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. What happened next was unfathomable, if not unheard of, in road cycling…
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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.
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Jul 15 2010
Link: Over the past 3 years, the RIAA has spent $64 MILLION on lawsuits and copyright investigations
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The return on that investment? A little more than a million bucks. Couldn’t have happened to a nicer group of guys.
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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 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.
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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)
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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.
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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
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Jul 14 2010
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.
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Jul 13 2010
Link: Consumer Reports confirms iPhone 4 antenna problems — and so do we
Oh, those antenna issues…
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