Dec
17
2009
Fake Steve Jobs, the nom de guerre of Newsweek’s Dan Lyons, got a ton of attention for his Operation Chokehold campaign to effectively DDoS the AT&T data network, including from AT&T itself and the FCC, [...]
Category: iPhone & iPod Touch | Tags: AT&T, fake steve, network problems, News, operation chokehold
Dec
17
2009
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Join Rene and Matt Miller of NokiaExperts.com for Round Robin Symbian and Maemo vs. iPhone, Apple vs. Nokia [...]
Category: iPhone & iPod Touch | Tags: AT&T, fake steve, Featured, google phone, maemo, matt miller, n900, n97, nokia, Podcast, s60
Dec
16
2009
In response to Fake Steve’s call for Operation Chokehold — a flashmob event intended to overwhelm AT&T’s data network — AT&T has told Cult of Mac:
We understand that fakesteve.net is primarily a satirical [...]
Category: iPhone & iPod Touch | Tags: AT&T, fake steve, News, operation chokehold
Dec
15
2009
Fake Steve Jobs has had enough of AT&T and their “bastardly behavior over bandwidth usage” and so is launching a crowd-sourced, flash-mobbed, Rickson Gracie-style assault on their network called “Operation Chokehold“:
Subject: Operation Chokehold
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Category: iPhone & iPod Touch | Tags: AT&T, fake steve, News, operation chokehold
Jul
2
2009
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Dieter and Rene discuss the iPhone 3.1 Beta, the return of Steve Jobs (and Fake Steve), iPhone 3GS [...]
Category: iPhone & iPod Touch | Tags: 3.0 bugs, 3.1 beta 1, fake steve, Featured, iphone 3.1, iphone live, Podcast, Steve Jobs
Jun
29
2009
With the return of Steve Jobs to Apple comes the return of Fake Steve to the interwebs. Fake Steve also returns to being bitingly satirical, something that had been lacking before its own hiatus. Recent [...]
Category: iPhone & iPod Touch | Tags: fake steve, iphone vs palm pre, new york times, News, satire