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Jack Purcher / Patently Apple:
New Apple iPad Designs Surface with Landscape Docking & More — A new series of iPad designs have surfaced this past week in China that illustrate a number of very interesting possibilities that could be coming to future iPads. The first is the ability to dock in landscape mode as well as portrait.
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MacRumors, TechnoBuffalo, Electronista, 9 to 5 Mac, Erictric, The Next Web, Gizmodo, everythingiCafe and Edible Apple, Thanks:atul
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Ping Now Works With Your Actual iTunes Library. This Is A Thousand Times Better — It launched with much fanfare, but I don't think it was unreasonable to call Ping a dud out of the gate. While pretty much everyone initially signed up to try it out, a few days later, the activity stream seemed to trickle to almost nothing.
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Federico Viticci / MacStories:
iTunes 10.0.1 Goes Live with Ping Sidebar by Federico Viticci — Tweet — Apple released a minor update to iTunes last night, which reaches version 10.0.1 and introduces a new feature for Ping users: the Ping sidebar. The Ping sidebar allows you to always have the updates from the people …
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Stowe Boyd, MediaMemo, MacRumors, Macworld, Thoughts from the Sidelines, Cult of Mac, MacDailyNews, 9 to 5 Mac and TUAW, Thanks:jailbreaki4
Gregg Keizer / Computerworld:
Iran confirms massive Stuxnet infection of industrial systems — Nation's atomic energy experts met last week to discuss ways to eradicate worm, say reports — Computerworld - Officials in Iran have confirmed that the Stuxnet worm infected at least 30,000 Windows PCs in the country …
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Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:
Facebook Movie Gets Overwhelmingly Positive Reviews, But Will People Go See It? — Premiering at New York Film Festival yesterday and coming to theaters October 1st, the world's first Hollywood movie about the founding of a social network can now also claim the bragging rights …
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Gizmodo, Reuters, Computerworld, AceShowBiz.com, Boy Genius Report and webpronews.com
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Andrew Hough / Telegraph:
Social Network writer backs Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg over ‘stolen ideas’ claims — Aaron Sorkin, the creative brains behind the new Facebook movie “The Social Network”, has offered his support to Mark Zuckerberg, after the tech boss was accused of stealing the idea for the social networking site.
Loïc Le Meur / Loic Le Meur Blog:
How to be successful on YouTube [what I learned after 2 million views] — I have always been a big fan of video as a communication tool and YouTube is an amazing platform if you use it right. —it's human —it's you, your voice, your gesture, your feelings, much more than text
Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Fortune:
Massive crowds greet iPhone 4 in China — More than 50,000 pre-orders and a queue more than 1,000 customers long — The scene Saturday morning outside Apple's new Joy City store. Photo: AFP — What a difference a year makes. — Last November, when Apple (AAPL) …
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Computerworld, Network World, Fone Arena, IntoMobile, Cult of Mac, China Real Time Report, Electronista and The Next Web
Spiegel Online:
Internal Strife at WikiLeaks — German Spokesman Says He Will Leave Website — A dispute has broken out within the leadership of WikiLeaks, the website known for publishing classified documents including the Afghanistan war logs. In an interview with SPIEGEL, WikiLeaks' German spokesman …
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
TechCrunch Disrupt Will Not Be About AngelGate — We've all had a pretty long week dealing with all this, for lack of a better term, AngelGate stuff. For the people involved, me included, it hasn't been much fun. — Mostly because angel investors as a group do so much for our community.
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George Deglin / Hacking Entrepreneurship:
The risks of Facebook's Instant Personalization program — In April, Facebook unveiled a new technology called Instant Personalization. Initially released to just Yelp, Pandora, and Docs.com, Instant Personalization has been widely misunderstood by the media and Facebook users alike.
Matthew Lynley / VentureBeat:
DOJ strikes down no-poaching agreements between Apple, Intel, Google, Adobe, and others — The U.S. Justice Department has struck down agreements that prevented some of the largest tech companies in the world from poaching employees from each other in a settlement today that included heavy hitters like Google, Intel and Apple.
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