Unlucky Thief Caught 10 Minutes After Stealing iPhone

You?d think people would learn.
Last week, a man grabbed an iPhone out of the hands of a woman standing on a San Francisco city street, then sped off on his bicycle.
Ten minutes later, he was in custody of the police. It was his bad luck that the victim had been in the middle of testing a GPS-tracking app, and the app was running on the phone at that very moment.
She returned to the office, called the police, and was able to give them the exact location of the iPhone because the app was still running.
?This reminds me of the bank robber who arrives during the security test,? said the phone?s owner, David Kahn, in the newspaper report. Kahn is the CEO of Covia Labs, and had given the phone to another person in order to demonstrate his company?s GPS-tracking capabilities.
The would-be thief isn?t the first phone grabber to be nabbed thanks to GPS. In 2007, the town of Babylon on New York?s Long Island was able to retrieve 14 stolen city phones, thanks to GPS tracking. A company called GadgetTrak has a whole page of devices retrieved using GPS and the company?s software. Apple offers a ?find my iPhone? feature with its optional, $100/year MobileMe service, and similar services are available for other GPS-enabled phones.
And don?t forget that Brian Hogan was tracked down by the authorities after allegedly taking home a prototype iPhone he found in a bar, thus kicking off one of the biggest gadget stories of the year.
For now, the odds are probably still in phone-snatchers? favor: You have to have a GPS-capable phone, and you need to have some kind of tracking app or service turned on before you lose the phone. But over time, an increasing number of phones are going to be trackable, whether they are stolen or simply lost in the trash.
Thieves should probably start to think twice before snatching a phone out of someone?s hand.
Unluckiest thief nabs iPhone with GPS tracker (San Francisco Chronicle)
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iPhone 4 will be available in 17 more countries this Friday, July 30

Apple?s iPhone 4 will be available in 17 more countries this Friday, July 30. iPhone 4 features FaceTime, which makes video calling as easy as one tap, Apple?s new Retina display, the highest resolution display ever built into a phone, resulting in stunning text, images and video, and a beautiful all-new design of glass and stainless steel that is the thinnest smartphone in the world.
Beginning this Friday, customers can purchase iPhone 4 in Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Finland, Hong Kong, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, New Zealand, Singapore, Spain, Sweden and Switzerland. iPhone 4 will be available for purchase through Apple?s retail and online stores and Apple Authorized Resellers.

iPhone 4 also features a 5 megapixel camera with LED flash, HD 720p video recording, Apple?s A4 processor, a 3-axis gyro and up to 40 percent longer talk time. iPhone 4 comes with iOS 4, the newest version of the world?s most advanced mobile operating system, which features Multitasking, Folders, enhanced Mail, deeper Enterprise support and Apple?s new iAd mobile advertising platform.
Pricing & Availability
iPhone 4 will be available in Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Finland, Hong Kong, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, New Zealand, Singapore, Spain, Sweden and Switzerland this Friday, July 30.
iPhone 4 is currently available in France, Germany, Japan, the UK and the US for a suggested retail price of $199 (US) for the 16GB model and $299 (US) for the 32GB model. iPhone 4 will roll out to many more countries later this year and Apple will announce availability and local pricing for these additional countries at a later date.
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Intel to Ramp up Sandy Bridge Faster Than Expected

Intel's latest microprocessor family, code-named Sandy Bridge, will start rolling off production lines faster than expected due to rave reviews by customers, the company's CEO said Tuesday.
The world's largest chip maker even plans to spend more money on new factory equipment to speed up the rollout of the chips.
"I am more excited by Sandy Bridge than I have been in any product that the company has launched in a number of years," said Paul Otellini, Intel's president and CEO, during the company's second quarter conference call. "Due to the very strong reception of Sandy Bridge, we have accelerated our 32-nanometer factory ramp and have raised our capex guidance to enable us to meet the anticipated demand."
The company raised its capital expenditures guidance to US$5.2 billion [B] from $4.8 billion previously.
Intel started sending sample chips from the Sandy Bridge family to customers last quarter, giving them a chance to see what the chips can do, he said. Strong feedback prompted the company to speed up the factory ramp up.
Otellini declined to say when laptops and desktops with Sandy Bridge chips inside will hit the market, though he did say Intel will ship Sandy Bridge for revenue late this year. He also said more information on the chips will be available at the Intel Developer Forum (IDF) in San Francisco this September.
Sandy Bridge is Intel's latest microchip architecture and will replace the previous generation, Nehalem architecture. Sandy Bridge chips will be speedier and more energy efficient than predecessors, and will include processing cores, a graphics processing core, memory controller and cache subsystem all on one chip.
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Death of Film: Last Roll of Kodachrome Processed

What do you know about Dwayne?s Photo Service of Parsons, Kansas? It is the place where the very last roll of the Kodachrome was processed.
Kodachrome, the slide-film that inspired songs, was discontinued by Kodak last year at 74 years of age. The color emulsion was a victim of its own weird processing requirements, which didn?t use the usual E6 chemistry designed for transparency film, and therefore wasn?t worth supporting in the age of digital.
The last roll was shot by National Geographic photographer Steve McCurry, who shot the 36 exposures in New York (actually, the last three shots were exposed in Parsons before dropping off the film at Dwayne?s). The pictures will be part of a National Geographic piece in the near future.
McCurry?s film may have been the official last roll off the production line, but Dwayne?s will still process any Kodachrome that you might have until December 10th this year. And then it will shut down, forever. People may still shoot analog, but with the death of Kodachrome comes the spiritual death of film.
Last Kodachrome roll processed in Parsons [Wichita Eagle via Retro Thing]
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Has AT&T fixed HSUPA upload speeds in your area?

A bunch of readers are telling us AT&T and Alcatel Lucent have fixed the issues with HSUPA (high speed uploads) and their iPhone 4?s a positively racing up the information superhighway again. Not everyone in every place seems so lucky, however, as our good friend @TCPJ_Mickey, still seems to be chugging along sub-100 in Arizona.

You know what this means, right? Speed test!

We use speedtest.net?s app [iTunes link] but whatever your choice of measure, post where you are and what your upload speeds look like today and we?ll see if we can figure out if AT&T really is giving more Mbps in more places.

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Walmart, Best Buy in Sub-$300 Laptop Price War

Walmart and Best Buy appear to have kicked off a price war in time for the back-to-school shopping season, with both retailers offering Compaq laptops with 15.6-inch screens for under US$300.Walmart is selling Hewlett-Packard's Compaq Presario CQ62-219WM for $298 through its online store. Best Buy is selling a Compaq Presario CQ60-615DX for $299 on its website.The laptops have similar specifications. Both come with a single-core Intel Celeron 900 processor running at 2.2GHz and include 2GB of DDR2 memory. They also have 250GB hard drives, wired and 802.11 b/g/ wireless networking capabilities, DVD burners and Intel's 4500M integrated graphics. The systems come with Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit OS and include other applications often referred to as bloatware. One notable feature absent from the laptops is a webcam. Best Buy is also selling a $299 Toshiba Satellite C655-S5049 laptop on its website. That laptop also has a 15.6-inch screen and Celeron 900 processor, but includes 2GB of the faster DDR3 memory type.The price war is similar to one that broke out before last year's back-to-school season, said Stephen Baker, vice president of industry analysis at The NPD Group. That battle ignited last July when Best Buy offered an Acer laptop for $299, and Walmart undercut the price by $1 with a Compaq machine. "They are selling them because they drive traffic into the stores, provide great value to their customers [and] help each other compete against one another," Baker said.The stores will keep at it for as long as PC makers supply them with products that allow them to hit those price points, Baker said. PC makers may have tweaked configurations, by reducing the amount of memory or hard drive capacity, for example, to let the stores sell the machines for less.But reviewers seem to be content with the products. On the Best Buy website, 463 reviewers gave the Compaq laptop an average rating of 4.5 out of 5 stars. On the Walmart site, 15 reviewers gave its $298 laptop close to a 5 star rating.One Walmart reviewer said the laptop is good for basic productivity and Internet applications, but not for more demanding tasks."With an Intel Celeron 900 processor and 2GB of RAM, don't expect to be zipping through video editing apps, especially considering it is a single-core CPU," wrote one reviewer under the name noraaregnilc.HYNIX SEMICONDUCTOR HYPERCOM IBM

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