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Consumer Reports iPhone Slam, Boon for Droid X Debut

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July 13, 2010
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Consumer Reports iPhone Slam, Boon for Droid X Debut Motorola and Verizon couldn't have picked a better time to release the iPhone 4 rival Droid X.
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Consumer Reports Throws iPhone 4 Under the Bus Consumer Reports is no longer recommending Apple's iPhone. On Monday the iPhone 4 received a 'do not recommend' rating from the consumer ratings publication.
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Apple's Arrogance and the iPhone 4 Antenna Debacle The Antenna Crisis is getting uglier by the minute, and it's time for some serious crisis control from the folks in Cupertino.
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Apple Forum Police Erase Consumer Reports Threads Apple apparently has removed forums that relate to Consumer Reports' story about the iPhone 4's antenna.
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iPhone 4 Grip of Death: I Believe I'm finally convinced that the iPhone 4's antenna problem is real, that it's affecting my phone in certain situations.
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Facebook Bought For $1000? Lawsuit Claims 85 Percent Ownership A New York state judge has issued a temporary restraining order restricting any transfer of assets by Facebook in response to a lawsuit alleging part ownership of the company by Paul D. Ceglia who claims 85 percent ownership of the social network.
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Man Claims 84 Percent Ownership of Facebook New York resident Paul Ceglia says in 2003 a $1000 investment in Facebook entitles him to own 84 percent of the social networking behemoth today.
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Microsoft: New Xbox 360 In Development for Two Years Microsoft's Senior Director of Xbox Product Management talks about the design decisions that led to its new slimline Xbox 360 in part one of our two-part interview.
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Will Google's DIY Apps Boost the Lagging Android Market? When any Android smartphone user can easily write an app, volume may increase but quality will vary.
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Google App Inventor Boosts App Numbers, Not Quality As Android lowers the barriers to developing apps for its OS it also the risk of lowering the overall quality of mobile applications available in Android Market.
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iPhone 4 Gets 'Thumbs Down' from Consumer Reports CR first said that the iPhone's reception issues werent unique and might not be a major problem, but it has made something of a turnaround from its initial impressions.
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Microsoft Releases Win7 SP1 Beta, WinXP Gets a Reprieve Microsoft Releases Windows 7 SP1 beta and gives Windows XP a reprieve (yup, another one).
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Microsoft's Tablet Strategy: More Business than Consumer? Steve Ballmer's WPC 2010 keynote hints at Microsoft's intentions for the burgeoning slate market.
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Google Pumps Money into Zynga, Plans Social Gaming Service Sources say the company that makes Farmville and other popular Facebook games will be the cornerstone of a service called Google Games, set to launch later this year.
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Picnik Photo Editing Comes To Picasa Web Google Picasa Web users can now edit their photos without leaving their Web browser using the image editing Web service Picknik.
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Ballmer: Microsoft 'Months' From Tablet Launch Microsoft's CEO Steve Ballmer is making big promises his company will deliver a plethora of tablets and smartphones in the months ahead.
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How to Change Android Folder Icons There is a way to change the icons -- and customize your home screens even more while you're at it. You just have to turn to a third-party app to get the job done.
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Driving While Texting, Sinking to New Lows Texting like a madwoman, toes flapping in the breeze, tooling on down the highway: This diva was not only the embodiment of distracted driving, but a genuine trailblazer.
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Hands-on With Motorola's Droid X Verizon Wireless on Thursday will start selling Motorola's highly anticipated smartphone, the Droid X, a faster and multimedia-savvy successor to the original...
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GameStop Staffer: Used Games Have Trapped Us A GameStop employee takes on Develop conference keynoter, claiming that without used games, GameStop would have to exit the business.
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