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05 Apr 2010 12:46

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Tech: iPhone 4.0 coming soon: Apple doesn’t let up on the iNews

  • We promise, next post will be about something else. On April 8, Apple will announce the launch of its new iPhone Version 4.0. It probably won’t launch that day, but it’ll give you nerds something to get excited about. After this, Apple moratorium for the rest of the day. We promise. Unless Steve Jobs dies. source
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05 Apr 2010 12:16

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Culture, Tech: “Will it Blend?”, now and then: The iPhone and the iPad

  • 2007: iPhone puree One of YouTube’s most classic and memorable clips came out just after the iPhone’s release, when a blender company threw an iPhone into one of its high-powered blenders and saw what happened. It was awesomely expensive.

  • 2010: Ipad slushee The “Will it Blend?” dude, having had much more experience with the great gift of his, does the same thing to an iPad. Obviously an iPad is too big for one blender, so he violently breaks the thing in half first. Yet another classic.
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30 Mar 2010 09:55

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Biz: Verizon really hoping this Apple iPhone thang is true

  • 4.7% stock leap on hopes and dreams alone source
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29 Mar 2010 20:13

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Tech: Apple may be taking the iPhone to Verizon, or maybe not

  • Seems the one thing iPhone users hate the most about their phones is the carrier. Apple’s had an exclusive contract with AT&T for nearly three years now, and with the dropped calls and lack of network expansion, users want another option. Now the Wall Street Journal is reporting that Verizon will get a version of the iPhone this year. It’d be awesome, but let’s remember that analysts have been burned before by the promise of Verizon. source.
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28 Mar 2010 22:48

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Music: Beyonce’s “Irreplaceable” easily replaced by Korean girl on iPhones

  • She shows you how she does it, then she does it. And then you watch it and it makes you feel inferior. Don’t you feel inferior? We know we do.
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25 Mar 2010 01:41

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Tech: The word of Steve Jobs: E-mails come down like commandments

  • Over the last few weeks, Steve Jobs has been sending e-mails to random human beings left and right about Apple issues big and small. It’s bizarre and fascinating because his company is so secretive, and in the case of the “no,” it actually breaks big news (the guy who sent that was asking if he could tether his iPhone to his iPad, something which hadn’t been disclosed). “Almost every Mac Web site had picked it up,” said Jezper Söderlund, the music producer who asked the question, “and the biggest newspaper in town wrote about it. We had more visits to my Web site in 12 hours than we had all year. It was crazy.” Dear Steve: Do you like our blog? We hope you do. Your company makes good computers. Sincerely, Julius. source
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23 Mar 2010 10:25

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Tech: Opera decides to have fun with their iPhone app’s uncertain state

  • Opera Mini for iPhone submitted today. When do you think Apple will approve it?
  • Opera’s official Twitter account, @opera • Regarding their playing with fire and submitting their Opera iPhone app, which would directly compete with Mobile Safari to some degree (though they’ve been careful to note the differences in speed and approach). Opera is being downright clever about this, creating a contest where people suggest when the app will be approved by Apple, and giving away an iPhone to the winner. Clever bastards. Might as well have fun with uncertainty. source
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22 Mar 2010 13:26

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Tech: Palm’s luck may be lacking, but they now have AT&T on their side

  • bad Underdog smartphone maker Palm is still doing rotten with its stock price and, with the Pre’s lacking success, could die eventually.
  • good On the plus side, they just added another carrier. AT&T has the iPhone AND Pre Plus. Is it time to upgrade, iPhone fans? source
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17 Mar 2010 22:06

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Tech: Your iPhone probably made some Chinese factory worker sick

  • It would be good for the people who use those phones so happily to consider the sacrifice we made.
  • A 21-year-old former factory worker • Talking about the hell that she and others have been through personally because of poor conditions at a factory which she worked, which specialized in Apple and Nokia phones. The factory was using a toxic chemical, n-hexane, a fast-drying cleaning solvent which they didn’t have the proper permits to use and made the workers gradually sick. First it was nothing, then they felt tired, then their fingers went weak, then they fainted. The thousand-screen-a-day quota added up. Some have had to stay in a hospital for eight months. Holy crap. source
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16 Mar 2010 11:18

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Tech: The 74-day rule: iPhone vs. Droid vs. Nexus One

  • 1M number of iPhones that sold in its first 74 days (impressive)
  • 1.05M number of Droids that sold in its first 74 days (even moreso)
  • .135M number of Nexus Ones that sold in its first 74 days (lame) source
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