Apple has added another smartphone to its list of devices that experience reception issues when held improperly, this time showing a Nokia N97 mini losing signal. Nokia, meanwhile, is looking to replace its current CEO as it has fallen behind in the smartphone market.
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N97 reception video added to Apple’s antenna site as Nokia seeks new CEO
Just before he said goodbye to the jailbreak community last week, Geohot recommended we follow his friend Mike Cohen for all future news related to a jailbreak. The kid went from a handful of followers to over 10,000 in just a few days… Today Mike Cohen tweeted the following, making people believe LimeRa1n might be just around the corner: Is Geohot Back
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Is Geohot Back?
Don’t go wilding in the streets of Detroit or anything, but Panasonic just released five new cameras including the much-anticipated LX5, a low-light point and shoot with Leica glass. They also released the TS10, a ruggedized point and shoot, and the FZ40, a 24x ultrazoom camera with HD video recording. The cameras should be available in August-September.
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Panasonic pumps out some new cameras
Some Batman news, if only because Batman is the best comic book superhero of all time. I will debate this all day if need be, Lord knows I have nothing else going on in my life. The news this morning is that the next Batman movie, tentatively called Batman 3 (but you know the final name will be something like Batman: Vengeance ), will feature The Riddler as the main villain
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The Riddler will be the villain in Batman 3 movie
One hundred percent nonsense. That’s the only way I can describe the story going around talking about how teens are “getting high” while I-Dosing . I tried using I-Doser nearly three years ago , and let me tell you something: it’s bunk
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What’s all this nonsense about I-Dosing? Your kids aren’t ‘getting high’ on digital music, so calm down.
Microsoft has come up with its own internal version of a price comparison between motion control platforms. Of course, Microsoft shows their way being the cheapest route to motion control, but it really depends on how you’re playing the game
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Microsoft says Xbox is far cheaper for motion gaming but are they right?
If you’re using both hands to play a musical instrument, the last thing you want to worry about is turning the pages of sheet-music as you play. The traditional solution was to make somebody do it for you, or to quickly reach up and do it yourself
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iPad Sheet-Music Foot-Switch is a Real Page-Turner
T-Mobile recently said that it plans to introduce its first HSPA+ capable handset at some point this summer. T-Mobile said the device in question will be a smartphone, and that more details will become available in the coming weeks.
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T-Mobile to Launch HSPA+ Handset Later this Summer
Unless you’re a musician from a 1980s new-romantic pop-group, or a girl, it’s unlikely that you’ll find Pavel Sidorenko’s tiny Pocket Mirror very useful. But for those who need to constantly reapply lipstick on-the-go, the flexible, wallet-friendly mirror is ideal.
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Tiny, Cute Pocket Mirror is Wallet-Friendly
Verizon Wireless has indicated via its support pages that a software update is being distributed to the LG Ally Android phone. Firmware version VS740ZV8 helps improve the QWERTY keyboard’s performance; improves alerts; speeds the camera and message apps; adds ..
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Verizon Wireless Pushing Software Update to LG Ally
QuickMonth Calendar is a small freeware program which adds a small calendar to your task bar clock. Just hover your mouse cursor over the clock and the calendar will pop up automatically. Ridiculously simple, but oh-so-useful.
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QuickMonth Calendar – cute free utility adds a calendar to your task bar
The Tato is a $1,500 commuter with one added gimmick. Instead of schlepping a load on your back, on a rack or in a basket, you slide it into a slot in the frame itself. As you can see in the photo, the briefcase (or laptop-bag) sized cage is integrated, putting your luggage safely between your legs
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Commuter Bike with Built-in Laptop-Cage
Panasonic has released five new compact point-and-shoot cameras, ranging from the $250 TS10 up to the $500 LX5, whose premature store listing we covered yesterday. Instead of just running over the specs of the lineup, which would probably be even more boring for you than for me, we’ll take a look at the highlights, starting with the LX5.
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Panasonic Launches LX5 and a Zillion Other Compact Cameras
Apple has approved a flashlight application which contains a hidden function: Data tethering for the iPhone. The app, named Handy Light, appeared to be yet another flashlight app, but by working through some amusing network settings and then selecting the colors in the app in the right order, it lets iPhone users share cellular internet connection with another wireless device. Predictably the app has already disappeared from the store.
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Apple Approves, Pulls Flashlight App with Hidden Tethering Mode
As usual, Apple’s executives kept close to a carefully prepared script on the company’s stellar financial results, being careful not to reveal too much about the company’s future plans, including its data center cloud services and broader open support for FaceTime video calling.
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Apple executives dodge data center, FaceTime questions in earnings call
Attention wannabe supervillains: Putting your own, personal satellite into orbit is not such a far-fetched idea after all. Interorbital Systems, which makes rockets and spacecraft, created a kit last year that lets almost anyone with a passion for electronics and space build a satellite. The $8,000 kit includes the price of the launch
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Extreme Hobbyists Put Satellites Into Orbit With $8,000 Kits
Asked about the potential for iPad sales to cannibalize Mac sales, Apple executives shrugged off the issue as insignificant, then pointed toward the potential of iPads to sell even more Macs and iPhones as part of an overall halo effect.
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Apple prefers halo effect over fears of iPad cannibalization of Macs
While noting domestic growth in the US that has consistently outpaced the overall industry for the last 17 consecutive quarters, Apple drew specific attention to even more dramatic growth in sales internationally in its June quarter conference call.
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Apple: "international numbers are absolutely killer"
Apple just released its financial results for its fiscal 2010 third quarter ended June 26, 2010, and the numbers are pretty impressive… Here are some interesting data for you: 8.4 million iPhones sold, 61% increase year-on-year 3.27 million iPads sold 9.41 million iPods sold 3.47 million Macs sold – a record Want to talk $$$? Here you go… revenue of $15.7 billion net quarterly profit of $3.25 billion ” Apple Sold 8,400,000 iPhones in the Last 3 Months ” is an article by the iPhone Download Blog sponsored by the iPhone Store . Feel free to leave a comment or discuss this topic in the forum .
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Apple Sold 8,400,000 iPhones in the Last 3 Months
Apple reported yet another impressive quarter Tuesday, with record sales of 3.47 million Macs helping to propel the company to $3.25 billion in profits, a 77 percent increase from a year prior. Following the news, Apple executives conducted a financial conference call with analysts and the press, and notes of interest follow.
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Notes of interest from Apple’s Q3 2010 conference call
Market analysts at iSuppli have revised their iPad sales forecasts for 2010 from 7.1 million units to 12.9 million, writing that “product demand [is] expected to vastly exceed available supply” and calling the new mobile computing appliance “the ‘Tickle Me Elmo’ of the 2010 holiday season.”
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iSuppli: Apple’s iPad the "Tickle Me Elmo" of 2010, boosts forecast
We saw before that it is possible to opt out of targeted iAds . But what if you don’t want to have any iAd at all on your iPhone? You guessed it, there’s an app for that… Don’t even waste your time looking in the App Store because you won’t find anything there
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Want to Get Rid of iAds? There’s An App for That