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Joshua Topolsky / Engadget:
Apple responds to iPhone 4 reception issues: you're holding the phone the wrong way — So, we just spoke with Apple and got the straight dirt on the reception issues that have been plaguing users today... and it's a little surprising. In essence, Apple cops to the fact there are reception issues …
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C.K. Sample III / Sample the Web:
Steve Jobs to Lefties: Hold the iPhone 4 differently or buy a case — I received my iPhone 4 today and just as it arrived, I started seeing reports of the new antenna configuration not being so friendly to left-handed users. Being left-handed myself, I was concerned about this issue …
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Alexander Macgillivray / Twitter Blog:
FTC Announcement — Early in 2009, when Twitter employed less than 50 people, we faced two different security incidents that impacted a small number of users. Put simply, we were the victim of an attack and user accounts were improperly accessed. There were 45 accounts accessed …
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Federal Trade Commission:
Twitter Settles Charges that it Failed to Protect Consumers' Personal Information; — Company Will Establish Independently Audited Information Security Program Social networking service Twitter has agreed to settle Federal Trade Commission charges that it deceived consumers and put their privacy …
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Cecilia Kang / Post Tech:
Twitter settles FTC charge on security, privacy violations
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Jonny Evans / Computerworld:
iPhone 4: queues everywhere, selling out — iPhone-mania this morning as queues form across the US for Apple's must-have product, even as shops across the UK, France, Germany and Japan have already sold out following huge demand. — Video above: The queue outside Apple's flagship Regent Street, London store this morning.
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Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Bing Tries To Take Over Web Search On Your iPhone By Making It App-Beautiful — Bing is on a roll. Yesterday, it released Bing Entertainment and a new iPhone app. And today it is following up with an update to its mobile web search at http://m.bing.com.
Nick O'Neill / All Facebook:
Facebook Unleashes Open Graph Search Engine, Declares War On Google — While there was a lot of speculation about Facebook's search strategy, the company has confirmed with us that “all Open Graph-enabled web pages will show up in search when a user likes them”.
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Sebastian Anthony / Download Squad:
Internet Explorer 9 destroys Chrome 6 in HTML5 speed test (video) — I think the video speaks for itself! — If you can't watch the video: IE9 is some orders of magnitude faster than Chrome when it comes to hardware-accelerated canvas rendering. — In some other initial benchmarks …
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Farhad Manjoo / Slate:
Police Your Own Damn Copyrights — I changed my mind: The court was right to side with YouTube over Viacom. In March, I criticized YouTube's founders for their apparent disregard for copyright law during the site's first few years of operation. Internal e-mail messages that were released …
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BBC:
Mystery surrounds ‘horse-boy’ on Google Street View — The unusual sighting was made in Aberdeen and has proved popular — Mystery surrounds a man wearing a horse's head who has been captured on Google's Street View in Aberdeen. — The man - who has become known as ‘horse-boy’ - can be seen in the Hardgate area of the city.
Rich Cannings / Android Developers Blog:
Exercising Our Remote Application Removal Feature — Every now and then, we remove applications from Android Market due to violations of our Android Market Developer Distribution Agreement or Content Policy. In cases where users may have installed a malicious application that poses a threat …
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Nick Eaton / The Microsoft Blog:
Windows Phone 7 will be an ‘ad-serving machine’ — Windows Phone 7 apps will be able to send users information, news and offers from their favorite brands, effectively turning Microsoft's next mobile operating system into an “ad-serving machine,” a representative said.
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Paul Miller / Engadget:
iPhone 4's yellow spot issue goes away with a bit of time? — We're starting to hear a few reports of the dreaded yellow spots disappearing from the iPhone 4's display after a day or so of use. Interestingly, someone posting on the AppleInsider forums seems to know why:
Dianne See Morrison / mocoNews:
RIM Sales Miss Expectations On Disappointing Shipments; Plans Buyback — Research In Motion, the makers of the Blackberry, reported first quarter sales today that missed analyst expectations, amid evidence that the increased competition in the smartphone sector was taking its toll.
Farhad Manjoo / Fast Company:
Invincible Apple: 10 Lessons From the Coolest Company Anywhere — On Wednesday, May 26, 2010, just after 2:30 p.m., the unthinkable happened: Apple became the largest company in the tech universe, and, after ExxonMobil, the second largest in the nation. For months, its market capitalization …
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Cecilia Kang / Post Tech:
Facebook snags White House economic advisor Levine as global policy head — Facebook said Thursday that it is expanding its global policy team and poached from the White House, hiring as its new vice president of global public policy, Marne Levine, chief of staff of the National Economic Council.
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David Flynn / APC:
Intel preps ‘Android x86’ for netbooks and slates — Intel will ship a fully native x86 version of Android 2.2 ‘Froyo’ to developers in the next two months to spur growth of Atom-powered Android netbooks and slates. — The highly-anticipated Android 2.2 ‘Froyo’ release looks set …
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Adam L. Penenberg / Fast Company:
Social Networking Affects Brains Like Falling in Love — Neuroeconomist Paul Zak has discovered, for the first time, that social networking triggers the release of the generosity-trust chemical in our brains. And that should be a wake-up call for every company. — The essence of affection.
Matt Hamblen / Computerworld:
FaceTime really works in iPhone 4, new owners say — More than 400 people lined up this morning at one Apple Store in Massachusetts to get a new iPhone 4, and promptly started using FaceTime video chat as soon as they got the new smartphones. — NATICK, Mass. — More than 400 people lined …
JR Raphael / Computerworld:
Android 2.2 hits Nexus One — so who's next? — Ladies and gentlemen, the taste of Froyo may finally be upon us. — Numerous users of Google's Nexus One phone started receiving an Android 2.2 upgrade over-the-air on their devices Wednesday night. Gauging by users' reports …
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Grant Gross / Computerworld:
Senate panel approves controversial cybersecurity bill — A U.S. Senate committee has approved a wide-ranging cybersecurity bill that some critics have suggested would give the U.S. president the authority to shut down parts of the Internet during a cyberattack.
Connie Loizos / PE Hub Blog:
Chicago is Not the Next Silicon Valley, But at These Prices, What a Shame — With so much attention paid this year to Groupon and it's reported valuation of north of $1 billion, numerous stories (including right here) have asked the question: is it Chicago's time to shine?
Tom McNichol / Business Week:
Adobe Battles the Flash-Bashing — With Steve Jobs sour on the Web software and not letting it into iPhones and iPads, Adobe is getting it in as many smartphones as possible — In the fast-moving world of mobile devices there are many battles brewing. The one to watch may be the standoff …
Richard MacManus / ReadWriteWeb:
Google's Semantic Web Push: Rich Snippets Usage Growing — At the Semantic Technology conference in San Francisco today, Google gave an update of its rich snippets initiative - which adds extra information to Google search results. For example, showing restaurant review ratings.
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