Tag: DROPPEDCALLS

After being widely lampooned for blaming its iPhone 4's reception problems on how users hold it, Apple has finally come out with a more legitimate-sounding, but equally head-scratching response to the issue. In a press release, the company said, "Upon investigation, we were stunned to find that the formula we use to calculate how many bars of signal strength to display is totally wrong." As it ...

Highlights from this morning's other big tech headlines.... Echoing what everyone on the Web has known for three years, Rupert Murdoch has reportedly admitted that his News Corp. organization "made some mistakes" with MySpace. (Ya think?) He also proclaimed that the "iPad will lead a revolution." He was, of course, only talking about a monetary revolution, saying, "Unlike Kindle, we keep ...

Dropped calls ruining your friendships, business relationships, and/or hairline? In a rather unscientific (but perhaps telling) survey, research company ChangeWave asked 3,800 cell phone owners to estimate what percentage of their calls were dropped during the past 90 days. Verizon was the clear winner, with customers reporting an average of just 2.2-percent of their calls dropped; Sprint came ...