Top Items:
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 …
RELATED:
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.”
Discussion:
ZDNet, TechCrunch, Silicon Alley Insider, Associated Press, VentureBeat, Black Web 2.0 and PC World
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.
Discussion:
Digits, App Advice, DSLreports, Technologizer, blogs.ft.com, AppleInsider, Computerworld, TechFlash, MobileCrunch, Gizmodo, live.gdgt.com, Silicon Alley Insider, Bits, Unwired View, lalawag, WMPoweruser.com, IntoMobile, Boy Genius Report, GottaBeMobile, Digital Daily, Slashdot, Phones Review, TiPb, Switched, Cult of Mac, Geek.com, TheStreet.com, MediaFile, Mashable!, Appletell, BetaNews, Seattle Times, dailywireless.org, paidContent, BlogsDNA, iThinkDifferent, Guardian, iHackintosh, The Huffington Post, BaltTech, CNET News, Ars Technica, FierceWireless, The Tech Report, Mobiles DNA, MobileBurn.com, Phone Scoop, Fone Arena, Gadget Lab, PC World and Gadgetell
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.
Discussion:
App Advice, TechCrunch, MacRumors iPhone Blog, TUAW, Engadget, Computerworld, Fast Company and Wall Street Journal
Mike Schramm / TUAW:
Apple plays satirical iPhone Antenna Song at press conference — Here it is — the Jonathan Mann video that Apple just played (no kidding) to start off their official press conference. No really — right before Steve Jobs took the stage, he played this song for gathered reporters …
Sebastien Page / iPhone Download Blog:
White iPhone Will Ship At the End of July in Limited Quantities
Discussion:
Gizmodo
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.
RELATED:
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.
Discussion:
VentureBeat, TechCrunch, Silicon Alley Insider, MediaMemo, The Freebase Blog and CloudAve, Thanks:atul
RELATED:
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 …
Discussion:
Computerworld, Silicon Alley Insider, Gizmodo, GeekSmack, Android Police, Droid Life, AndroidSPIN, SlashGear, Android Community and Android Phone Fans
RELATED:
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.
Matt Buchanan / Gizmodo:
Motorola Droid X Review
Discussion:
Android Phone Fans, PhoneDog.com, ZDNet, Maximum PC, Electronista, GigaOM, Computerworld, GeekSmack, The Next Web and Fortune
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.
Discussion:
Download Squad, ReadWriteWeb, Boy Genius Report, Macworld, Internet2Go, The Register, Mashable!, PC World, Webmonkey, TUAW, TechCrunch, iThinkDifferent, Gizmodo, Gadget Lab, PC Magazine, ZDNet, CNET News, WebWorkerDaily, Telegraph, RazorianFly, Techland, Lifehacker, mobiputing, App Advice, everythingiCafe, Cult of Mac, Pocket-lint, IntoMobile, Apple Gazette, Appolicious Advisor, Fast Company, Technologizer, Softpedia News, Obsessable, SlashGear, 9 to 5 Mac, pocketnow.com, The Next Web, pluGGd.in, BlogsDNA, Engadget, Ubergizmo, MacRumors iPhone Blog, Erictric, MacNN, Neowin.net, MacStories, Phone Scoop and GeekSmack
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.
Discussion:
App Advice, Digits, PC World, MacNN, CNNMoney.com, iLounge, The Register, ReadWriteWeb, MacRumors, Cult of Mac, GottaBeMobile, Pocket-lint, SlashGear, AppleInsider, parislemon, everythingiCafe, Fortune, TiPb, Edible Apple, Gizmodo, Ars Technica, CNN, Wall Street Journal and Redmond Pie, Thanks:nerdtalker
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 …
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.
RELATED:
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 …
Bloomberg:
Nokia Board Faces Call for Change on $77 Billion Lost Value — Nokia Oyj's board has stayed in the background as the company's shares plummeted 67 percent in the three years since Apple Inc. started selling the iPhone. Pressure has been building on directors to act.
