This is my next:

However, fan noise is very noticeable, as is the heat coming out of the top vent

Somebody is being punked right?

Erica Sadun for TUAW.com

The briefing reportedly told the sales team that Sprint will begin offering the iPhone 4 in October 2011 (next month) with standard Sprint data plans; they will include a $10 data smartphone premium that is not specific to iPhone.

Note that this is the iPhone 4, not the iPhone 5. The Sprint person said the iPhone 5 wouldn’t be coming until next year. Seems strange to me.

Fortune:

Game over.

The Globe and Mail:

Starting this week, 14-year-old Lexi Peters will be stick handling past men twice her size as she plays in the starting lineup for the Buffalo Sabres. Or the Vancouver Canucks. Or any NHL team the 90-pound left-winger chooses.Because when video game publisher Electronic Arts releases the latest edition of its popular NHL series on Tuesday, Lexi will be the first female in its virtual hockey roster.

The teenager wrote EA at the urging of her father to complain about the lack of a female option in the custom character creation mode. EA agreed, and went a step further: with her family’s permission, Lexi is now the default female character.

The report notes that while NHL is still purely a men’s league, women and girls have been a huge growth market for amateur hockey over the past 20 years – from 5,000 in 1990 to an estimated 100,000 today.

John Paczkowski:

Apple’s decision to make China top priority in its global expansion is proving increasingly prescient. The company’s four Chinese outlets are already among the most heavily trafficked Apple stores in the world. And they generate blockbuster sales and profits. For the first three quarters of fiscal 2011, Apple’s revenue in greater China topped out at $8.8 billion, a six-time multiple over a year earlier.

Many thanks to Pixelmator for sponsoring this week’s RSS feed.

Pixelmator is the beautifully designed, easy-to-use, fast and powerful image editing app for Mac OS X that has everything you need to create, edit and enhance your images. With tons of new features and improvements, the next generation of Pixelmator—codenamed Chameleon—is clearly the best Pixelmator ever built. Even more, Pixelmator 2 will be available later this month via the Mac App Store as a free upgrade for everyone who purchased any version of Pixelmator via the Mac App Store.

Gizmodo:

BlackBerry sales have been in the toilet, so RIM has been scrambling to get their much-anticipated first QNX-based phones to market. Very smart. But they may be pushing them out without BES/BIS email/calendar calendar support. That would be unfathomably stupid.

Is there no limit to the stupid at RIM?

AllThingsD:

He was replaced by longtime TechCrunch editor Erick Schonfeld.The company’s statement said that the high-profile blogger had “decided” to move on, which was adecided understatement, given the negotiations between the pair sometimes approximated a cage match.

“You can’t fire me! I quit!”

Detroit Free Press:

“It’s probably the best delivery system ever invented, but the industry gave up a lot of quality to have that system,” [Seger manager Ed ‘Punch’] Andrews said. “At some point, if this is what everybody is accepting, we know we have to keep current. But if we were going to do this, we needed to make sure it was as great as we could make it.”

Now where’s AC/DC and Tool?

Geoffrey A. Fowler And Yukari Iwatani Kane for WSJ:

Nintendo Co.’s website shows gamers “what Wii is all about.” As far back as 1984, Apple Inc. said in a commercial that it would “introduce Macintosh.” Today, an Apple video enthuses: “There’s never been anything like iPad.”Mignon Fogarty, who writes under the pen name Grammar Girl, has given up being outraged by marketing grammar, including missing articles.It’s hard, she says, to make the case that bad grammar is wrong when someone like Mr. Jobs announces that the new iPod is the “funnest” ever, she says. “How can you tell your kids, you won’t get anywhere in life if you use that language?”

Greg Price on Waves Live:

Today, I want to share with you the first steps I take in all projects I start. My first go-to tools are the Q10 Paragraphic EQ, SSL 4000 Collection, and the Renaissance plugins. These tools work for me on any type of DAW, console, Pro Tools session, or live mix that I am building. It is very important to realize that the Waves tools I use for my live show projects, translate to all my other media mixes. That said, let’s take a deeper look at the SSL 4000 Collection.

I’ve known Greg for a number of years and have spent time with him at several Ozzy concerts. He is one of the nicest, most professional people I have ever met in the business. I take every word he says to heart when I approach a mix.

Smashing Magazine:

We meet people who think very much like we do and most probably struggle with similar problems; and perhaps they’ve found a solution which can inspire others. We learn how our colleagues work and what they have experienced; we can exchange our thoughts and ideas directly — something that we might struggle finding time for on Twitter or via email.

Smartphone Boss:

“Without this merger, AT&T will continue to experience capacity constraints, millions of customers will be deprived of faster and higher quality service, and innovation and infrastructure will be stunted. If this transaction does not close due to Plaintiff’s lawsuit, wireless consumers will, as the FCC Chairman predicts, increasingly face higher prices and lower quality.”

Nice.

Hollywood Reporter:

CBSNews.com has severed its relationship with the host of a web show who sent out an erroneous Tweet yesterday saying that Apple co-founder Steve Jobs had died.The offending Tweet was sent from the Twitter account of What’s Trending, a web series independently produced by Disrupt Group and anchored by Disrupt co-founder Shira Lazar.

What’s Trending tried to apologize for the gaff after the fact, but it had already started to bounce around the Twitterverse – the damage was done. What’s unclear is why What’s Trending thought Jobs had died to begin with.

Bloomberg News found itself in a similar pickle in 2008 after it accidentally published Jobs’ obituary. Celebrity obituaries are routinely produced pre-mortem.

BlackBerry App World:

This web page uses ActiveX controls that work only in Microsoft Internet Explorer. To ensure that BlackBerry App World is correctly downloaded to your BlackBerry, this site is not designed to work with any other Internet browsers. If you cannot use Internet Explorer, you may be able to download the software directly to your BlackBerry smartphone.

So there’s this new thing called HTML5…

[Via Daring Fireball]

The Adobe Creative Suite provides many opportunities for partners to provide not only software and solutions based on Adobe technology but also consulting, contract development and integration services. The key themes for the Creative Developer Event are: Extensibility – Efficiently develop and deploy extensions that work across Adobe Creative Suite productsEnterprise – Unlock new market opportunities and see how Adobe Creative Suite products can be seamlessly embedded into Enterprise environmentsCS next – Detailed insight into Adobe’s next major Creative Suite release, early guidance on porting requirements, along with sneak peeks of upcoming features and APIs.Who should attend? System Integrators, Developers and Adobe Solution Partners. The event is suitable for a technical/developer audience as well as product managers, senior managers and business owners.

Agendas for the U.K., Singapore, New York, Los Angeles and Munich are also available.

Bloomberg:

Sprint, the third-largest U.S. wireless carrier, plans to begin selling the device in mid-October under a deal with Apple for the next model, the iPhone 5, said the people, who wouldn’t be identified because the plans aren’t public. Becoming the country’s only operator to offer the device with unlimited data service for a flat fee may help Sprint draw customers from AT&T and Verizon Wireless, which already carry the phone, they said.

FOSS Patents:

A reporter from Germany’s leading news agency DPA (Deutsche Presse Agentur) was first to report on Twitter that the Düsseldorf Regional Court once again upheld the preliminary injunction against the Galaxy Tab 10.1 based on the alleged infringement of a Community design (a design-related intellectual property right registered with an EU agency) held by Apple. At this stage, the injunction is valid only in Germany with respect to Samsung’s Korean parent company. Only the German subsidiary is barred from selling across the border, but that doesn’t have any practical consequences.

For a sixth consecutive time, Apple ranks highest among manufacturers of smartphones in customer satisfaction. Apple achieves a score of 838 and performs well in all factors, particularly in ease of operation and features. HTC (801) follows Apple in the smartphone rankings.

They build great products that people want to buy and they look after their customers. Sounds like a winning combination.