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3:15 PM ET, July 16, 2010

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Paul Miller / Engadget:
Apple to give away free cases to iPhone 4 users  —  Apple's not really ready to say it's sorry about the iPhone 4 antenna design, but it is willing to give all you darn squeaky wheels free cases for your trouble.  Since Apple can't build its own Bumpers fast enough, it will give you a few options …
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Joshua Topolsky / Engadget:
Live from Apple's iPhone 4 press conference  —  We're on the ground at One Infinite Loop and waiting in the extremely bright sunlight to get inside.  For one day of notice, there are a surprising amount of people here.
Erick Schonfeld / MobileCrunch:
Steve Jobs: “We're Not Perfect.”  —  After starting out with a light-hearted YouTube video about “Antennagate” at the Apple press conference going on right now to address the issue (read our livenotes), CEO Steve Jobs came onstage with a mea culpa: “You know . . . we're not perfect.”
AppleInsider:
Apple says software fix for iPhone 4 proximity sensor is coming  —  Apple Chief Executive Steve Jobs said on Friday that his company is aware of problems with the proximity sensor on the iPhone 4, and that they are working on a software fix that is expected to be included in the next iOS update.
Mike Schramm / TUAW:
Apple plays satirical iPhone Antenna Song at press conference
Discussion: Fast Company and GigaOM
AppleInsider:
Apple admits iPhone 4 drops more calls per 100 than iPhone 3GS
Discussion: 9 to 5 Mac and New York Times
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Apple: iPhone 4 Antenna Software Fix Claim “Patently False”
Discussion: Fortune and ZDNet
Sebastien Page / iPhone Download Blog:
White iPhone Will Ship At the End of July in Limited Quantities
Discussion: Gizmodo
Matt Burns / CrunchGear:
Apple sold 3 million iPhone 4s in three weeks, “perhaps our best product”
Matt Zimmerman / Electronic Frontier Foundation:
San Mateo D.A. Withdraws Controversial Gizmodo iPhone Warrant  —  Today, San Mateo Superior Court Judge Clifford Cretan granted an application by the San Mateo County D.A.'s office to withdraw the controversial warrant it obtained to search the house of Gizmodo.com journalist Jason Chen.
Discussion: TechCrunch and SlashGear
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Shira Ovide / Wall Street Journal:   Gizmodo to Cooperate With Probe Into Lost iPhone Prototype
Jack Menzel / The Official Google Blog:
Deeper understanding with Metaweb  —  Over time we've improved search by deepening our understanding of queries and web pages.  The web isn't merely words—it's information about things in the real world, and understanding the relationships between real-world entities can help us deliver relevant information more quickly.
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Barry Schwartz / Search Engine Land:
Google Buys Metaweb To Bolster Answers, Google Squared & Rich Snippets  —  Google announced they have acquired Metaweb.  Metaweb is a search company that figures out entities and not just words.  I have a video from the company explaining exactly what that means.
Chris Ziegler / Engadget:
Motorola responds to Droid X bootloader controversy, says eFuse isn't there to break the phone  —  There's been a lot of chatter going around the interwebs in the past 24 hours about the Droid X's exceptionally well-locked bootloader — a situation that is going to make running custom ROMs considerably …
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PC World:
Droid X Sells Out Despite Verizon Preparation  —  The Motorola Droid X is sold out online and in certain parts of the country at retail Verizon and Best Buy stores, despite Verizon Wireless' insistence on Wednesday that it would have plenty of the phones in stock.
Stuart Parmenter / The Mozilla Blog:
Get Firefox Home on Your iPhone!  —  We are happy to announce that the wait is over.  —  Firefox Home, a free application, is now available for download on your iPhone or iPod Touch.  —  Firefox Home provides access to your Firefox desktop history, bookmarks and open tabs on your iPhone.
Anand Lal Shimpi / AnandTech:
The iPhone 4 Redux: Analyzing Apple's iOS 4.0.1 Signal Fix & Antenna Issue  —  In case you haven't noticed, the iPhone 4's antenna design has come under considerable scrutiny.  In our iPhone 4 review, we investigated the iPhone 4 antenna and came to two conclusions.
Enigmax / TorrentFreak:
U.S. Authorities Shut Down WordPress Host With 73,000 Blogs  —  After the U.S. Government took action against several sites connected to movie streaming recently, nerves are jangling over the possibility that this is just the beginning of a wider crackdown.  Now it appears that a free blogging platform …
Discussion: Geekosystem and Techdirt
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Google Spent $100 Million Defending Against Viacom's $1 Billion Lawsuit  —  How much did Google spend to fend off Viacom's $1 billion copyright lawsuit?  On today's earnings call, CFO Patrick Pichette revealed that Google's legal bills for the case amounted to $100 million, and that was before it went to trial.
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Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
Is YouTube Still a Money Pit?  Or Is Google Just Really, Really Modest?
Vlad Savov / Engadget:
Intel snaps up former Palm and Apple VP Mike Bell for its smartphone push  —  Seriously, what the hell did HP acquire when it bought Palm?  A bunch of pretty patents and a rapidly dwindling talent pool, it would seem.  Mike Bell, a celebrated capture for Palm back in 2007 after 16 years at Apple …
 
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Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet:
Microsoft KittyHawk: A new tool to help non-programmers build .Net business apps
Thanks:rawmeet
Vlad Savov / Engadget:
Google's Amit Singhal tells us about the dreams search engines are made of
Discussion: New Scientist
Robin Wauters / TechCrunch:
Ex-Google News, Bing Engineers Set Out To Build ‘Newspaper Of The Future’
Bloomberg:
Nokia Board Faces Call for Change on $77 Billion Lost Value
Matt Carter / Inman News:
Google says it's not in real estate business
 Earlier Items: 
Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
Venture Capital Investing Up 34 Percent To $6.5 Billion In Q2
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Ze Frank Gets $500,000 To Play Games From Andreessen Horowitz …
Brad McCarty / The Next Web:
MySpace gets a huge update with really slick profile pages.
Mark Milian / L.A. Times Tech Blog:
‘Junkware’ comes standard on Verizon, T-Mobile smart phones
Discussion: Internet2Go, Thanks:electricwaffles
Galen Gruman / InfoWorld:
Windows Phone 7: Don't bother with this disaster