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Jobs Knew: Form over function decision resulted in antenna mess

Unfortunately, the obsession with magical industrial design and good looks trumped over engineering and functionality. Another day when form defeated function. Or as some would say, beauty lorded over brains. And the rest is history. With all the brouhaha surrounding the iPhone 4 antenna issue, you can’t be blamed for thinking why the brilliant engineers […]

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

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”

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

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

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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Apple fixes issue with iOS 4 and Exchange ActiveSync

Users of Apple’s new iPhone 4 phones or iPhone 3G, 3GS or iPod Touch users who upgraded to iOS 4 have been reporting issues synchronizing to Exchange Server using Exchange ActiveSync (EAS). The issue with Apple’s latest mobile operating system, iOS 4, also results in additional load on Exchange Server, which may cause performance issues […]

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Microsoft: Let the numbers do the talking

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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HTC Droid not synchronizing with Exchange 2010?

Last year Apple riled IT departments and security community when it was revealed that before the iPhone 3.1 OS release, iPhones had bee incorrectly reporting their policy compliance for encrypting device data (or as some critics said— the iPhone was lying about its policy compliance). See previous post iPhone OS 3.1 Security Changes and Exchange […]

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Released: Windows Live Messenger for iPhone

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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Microsoft and Research in Motion announce full BES support for Exchange 2010

Microsoft and Research in Motion have just announced full BlackBerry Enterprise Server (BES) support for Exchange 2010 – the earliest customers have been able to deploy BlackBerry smartphones with a new Exchange release— ever. You’ll need the just-released Update Rollup 1 for Exchange 2010, Exchange Server MAPI Client v6.5.8147, and BlackBerry Enterprise Server 5.01 Maintenance […]

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