According to a press release issued by the company, Apple admits iPhone 4 reception problems as ‘Incorrect Signal Display’. The iPhone 4 doesn’t have a hardware design flaw – it has a software bug. “We were stunned to find that the formula we use to calculate how many bars of signal strength to display is totally wrong,” says Apple. “Our formula, in many instances, mistakenly displays 2 more bars than it should for a given signal strength.” Link to Full Announcement They promise their software update will fix the way the iPhone 4 displays signal bars. However, they don’t claim the software patch would solve the signal attenuation problem caused by holding the iPhone 4 and touching the dead spot on its left bottom corner. The software patch will show the drop more accurately in the signal bar display. ...

In the past few days, Steve Jobs tweeted on all the signal reception issues occurring in iPhone 4 devices - in his own way - The best way to fix the weak signal on the new iPhone? Buy a $29.00 Bumper case, only from Apple. The new iPhone has a few tricks hidden up its sleeve. To prevent signal problems with the new iPhone, avoid touching the phone at all times. People who live in houses shouldn’t throw glass phones. What problems? http://bit.ly/iPhone4Problems Oh yeah, everyone’s been holding the mouse wrong too. We may have to recall the new iPhone. This, I did not expect. iPhone 4: Reinventing the way you hold your phone, again. Actually, the new iPhone has no problems. Apple just happens to be issuing a highly-recommended ‘software update’ soon. I find your lack of faith disturbing. We knew there were problems with the new iPhone. Apple was pushed to release it too early. Every time an iPhone rings an angel gets his wings. Some fool who broke his iPhone is taking us to court. Just what I need: a glass action lawsuit. You want a free bumper? Go to a junk yard.

The Italian Windows site “Windowsette” got a hold of some super secret squirrel Microsoft presentations laying around on the Internet somewhere. The original leak comes from the Microsoft Journal, an enthusiast blog written by Francisco Martin, who lists himself as a Microsoft VIP Tester. Key points from the presentation: Facial recognition: A Windows computer will know who is using it based on facial recognition technology. Fast start time: One of the great things about smartphones and the iPad is that it’s always on an ready to go. Laptops are increasingly speedy, but they don’t compare to mobile gadgets. Microsoft wants Windows 8 devices to be fast to start. ...

What is this – “#” sign doing in a lot of Twitter tweets? Why do most of the webmaster and bloggers use this hash symbol in their tweets? In simple little words – it’s just categorizing or grouping your tweets like you categorize/group your blog posts in categories. Here is how Twitter defines it - “Because Twitter provided no easy way to group tweets or add extra data, the Twitter community came up with their own way: hashtags. A hashtag is similar to other web tags it helps add tweets to a category. Hashtags have the ‘hash’ or ‘pound’ symbol (#) preceding the tag, like so: #traffic, #followfriday, #hashtag.” ...

It’s going to be one of those crazy-busy-full-of-wonderful months, I predict. ;) I’m so excited to share with you some new features to my blog (http://avinashkblog.blogspot.com)). This blog is at its peak in just 100 days and its an honor and I am so excited to put even more effort and love into this blog. Most of you know that I have purchased a custom domain last week and now I am so excited to graduate it to public - www.cosmoGeek.info. ...

In the off chance that you’re not already running the new iPhone firmware update, Apple has released iOS4 to the public for free download. iPhone iOS 4.0 is now officially live and free to download for iPhone 3G, 3GS, iPhone 4 and iPod Touch devices. Currently iOS 4.0 can be downloaded via iTunes 9.2 only and if you have installed iTunes 9.2, be patient until you find a update notification on your system. ...

Facebook version 3.1.3 app for iPhone and iPod touch is out and it brings the long awaited feature of playing facebook videos, along with ability to view and write on the event walls, photo uploads of up to 720px wide, and tons of bug fixes. New features in this version: - You can now watch Facebook videos. - You can now view and write on walls of events. - Uploaded photos are now 720px wide. ...

In our never ending quest to learn more about Microsoft and what it’s like inside the company, we spent a half hour chatting with a former high level employee at the company yesterday. There’s two basic problems at the company, according to this ex-Microsoftie. The management style is all screwed up, and there’s just too many people working there. An entertainment business is different from a mobile business, which is different from enterprise software business. Yet, they’re all run with the same managerial style at Microsoft. ...

For those of you who couldn’t find enough information of Steve Job’s keynote at WWDC 2010 on iPhone4 – Apple has uploaded the entire keynote address on both their official website, and on their YouTube channel.

Microsoft has shut down Bing Cashback, according to a blog post. Bing Cashback, which is a program that allows users to save money when they purchase items found using Bing search, will be shut down on July 30, 2010. Bing team tweeeted just now (25min ago at the time of writing this post) - http://twitter.com/bing/status/15431895368 The blog post says that Cashback is being shut down due to lack of adoption. Cashback offers will still be available until the end of July and users will have a year to redeem any money they’ve earned through the program. ...