In Hindsight- For Apple s iPhone 4 a Free-Bumper Death Grip Fix

Last week in Silicon Valley (technology and the world):

Monday

Consumer Reports said that he "can not recommend" Apple iPhone 4. "When your finger or hand touches a spot on the left side of the phone less - easy, especially for lefties - a signal can be decomposed are large enough to lead to a loss of connectivity altogether if you're in the area with a weak signal," wrote Mike Gikas in blog post on its Web site of Consumer Reports.

Can be of the magazine, which tested three 4s new iPhone, did not find the same problem with T-T and other phone, including iPhone 3Gs and palm trees before. "Our findings call into question the latter claim by Apple that 4 von signal strength and the issues largely from the optical illusion caused by faulty software 'by mistake displays two bars too long to force a specific signal.'"

Earlier this month, Apple responded in a letter on its Web site to complaints from the grip of death "" involving the antenna 4 von stainless steel, cabbage. The maker of Apple computers and Mac "i" devices will be a software update that was incorrectly calculate the number of bars that should be displayed on the screen «iPhone». Consumer Reports introduced its own "death grip" Solution: "cover the gap antenna with a piece of thick tape or another, material nonconductive". In the next few days, Apple has struggled with the media attention, ranging from negative
Headlines in the tech blog banners saying "ten you have purchased the iPhone is not valid" based on "Late Show with David Letterman."

Tuesday

Mobile ad network won InMobi 8 million in funding from the sand the way venture capital firms Kleiner Perkins Caufield Hill & Byers and projects Sherpalo. In what might be David against Goliath, versus Goliath, another battle, InMobi plans to use the money to upgrade to compete with Apple and Google, which both have platforms and mobile advertising.

Wednesday

In the hope that arouses the interest of consumers in the Chevrolet Volt electric car, GM said it would provide eight years or 100,000 mile warranty on the car battery. General Motors will start selling volts in California and other states later this year.

Thursday

Report mixed results on the real estate market in the valley of bliss the heart, and revealed that MDA DataQuick resale Santa Clara County in the average single-family home price last month was 600,000 dollars - an increase of 23.7 percent from June 2009. The number of transactions, despite the 8.4 percent per year on an annual basis. In the valley, on the peninsula and throughout the Gulf region, the more higher-end homes sold last summer, when it dominated the market with a wave of sales of the mortgage price. "The market is San Francisco Bay Area is getting support from the mortgage rates are very low and a little friendlier lending environment for high-end borrowers," explained President John Walsh, DataQuick.

Mountain View Internet advertising juggernaut pictures at the same time, it was 1.84 billion dollars in profits last quarter, up 24 percent from the previous year. 6820000000 in the $, and sales, as well as an increase of 24 percent. "Google has a strong second quarter," said Eric Schmidt, CEO of Google. "We saw the strength in each of the main products." Investors and analysts, despite the expected results from the leader of the largest online research. In particular, she's worried that Google keeps spending money in addition to its staff.

Friday

The Apple (call the media to the headquarters of Apple have) it will send a free bumpers and protective (which was sold at 29 dollars) or cases to everyone who bought the iPhone 4 - or who will buy one before September 30. The chief executive of Apple Inc. Steve Jobs sold his company 3000000 4s iPhone since June of the device for the first time 24 - and received only a small number of complaints about the antenna. Every smartphone, for that matter, he areas of weakness. "We are not perfect," admitted posts (in shock for fans of Apple probably most faithful), but he said the company wants to make customers happy. The (Consumer Reports said that the bumper and perfectly fine grip of death "" treatment).

The Silicon Valley Employers 3300 posts for the salaries of its employees last month, but the rate of unemployment in a beautiful (if his name was bureaucracy) Metro San Jose Clara, Santa region rose to 11.4 percent, and the staffing situation, the Ministry of Development. In 857 800, and the total number of jobs by 0.8 percent from the previous year.

Palo electric car maker Tesla Motors Alto and Japanese automobile giant Toyota Motor, meanwhile, said they were working together on a new electric car Toyota RAV4 crossover utility - and we hope to sell by 2012. (Toyota, you will recall, sold the previous RAV4 electric from the late 1990s, but production ended in 2003.)