An amicable Steve Jobs took the stage at Apple’s Town Hall at the Cupertino HQ today to address “antennagate”. While the CEO admitted that there were issues with the iPhone 4’s design lending to reception issues, it isn’t unique to the latest iPhone.
Smartphones, in general, have weak spots and the algorithm used to meld …
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1:03PM ET: Small turnout. Must have been the short notice. About half the Town Hall is packed.
1:04PM ET: No photos for this one, folks. Trying to …
In a little over 4 hours it’s expected that Steve Jobs (or maybe Phil Schiller) will take the stage at Apple HQ’s Town Hall to address the iPhone 4 and its reception woes or lack there of. On the eve of every Apple press conference, the Internet explodes with last-minute rumors and various individuals “close to the matter” seem …
If you’re a Firefox user and iPhone owner who’s longed for a way to synchronize the data between your computer’s web browser and your mobile device, Mozilla’s new Firefox Home project may be right up your alley.
The system consists of the Firefox Sync add-on running in your Firefox browser and the iPhone-specific Firefox Home app. …
Bloomberg is reporting that a senior Apple engineer had warned upper management that the iPhone 4’s design could lead to issues with reception.
Ruben Caballero, a senior engineer and “antenna expert” at Apple, is said to have been vocal about the possibility of dropped calls due to hardware design. Another unnamed source …
Upgrading the RAM in your laptop is one of the easiest, quickest, and cheapest ways to improve your computer’s performance. The actual process is super simple, though some computer shops charge upwards of $50 for what amounts to less than five minutes worth of work.
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Apple Inc. will be holding a press conference this Friday at 1PM ET in Cupertino at its headquarters to address the iPhone 4. Calls and e-mails from Apple PR to various news outlets began last night around 8PM ET.
Before the July 4th holiday weekend Consumer Reports issued a report stating that the reception issues suffered by …
I don’t like to shave. I work from home, which doesn’t help matters much, and find shaving to be too time consuming to make it worth the daily ritual that so many men undertake. So you’d think I have no interest in electric razors, when the fact of the matter is that I’m constantly on the lookout for new shaving technologies that can …
Chatter over Consumer Reports revoking their recommendation of the iPhone 4 has spurred many a debate over whether or not Apple should recall the latest iPhone. The likelihood of such a massive recall would not only tarnish Apple’s reputation but it would cost an estimated $1.5 billion, says Bernstein Research analyst Toni …
Using a Canon EOS 7D and sparklers, Mina Mikhael and Matthew Barhoma created one of the coolest long exposure photos mine eyes have ever seen. Or maybe my love of Batman is just that sickening. EXIF data can be found here if you’re curious as to how these blokes pulled this off.
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