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∞ Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak on cell phones and cancer

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Filmmaker Kevin Kunze is putting together a documentary exposing what he calls “the truth behind the negative health effects of cell phones.” “Through extensive research and interviews with the world’s leading doctors, scientists, politicians, activists, and victims; DISCONNECT traces the … Continued

∞ Apple announces iPhone 5 event for Oct. 4

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Note: We are at Apple’s iPhone event. Join us for our live blog coverage. Apple on Tuesday officially announced its iPhone 5 launch event. According to the invitation received by The Loop, the event will be held on October 4 … Continued

∞ Apple's hypocritical patent lawsuits

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Joe Wilcox writing for BetaNews: I’ve been fairly critical of Apple’s recent patent bullying — what I call innovation through intimidation/litigation. The Apple Fanclub of bloggers and journalists defend the company’s patent and other intellectual property claims as protecting its … Continued

∞ Verizon sides with Samsung against Apple

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FOSS Patents: Verizon, the largest U.S. wireless carrier, implores the United States District Court for the Northern District of California to deny Apple’s request for a US-wide preliminary injunction against four Samsung products (the Infuse 4G, Galaxy S 4G and … Continued

∞ Harman offers Bluetooth portable speaker system

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Harman International on Thursday announced its JBL On Tour iBT, a battery-powered speaker system that wirelessly streams audio from your Mac or iOS device using Bluetooth. Its suggested retail price is $199. The JBL On Tour iBT incorporates four full-range … Continued

∞ Employee-owned iPhone, iPad an 'unstoppable train'

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AppleInsider: That observation, by RBC Capital Markets analyst Mike Abramsky, was made in response to Gartner’s presentation, which estimated that 40 percent of organizations already support employee owned mobile devices. Gartner called the trend toward “bring your own devices” as … Continued

∞ Apple's iPhone 5 event on October 4

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John Paczkowski: Tuesday, October 4. That’s the day Apple is currently expected to hold its next big media event, according to sources close to the situation, where the tech giant will unveil the next iteration of its popular iPhone. Yep.

∞ iOS icons made entirely in CSS

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The following demo was made using a variety of CSS techniques. Rounded corners, shadows, gradients, rgba, pseudo-elements, and transforms are just some of them. A lot of these were generated by helpful tools, such as westciv’s tools and Border Radius. … Continued

∞ In-app purchase revenue growing

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Chris Herbert for MacStories: Freemium apps (free to download, but require an in-app purchase to expand the app) are growing particularly faster in the in-app purchasing paradise. Free app downloads have increased by 34% since 2010 while paid downloads only … Continued

∞ HP lays off 525 webOS employees

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John Paczkowski: The company, which announced plans to shutter its webOS hardware business back in August, is sacking hundreds of employees as a result. Sources close to HP say the company plans to lay off as many as 525 employees, … Continued

∞ Cellular South joins AT&T pig-pile

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CNet: Wireless provider Cellular South has filed suit against AT&T’s proposed T-Mobile merger, arguing that the deal should not be approved. In a complaint filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia and seen by CNET, Cellular … Continued

∞ Canon adds AirPrint support to Pixma printers

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Canon on Tuesday announced support for AirPrint, iOS’s built-in printing capability, in its Pixma MG8220, MG6220 and MG5320 All-In-One inkjet photo printers. What’s more, Canon also said “the majority of Canon Pixma inkjet printers” will support AirPrint as well. AirPrint … Continued

∞ Texting in America

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Pew Research Center: Young adults are the most avid texters by a wide margin. Cell owners between the ages of 18 and 24 exchange an average of 109.5 messages on a normal day—that works out to more than 3,200 texts … Continued

∞ Stealing vs borrowing

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App Cubby founder, David Barnard: When you steal an idea and have the time and good taste to make it your own, it grows into something different, hopefully something greater. But as you borrow more and more from other products, … Continued

∞ Samsung plans to block iPhone 5 in Korea

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“Just after the arrival of the iPhone 5 here, Samsung plans to take Apple to court here for its violation of Samsung’s wireless technology related patents,” said an anonymous Samsung senior executive. “For as long as Apple does not drop … Continued

∞ Stupid quotes from RIM

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Balsillie on the iPhone in February 2007 from BusinessInsider: “It’s kind of one more entrant into an already very busy space with lots of choice for consumers … But in terms of a sort of a sea-change for BlackBerry, I … Continued

∞ AT&T dangles LTE as T-Mobile acquisition benefit

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Associated Press (via Google): AT&T’s LTE plans have figured in the company’s bid to buy T-Mobile USA for $39 billion. AT&T says it originally planned to build out LTE to cover 80 percent of the U.S. population, but if regulators … Continued

∞ Seven states pile on AT&T/T-Mobile merger block

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Washington Post: The attorney generals of California, Illinois, Massachusetts, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Washington joined the suit filed in the U.S. District Court of the District of Columbia. They argued that the deal would violate antitrust laws by reducing … Continued

∞ BlackBerry Messenger outage hits Canada, Latin America

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Electronista: BlackBerry owners on Friday were dealt more unfortunate news Friday after many reported losing access to Internet services. Both BlackBerry Messenger and e-mail faced outages, primarily in Canada and Latin American countries. RIM was “investigating” as of Friday afternoon but didn’t have a … Continued

∞ The decline of BlackBerry ASP

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Note: This is a guest post by Matt Richman. You can learn more about Matt on his Web site. RIM just reported earnings (PDF) for its second fiscal quarter of 2012. Seventy-three percent of its $4.2 billion in revenue came … Continued