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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, Erictric, The Next Web, 9 to 5 Mac, 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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Tikun Olam, Associated Press, New York Times, The Earth Times Online … and Babbage
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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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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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China Real Time Report, Computerworld, Network World, Fone Arena, IntoMobile, Cult of Mac, 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 …
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
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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Bay Area BizTalk, Thanks:kamalafset
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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Mercury News, The Atlantic Online, RCR Unplugged, eWeek, Softpedia News, iClarified, paidContent and The United States Department …
Josh Ong / AppleInsider:
European Union ends antitrust investigations of Apple — The European Union has ended two antitrust investigations into Apple's iPhone policies after Apple relaxed developer restrictions and introduced cross-border warranty repair service. — According to a statement released Saturday by the EU …
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Engadget, EU Press Room, Thoughts from the Sidelines, Electronista and Reuters
