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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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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 …
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TJ Luoma / TUAW:
Apple drops Consumer Reports/iPhone 4 threads down memory hole [updated] — Update 3pm Tuesday:Wired's Epicenter blog points to at least two threads referencing the CR story that have been left intact. Perhaps an overzealous forum manager has now reined in the urge?
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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.
Carolina Madrid / Reuters:
Apple shares slide after critical iPhone 4 review — (Reuters) - Shares of Apple Inc slid more than 3 percent on Tuesday after a poor review for its iPhone 4 from an influential consumer guide underpinned mounting complaints about the hot-selling device's antenna and reception.
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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.
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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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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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 …
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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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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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 …
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.
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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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.
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Matt McGee / Search Engine Land:
Bing Continues Growth, Ad Impressions & Clicks Way Up: Report
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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 …
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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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 …
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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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.
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.
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.
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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