Yesterday, at the Apple music event in San Francisco, I had a short chat with Apple CEO Steve Jobs, as he strolled through the demo room for the media, just after he had announced various updates for the iPod, Apple TV and iTunes onstage.

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The iPhone 4’s epic launch of 1.7 million units sold globally in 3 days was largely overshadowed by the numerous problems afflicting the phone. Foremost is the phone’s antenna problems, which make its most basic functionality – making phone calls – troublesome for some users. Apple’s solution thus far has been to tell current generation purchasers to live with the issues and to give them a free case, which insulates the phone in order to prevent signal disruption.

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Google will release an iPhone version of its currently Android-based Google Goggles app by the end of the year, Google executives said Monday.
In a presentation at the Hot Chips conference at Stanford University, David Petrou, a project lead of Google Goggles, described the future of Goggles.

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Naturally, despite the recent launch of the iPhone 4, I’ve already began speculating about what to expect from Apple’s next invention, the iPhone 5. We’ve already had the rumour that the next handset will work as an electronic wallet, which would be very cool indeed, but what else could Apple do to make it extra special?

Rather than trying to guess specifications, I’m going to make a list of things I’d like to see on the next handset, enjoy!

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I almost always lug around my DSLR when travelling more than a few miles away from home. I often bring it to family functions, out to dinner, weddings and and other events. But as you can imagine, the giant rig isn’t always the right tool for the job and I sometimes substitue my Canon S90, a remarkable point and shoot. But I haven’t used the Canon S90 once since I got my iPhone 4.

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A recent Facebook blog post estimated that there were over 150 million Facebook users interacting with the service via their mobile devices.

It now appears the company were a little conservative in their estimates, with figures from the official application pages of the Facebook clients on different smartphones showing that the total was a lot higher than what was quoted.

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Flat-rate mobile data tariffs look like an endangered species in the US and Europe. Mobile operators say that the all-you-can-eat model is damaging their ability to increase their revenues, and that the cost of building next-generation networks and providing the backbone capacity for the data is a “critical challenge”.

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Asustek Computer saw sales of its netbooks in the second quarter fall short of expectations mainly due to competition from Apple’s iPad, and has downward adjusted its target shipments for the third quarter, the traditional peak sales period, to 1.4 million units, according to company president and CEO Jerry Shen at an investors conference on August 13.

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Droid Doesn’t. Or it could be that Droid Won’t. Or even Can’t.

But the statistical evidence is clear. The numbers do not claim to have been working late at the office. They merely expose a suspicion that has been harbored by many in the bars and bordellos of our nation.

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Skype is worried about whether the iPhone and other Apple products will undermine its VoIP services and is also insecure about whether it can achieve service levels good enough to lure business customers, according to the company’s filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission in preparation to offering public stock for the first time.

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Recently, Apple had held the Antennagate press conference to address the iPhone 4 network reception issues. And now a new research report from ChangeWave backs Steve Jobs’ claims that iPhone 4’s antenna had nothing to do with call drops. As per the survey, 213 new iPhone 4 owners reported lesser call drops compared to iPhone 3GS owners. Now it’s being buzzed over the web that iPhone 4 reception issue was kind of a media blowout.

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iPhone 4 vs. BlackBerry Torch: For the regular consumers who have been choosing iPhone and Android over BlackBerry, look at how the BlackBerry Torch stacks up against the iPhone 4.

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iOS devices—namely the iPhone and iPad—should now be secure enough for enterprise use, says Forrester Research’s Andrew Jaquith. The devices allegedly “satisfy the basic security needs of most enterprises,” and moreover have overwhelming demand from executives and other workers. “Your rank-and-file employees want it, and your executives have likely already made many special requests to your IT team,” the analyst comments.

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Don’t know who Rainn Wilson is? Do you know Dwight Schrute from ‘The Office’? If you do, the actor playing Dwight is the one-and-only Rainn Wilson. Still scratching your head? If that’s the case, you can read up on him right here.

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Hooray! Embedded YouTube videos are beginning to work without Flash. How? YouTube announced they are experimenting with new embed code that uses the iFrame interface to switch between Flash and HTML5 versions of the video.

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Major media companies are zeroing in on the Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) iPhone as the key to understanding consumers’ habits with regard to TV, online and mobile. The Coalition for Innovative Media Measurement (CIMM), the research initiative formed by major TV networks, agencies and advertisers, is preparing to sign up the Media Behavior Institute (MBI), a New York media-research firm, to help figure it all out—if members can agree on the project’s budget, according to the WSJ.

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CNNMoney.com reports on a recent survey from market research firm Yankee Group showing 73% of surveyed U.S. iPhone customers being “very satisfied” with AT&T as their carrier provider. The high figure appears rather surprising given AT&T’s much-maligned performance as it has struggled to keep up with surging demand on its network since the iPhone debuted three years ago.

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When Steve Jobs have held his special press conference on Friday, the objective was to mitigate the damaging PR that’s resulted from the iPhone 4 antenna mess. One of the ways Jobs did this was to first talk about how Apple is focused first and foremost on customer satisfaction.

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At Apple’s press conference to address iPhone 4 reception issues, the company announced that it has sold 3 million iPhone 4 units to date.

Although 1.7 million devices were sold in the first three days following the release, breaking the three million mark in just over three weeks is nothing short of stunning. To put all of this in perspective, remember that it took 74 days to sell the first million units of the original iPhone.

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Apple CEO Steve Jobs took the time to address the iPhone 4 antenna controversy on Friday, but he also dropped further tidbits on what’s down the road for the iPhone 4, including new countries, and news on the elusive white model.

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