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Apple:
New Version of iOS Includes Notification Center, iMessage, Newsstand, Twitter Integration Among 200 New Features — Available to iPhone, iPad & iPod touch Users This Fall — SAN FRANCISCO―June 6, 2011―Apple® today previewed iOS 5, the latest version of the world's …
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Vlad Savov / Engadget:
Apple's iOS 5: all the details — Scott Forstall has just taken the WWDC 2011 stage and details about the changes and improvements in iOS 5 are flowing thick and fast. Keep one tab in your browser locked to this post as we update it with all the new features, and throw another one open …
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Jacob Schulman / Engadget:
Apple unveils iMessage, its BBM competitor, at WWDC — It's here, the moment BlackBerry owners been waiting for since the original iPhone launched: iMessage. Apple has just announced its new data-based push messaging service at WWDC, which looks to be a full-on competitor to the venerable BBM.
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Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
Watch Out Facebook Connect, Apple Pushes Twitter Sign-Ins In iOS 5
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Brian Heater / Engadget:
Apple turns iOS ‘PC Free’ with OTA updates and wireless sync
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Bits:
Which Apps Are Threatened by Apple's Upgrades? — How do you know if you've created a really great, useful iPhone app? Apple tries to put you out of business. — That may be overstating it, but a number of new features for Apple's operating systems that it announced …
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Marco Arment / Marco.org:
What Safari's Reading List means for Instapaper — Before today, I knew that a reading-list feature similar to Instapaper's core bookmark-saving purpose was being added to Safari in Lion, and wrote a big blog post about its potential impact on Instapaper. — I speculated that they wouldn't add …
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Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:
Apple Flatters Instapaper. Did It Kill It?
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Apple:
Apple Introduces iCloud — Free Cloud Services Beyond Anything Offered to Date — Apple® today introduced iCloud®, a breakthrough set of free new cloud services that work seamlessly with applications on your iPhone®, iPad®, iPod touch®, Mac® or PC to automatically …
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AppleInsider:
Apple's iCloud will automatically store, sync data for free — Apple finally showed off its long-awaited iCloud service on Monday, portraying it as a service that stores content, wirelessly pushes it to devices, and integrates with applications — all at no cost to users.
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Donald Melanson / Engadget:
Apple announces iTunes in the Cloud, iTunes Match — Apple has just announced its long-awaited cloud-based music service: iTunes in the Cloud. It will let you download any music you've purchased to all of your devices at no additional charge, which Steve Jobs notes is a first for the music industry.
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Chris Rawson / TUAW:
MobileMe stays live through June 30, 2012
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John Biggs / CrunchGear:
New Xbox Experience Streamlines The Entire UI, Adds Youtube, Live TV and Bing — Microsoft has improved the Xbox UI by adding detailed voice and gesture controls and essentially removing the “leaves” or cards from the old UI and creating a large, fullscreen experience that dedicates one entire screen to each feature.
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Yusuf Mehdi / Bing:
Bing on Xbox: You are The Controller
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Nicholas Carlson / SAI:
THE WORST DM FAIL IN HISTORY: Weiner Admits The Crotch Shot Was His — Boy! Twitter sure can be tricky to use sometimes. — For example, you might think you're sending a photo of your junk as a direct message to a co-ed in Seattle, when in fact you are actually sending an @reply …
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Evelyn M. Rusli / DealBook:
Working With Lady Gaga to Bridge Music and Technology — Soon after Apple started its music-centric social network Ping last year, Steven P. Jobs reached out to Lady Gaga and her business manager, Troy Carter, for feedback. — At the company's headquarters in Cupertino, Calif. …
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Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:
Lady Gaga, Eric Schmidt And Others Invest Over $1M In Backplane
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Arik Hesseldahl / AllThingsD:
LulzSec Posts More Sony Data, Amid Claim One of Them Is Arrested — More news came from LulzSec, the hacker group that has in recent days been harassing Sony and Nintendo, and affiliates of the FBI, and before that, placing fake news stories on a PBS Web site. — Today Sony was in its sights yet again.
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Andy Greenberg / The Firewall:
LulzSec Hackers Tied To Anonymous In Leaked Logs
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Brad McCarty / The Next Web:
Apple officially introduces OS X Lion at WWDC - $29, releasing in July — We've been waiting for ages to hear the details and now we finally have them. Apple's Phil Schiller and Craig Ferericchi have taken the stage to fill us in. First off, and probably most importantly …
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Ina Fried / AllThingsD:
Apple: Mac OS X Lion Coming in July via Mac App Store
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Ed Pilkington / Guardian:
One in four US hackers ‘is an FBI informer’ — The FBI and US secret service have used the threat of prison to create an army of informers among online criminals — The underground world of computer hackers has been so thoroughly infiltrated in the US by the FBI and secret service …
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Irene Chung / Gmail Blog:
Introducing appointment slots in Google Calendar — Google Calendar has become indispensable for organizing my own time and sharing my schedule with friends and coworkers. But what about letting others know about my preferred availability? Likewise, when I look at my hairdresser's online calendar …
Nilay Patel / This is my next:
iTunes in the Cloud iOS 4.3 beta hands-on (video) — Apple isn't pushing out iOS 5 or iCloud to consumers until the fall, but iOS 4.3 users can start playing with a beta of iTunes in the Cloud right now — so we thought we'd do a little hands-on with it for you.
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Tricia Duryee / AllThingsD:
Surprise! Facebook Credits and Apple's iTunes Play Nice With Each Other. — Facebook has Credits, Apple has iTunes, and then there's the plethora of points and coins found on the major consoles and online services. — For game players, it's the equivalent of traveling in Europe before the Euro.
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Poornima Gupta / Reuters:
Steve Jobs takes stage at Apple's iCloud event
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