Techmeme: Papermaster and That Damn Antenna (John Gruber/Daring Fireball)

4:10 PM ET, August 8, 2010

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Steve Cheney / TechCrunch:

Why The Verizon iPhone Rumors are True—CDMA iPhone Due in January — We've been hearing Verizon iPhone rumors for years now. — It's to the point that no one really believes the rumors anymore, since analysts and pundits have cried wolf so many times. But this time looks to be different due …

Discussion: Electronista, AppleInsider, 9 to 5 Mac, Erictric, GeekSmack, iPhone Download Blog, Phone Arena, PhoneDog.com, iPhone Savior, everythingiCafe, Gizmodo, TiPb and Phones Review

Eric Slivka / MacRumors:

Apple Reportedly Orders CDMA Chips for December Production Run of Verizon iPhone — Yes, it's the subject that's been beaten to death: a Verizon iPhone. The ongoing rumors have been stoked in recent weeks by a claim from Bloomberg that the device will launch in January …

Discussion: Phones Review and Macsimum News

Miguel Helft / New York Times:

Executive Leaves After iPhone Antenna Troubles — Mark Papermaster, the Apple executive in charge of hardware for the company's flagship iPhone, has left the company in the wake of widely reported problems with the antenna of the recently introduced iPhone 4.

John Gruber / Daring Fireball:

Papermaster and That Damn Antenna — I don't know much more than what I wrote yesterday regarding Mark Papermaster's ouster from Apple in the wake of Antennagate. I do have a few points to add, though. — Several readers asked whether this is proof that the iPhone 4 antenna is, in fact, fundamentally flawed.

John Gruber / Daring Fireball:

Mark Papermaster Leaves Apple; Responsible for iPhone 4 Antenna — Miguel Helft, reporting for the NYT: … From what I've heard, it's clear he was sacked. Papermaster was a conspicuous absence at the Antennagate press conference. Inside Apple, he's “the guy responsible for the antenna” …

Discussion: TechCrunch

Taimur Asad / Redmond Pie:

Flash / Frash Ported to iPhone 4 !! [Video] — The title says it all! Yes, you can now get very alpha version of Flash (aka Frash) running right on your iPhone 4. Previously, we showed you how to install Flash (Frash) on iPad. And now folks at Grant Pannell site has managed to compile an iPhone 4 version of Flash.

Discussion: Grant Pannell, iPhone Download Blog, 9 to 5 Mac, App Advice, The Next Web, iThinkDifferent, Covering Web, Erictric, GeekSmack and Geek.com, Thanks:taimurasad

Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft Blog:

Microsoft Research shows off a prototype ‘Menlo’ mobile phone — For the past few months, I've been trying to piece together what Microsoft codename “Menlo” is. My tipsters described it as a project by Microsoft Researchers to investigate new operating system possibilities in the mobile space.

Discussion: Gizmodo

Ben Worthen / Wall Street Journal:

H-P's Hurd Reaches Settlement With Contractor — Mark Hurd, who on Friday resigned as chief executive of Hewlett-Packard Co. over his relationship with a marketing contractor that violated the company's business standards, reached a settlement with the unidentified contractor on Thursday regarding …

Discussion: VentureBeat, CNET News, Silicon Alley Insider, Epicenter, Associated Press and New York Times

Larry Dignan / Between the Lines Blog:
HP after Hurd: May the CEO guessing game begin

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Mikko / F-Secure Antivirus Research Weblog:

Questions and Answers on the jailbreakme vulnerability — Q: What is this all about? — A: It's about a site called jailbreakme.com that enables you to Jailbreak your iPhones and iPads just by visiting the site. — Q: So what's the problem? — A: The problem is that the site uses …

Discussion: Daring Fireball

Gregg Keizer / Computerworld:

Mozilla plans to silently update Firefox — Joins Google, Adobe in auto-update movement to take patching out of users' hands — Computerworld - Taking a page from rival Google's playbook, Mozilla plans to introduce silent, behind-the-scenes security updating to Firefox 4.

Discussion: Techie Buzz, Neowin.net and Slashdot

Matt Burns / CrunchGear:

Did The iPad Preemptively Kill The US Tablet Market Like The Kindle & Nook Killed Other Ebook Readers? — Want an ebook reader in the states? You have two choices: the Kindle or the Nook. That's it about. Either other manufacturers are pulling out of the US market or they're avoiding it altogether.

Discussion: TeleRead, GigaOM and GottaBeMobile

Mike Masnick / Techdirt:

Political Campaign Against Craigslist Ratchets Up — The ongoing, misguided and dangerously self-defeating grandstanding political campaign against Craigslist apparently ratcheted up a bit today. Paul Alan Levy points out that in the print edition of today's Washington Post, there's a giant …

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