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2:20 PM ET, July 16, 2010

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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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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.  Developing...
Discussion: TechCrunch and MobileCrunch
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
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.”
AppleInsider:
Apple says software fix for iPhone 4 proximity sensor is coming  —  Apple Chief Executive Steve Jobs said on Friday that his company is aware of problems with the proximity sensor on the iPhone 4, and that they are working on a software fix that is expected to be included in the next iOS update.
Sebastien Page / iPhone Download Blog:
White iPhone Will Ship At the End of July in Limited Quantities
Discussion: Gizmodo
AppleInsider:
Apple admits iPhone 4 drops more calls per 100 than iPhone 3GS
Discussion: New York Times and Macworld
Matt Burns / CrunchGear:
Apple sold 3 million iPhone 4s in three weeks, “perhaps our best product”
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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PC World:
Droid X Sells Out Despite Verizon Preparation  —  The Motorola Droid X is sold out online and in certain parts of the country at retail Verizon and Best Buy stores, despite Verizon Wireless' insistence on Wednesday that it would have plenty of the phones in stock.
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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Mike Melanson / ReadWriteWeb:
Firefox Home Brings Bookmarks, Open Tabs & History to iPhone
Discussion: Download Squad and GeekSmack
Anand Lal Shimpi / AnandTech:
The iPhone 4 Redux: Analyzing Apple's iOS 4.0.1 Signal Fix & Antenna Issue  —  In case you haven't noticed, the iPhone 4's antenna design has come under considerable scrutiny.  In our iPhone 4 review, we investigated the iPhone 4 antenna and came to two conclusions.
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 …
Discussion: Techdirt
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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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.
Discussion: The Freebase Blog, Thanks:atul
Galen Gruman / InfoWorld:
Windows Phone 7: Don't bother with this disaster  —  Microsoft's demos of its great mobile hope shows Windows Phone 7 to be only a tepid knockoff of a 2007-era iPhone  —  There's no kind way to say it: Windows Phone 7 will be a failure.  Announced to much bravado in February as the platform …
Vlad Savov / Engadget:
Intel snaps up former Palm and Apple VP Mike Bell for its smartphone push  —  Seriously, what the hell did HP acquire when it bought Palm?  A bunch of pretty patents and a rapidly dwindling talent pool, it would seem.  Mike Bell, a celebrated capture for Palm back in 2007 after 16 years at Apple …
Bloomberg:
Nokia Board Faces Call for Change on $77 Billion Lost Value  —  Nokia Oyj's board has stayed in the background as the company's shares plummeted 67 percent in the three years since Apple Inc. started selling the iPhone.  Pressure has been building on directors to act.
Kate Abbott / newsfeed.time.com:
Texting While Walking?  Android Has an App for That  —  With those pesky laws limiting the places you can text (who needs to watch the road, anyway?) the Samsung App store has capitalized on the one activity still unregulated for texting multi-taskers: walking.
Robin Wauters / TechCrunch:
Ex-Google News, Bing Engineers Set Out To Build ‘Newspaper Of The Future’  —  Delivering news digitally in a personalized manner is a nut many a startup - as well as many established Internet companies and publishers - are desperately trying to crack.  —  A newly-founded Palo Alto startup called Hawthorne Labs is one of them.
reddit:
“Experts” misunderestimate our traffic, and we don't know why  —  In today's installment of “reddit needs moar money”, we visit the topic of our traffic numbers.  Here's a screenshot of our Google Analytics page: (Note to the Photoshop Gimp Police: The screenshots in this blog post …
Mike Schramm / TUAW:
Apple plays satirical iPhone Antenna Song at press conference  —  Here it is — the Johnathan Mann video that Apple just played (no kidding) to start off their official press conference.  No really — right before Steve Jobs took the stage, he played this song for gathered reporters …
Discussion: GigaOM and Fast Company
 
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Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet:
Microsoft KittyHawk: A new tool to help non-programmers build .Net business apps
Thanks:rawmeet
Vlad Savov / Engadget:
Google's Amit Singhal tells us about the dreams search engines are made of
Discussion: New Scientist
Amy Thomson / Bloomberg:
Dell Proposes Settlement to SEC Staff Over Intel Case
Thanks:michaelkroker
Matt Carter / Inman News:
Google says it's not in real estate business
Jeremy Kirk / Computerworld:
Mozilla increases bounty for security bug info to $3,000
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Tricia Duryee / paidContent:
paidContent Mobile: HTC's Plan For Smartphone Domination
Discussion: mocoNews
Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
Venture Capital Investing Up 34 Percent To $6.5 Billion In Q2
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Ze Frank Gets $500,000 To Play Games From Andreessen Horowitz …
Brad McCarty / The Next Web:
MySpace gets a huge update with really slick profile pages.
Mark Milian / L.A. Times Tech Blog:
‘Junkware’ comes standard on Verizon, T-Mobile smart phones
Discussion: Internet2Go, Thanks:electricwaffles
John Cook / TechFlash:
Billionaire Paul Allen to give the majority of his money to charity
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