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Victor Godinez / techblog.dallasnews.com:
Steve Jobs demonstrates the apparently incorrect way to hold iPhone 4 — So, in the face of an obvious design flaw that causes the cell signal to fade when the iPhone 4 is held with the skin of your hand touching the bottom left of the steel band, Steve Jobs and Apple scoff at the notion …
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Kit Eaton / Fast Company:
The $0.001 DIY iPhone 4 Antenna Fix — There's a huge media fuss about a potential failing of the iPhone 4's clever antenna design, with folks concerned it spells radio-drop-out call doom for the phone. We remain to be convinced. But here's a $0.001 DIY fix anyway.
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Miguel Helft / Bits:
Did Disguising the iPhone 4 Mask a Temperamental Antenna? — Did Apple know before this week that there is a right way and a wrong way to hold the iPhone 4? — The incorrect left-handed way, which even Steve Jobs has been known to use, apparently can cause “attenuation” …
Spencer Webb / AntennaSys Blog:
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Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Fortune:
77% of iPhone 4 sales were upgrades — Apple has built a recurring revenue stream from a growing base of loyal users — Click to enlarge. Source: Piper Jaffray — “Mission accomplished,” writes Piper Jaffray's Gene Munster in a report to clients issued early Friday, the day after Apple's (AAPL) biggest product launch ever.
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Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Fortune:
First day sales: 1.5 million iPhone 4s? — According to one analyst, Apple has blown past all previous launch-day records — Click to enlarge. Source: Oppenheimer — “Guessing launch day iPhone sales,” writes Oppenheimer's Yair Reiner in a note to clients issued Friday …
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Darren Murph / Engadget:
Motorola's Droid X up for pre-order today at Best Buy: $200, no pesky mail-in rebates — Sweatin' those iPhone 4 reception issues? Got a thing for beastlier phones? Still perturbed that your white iPhone 4 pre-order didn't exactly “work out” as expected?
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Christina Warren / Mashable!:
EXCLUSIVE: First Teaser For “The Social Network” [VIDEO] — Columbia Pictures has just released the very first teaser trailer for its upcoming film, The Social Network. Like the poster that debuted last week, the teaser is sparse in its detail, but intriguing and provocative at the same time.
Taylor Buley / Velocity:
Google Isn't Just Reading Your Links, It's Now Running Your Code — It's long been observed that Google's search indexer can read JavaScript code, the lingua franca of dynamic Web applications. But for years it's been unclear whether or not the Googlebot actually understood what it was looking …
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Jon Oberheide / jon.oberheide.org:
Remote Kill and Install on Google Android — In this post, I'll talk about the REMOVE_ASSET and INSTALL_ASSET mechanisms that can be invoked by Google via Android's GTalkService to not only remotely remove applications from an Android device but also remotely install new applications.
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Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
Going, Going, Almost Gone: Foursquare Poised to Get New VC Funding, After Being “One Inch” From Sale to Facebook — According to numerous sources close to the situation, Foursquare is in the final stages of striking a funding deal with the very venture firm-Andreessen Horowitz-that had publicly dissed …
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MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Foursquare Expands Offices — Wonder How They're Paying For It?
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Bryan Jones / Jonesblog:
Apple Retina Display — By now it seems that most people on the planet have heard of Apple's latest iPhone, the iPhone 4 which was released today. One of the many compelling features of the new phone is the Retina Display. When Steve Jobs first invoked this term at the WWDC, my eyebrows were raised.
John Biggs / CrunchGear:
Don't have any friends? Call 1-888-FACETIME to test Facetime on the iPhone 4 — The biggest problem with testing Facetime is the dearth of real, hard-core nerds out there with iPhone 4s. I've been able to talk to Greg and my buddy Tom, but that's about it.
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Howard A. Schmidt / White House.gov Blog Feed:
The National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace — Cyberspace has become an indispensible component of everyday life for all Americans. We have all witnessed to how the application and use of this technology has increased exponentially over the years.
Evelyn Rusli / TechCrunch:
Palantir: The Next Billion-Dollar Company Raises $90 Million — When Alex Karp needed funding for a young start up named Palantir in 2005, dozens of investors said “No.” — He was trying to sell them on the idea of a high-powered analysis platform that could scan multiple databases simultaneously …
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Thomas Goetz / Wired:
Sergey Brin's Search for a Parkinson's Cure — Several evenings a week, after a day's work at Google headquarters in Mountain View, California, Sergey Brin drives up the road to a local pool. There, he changes into swim trunks, steps out on a 3-meter springboard, looks at the water below, and dives.
Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
Automattic Buys Up Thing Labs' Plinky To Help Bloggers Overcome Writer's Block — WordPress developer Automattic has acquired Plinky from Thing Labs, the creators of social media application Brizzly. Plinky essentially aims to inspire content creators. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.
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Stephen Shankland / Webware.com:
Flash arrives in Google's Chrome browser — Google has fulfilled a promise to build Adobe Systems' Flash Player into Chrome, a move that helps keep the beleaguered plug-in relevant despite significant efforts to replace it. — Chrome 5.0.376.86, the stable version of Chrome released Thursday for Windows …
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Tim Bradshaw / Financial Times:
Coke sees ‘phenomenal’ result from Twitter ads — Coca-Cola saw “phenomenal” results from its first experiment with paid advertising on Twitter, the drinks company's digital marketing chief told the Financial Times. The US soft drinks company is only the second brand to sponsor a …
Erica Naone / Technology Review:
Where Gmail Is Going — A Google staff engineer outlines a few of the Web application's next steps. — Google staff engineer Adam de Boor gave a keynote this morning at Usenix WebApps '10 in Boston, where he outlined a few of Gmail's next steps. The webmail application, which launched in 2004 …
Andrew Orlowski / The Register:
Nokia loses top tech brain — Psion legend joins TomTom — Exclusive One of Britain's top technologists is leaving Nokia. Charles Davies, Psion's first employee in 1981, became MD of Psion Computer before leaving to join Symbian as CTO in 2003. Since Nokia acquired the Symbian staff two years ago …
Ernesto / TorrentFreak:
Facebook Uses BitTorrent, and They Love It — Large scale web-services such as Facebook need thousands of servers to manage the flow of updates that are sent out by their millions of users. As a result, keeping all these servers updated with the latest code can be time and resource intensive.
