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Boy Genius Report:
Exclusive: Conversation with Steve Jobs on the iPhone 4 antenna problems — One of our readers has a pretty interesting story to share. It is one that involves his passion for Apple products, an Apple engineer, Steve Jobs, and reported problems with the iPhone 4's antenna placement.
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Jesus Diaz / Gizmodo:
First iPhone 4 Class Action Suit Filed Against Apple and AT&T — The first iPhone 4 class action suit against Apple and AT&T has been filed today in the United States District Court for the District of Maryland. The lawsuit focus on the antenna design problems, making several claims:
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Neil Hughes / AppleInsider:
Apple sued over iPhone 4 reception issues
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The Guru / Symbian-Guru.com:
Symbian-Guru.com Is Over — As of today, I will no longer be updating Symbian-Guru.com, and will be purchasing an Android-powered smartphone - my new Nexus One should arrive tomorrow. I've been a Nokia fanboy since 1999, and a Symbian fanboy since I got my Nokia 6620 in summer of 2004.
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Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet:
Kin: More proof that warring fiefdoms rule at Microsoft — We Microsoft watchers are all armchair quarterbacking today, the day after Microsoft basically pulled the plug on its short-lived Kin phones for the teen/twenty-something market. — The pricey Verizon data plan killed it, some say.
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Matt Buchanan / Gizmodo:
Microsoft Kills Kin
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Joshua Topolsky / Engadget:
What killed the Kin? — While the news today that Microsoft …
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Heather Kelly / Macworld:
Some iPhone 4 cameras have yellowing problem — Some iPhone 4 owners have reported color oddities with photos they've taken with the camera on the back of the newly released phone. The iPhone's 5-megapixel camera will take crisp daylight and brightly lit indoor photos that show colors accurately …
hp.com:
HP Completes Palm Acquisition — PALO ALTO, Calif., — HP today announced it has completed its acquisition of Palm Inc. at a price of $5.70 per share of Palm common stock in cash. — HP today announced it has completed its acquisition of Palm Inc. at a price of $5.70 per share of Palm common stock in cash.
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Robin Wauters / TechCrunch:
HP Completes $1.2 Billion Acquisition Of Palm, Plans webOS Slate PCs And Netbooks
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BBC:
Finland makes broadband a ‘legal right’ — Finland has become the first country in the world to make broadband a legal right for every citizen. — From 1 July every Finn will have the right to access to a 1Mbps (megabit per second) broadband connection. — Finland has vowed to connect everyone to a 100Mbps connection by 2015.
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Boy Genius Report:
Exclusive: Apple iTunes in the cloud definitely happening soon, wireless syncing! — One of our reliable Apple sources has just filled us in on some of the company's iTunes plans, and they're exciting. We have been told iTunes will be getting a huge cloud capability that many people have been asking for …
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DigiTimes:
Intel backs off WiMAX industry, dismisses WiMAX Program Office, say sources — Intel has announced in an internal meeting it will dissolve its WiMAX Program Office, which was set up to promote the development of related WiMAX technologies, according to industry sources in Taiwan.
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Arn / MacRumors:
Steve Jobs Suggests Blu-ray Not Coming to Mac Anytime Soon — Amongst the emails that Steve Jobs has been responding to, he also responded to an inquiry by a MacRumors reader Siva about future of Blu-ray on the Mac. While Blu-ray has been a long requested feature for Macs …
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Bob Sutor:
Saying it out loud: IBM is moving to Firefox as its default browser — I talk a lot about software in this blog but most of the discussion is at the personal level: I tried this, I experimented with that. I hardly ever talk about what I use for doing my IBM business and more rarely still …
John Cook / TechFlash:
Amazon cuts Kindle DX price to $379, improves e-ink display — It's been a big news day for Amazon.com's Kindle electronic reading device, with the company announcing a new royalty program for authors and support of HTML5 to preview book titles. Now, word comes that Amazon.com is chopping …
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David Pogue / New York Times:
State of the Art: Big Body, Big Screen: Droid X Is This Month's Superphone — You think technology moves too fast now? You think your camera, camcorder and computer become obsolete quickly? — Try buying an app phone. In this business, the state of the art changes as often as Lady Gaga changes outfits.
Eric Slivka / MacRumors:
Apple's iAds Slowly Begin to Appear, Led by Nissan Leaf — Last week, we noted that developers had begin incorporating support for Apple's iAd mobile advertisements into updates for their applications, with a few applications starting to show placeholder banners and test ads ahead of the program's official launch on July 1st.
MacDailyNews:
Steve Jobs email: Over the air iPhone 4 HD video uploads coming ‘in the future’ — MacDailyNews reader “Chris T.” reports the following email exchange with Apple CEO Steve Jobs recently: Steve, I'm a HUGE fan of your products... MBP, Ipad 64gb WIFI, 2 iphone 3g's and now 2 iphone 4's …
Ben Drawbaugh / Engadget:
Hands-on with Hulu Plus via Samsung HDTV, iPhone and iPad — After months of speculation the wait is almost over and Hulu Plus is just about upon us. Hulu was nice enough to share an invite with us so we could to try it out — sorry, we don't have any extras — and we happen to have a Samsung LED LCD TV in the lab to give it a go.
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Mozilla Submits Firefox Home iPhone App. Apple Should Approve It — Earlier this afternoon, Mozilla submitted what would be its first iPhone application to the App Store. No, it's not Firefox — well, not exactly. — Mozilla has submitted an app called Firefox Home for approval.
Todd Bishop / TechFlash:
Internet Explorer posts biggest market-share gain in years: 0.57% — See that upward blip at the end of the blue line in the chart above? That's a .57 percent increase in Microsoft's worldwide Internet Explorer market share — the biggest gain the Redmond company has experienced in that metric …
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Harry McCracken / Technologizer:
The State of iPad Satisfaction — Long before anyone knew much of anything about the iPad, people were expressing strong opinions about it. But the opinions that matter most didn't begin to get formed until April 3rd, the day Apple's tablet finally went on sale.
9 to 5 Mac:
iAds going international ‘in a few months’ — As you probably know, iAds are going live in North America today and you should start to see iAds appearing in some apps. Yesterday, Apple announced on their developer website that iAds will begin to make their way internationally in the coming months.
