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My good friend Marissa’s Dad received an iPad 2 32gig with wifi as a donation and is raffling it away for our delight. Raffle tickets cost $2 and if you register with the same e-mail address you used to previously buy one of the bunnies (before May 1st of this year) you’ll get double the entries. Also up for grabs are Gears of War 3 Cole Thrashball Plushy codes and Noble 6 Helmet codes both for your xBox Live avatar. The raffle donation money is going to be split 50/50 between Marissa and Joseph’s special needs care. As a bonus, these donations will be corporate matched so the more tickets you buy, even more money goes to helping these two with their needs.

Head over to their blog in order to get in on the action. <-This whole thing is the link go now!

BoyGenius is reporting that there is code deep within iOS 4 that suggests the CDMA version of the iPhone and iPad is ready to be tested by carriers very soon.

This code allows certain units to bypass otherwise mandatory activation steps, allowing the use of the phone by partners and carriers for testing purposes without any hassles. The source cited in the article states that this sort of code always precedes the release of a new product and is promptly removed just before launch.

It should be noted that this is not a guarantee that this is the long-awaited Verizon iPhone, as Sprint’s network is also based on CDMA technology. Then again, who are we kidding?

Let’s just hope that this time around, Apple has a tighter grip on their testing units, so we don’t have a leak like the last time around…

[via BoyGeniusReport]

I am typically not one for conspiracy theories.

I don’t think 9/11 was an inside job. I think Bigfoot is probably a grizzly bear with a bad case of mange. In my mind, crop circles are the work of a few drunken Brits with a couple of 2x4s and a little too much time on their hands.

That said, when it comes to the iPhone 4′s antenna issues, I think Apple knew about it all along.

We’ve seen their anechoic testing facilities, which are quite a feat of engineering, not to mention a huge investment. We know how closely they guard their demo handsets, remotely killing them within hours of being lost. Would it be reasonable at all to assume that not a single Apple employee or test user held the phone in their left hand like any regular person might? I don’t think so.

Wild speculation about Apple’s testing procedures aside, the one item that causes me to believe Apple was well aware of the antenna’s shortcomings is this:

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