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Mark Gurman / 9 to 5 Mac:
Apple Store 2.0 gets official: interactive iPads replace paper signs, more — Our sources nailed it. What is being referred to as Apple Store 2.0 internally has officially launched Down Under. Australia is close to a day ahead of us in the United States.
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MacStories, Mac Prices Australia, App Advice, AppleInsider, CNET News, Redmond Pie, MacRumors, ifoAppleStore, TiPb, TUAW, The Next Web, AllNewsMac, Neowin.net, Electronista and iClarified
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Eric Slivka / MacRumors:
Apple to Update ‘Apple Store’ iOS App With Full Build-to-Order Mac Customization Options — It is becoming clear that Apple is planning to roll out a number of changes to its store functionalities this weekend, including both online and brick-and-mortar purchasing platforms.
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Electronista, App Advice, GSMArena Blog, PhoneArena, AppleInsider, MacDailyNews, Digital Trends, MacStories and Pulse2
Ryan Paul / Ars Technica:
Mozilla follows Chrome with add-on to hide navigation bar — As we showed you yesterday, recent prerelease builds of Chrome 13 have an experimental new user interface option that allows users to hide the navigation bar. But Google isn't the only browser vendor trying to shed toolbar pixels.
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Scripting News, Prospector, Electronista, Lifehacker Australia and Geek.com
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Wolfgang Gruener / ConceivablyTech:
The Next-Generation Browser: No URL Bar — Analysis - Being able to type the address of a website is one of the most essential tasks we do with web browsers. Yet it is the URL bar and its purpose that is now being reconsidered by both Google as well as Mozilla for Chrome and Firefox.
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Jack Purcher / Patently Apple:
A New Patent Application from Apple Introduces us to a Breakthrough Platform Independent Word Processor — Just last week we presented a report about Apple advancing the design of a possible future Post-PC hybrid system. We also noted that it was Steve Jobs who made this term of “Post PC era” …
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MacDailyNews and 9 to 5 Mac
Jerry Hildenbrand / Android Central:
Android Market's new movie rental service blocked from rooted devices — We can't make this up people. According to Google, who gets to make the rules since it's their service, rooted devices are not supported by the Android Markets new movie rental service “due to requirements related to copyright protection”.
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Neowin.net, Engadget, GottaBeMobile and PhoneArena
Ernesto / TorrentFreak:
U.S. Government Starts New Round of ‘Pirate’ Domain Seizures — Over the past several months a series of domain name seizures by the Department of Justice (DOJ) and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) made headlines across the Internet. — Under the flag of “Operation In Our Sites” …
Neil Hughes / AppleInsider:
Apple makes huge inroads in enterprise as corporate Mac sales surge 66% — Mac sales in the enterprise during Apple's last fiscal quarter grew a whopping 66 percent, significantly outpacing the rest of the PC market, which grew just 4.5 percent in the enterprise.
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PC Magazine and MacDailyNews
Josh Constine / Inside Facebook:
Bing's Facebook-Enhanced Results Now Appear More Frequently on a Wider Range of Searches — Earlier this week, Microsoft's search engine Bing significantly deepened its Instant Personalization integration with Facebook. It launched several new social features for its web search, shopping …
David Talbot / Technology Review:
Anatomy of a Spam Viagra Purchase — A sample of spam transactions finds most pass through just three banks, study finds. — What happens if you buy something advertised on a spam email? This graphic shows the flow of Internet traffic and money following a purchase of Viagra from a spam email.
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New York Times and CircleID
Kevin Fogarty / CoreIT:
Netflix isn't swamping the Internet; ISPs are overstating their congestion problems — Netflix is popular, but almost all its traffic is last mile — not the backbone ISPs whine about — A report issued Tuesday showing Netflix makes up a third of total Internet traffic is inaccurate enough …
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Pulse2, Gizmodo, gHacks Technology News and Slashdot
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Mo' Money: Square Now Processing $3 Million A Day In Mobile Payments — That was fast. Just like that Square passed $3 million in transactions processed, on a Saturday no less, according to a Tweet an hour ago by CEO Jack Dorsey. — The mobile payments startup is seeing an acceleration in transaction volume.
