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Submission + - iPhone 4 loses service when holding it (gizmodo.com)

Submitted by snowboardin159 on Friday June 25, 2010 @04:15AM

snowboardin159 writes: This is a reader video found on Macrumors forums illustrating something weird. When the guy holds the iPhone in his hands, touching the outside antenna band in two places, he drops reception. Placing the phone down gets him 4 bars.

Submission + - iPhone 4 Problems:Users' Biggest Complaints So Far (blogspot.com)

Submitted by intelligentb on Thursday June 24, 2010 @05:28PM

intelligentb writes: Apple iPhone May 4 received rave reviews from critics, but how has your phone fared in the wild, in the hands of Apple users?

Consumers are reporting iPhone four problems, ranging from a speckled screen for reception problems.

See what the biggest complaints has been (so far!) In slideshow blelow.

Submission + - Xbox 360 "Slim" Eats Discs 9

Submitted by blackholepcs on Friday June 18, 2010 @03:01PM

blackholepcs writes: A video on YouTube of a demonstration for the Xbox 360 "Slim" model at E3 2010 shows that moving an Xbox 360 "Slim" with the disc running is mabye not such a good idea. View the video here : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OdOjzuJByXg&feature=player_embedded

Submission + - Shotwell - The F-Spot Replacement For Ubuntu (techdrivein.com) 2

Submitted by

climenole

on Sunday June 13, 2010 @11:45AM

climenole writes: "Finally! The much discussed about F-Spot vs Shotwell battle is over. The new default image organizer app for Ubuntu Maverick 10.10 is going to be Shotwell. This is a much needed change and F-Spot was simply not enough. Most of the times when I tried F-Spot, it just keeps crashing on me. Shotwell on a other hand feels a lot more solid and is better integrated with GNOME desktop. Shotwell is also completely devoid of Mono."

New LLVM Debugger Subproject Already Faster Than GDB 174

Posted by timothy on Thursday June 10, 2010 @03:38PM from the pop-will-eat-itself dept.

kthreadd writes "The LLVM project is now working on a debugger called LLDB that's already faster than GDB and could be a possible alternative in the future for C, C++, and Objective-C developers. With the ongoing success of Clang and other LLVM subprojects, are the days of GNU as the mainstream free and open development toolchain passé?" LLVM stands for Low Level Virtual Machine; Wikipedia as usual has a good explanation of the parent project.

Submission + - Apple Safari 5 hype machine rewrites history again (apple.com) 3

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 09, 2010 @12:06AM

An anonymous reader writes: Apple quietly rolled out Safari 5 after the WWDC first day. Along with the rollout came the hype propaganda rewriting history again by claiming that
"Safari is the first — and only — web browser to pass Acid 3"! I wonder if you can see the Opera house or Chrome outside of a walled garden...

Submission + - Apple's share value surpasses Microsoft (nytimes.com)

Submitted by richaemry on Wednesday May 26, 2010 @03:48PM

richaemry writes: The New York Times reports that shortly after 2:30pm on May 26 2010 that shares of Apple rose to a value of 227.1 billion and shares of Microsoft declined to a value 226.3 billion making apple the most valuable tech stock in the world. The only American company worth mare money is Exxon Mobile valued at 282 billion.

Submission + - Microsoft Accuses Google Docs of Data Infidelity

Submitted by

Hugh Pickens

on Saturday May 15, 2010 @10:16AM

Hugh Pickens writes: "For years Google has been pitching migrations from Microsoft Office to Google Docs arguing that Docs makes Office 2003 and 2007 better because users can store Microsoft Office documents in Google's cloud and share them in their original format. Now eWeek reports that Alex Payne, director of Microsoft's online product management team, says that moving files created with Office to Google Docs results in the loss of data fidelity including the loss of such data components as charts, styles, watermarks, fonts, tracked changes, and SmartArt. "They are claiming that an organization can use both seamlessly," Payne writes. "This just isn't the case." Meanwhile Google defended its original "Docs makes Office better" in a statement noting that it has made a lot of improvements to the Web editors in Docs with its recent refresh from last month and promised that functionality will only get better as Google integrates the DocVerse assets into Docs. "It says a lot about Microsoft's approach to customer lock-in that the company touts its proprietary document formats, which only Microsoft software can render with true fidelity, as the reason to avoid using other products," says a Google spokesperson."

Submission + - Google Android Outsells Apple iPhone (nytimes.com)

Submitted by gollum123 on Monday May 10, 2010 @02:17PM

gollum123 writes: Smartphones based on Google’s Android mobile operating system have outsold Apple’s iPhone in the U.S. during the first quarter of 2010, according to a report by research firm The NPD Group. The data places Android, with 28 percent of the smartphone market, in second place behind RIM’s Blackberry smartphone market share of 36 percent. Apple now sits in third place with 21 percent. NPD points to a Verizon buy-one-get-one-free promotion for all of its smartphones as a major factor in the first quarter numbers. Verizon saw strong sales for the Motorola Droid and Droid Eris Android phones, as well as the Blackberry Curve, thanks to its promotional offer. Verizon launched a $100 million marketing campaign for the Droid when it hit the market in November 2009, which likely attributed to strong sales in the first quarter as well.

Submission + - NPD: Android overtakes iPhone marketshare (engadget.com)

Submitted by binarylarry on Monday May 10, 2010 @12:54PM

binarylarry writes: Engadget reports that Google's smartphone OS, Android, has surpassed that of Apple's popular iPhone offering, in terms of US marketshare.

Submission + - Google Rolls Out First Flashified Chrome (conceivablytech.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 04, 2010 @06:30PM

An anonymous reader writes: Take this, Apple. Google quietly released a new beta version of its Chrome browser, which not only blows its rivals out of the water as far as performance is concerned, but comes with half a dozen new features, including direct integration of Adobe Flash. First benchmarks show that the new beta is about 10% faster than the previous beta in the SunSpider and V8 benchmark, and about 30% faster than Chrome 4, which remains the fastest Javascript browser available today. Kudos to the Chrome team, the speed gains are truly amazing.

Submission + - Comment: Has Intel's Android move wrong-footed Mic (eetimes.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 16, 2010 @09:32AM

An anonymous reader writes: Did Intel break an understanding with Microsoft by getting Google's Android software stack to run on the Atom microprocessor asks this artilce from EE Times . It speculates that Microsoft was willing to limit its support for the ARM processor architecture, thereby protecting Intel, while ever Intel did not support Android, which offers competition to Windows. But Intel is apparently serious about breaking into the smartphone world. ARM hardly needs Windows 7 to get into netbook computers....but could we see an ARM-powered notebook?

Comment 22 Million Android Phones A Year & Fastest Gro (Score 1) 664

by MediaStreams on Thursday April 15, 2010 @06:40PM (#31864940) Attached to: Apple Blocks Cartoonist From App Store

Months ago it was announced by Google that Android phones were selling at a rate of about 22 million a year already. And Android's marketshare has been doubling every quarter for the past year.

At the incredible rate Android is growing I have to imagine it is currently selling at a much higher rate than 22 million a year now.

Submission + - iPhone 3GS goes down at Pwn2Own (zdnet.com)

Submitted by TwiztidK on Wednesday March 24, 2010 @07:12PM

TwiztidK writes: A pair of European researchers used the spotlight of the CanSecWest Pwn2Own hacking contest here to break into a fully patched iPhone and hijack the entire SMS database, including text messages that had already been deleted.

Using an exploit against a previously unknown vulnerability, the duo — Vincenzo Iozzo and Ralf Philipp Weinmann — lured the target iPhone to a rigged Web site and exfiltrated the SMS database in about 20 seconds.

Comment Amazing How Easy It Has Been For Microsoft (Score 2, Interesting) 215

by MediaStreams on Monday March 08, 2010 @11:13PM (#31409424) Attached to: Why Microsoft Can't Afford To Let Novell Die

When Novell sold out to Microsoft you had open source kooks falling all over each other to proclaim that they would go right on using Novell products and projects so they could brag about how 'open minded' they were to the rest of the world(who didn't give a shit one way or another).

You have to imagine the execs up in Redmond were just shaking their heads in disgust that they had disrupted the open source/Linux world with so little effort.

I don't think Microsoft is really actively wasting time with Ubuntu. They don't have to. Linux marketshare is going nowhere outside of statistical blips. They have Miguel de Icaza doing so much damage to desktop Linux adoption and application development with the Gnome/KDE split and the Mono fiasco that they surely must be entirely focused on Google and Apple(commercial companies run by grownups and staffed by competent people who put in 40+ hour a week work on the unglamorous work that goes into creating polished consumer ready software).

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