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iFixit:
iPhone 4 Teardown — Join us live and follow iFixit on twitter as we disassemble the newly released iPhone 4. Stay tuned! Being the resourceful tinkerers that we are, we scoured the depths of this great nation, and we have emerged victorious. At long last, the journey to the iPhone 4 teardown …
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Walter S. Mossberg / Personal Technology:
New iPhone Keeps Apple Top of Class — Just three years ago, Apple wasn't in the mobile-phone business at all. Since then, its game-changing iPhone has become the most influential smartphone in the world. Now, on June 24, the company will roll out the fourth generation of the device, called the iPhone 4.
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Joshua Topolsky / Engadget:
iPhone 4 review — The iPhone 4 is no small thing to review. As most readers of Engadget are well aware, in the gadget world a new piece of Apple hardware is a major event, preceded by rumors, speculation, an over-the-top announcement, and finally days, weeks, or months of anticipation from an ever-widening fan base.
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David Pogue / New York Times:
New iPhone Arrives, Rivals Beware — Apple's new iPhone, its fourth in four years, reaches stores on Thursday. Ordinarily, this is where you'd expect to find a review of it. But honestly — what's the point? — The iPhone 4 is already a hit. AT&T says that it received 10 times …
Arn / MacRumors:
iPhone 4 is Faster than 3GS and Slower than iPad in Early Benchmarks — iPhone 4 results on left, 3GS on right — Early benchmarks of the iPhone 4 show it to be 31% faster than the iPhone 3GS according to the Geekbench 2 app. Geek Bench has been a popular benchmarking utility on the Mac …
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Yusuf Mehdi / Search Blog:
A New Entertainment Experience for Bing — In this release of Bing one of the biggest investments we are making is in the area of entertainment. As the content on the web has exploded, it has become difficult to navigate and find what you are looking for.
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Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:
Live From Hollywood: It's Bing & Ryan Seacrest
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Ina Fried / Beyond Binary:
Microsoft, Hollywood debate future of entertainment
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Robin Wauters / TechCrunch:
Looks Like Apple Is Suing HTC (Again) — It appears Apple has filed yet another patent infringement lawsuit against HTC and its subsidiaries. — From the looks of it, the new suit, which was filed earlier this week in the same Delaware court as the initial lawsuit filed in March 2010 …
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Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Fortune:
App Store: 1% of Apple's gross profit — Since its launch in July 2008, it has generated revenue of $429 million for the company — Click to enlarge. Source: Piper Jaffray — Apple (AAPL) claims to run the App Store at or near break even, and apparently that's not terribly far from the truth.
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Sascha Segan / Gearlog:
Virgin Mobile MiFi Outed by Best Buy, Coming Next Week — Prepaid carrier Virgin Mobile will be introducing a Novatel MiFi router next week, the company told us after the device appeared at a Best Buy summer preview event this morning. — Virgin Mobile's MiFi, like the models available …
Mark Sweney / Guardian:
Mark Zuckerberg: Facebook ‘almost guaranteed’ to reach 1 billion users — Russia, Japan, China and Japan only remaining countries where Facebook not leading social network says founder — Facebook's global dominance is almost complete with just Russia, Japan, China and Japan yet to be converted …
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Caroline McCarthy / CNET News:
Why Twitter still has to get its game on—fast — In March, Twitter CEO Evan Williams first unveiled @Anywhere, a new platform aimed at news and media outlets to knit Twitter more deeply into their own sites. After all, Twitter has become more or less synonymous with real-time, breaking news …
Elinor Mills / CNET News:
Report: A fifth of Android apps expose private data — About 20 percent of the 48,000 apps in the Android marketplace allow a third-party application access to sensitive or private information, according to a report released on Tuesday. — And some of the apps were found to have the ability …
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Ina Fried / Beyond Binary:
How Microsoft foresaw—and still missed—the iPad — The technology icon stands before a crowd, holding in his hands a prototype that embodies his vision for the future of computing. It's a touch-screen tablet that is thinner than a magazine, has all-day battery life, and sells for less than $800.
Sarah Perez / ReadWriteWeb:
Developers Betting on Android for Long-Term Success, Says Survey — A recent survey of 2733 mobile application developers has shed new light on the so-called “Apple vs. Google” battle that's taking place now in the smartphone industry, positioning Apple's dominant iPhone/iPad operating system …
Mike Beltzner / The Mozilla Blog:
Firefox 3.6.4 with Crash Protection Now Available — Today, Mozilla is happy to release Firefox 3.6.4, the latest security and stability release for Firefox, used by nearly 400 million people around the world to browse the Web. This release provides crash protection for Windows and Linux users …
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Lauren Indvik / Mashable!:
Virgin America Offers Free Flights to Twitter Influencers — Virgin America has partnered with Klout, an analytics service that tracks users' influence on Twitter (based on variables such as the quality and number of followers and retweets), to extend free flights (plus tax) to influencers in Toronto.
Ian Paul / PC World:
Google Under Multistate Privacy Microscope: How We Got Here — Google's Wi-Fi data snooping brouhaha just got worse. Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal on Monday announced his office is leading a multistate investigation into Google's Wi-Fi data snooping gaffe.
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Larry Dignan / ZDNet:
Verizon hits 10 Gbps to the home via FiOS — Verizon said Wednesday that it has completed a field trial of a fiber-optic system that can provide 10 gigabits per second to the home via FiOS. — That's a quite bit faster than what you have at home right now.
