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Eric Slivka / MacRumors:
Apple Takes on Droid X With Latest Smartphone Antenna Video — After its iPhone 4 press conference last week, Apple posted a new smartphone antenna performance page on its site highlighting how several other smartphones experience similar decreases of signal bars to that of the iPhone 4.
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Matthew Humphries / Geek.com:
Apple getting desperate? Posts video dedicated to Droid X death grip — How can you tell that a company's PR department is getting desperate? They start posting videos focused completely on competitor's products. — That's exactly what Apple has done in an attempt to down play the death grip antenna issue on iPhone 4.
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Apple as Captain Queeg — If you've never seen the movie, this is how it goes. Captain Queeg, played by Humphrey Bogart, is a career naval officer, in charge of a ship that drags targets for battleships to practice on. It's part of the huge Pacific fleet during World War II.
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MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Firefox Just Perfected Tabbed Browsing. It's Like Apple's Expose Plus Spaces For The Web — If you're anything like me, at any given time you have a dozen to two dozen tabs open across multiple web browser windows. It's great to have all these webpages open and ready to click on at any second …
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Aza Raskin / Aza on Design:
Tab Candy: Making Firefox Tabs Sweet — The power of the browser has grown substantially in the last ten years. We now use the Web to multi-task the activities we juggle every day, like vacation plans, purchases, sharing pictures, listening to music, reading email, and writing a blog post.
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MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Apple's Real Problem With The White iPhone 4 — Well, Potentially — I've fielded a lot of questions today about the iPhone 4. No, not about the antenna — that was last week — today, all people want to know is why the hell is white version being delayed again? Like everyone else outside of Apple, I have no idea.
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Miguel Helft / Bits:
What's Behind the White iPhone 4 Delays?
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Janko Roettgers / NewTeeVee:
Chatroulette Threatens Perverts With Police — Chatroulette has announced that it is going to take steps against the worst offenders on its service, threatening people who expose themselves to minors with the police. Site founder Andrey Ternovskiy said in a message published on the site Friday night …
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Connie Loizos / PE Hub Blog:
Prospect of Being Stalked, Burgled Just Doesn't Trouble Foursquare Users All That Much — “Louise has straight, auburn hair and, judging by the only photograph I have of her, she's in her 30s. She works in recruitment. I also know which train station she uses regularly …
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John Fortt / Tech Check:
HP Using Own Software in Phone Wars with Apple, Google — In its bid to take on Apple and Google in smartphones, Hewlett-Packard won't use Microsoft's Windows Phone 7 software. Instead, HP [HPQ 46.15 .08 (+.17%)] Executive Vice President Todd Bradley told me that the PC giant will exclusively use …
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David Goldman / CNNMoney.com:
Most iPhone users love AT&T — NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) — Despite a very vocal group of detractors, the vast majority of iPhone users love AT&T. — That's the key finding in a survey released this week by Yankee Group, which reports that 73% of iPhone users are very satisfied with AT&T's service.
BBC News:
India shows $35 ‘iPad’ prototype — The Indian government has unveiled the prototype of an iPad-like touch-screen laptop, with a price tag of $35 (£23), which it hopes to roll out next year. — Aimed at students, the tablet supports web browsing, video conferencing and word processing, say developers.
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Jaikumar Vijayan / Computerworld:
Fake femme fatale shows social network risks — Researcher Thomas Ryan says fictitious Robin Sage character fooled many holding security, military and intelligence posts … A security researcher created a fake online profile for a fictional cyberthreat analyst named “Robin Sage.”
Daily Mail:
New hands-free technology lets motorists use Twitter while driving — British motorists could soon be able to use Twitter while driving with new hands-free technology from car company Ford. — The system, called AppLink, allows applications on iPhones and BlackBerries to be voice-controlled.
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Kasper Jade / AppleInsider:
Apple warns of short-term iMac shortages ahead of new models - sources — Apple late this month began advising its direct and indirect sales channels of near-term shortages of its popular all-in-one desktops, as the company prepares draw down inventories ahead of introducing new models in the coming weeks.
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Amanda Surya / YouTube API Blog:
A New Way To Embed YouTube Videos — An enhancement to our video embed capability is now available through a new embed code style. This new style uses <iframe> and looks like this: — <iframe class="youtube-player" type="text/html" width="640" height="385" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/ VIDEO_ID" frameborder="0">
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Dan Frommer / Silicon Alley Insider:
iPad Attracting “Surprising” Interest From Businesses, Says AT&T, Which Activated 400-500K Last Quarter — AT&T said on its earnings call today that it activated 400,000 to 500,000 3G iPads during Q2. — Remember that was basically just the last two months of Q2, as the iPad 3G didn't ship until the end of April.
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