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Jean-Louis Gassee / Monday Note:
Antennagate: If you can't fix it, feature it! — ...and don't diss your customer, or the media! — Rewind the clock to June 7th 2010. Steve's on stage at the WWDC in San Francisco. He's introducing the iPhone 4 and proudly shows off the new external antenna design.
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Stuart Miles / Pocket-lint:
HTC: Droid Eris complaints nothing compared to iPhone 4 — While HTC hasn't yet come back with an official comment in respect to Apple's decision to highlight the Droid Eris' performance at its emergency press conference, it was happy to let Pocket-lint know about how many of its customers have complained about the Droid Eris.
Jason Chen / Gizmodo:
The Taiwanese News Animates the iPhone 4 Antenna Saga (With Very Special Bonus)
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Joshua Topolsky / Engadget:
Windows Phone 7 in-depth preview — It's been a long road, hasn't it? Well, in some respects, it hasn't — in fact, it's only been about two years since development of Windows Phone 7 as we know it today kicked off — but when you consider that this product will be replacing Windows Mobile 6.5, that put things in proper perspective.
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Larry Hardesty / MITnews:
Broadband picture may not be so bleak — In March, the Federal Communications Commission released its National Broadband Plan, in which it reported that “the actual download speed experienced on broadband connections in American households is approximately 40-50% of the advertised ‘up to’ speed to which they subscribe.”
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Gautham Nagesh / Hillicon Valley:
WSJ's Mossberg wants a broadband plan with teeth
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Sean Hollister / Engadget:
Verizon's LTE rollout is imminent, computers updated for 4G SIM cards — We just got some alleged (but very convincing) internal documents on Verizon's 4G plans, and it's mostly stuff we've already heard — 5-12Mbps down, aircards before smartphones, and plans to roll out in 30 cities in 2010.
Malatesta / WMExperts:
All KIN sales being stopped, being sent back tomorrow (July 18th) — We already know that Verizon and Microsoft have pulled the plug on the whole KIN series (see our review), the question then becomes what to do about existing supplies? — We're getting word, confirmed though two sources …
Jeremy W. Peters / New York Times:
In a World of Online News, Burnout Starts Younger — ARLINGTON, Va. — In most newsrooms, the joke would have been obvious. — It was April Fools' Day last year, and Politico's top two editors sent an e-mail message to their staff advising of a new 5 a.m. start time for all reporters.
Om Malik / GigaOM:
OpenStack: An Open Source Cloud Project Emerges — Say hello to OpenStack, an open-source cloud platform, which hopes to compete with several proprietary cloud platforms including those being developed by Microsoft and VMware. RackSpace is spearheading the project and is donating the code …
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TechCrunch, Slicehost, ReadWriteCloud, Data Center Knowledge, IBD Click, Mark Collier, The Register, eWeek, Scobleizer and The Next Web
Greg Sandoval / CNET News:
Why Web host shut down 73,000 blogs a mystery — Blogetery.com, a little-known WordPress platform used by more than 70,000 blogs, was shut down by its Web hosting company mroe than a week ago and nobody seems willing to say why or who is responsible. — BurstNet, the Web-hosting company …
Sarah Lacy / TechCrunch:
Conan O'Brien's Love/Hate Relationship with the Internet — Back in January Conan O'Brien was supposed to come to San Francisco for a SF Sketchfest Tribute and Q&A about his career. And then, he lost his dream job as he said, “s**t really hit the fan” and he had to cancel.
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Michael Gillett / Neowin.net:
Zune Pass coming to the UK soon — Liveside is reporting that users in the UK can now buy a Zune Pass subscription from Zune.net, this allows users in the UK to stream some music from zune.net, however it's not yet possible to stream music to the Zune PC software with a UK based Windows Live ID.
Brooke Crothers / CNET News:
Intel needs to build its own iPad, iPhone — Intel is wasting precious time waiting for its “partners” to build the equivalent of an iPad and iPhone. — In the wake of Intel's hiring of a former Palm and Apple executive Mike Bell, Intel should short-circuit the ugly process of watching customers …
Om Malik / GigaOM:
Four Business Tips From Apple & Steve Jobs — This morning, Apple hosted a press event which included a 45-minute Q&A session with CEO Steve Jobs. (Watch the video.) Jobs, who returned from a vacation in Hawaii to host this conference, was pretty open (i.e. he was spinning a little less and was fractionally more candid.)
Esther Dyson / The Huffington Post:
Release 9.0: User-Managed Privacy Tools — The NY Times has an interesting piece today by Steve Lohr about Bynamite, a service that lets users manage their own data for themselves. — I love this idea... but I have loved it for more than 10 years! What makes Ginsu Yoon more likely …
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