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Consumer Reports confirms iPhone 4 design flaw: Will Apple admit?

July 12, 2010

The influential Consumer Reports magazine confirms the iPhone 4′s design flaw after its engineers test the phone in a Radio Frequency isolation chamber. Consumer Reports recommends customers wanting to buy an iPhone consider buying the older iPhone 3GS instead. Watch the iPhone 4 Design Defect Confirmed video below. Of course, given the craze for anything [...]

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History bites back: Apple iPhone 4′s “Grip of Death”

July 7, 2010

Photo courtesy Gizmodo Ironically, the iPhone 4′s antenna design flaw is increasingly being labeled the “Grip of Death”— a play on the proverbial term “Blue Screen of Death” (BSOD), used for the blue screen generated when Windows operating systems from a few generations ago crashed. (Yes, those ancient BSODs — when was the last time [...]

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The Curious Case of iPhone 4 Antenna and Reception Issues

July 6, 2010

Quick Summary Apple’s new iPhone 4 causes a furore due to dropped calls and demonstrated lowering of signal strength when held from the lower left-hand side Apple CEO Steve Jobs responds to iPhone 4 customer complaint with “Just avoid holding it in that way.” Law firm files class action law suit against Apple for dropped [...]

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Microsoft confirms iOS 4 ActiveSync Issues, helping Apple resolve them

July 1, 2010

Microsoft is working with Apple to help it resolve issues with iOS 4, Apple’s latest update to the iPhone OS, and Exchange ActiveSync. Earlier this week Apple released an update to fix some of these issues. See iOS 4 And Exchange ActiveSync on the Exchange team blog. Google and Exchange ActiveSync Last year, Google licensed [...]

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Microsoft: Let the numbers do the talking

June 28, 2010

It’s been an eventful few weeks in technology. The mainstream and tech media (and fanboys’) euphoria over Apple surpassing Microsoft’s market capitalization (i.e. price per share x number of shares) hasn’t completely died yet. Meanwhile, we’ve seen Microsoft’s Project Natal technology bear fruit as Microsoft Kinect, available for pre-order now and coming soon to a [...]

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Windows 7 Crosses the 150 Million Mark

June 23, 2010

A few weeks ago, Microsoft announced it sold 100 million copies of Windows 7 in 6 months (see Windows 7 reaches the 100 million mark). A few weeks later, an update from Brandon LeBlanc— Windows 7 has now sold 150 million copies! More in 150 Million Licenses of Windows 7 Sold, Windows Live Betas Announced [...]

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Released: Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack 3

June 21, 2010

Close on the heels of Exchange 2010 SP 1 beta, Microsoft has just released Exchange 2007 SP 3. You can download the service pack from the download center. Exchange 2007 SP3 adds compatiblity for Windows Server 2008 R2 to Exchange 2007. With SP3, you can also install Exchange 2007 administration tools on Windows 7 clients. [...]

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Released: Windows Live Messenger for iPhone

June 21, 2010

Driving to the Silicon Valley Campus (SVC) this morning, I was thinking about about the possiblities of an iPhone version of Microsoft Office Communicator — the Instant Messaging and soft phone client for Office Communications Server. Microsoft already ships Microsoft Messenger, an OCS client for the Mac OS, so a mobile client for the iPhone [...]

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Office 2010 Hits Retail Stores

June 15, 2010

Starting today, Microsoft Office 2010 is available in retail stores. As I’ve indicated in some previous posts, I’m a big fan of Office 2010, particularly of Outlook 2010 which now has the pervasive ribbon UI and overall a great user experience. Another favorite is OneNote 2010, an Office app that’s become as essential as Outlook, [...]

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Office Web Apps on the iPad?

June 9, 2010

With yesterday’s launch of Office Web Apps on SkyDrive, and the ability to access it on mobile web browsers, could the iPad be far behind? Viewing Office docs in Office Web Apps is possible on the iPad but CNET’s Ina Fried was able to trick it to allow creation of Excel spreadsheets in the iPad’s [...]

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