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Paul Miller / Engadget:
Apple to give away free cases to iPhone 4 users — Apple's not really ready to say it's sorry about the iPhone 4 antenna design, but it is willing to give all you darn squeaky wheels free cases for your trouble. Since Apple can't build its own Bumpers fast enough, it will give you a few options …
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Donald Melanson / Engadget:
Apple posts iPhone 4 press conference video, ‘smartphone antenna performance’ page — Well, that was quick. Not only has Apple already posted the complete video of today's iPhone 4 presser, but it's also put up a special “smartphone antenna performance” page that offers pictures …
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Erick Schonfeld / MobileCrunch:
Steve Jobs: “We're Not Perfect.” — After starting out with a light-hearted YouTube video about “Antennagate” at the Apple press conference going on right now to address the issue (read our livenotes), CEO Steve Jobs came onstage with a mea culpa: “You know . . . we're not perfect.”
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Joshua Topolsky / Engadget:
Live from Apple's iPhone 4 press conference — We're on the ground at One Infinite Loop and waiting in the extremely bright sunlight to get inside. For one day of notice, there are a surprising amount of people here.
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Mark Gurman / 9 to 5 Mac:
Apple has ‘Verizon cell sites on campus,’ Heavily testing Verizon iPhone?
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Matt Burns / CrunchGear:
Apple sold 3 million iPhone 4s in three weeks, “perhaps our best product”
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Sebastien Page / iPhone Download Blog:
White iPhone Will Ship At the End of July in Limited Quantities
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Jack Menzel / The Official Google Blog:
Deeper understanding with Metaweb — Over time we've improved search by deepening our understanding of queries and web pages. The web isn't merely words—it's information about things in the real world, and understanding the relationships between real-world entities can help us deliver relevant information more quickly.
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Matt Zimmerman / Electronic Frontier Foundation:
San Mateo D.A. Withdraws Controversial Gizmodo iPhone Warrant — Today, San Mateo Superior Court Judge Clifford Cretan granted an application by the San Mateo County D.A.'s office to withdraw the controversial warrant it obtained to search the house of Gizmodo.com journalist Jason Chen.
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Shira Ovide / Wall Street Journal:
Gizmodo to Cooperate With Probe Into Lost iPhone Prototype — Gizmodo said it has reached an agreement with California authorities over access to some computer and other material related to an investigation of how the technology website obtained a prototype of the new Apple Inc. iPhone months before its release.
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Chris Ziegler / Engadget:
Motorola responds to Droid X bootloader controversy, says eFuse isn't there to break the phone — There's been a lot of chatter going around the interwebs in the past 24 hours about the Droid X's exceptionally well-locked bootloader — a situation that is going to make running custom ROMs considerably …
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Chris Ziegler / Engadget:
Nokia: ‘we prioritize antenna performance over physical design if they are ever in conflict’ — Nokia's looking to ride the mojo of any negative fallout from today's Apple press conference, slipping out a rather fascinating statement this afternoon. The gist of it is that Espoo's keen …
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Nick Saint / Silicon Alley Insider:
Introducing The Boxee Box, Bringing Web Video To Your Television — Boxee, the New York City startup focused on bringing web video to your television, has finally unveiled the final version of the Boxee Box, which goes on sale this fall. — Chief Product Officer Zach Klein shows off the final product here:
Damon Darlin / Bits:
A Field Trip to an Apple Lab — In the wake of a hastily-called press conference to defend its popular iPhone 4 smart phone this morning, Apple invited 11 reporters (including me) to visit one of its wireless testing labs. — Like students on a field trip, we were escorted across the street …
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Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Google Spent $100 Million Defending Against Viacom's $1 Billion Lawsuit — How much did Google spend to fend off Viacom's $1 billion copyright lawsuit? On today's earnings call, CFO Patrick Pichette revealed that Google's legal bills for the case amounted to $100 million, and that was before it went to trial.
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Enigmax / TorrentFreak:
U.S. Authorities Shut Down WordPress Host With 73,000 Blogs — After the U.S. Government took action against several sites connected to movie streaming recently, nerves are jangling over the possibility that this is just the beginning of a wider crackdown. Now it appears that a free blogging platform …
Stuart Parmenter / The Mozilla Blog:
Get Firefox Home on Your iPhone! — We are happy to announce that the wait is over. — Firefox Home, a free application, is now available for download on your iPhone or iPod Touch. — Firefox Home provides access to your Firefox desktop history, bookmarks and open tabs on your iPhone.
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Kevin Krause / Android Phone Fans:
Last Nexus One Shipment Arrives At Google — Sine Google announced plans to cease the sale of their flagship Android handset the Nexus One through their online store, we have all stood by waiting for the plug to finally be pulled. Sadly, the time has now come as Google received …
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