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Consumer Reports Electronics Blog:
Why Apple—and not its customers—should fix the iPhone 4 — In our reporting and a video yesterday, we made the point that the signal drop that iPhone 4 customers have observed when they hold their phones the “wrong” way is real—and we've called on Apple to do something about it.
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Bob Egan / Viewpoints:
Consumer Report iPhone4 study flawed — Let me start off by saying that for much of my career, I worked as an electromagnetic engineer working on exactly the kind of issues that now face Apple on the iPhone4. But this isn't about me. It is about Consumer Reports and its not so scientific testing on the iPhone 4.
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Carolina Madrid / Reuters:
Apple shares slide after critical iPhone 4 review
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Leander Kahney / Cult of Mac:
PR Experts: iPhone 4 Hardware Recall Is “Inevitable”
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MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Twitter Starts Name Dropping In Search Results — Huge For User Discovery — Admit it, 99% of your Twitter searches are for vanity purposes. You do it, I do it, we all do it. And such a search revealed a potentially very useful and powerful new feature today.
Boy Genius Report:
Exclusive: Verizon Wireless Summer device catalog leaked — One of our Verizon Wireless connects sent us in a pretty nice document just moments ago... It's Verizon Wireless' summer device catalog, and we have it in its entirety. What's most surprising is the inclusion of the Motorola Droid 2 …
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Monica Chen / DigiTimes:
Rumors about OLED iPad resurface — Apple reportedly plans to launch its second-generation iPad, using 5.6-inch and 7-inch OLED panels, as soon as in the fourth quarter of 2010 with Compal Electronics having a chance to receive the orders, according to sources from component makers.
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Tom Krazit / CNET News:
AdMob CEO: Apple not enforcing ad restrictions — Despite putting a scare into AdMob and its customers with its new policies on third-party ad networks, Apple has not yet enforced those policies, AdMob's CEO confirmed Tuesday. — Omar Hamoui, founder and CEO of Google's AdMob division …
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Frederic Lardinois / ReadWriteWeb:
Google Brings Picnik to Picasa Web Albums — In March, Google acquiredthe online photo editing service Picnik and today, the company is integrating Picnik with Picasa Web Albums, Google's online photo sharing service. Picnik, which allows users to perform basic photo editing functions …
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Nilay Patel / Engadget:
Intel has its best quarter ever, brings in $2.9b profit — Sure, smartphone and tablets might be the Next Big Thing, but desktop computing ain't dead yet — just ask Intel, which just reported its best-ever quarter with a $2.9b profit on $10.8b in revenue. That's an increase of $445m …
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MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Microsoft Looking For A Few Good iPad Users... To Study — Companies do all kinds of studies all the time for all sorts of reasons. Seeing as the iPad is currently one of the hottest devices on the market, it should be no surprise that companies want to know about how users are using it.
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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Minnie Ingersoll / The Official Google Blog:
Introducing our Google Fiber for Communities website — In February we announced our plans to build experimental, ultra-high speed broadband networks. Over the past several months, our team's been hard at work reviewing the nearly 1,100 community responses to our request for information …
Andy Greenberg / The Firewall:
“Millions” Of Home Routers Vulnerable To Web Hack — The upcoming Black Hat security conference in Las Vegas offers an annual parade of security researchers revealing new ways to break various elements of the Internet. But few of the talks have titles quite as alarming as one on this year's schedule …
John C. Dvorak / PC Magazine:
Apple: Selling Ice Cubes to Eskimos — From the iPod to the iPhone to the iPad, Apple has a nearly perfect track record of re-energizing lackluster product spaces. FaceTime, the company's take on the video phone, is no different. — Apple will become the greatest sales organization …
Reuters:
eBay sued for $3.8 billion — (Reuters) - EBay Inc has been sued for at least $3.8 billion by XPRT Ventures LLC, which accused the online auctioneer and retailer of infringing six patents to develop online payment systems such as PayPal. — The lawsuit was filed on Tuesday in the U.S. district court …
Lawrence Lessig / The Huffington Post:
ASCAP's attack on Creative Commons — The American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP) has launched a campaign to raise money from its members to hire lobbyists to protect them against the dangers of “Copyleft.” Groups such as Creative Commons, Public Knowledge …
Josh Lowensohn / CNET News:
NPD: Early Office 2010 sales ‘disappointing’ — Stephen Baker, NPD Group's vice president of industry analytics, on Tuesday called the first two weeks of sales for Microsoft's Office 2010 product “a bit disappointing.” — The group's findings, which stem from its Weekly Tracking Service …
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Eric Slivka / MacRumors:
Apple Preparing to Launch ‘Safari Extensions Gallery’ — Apple today sent out an email to registered developers reminding them to submit their Safari 5 extensions for consideration for inclusion in the company's “Safari Extensions Gallery”. … Apple released Safari 5 at its Worldwide Developers Conference just over a month ago.
Kim-Mai Cutler / VentureBeat:
Facebook to write “new chapter” of its mobile strategy — Facebook is going to go beyond rolling out standalone applications for iPhones, Google Android devices or feature phones and start considering itself a platform for developers to distribute mobile apps with. — “Where we're going from here is a platform strategy.
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Apple SVP Scott Forstall Just Signed Up For Twitter — But Why? — Everyone knows that Apple is an extremely secretive company. Some would say to a fault. But it seems to have served them well over the years. That's why it's not surprising at all to see that none of Apple's key executives use public social networking services.
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Addy Dugdale / Fast Company:
Google's Washington Influence Is Spreading, Some Say Too Much — This man is Andrew McLaughlin. A former Googler—he was their Head of Public Policy—he's been hired by the Obama administration as the White House's Deputy Chief Technology Officer, invoking the wrath of a House Oversight Committee member in the process.
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Daniel Eran Dilger / AppleInsider:
BMW to support Apple's new iPod Out feature of iOS 4 — A new feature of iOS 4 that enables iPhone and iPod touch devices to present a full featured control panel on an external display for use in automotive integration is getting official support from BMW.
Anthony Ha / VentureBeat:
Bing team: Yahoo on-track for fall, vague on profitability — Engineers for Microsoft Bing said today that plans to use their search results to power Yahoo search are proceeding on schedule and that the switch should occur sometime this fall. — The switch should happen in two phases, said Senior Vice President Satya Nadella.
Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
Brand Marketing Firm Involver Launches ‘AMP’ Social Media Dashboard — Involver, a company that helps both brands and smaller businesses manage their presence on Facebook, Twitter, and other online portals, has launched a new dashboard they're calling AMP. The dashboard allows brands …
