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Link: US Sen. Schumer writes letter to Apple CEO over iPhone 4 antenna

Perhaps politicians should stick to, you know, politics?

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. What happened next was unfathomable, if not unheard of, in road cycling…

Link: Over the past 3 years, the RIAA has spent $64 MILLION on lawsuits and copyright investigations

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jimray:

The return on that investment? A little more than a million bucks. Couldn’t have happened to a nicer group of guys.

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 in the booting process becoming corrupted and resulting in a permanent bricking of the Phone. This FailSafe is activated anytime the bootloader is tampered with or any of the above three parts of the phone has been tampered with.

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.

Link: Apple’s Hush Attempt Backfires

Apple was busted today for deleting multiple customer forum posts about a negative Consumer Reports review of its new iPhone. Maybe an Apple.com moderator simply went rogue, but now the company will have to deal with the PR fallout.

Link: Consumer Reports confirms iPhone 4 antenna problems — and so do we

Oh, those antenna issues…

Link: Howard Webb’s dream job descends into nightmare

I thought the ref did pretty well, and most (if not all) of the cards he awarded were fair. I’m actually surprised there weren’t any more red cards than the one he produced. The Dutch team should be ashamed of themselves with the way they behaved.

Link: Rich text signatures – Official Gmail Blog

Resisting the temptation to create a rich-text signature…

Link: Julian Dean – 2nd – Tour de France Stage 4 by garmin-transitions at Garmin Connect – Details

Check out Julian Deans’s stats from yesterday’s Tour de France. Average speed: 41.4km/h over 155km