| No stolen iPhone prototype, say SF cops Posted: 01 Sep 2011 09:20 PM PDT 
Categories: iPHONETOUCH.BLORGE When you breathe the strange, rarified air that surrounds all things Apple, it’s hard to know what to believe. Thereupon, if San Francisco’s finest, or at least their spokesman, are believable, then the story of the second lost iPhone prototype has come to a swift and inglorious end, but not before providing a few laughs. [...] |
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| Michael Arrington becomes a venture capitalist, with AOL’s help and investment Posted: 01 Sep 2011 09:20 PM PDT 
Categories: TECH.BLORGE TechCrunch founder and influential technology writer Michael Arrington is switching from blogging about startups to funding them. And he has the full backing of AOL in doing so. Arrington was an attorney in Silicon Valley before launching TechCrunch in 2005. One of the most high profile technology blogs in the world, TechCrunch particularly focused on [...] |
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| Must have gift for Apple fans Posted: 01 Sep 2011 12:00 PM PDT 
Categories: MAC.BLORGE There are geeky gifts — iPod keychain, snarky t-shirt, iMac fish tank — and then there’s this piece of CNC machined Aluminum awesomeness. Whereas the one hanging around Steve Jobs’ neck doesn’t need a battery, this glowing pendant will set your Mac loving loved one’s heart racing and make her, or her, the envy of [...] |
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| Sprint jacks up early termination fee Posted: 01 Sep 2011 11:00 AM PDT 
Categories: MOBILE.BLORGE Sprint is ready to be a big-time network with big-time handsets. And unfortunately it’s going to have big-time penalty fees. As of September 9, the maximum cost for canceling a service contract early will rise from $200 to $350 for smartphones, tablets and portable computers. That’s the same fee as Verizon charges, and $25 more [...] |
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| Graphene’s slippery electrons could power broadband Posted: 01 Sep 2011 09:38 AM PDT 
Categories: TECH.BLORGE What possible practical application would a one-atom think layer of graphite have in the real world? For five to 10 years, likely none. When the scientists get their grants — faster internet! — and deliver usable goods, more efficient electronics, communications and power generation are touted as top prospects. BBC is running this headline: Graphene [...] |
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| Not again! Apple lost another iPhone prototype Posted: 01 Sep 2011 07:20 AM PDT 
Categories: iPHONETOUCH.BLORGE No police report has been filed in this particular incident, but the details are already familiar. An apple employee, hopefully not Gray Powell, left an iPhone 5 prototype in a San Francisco “tequila lounge” whereafter it might have been sold on Craigslist. I’m guessing Gizmodo wasn’t the buyer. The internet is alive with a rumor [...] |
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