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TJ Luoma / TUAW:
Apple drops Consumer Reports/iPhone 4 discussion threads down memory hole — If you were looking for a message thread on Apple's support forums pointing to Consumer Reports' article ‘not recommending’ the iPhone 4, it's not there any more. Apple's support forum moderators deleted the thread.
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Leander Kahney / Cult of Mac:
PR Experts: iPhone 4 Hardware Recall Is “Inevitable” … Apple will be forced to recall the iPhone 4 following Consumer Reports tests proving the “Death Grip” antenna issue is not software related, but a hardware flaw, PR experts say. — “Apple will be forced to do a recall of this product …
John Paczkowski / Digital Daily:
Consumer Reports: By the Way, the iPhone 4 is Also the Best Smartphone on the Market — Well, this is ironic. Apple's (AAPL) iPhone 4, the smartphone that Consumer Reports says it can't recommend, is also the one ranked highest in its latest ratings. The device scored 76 out of 100 points …
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Ben Parr / Mashable!:
Microsoft Launches Outlook Facebook Integration [Exclusive] — Microsoft has integrated Facebook and Windows Live Messenger into Outlook, bringing the newsfeeds of millions of Facebook users into inboxes across the world. — Last year, Microsoft launched Outlook Social Connector …
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Brandon Watson / Windows Phone Developer Blog:
Windows Phone Developer Tools Beta Released — First things first: go get the Windows Phone Developer Tools Beta. It has arrived! — The term “Beta” is understood to mean that things are close to being finished. Well, that's what we mean anyway. This Beta release represents …
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Matt Hamblen / Computerworld:
Microsoft releases WP7 tools beta; preview phones coming next week
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Gregg Keizer / Computerworld:
Microsoft extends Windows XP downgrade rights until 2020 — With 74% of business PCs running XP, the move is more proof that it's the OS that won't die — Computerworld - Just a day before Microsoft drops support for Windows XP Service Pack 2 (SP2), the company announced on Monday …
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Tom Warren / Neowin.net:
Windows 7 SP1 public beta released
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Dan Frommer / Silicon Alley Insider:
June ComScore Search Numbers Out: Google Share Down, Bing And Yahoo Up — ComScore's June U.S. search data is out. — Once again, Yahoo and Microsoft gained share at Google's expense because of contextual search tricks on the sites that turn users' click-by-click browsing into extra search queries.
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Darren Murph / Engadget:
Windows 7-based HP Slate referenced at WPC 2010, Ballmer says ‘hardcore’ tablet push coming — Is this the answer to the question we posed back in mid-June? Maybe. While we're still unsure if Hewlett-Packard has a webOS-based tablet in its pipeline, those on-again / off-again Windows 7 rumors may finally be nearing an end.
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Cecilia Kang / Post Tech:
Video, Q&A with Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer on policy, cloud computing …
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Chris Ziegler / Engadget:
Windows Phone Live to offer remote wipe, location, and sync for your Windows Phone 7 device — See, Android owners don't ever lose their phones, so that's why they don't need this capability... right? Right? Hot on the heels of yesterday's news that RIM would be delivering …
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Geoffrey A. Fowler / Wall Street Journal:
Man Claims Ownership of Facebook — A New York judge has issued a temporary restraining order restricting the transfer of Facebook Inc.'s assets, following a suit by a New York man who claims to own an 84% stake in the social-networking company. — Paul D. Ceglia filed a suit in the Supreme Court …
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Tim Conneally / BetaNews:
Blackberry Tablet confirmed, will support Flash — Rumors of a BlackBerry tablet have been circulating for months, and statements from Rodman & Renshaw analyst Ashok Kumar on Friday have rekindled the discussion with a little bit more accuracy. — A source close to RIM confirmed to Betanews …
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
InMobi Gets $8 Million From Kleiner Perkins And Sherpalo Ventures — InMobi, the largest mobile ad network that hasn't been acquired, has raised another $8 million in funding. The round was led by existing investors Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and Sherpalo Ventures and brings their total raised capital to $15.6 million.
Anthony Ha / VentureBeat:
AT&T CTO: ‘We will move heaven and Earth’ to improve our network — AT&T Chief Technology Officer John Donovan described his vision for a future where more and more data is flowing through mobile networks. He made the comments at VentureBeat's MobileBeat 2010 conference today in San Francisco.
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Frederic Lardinois / ReadWriteWeb:
BearHug Goes Head-to-Head with GetSatisfaction (Invites) — BearHug, a new customer engagement platform, is launching its closed beta tonight. The company wants to make it easier for companies to engage with their customers, while still keeping full control over their data and their users' experience on their site.
Andreas Constantinou / VisionMobile :: blog:
Mobile Developer Economics: Taking Applications to Market — [In part 2 of the 4-part series on our latest research - Mobile Developer Economics 2010 and Beyond - Andreas Constantinou looks at how effectively have app stores have reduced the time-to-market for applications and the five key challenges …
Joe Pompeo / Silicon Alley Insider:
Newsweek's Excellent Tumblr Editor Is Leaving For ... Tumblr! — Newsweek is still shedding staffers. — Mark Coatney, an online editor who's gained recognition recently for building up the magazine's Tumblr blog, announced today on his own Tumblr blog that he's leaving Newsweek to go and work for, well, Tumblr!
Adam Rifkin / ...ifindkarma:
Pandas and Lobsters: Why Google Cannot Build Social Applications... After researching what pandas do all day, I was struck by how panda-like we are when we use the Internet. — Roaming a massive world wide web of forests, most of our time is spent searching for delicious bamboo and consuming …
Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
It's Alive! Taking Android's App Inventor For A Spin — By now you've probably heard of Google's App Inventor for Android, a web-based development environment that's meant to make it possible for non-developers to build their own Android applications. The technology has been in testing for a year …
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