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MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
iOS 5 Likely Pushed To The Fall After A Cloud Unveiling At WWDC — Many people (including myself) were a bit disappointed that Apple didn't devote any time during the iPad 2 unveiling to talking about iOS 5, the next major revamp of the software. But there may be a very good reason for that: it's not coming anytime soon.
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Digital Trends, AppleInsider, Edible Apple, LAPTOP Magazine, TUAW, I4U News, Redmond Pie, PadGadget, SlashGear, Gizmodo, MacStories, MacHackPC, Apple Bitch, Gadgets DNA, Electronista, SAI, TiPb, iPhone Download Blog, Softpedia News, iClarified, MacRumors, 9 to 5 Mac, Phones Review, everythingiCafe and Neowin.net, Thanks:sidharthdassani
New York Times:
Silicon Valley Hiring Perks: Meals, iPads and a Cubicle for Spot — By CLAIRE CAIN MILLER and JENNA WORTHAM — SAN FRANCISCO — Eric Firestone began a new job at a Web start-up here three weeks ago, and he's already thinking about what he might do next. But that's just fine with his new employer.
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Paul Kedrosky's …, @loic, @stevecheney and SiliconValley.com
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Jon Bruner / Forbes:
Steal This E-Book — Tech publisher Tim O'Reilly has turned his $100 million O'Reilly Media into an e-book power—while rejecting antipiracy measures. — Jon Bruner: On all your titles you've dropped digital-rights management (DRM), which limits file sharing and copying. Aren't you worried about piracy?
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Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Fortune:
iPad 2: Out of stock by Saturday — A launch perfectly timed to coincide with the end of Apple's second fiscal quarter — Shoppers queued up for the iPad 2 in London. Image: onlygeek — Reports are still drifting in, but it seems likely that most of the 25 countries where Apple …
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Pocket-lint, Electronista and Digits
Mark Gurman / 9 to 5 Mac:
Apple looking to “radically improve” iOS maps and location services — Apple, in late 2009, acquired a mapping company called PlaceBase and since then many rumors have said that Apple is working to revamp their built-in maps application. Rumors have covered a redesigned iOS application …
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AppleInsider, LAPTOP Magazine, MacDailyNews, The Toybox Blog, GeekSmack, MacRumors, iPhone Download Blog, iClarified, MacNN, Engadget and Fast Company, Thanks:markgurman
Sean Bonner / Boing Boing:
iPhone app store of “Color” may be best app store review ever — Sean Bonner has been involved with blogs and hackerspaces and art galleries and record labels of the punk rock variety. Now he's on Twitter. — The photo sharing/social network app Color launched last week …
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mike's posterous and TechCrunch
Ben Zimmer / New York Times:
The Great Language Land Grab — When tech companies engage in legal squabbles about who gets to use our everyday words, what are ordinary speakers of the language to make of it all? — Microsoft is suing Apple, and Apple is suing Amazon, all over the right to use a simple two-word phrase: “app store.”
Jonathan Shieber / Venture Capital Dispatch:
Still Active In China, Google Hunts For New Business — While it continues to battle the Chinese government over censorship and privacy concerns, Google Inc. is pushing forward with a bid to find new business. … In a speech earlier this month, Elliott Ng, Google's new director and head …
Courtney Boyd Myers / The Next Web:
The first musical album that's also a location aware iPhone app — As the power of location based mobile technologies improves, so too do the seemingly limitless creative potentials of their uses to enhance the human experience. — Imagine walking outside, listening to music and having …
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LAPTOP Magazine and Arts Desk
Rachel King / The Toybox Blog:
London Underground getting Wi-Fi hotspot treatment — While New Yorkers wait for the subway to get the Wi-Fi access they've been promised, the London Underground is being outfitted with Wi-Fi hotspots ahead of the 2012 Olympic Games next summer. — A “successful trial” …
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tfl.gov.uk, cellular-news, Mashable!, TechEye, Engadget and Tech Digest
Ed Oswald / Technologizer:
Swoopo Quietly Files for Bankruptcy — The site that put the concept of pay-per-bid auctions on the map is now apparently in financial trouble, Technologizer has learned. Although the company's front page claims “technical issues,” documents from a Munich, Germany bankruptcy court indicate …
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TechCrunch and @cdixon, Thanks:edoswald
Harry McCracken / Technologizer:
Samsung's Fake Galaxy Tab Interviews: Hey, Those Words Sound Familiar! — When I watched the video interviews with three “true-life” Galaxy Tab users that Samsung showed at its CTIA event, I was observant enough to figure out (with the help of about six minutes of Google research) …
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Screenwerk, The Apple Core Blog, PhoneArena and Techdirt
