Jul
15
2010
Link: Apple Engineer Told Jobs IPhone Antenna Might Cut Calls […] a person familiar with the matter said. (sounds like a really reliable source…)
Jul
15
2010
Link: US Sen. Schumer writes letter to Apple CEO over iPhone 4 antenna Perhaps politicians should stick to, you know, politics?
Jul
15
2010
Be calm. Stay tuned. It’s just a phone. Reality Check: Modding the DROID X may not lead to a bricked phone « Boy Genius Report
Jul
15
2010
Link: Renshaw kicked out of Tour In the final 400m of today’s Stage 11, Renshaw was at the front of the race setting up Mark Cavendish for the win, as was Kiwi Julian Dean for Tyler Farrar. Side by side two of the world’s best leadout men wound up to launch their sprinters to victory. […]
Jul
15
2010
Late-1995, ten years after it was first syndicated, Bill Watterson sent the following letter to the thousands of newspapers which carried his widely-adored Calvin and Hobbes comic strip, in doing so announcing the forthcoming end of its run. (via Letters of Note: I will be stopping Calvin and Hobbes)
Jul
15
2010
Link: Over the past 3 years, the RIAA has spent $64 MILLION on lawsuits and copyright investigations mac: jimray: The return on that investment? A little more than a million bucks. Couldn’t have happened to a nicer group of guys.
Jul
15
2010
Link: How the Droid X is locked down? Let me tell you what I know. Not to be outdone by Apple, Motorola is trying to brew up their own PR disaster: If the eFuse failes to verify this information then the eFuse receives a command to “blow the fuse” or “trip the fuse”. This results […]
Jul
15
2010
As promised, the new iPhone system update corrects the bar signal display. Also as promised, it provides another “enhancement”: Taller signal bars! Free tip: If you paint flames on the back of your iPhone 4, it runs 2.3x faster. (via This Is How Much the New iPhone 4 Signal Bars Have Grown)
Jul
15
2010
Link: Apple to hold special iPhone 4 press conference on Friday Apple would only say that the press conference would be regarding the iPhone 4. No other information was available when I spoke with them tonight.
Jul
14
2010
It looks like the iPhone 4 might be their Vista, and I’m okay with that. said Kevin Turner, Microsoft’s chief operating officer, in a keynote speech at Microsoft’s Worldwide Partner Conference (WPC), which runs through Thursday in Washington, D.C. via Reseller News > Microsoft exec mocks iPhone 4, dubs it Apple’s Vista