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Apple's iPhone 4S Battery Troubles Now Joined By New Problems

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November 12, 2011
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Apple's iPhone 4S Battery Troubles Now Joined By New Problems Apple is facing new gripes that its iOS 5.0.1 update is causing more problems with the iPhone 4S including: microphone failures, Wi-Fi signal loss, and cellular network reception issues, according to reports.
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New iOS 5.0.1 Glitches: Is Apple Entirely to Blame? Apple's latest iOS update may very well have issues, but it may not be the sole culprit for newly reported problems.
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Siri's Vocals are Six Years Old A voice-over artist reveals he is the voice of the iPhone 4S personal assistant, and made the recordings six years ago.
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Gamers Go Wild Over Latest Call of Duty Activision Publishing says it sold 6.5 million units worth more than $400 million in the first 24 hours of the highly anticipated game's release, setting another launch record.
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Apple: Original iPod Nanos Can Heat Up The battery of the original iPod Nano -- sold between September 2005 and December 2006 -- may overheat, and that risk increases as the battery ages.
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Kindle Fire Intrigues Tablet Shoppers A survey reveals more than three times as many potential buyers are considering the $199 Amazon Kindle Fire over the bestselling iPad.
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Hackers May Have Spent Years Crafting Duqu The hacker group behind Duqu may have been working on its attack code for more than four years, new analysis of the Trojan revealed Friday.
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Wanted: A Kindle Fire Phone Analysis: Why has no one built the iPhone of Android phones -- Something elegant, approachable, and uncluttered, with carefully bundled services?
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LG Could Debut Google TV at CES An LG-branded TV could help Google's ambitious effort to bring Internet content to your television, an undertaking that has failed to garner consumer interest since its launch.
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Find the Right LinkedIn Group For You With more than 1.1 million LinkedIn Groups, users are bound to find professionals that share similar interests and goals--LinkedIn has groups for CIOs, IT professionals, social media enthusiasts, and more.
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Spam Researchers Help Bust Global Cybercrime Ring Analysis of hundreds of millions of junk e-mail messages identifies related scams and pinpoints likely sources of phishing and fraud.
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Facebook and Privacy Don't Mix Well Facebook is nearing a settlement with the FTC over privacy charges, but expecting a social network to be private is a little silly.
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Will Google Roll Out its Music Store Next Week? Google has been sending out mysterious, music-themed invites.
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Online Scrapbook Site Collects World War II Memories An online family scrapbook company in San Francisco, 1000memories, is collecting oral histories from World War II veterans in Yountville, California, to share...
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The Cloud, Day 4: Checking Out Google Docs I need to test out cloud-based productivity suites to choose one to use for the rest of the 30 Days With the Cloud series, and I am starting with Google Docs.
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How to Stop Telemarketing Calls to Your Mobile Phone Many people are under the misguided perception that mobile phone are automatically off limits for telemarketing and solicitation calls.
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House Hearing on Stop Online Piracy Act Scheduled The U.S. House of Representatives Judiciary Committee will conduct a hearing on the controversial copyright enforcement bill, the Stop Online Piracy Act, on...
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RightScale Cozies up to OpenStack, SoftLayer RightScale is adding OpenStack and SoftLayer to the list of cloud services that can be managed from its RightScale Cloud Management Platform.
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Walmart Tries New Tech With Eye on Consumers Walmart could start letting shoppers buy products in the aisles and skip the checkout line, but the world's largest retailer needs to find out how that would...
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The New Nook, an Autonomous Asimo, and the EU Hackathon On World Tech Update this week: Barnes & Noble launches its Nook Tablet, Adobe abandons mobile Flash, Microsoft heralds the launch of Windows Phone 7.5, and more.
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Apple's iPhone 4S Battery Troubles Now Joined By New Problems Apple is facing new gripes that its iOS 5.0.1 update is causing more problems with the iPhone 4S including: microphone failures, Wi-Fi signal loss, and cellular network reception issues, according to reports.
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