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07 Jun 2010 21:36

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Tech: Some quick numbers on the new Apple iPhone 4

  • 78 micrometers – the width of a
    pixel on the new iPhone
  • 326 number of pixels per inch – easily double the last model of the iPhone
  • 9.3mm the width of the new iPhone – about a third of an inch for us Yankees
  • 720p the quality of film the device can shoot, great for YouTube source
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06 Jun 2010 20:58

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Tech: Yahoo pretty much lets Facebook take over their lumbering corpse

  • You know, because Yahoo doesn’t have any infrastructure like Facebook. Between Yahoo Mail, Yahoo Chat, MyBlogLog, Flickr, and Delicious – all widely-used services that directly compete with various parts of Facebook – Yahoo could create a really awesome social network with the scale of Facebook’s offerings. But instead, Yahoo is going to integrate these sites directly with Facebook. Why? Because they’re a horribly-disorganized company and they don’t realize that they were sitting on all of the parts long before Facebook stumbled upon them. source
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06 Jun 2010 20:12

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Tech, World: Foxconn’s suicide prevention salaries go way up – again!

  • 33% the immediate increase in salaries for Foxconn workers announced last week, in wake of a bunch of suicides
  • $300 the monthly amount they could be making in three months – $75 a week, or double their current salaries source
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01 Jun 2010 23:24

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Tech: Steve Jobs would rather quit than let Gizmodo win

  • You know, when this whole thing with Gizmodo happened, I got advice from people who said ‘you gotta just let it slide, you shouldn’t go after a journalist just because they bought stolen property and tried to extort you.’ … I can’t do that. I’d rather quit.
  • Steve Jobs • Speaking at the Wall Street Journal’s D8 conference – very frankly in many ways. He touched on a lot of topics in the Q&A segment, noting among other things: He had no idea this e-mail thread was with a dude from ValleyWag, iPhone OS was originally designed for a tablet like the iPad, Adobe made a big stink about Flash only after the iPad’s release, and, well, this. This is the money quote from the whole thing. source
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31 May 2010 23:36

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Tech: Google on Windows: That’s nasty, use OSX or Linux instead

  • nope Reportedly, new Google employees won’t be able to use Windows as one of their OS options anymore; it’s just Mac and Linux.
  • why? Blame it on security concerns in the wake of Google’s whole hack thang with China that happened a few months ago. source
  • » The real question: How many of their employees are holdouts working on Amiga or BeOS? Really, we want to know. If this is a company of nerds, there has to be at least one.
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31 May 2010 22:21

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Tech: Apple to Foxconn workers: Here’s some money; stop killing yourselves

  • 20% the size of the raises Apple is giving FoxConn employees so they stop committing high-profile suicides
  • .7% the amount the raises will raise the outsourcing cost of the iPad’s sale price, from 2.3 to 3 percent source
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31 May 2010 21:57

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Tech: WHOA: Pulse is officially the coolest iPad news-reader, ever

  • We want to have babies with this RSS reader. OK, maybe not babies, but definitely some sort of spawn. Our statistics meet your cool little boxes in a dark room somewhere, and things might happen. After all, you’re my wonderwall. (Thanks TechCrunch for the tip. This $3.99 pile of awesome, created by a bunch of recent Stanford grads, is totally worth it.) source
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31 May 2010 10:27

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Tech: Apple’s iPads are selling like flat glass and aluminum hotcakes

  • 2 million sold in just 60 days; they’re totally just showing off source
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30 May 2010 14:16

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Tech: Guy gets bored, builds his own tablet computer out of carbon

It runs Windows 7, and while it doesn’t have the touch-responsiveness of the iPad, the guy claims it’s good enough for him. Nerd. source
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28 May 2010 14:00

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Tech: Apple apparently has big plans to revive its Apple TV line

  • good It will reportedly be based on the lightweight iPhone OS and focus on streaming content.
  • better This iPad-sans-screen will only cost $99, which is a solid $100 less than the current Apple TV. source
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