Foursquare closed a second round of financing yesterday. This was a much covered financing process and also much criticized. I think it makes an excellent case to talk about some conventional notions and why they might not be right.
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We're just getting started... Hey all - — It's been quite the year for foursquare.
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Tricia Duryee / mocoNews:
AdMob's Transparency Changing Post-Google Acquisition — For the past two years, AdMob has released a jam-packed report each and every month, publicizing its activities in the mobile advertising market and detailing the industry's rapid development. — But with the official close …
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Sarah Perez / ReadWriteWeb:
Android Gaining on Apple, Says Report — Mobile analytics and tracking firm AdMob has just released its latest mobile metrics report, a monthly snapshot of the smartphone industry based on data generated by ad requests within its network of 23,000 mobile websites and mobile applications.
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Kuan Yong / YouTube API Blog:
Flash and the HTML5 tag — There's been a lot of discussion lately about whether or not the HTML5 <video> tag is going to replace Flash Player for video distribution on the web. We've been excited about the HTML5 effort and <video> tag for quite a while now, and most YouTube videos can now be played via our HTML5 player.
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Henry Blodget / Silicon Alley Insider:
Apple Will Sell 12 Million iPhones To Verizon Subscribers For $7 Billion — Analyst — Oppenheimer's Yair Reiner runs the numbers on the reported Verizon iPhone. — Here, from Philip Elmer-Dewitt of Fortune, are some of his key points: — Over the last year, Apple sold 11 million iPhones into AT&T's …
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Michael Bettiol / Boy Genius Report:
Verizon to launch LTE network on November 15th, handsets on Black Friday — This information comes from a new tipster, but we have very good reason to believe that Verizon will begin rolling out its LTE network in 25 markets starting on November 15th. While 25 markets might not sound like a lot …
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Robin Wauters / TechCrunch:
Amazon Introduces 70% Royalty Option For Kindle Digital Text Platform — Right off the heels of announcing an expansion of its Kindle Digital Text Platform to authors and publishers around the world, Amazon announced back in January that it would introduce a new 70 percent royalty option …
Robin Wauters / TechCrunch:
“Lawyers Are Expensive. We Can Be Friends.” (@Posterous To @TwitPic) — As you may have read yesterday, TwitPic and Posterous are currently in a row after the latter introduced a “Rescue your photos from TwitPic” tool that provides users with a one-click way to import TwitPic photos over to their Posterous blog.
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Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
Hulu CEO Jason Kilar: We're No Cable Killer! We Swear! — If you're planning on swapping out your expensive cable TV service for Hulu's $10 a month subscription offering, Jason Kilar has advice for you: Don't do it! — The Hulu CEO insists that his “Hulu Plus” service …
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iPhone 4 Gyroscope Teardown — Apple's latest creation — the iPhone 4 — features a MEMS gyroscope within its pretty shell. But how does that little chip work, and what does it do? We partnered with Chipworks to bring you an in-depth look behind the science of these micro-scale gyroscopes.
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Nick O'Neill / All Facebook:
Facebook Clarifies Policy On Site Scrapers As Robots.Txt Gets Updated — Want to scrape Facebook's site for content? You may want to reconsider how you do so as Facebook has updated their Robots.txt file to be a bit more restrictive. If you aren't aware of what a Robots.txt file is, you can read more here.
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Matt Hamblen / Computerworld:
Cisco and video: Wi-Fi for Flip, end to Flash debacle, video client for App Store — For Cisco, video technologies ‘are definitely a pervasive play,’ says exec — Computerworld - LAS VEGAS — If you didn't realize how pervasive video technology research is at Cisco Systems …
Christosap / Google Chrome Blog:
Making the web more accessible, one step at a time — From text that is too small to read, to user interfaces that do not offer keyboard navigation options, users with special needs face a lot of challenges when trying to access websites they are interested in.
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Sarah Perez / ReadWriteWeb:
IMDb Arrives on Android...and “Everywhere” — The popular web service for movie and TV info known as the Internet Movie Database (IMDb) has just arrived for Android phones in the form of a new mobile application. Like its iPhone sibling, which launched six months prior …
Paul Boutin / VentureBeat:
Half of mobile data consumed by 6 percent of customers — A Nielsen study which tracks 60,000 U.S. phone bills every month says that most smartphone users don't take full advantage of their phones' data features. A small fraction of customers account for most of America's data network traffic …
Frederic Lardinois / ReadWriteWeb:
Video CAPTCHAs Promise Better Security, Less Frustration — Solving CAPTCHAs - the text puzzles with distorted letters that many sites use to ensure that you are human - has become a daily reality for many Internet users. Sadly, these tests are often a major source of frustration, too.
Jennifer Van Grove / Mashable!:
Google Creates YouTube Video Game to Highlight Chrome and Flash — The latest stable release of Google Chrome comes with Adobe Flash built-in. To highlight the addition, Google has created Google Chrome FastBall, a Flash-based game for YouTube. — The FastBall game tasks users to complete …
Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
Warner Music Group Taps MTV For Content Partnership And Video Advertising Sales — Warner Music Group (WMG) has partnered with MTV's Music Group to give MTV exclusive rights to sell ad inventory around WMG's music video content in the U.S. across MTV Music Group digital properties and mobile services …
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Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
Viacom Fights YouTube in Court, but That Won't Stop It From Selling YouTube Ads
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