Whoa, nelly! The iPhone 4 is getting its own press conference again, this time for who know what. But you know, we might just know what: the bad iPhone 4 antenna issue.The event is a 10AM PT, Friday the 16th. We’ll be covering the event’s details as the info streams out.

Whoa! While I did know it was 106 degrees at the LaptopMemo New Jersey Summer Vacation office (instead of Miami or NYC) while I was staying there, I didn’t expect for Mozilla to give me a go at the Firefox 4 beta 1 download button. The changelog is waaaay too long to post up here and the new broswer works on Windows, Linux and OS X-based machines, so you’re covered. Along with the new UI, faster speeds, and tons of extra security, “the world’s favorite browser” as Mozilla puts it is available at the official beta download link.

Just don’t say that I didn’t warn you that a few of your add-ons might not work with the new release,’kay?

Via: Firefox (beta download), Changelog, The Mozilla Blog

Microsoft said:

We have made the decision to focus exclusively on Windows Phone 7 and we will not ship KIN in Europe this fall as planned. Additionally, we are integrating our KIN team with the Windows Phone 7 team, incorporating valuable ideas and technologies from KIN into future Windows Phone releases. We will continue to work with Verizon in the U.S. to sell current KIN phones.”

Good riddance, I say. The KIN was an absolute failure in terms of ideas and design. The only problem I have now is that I can’t figure out which phone to label the “Dumbest and Worst”, because soon the Kin will cease to exist. RIP Kin, because your pricing was ridiculous, and your interface was so bad it wasn’t even amusing. Thanks Microsoft.

SAN FRANCISCO, June 7 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — Apple today released Safari 5, the latest version of the world’s fastest and most innovative web browser, featuring the new Safari Reader for reading articles on the web without distraction, a 30 percent performance increase over Safari 4,* and the ability to choose Google, Yahoo! or Bing as the search service powering Safari’s search field. Available for both Mac and Windows, Safari 5 includes improved developer tools and supports more than a dozen new HTML5 technologies that allow web developers to create rich, dynamic websites. With Safari 5, developers can now create secure Safari Extensions to customize and enhance the browsing experience.

“Safari continues to lead the pack in performance, innovation and standards support,” said Philip Schiller, Apple’s senior vice president of Worldwide Product Marketing. “Safari now runs on over 200 million devices worldwide and its open source WebKit engine runs on over 500 million devices.”

Safari Reader makes it easy to read single and multipage articles on the web by presenting them in a new, scrollable view without any additional content or clutter. When Safari 5 detects an article, users can click on the Reader icon in the Smart Address Field to display the entire article for clear, uninterrupted reading with options to enlarge, print or send via email.

Powered by the Nitro JavaScript engine, Safari 5 on the Mac runs JavaScript 30 percent faster than Safari 4, three percent faster than Chrome 5.0, and over twice as fast as Firefox 3.6.* Safari 5 loads new webpages faster using Domain Name System (DNS) prefetching, and improves the caching of previously viewed pages to return to them more quickly.

Safari 5 adds more than a dozen powerful HTML5 features that allow web developers to create media-rich experiences, including full screen playback and closed captions for HTML5 video. Other new HTML5 features in Safari 5 include HTML5 Geolocation, HTML5 sectioning elements, HTML5 draggable attribute, HTML5 forms validation, HTML5 Ruby, HTML5 AJAX History, EventSource and WebSocket.

The new, free Safari Developer Program allows developers to customize and enhance Safari 5 with extensions based on standard web technologies like HTML5, CSS3 and JavaScript. The Extension Builder, new in Safari 5, simplifies the development, installation and packaging of extensions. For enhanced security and stability, Safari Extensions are sandboxed, signed with a digital certificate from Apple and run solely in the browser.

Pricing & Availability

Safari 5 is available for both Mac OS® X and Windows as a free download at www.apple.com/safari. Safari 5 for Mac OS X requires Mac OS X Leopard 10.5.8 or Mac OS X Snow Leopard® 10.6.2 or later. Safari 5 for Windows requires Windows XP SP2, Windows Vista or Windows 7, a minimum 256MB of memory and a system with at least a 500 MHz Intel Pentium processor. Full system requirements and more information on Safari 5 can be found at www.apple.com/safari. The Safari Developer Program is free to join at developer.apple.com/programs/safari.

*Performance will vary based on system configuration, network connection and other factors. All testing conducted by Apple in May 2010 on an iMac® 3.06 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo system running Mac OS X 10.6.3, with 4GB of RAM. JavaScript benchmark based on the SunSpider 0.9.1 JavaScript Performance test.

Apple ignited the personal computer revolution with the Apple II, then reinvented the personal computer with the Macintosh. Apple continues to lead the industry with its award-winning computers, OS X operating system, and iLife, iWork and professional applications. Apple leads the digital music revolution with its iPods and iTunes online store, has reinvented the mobile phone with its revolutionary iPhone and App Store, and has recently introduced its magical iPad which is defining the future of mobile media and computing devices.

© 2010 Apple Inc. All rights reserved. Apple, the Apple logo, Mac, Mac OS, Macintosh, Leopard and iMac are trademarks of Apple. Other company and product names may be trademarks of their respective owners.

As a reminder of how the Google Phone Store concept failed, Google’s Andy Rubin has announced on the official Google blog that the Nexus One will no longer be sold through the store, but directly through carriers, and that after this, the main purpose of the site will be to view all Android handsets. As unfortunate as this might be, in the end it’s better for Google and Android; sales were pretty dismal as soon as the store went live, and the lack of traditional customer service hindered the idea even more. One thing you have to recognize as the main flaw of this idea is that all — no matter how you spin it — customers like to use the phone they’re going to buy, rather than just seeing press shots from us gadget blogs and the online store.

Source: Official Google Blog