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Link: Acute Distress: iPhone 4 Balls Up.

Plenty has been said already about the shambolic way Vodafone NZ has handled today’s launch of Apple’s new iPhone 4, but for me the most interesting thing to come out of this is a little gem in the NBR article,

“F bomb. The snit theory is backed up by the “F” word being used multiple…

Link: MinuteDock: Gooooooooooooooooooooooooaaaaalllls!

There’s a new tab in MinuteDock today – “Goals”. From now on, MinuteDock doesn’t just help you track your time – it also keeps you productive.

Here are two ways you can use goals – we’re sure you clever cookies will come up with a few more.

Track a fixed-quote project

Set up a goal…

Link: Introducing Vodafone Data Plans for iPad

Vodafone are offering two data plans for the iPad: the Alpha plan costs $20 and includes 250MB of data, while the Extreme plan includes 3GB of data for $50.

While the pricing seems reasonable, I find it interesting how Vodafone explain the data limits. For example, did you know that if you sign up for the Alpha plan, you can only browse the web for 2.5 hours each month, which is about 5 minutes per day? That’s quite a limitation for a device which is perfect for browsing the internet on.

Link: You are more influential than you think.

Link: Microsoft Windows Phone 7 technical preview: A definitive guide | ZDNet

8 pages long. Enjoy.

Link: iPad Available in Nine More Countries This Friday

Apple® today announced that iPad™ will be available in Austria, Belgium, Hong Kong, Ireland, Luxembourg, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand and Singapore this Friday, July 23.

Link: What’s Really Going on Behind Murdoch’s Paywall?

Michael Wolff on Rupert Murdoch’s paywall on the Times:
My sources say that not only is nobody subscribing to the website, but subscribers to the paper itself—who have free access to the site—are not going beyond the registration page. It’s an empty world.

Link: Times Paywall is a Flop

Link: Apple’s Bumper case alleviates the iPhone 4 signal-loss problem

Is it just a coincidence that the first case that Apple have made for their iPhone also fixes the antenna issue? When the bumper cases were first released I heard people question why Apple was getting into the ‘cases game’. Perhaps now we know why…

Link: Apple Engineer Told Jobs IPhone Antenna Might Cut Calls

[…] a person familiar with the matter said.

(sounds like a really reliable source…)