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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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Jacob Schulman / Engadget:
Apple iOS 5 hands-on preview — iOS 5 won't be ready for the masses until this Fall, but lucky developers — and eager tech bloggers — are able to get in on the action right now. We just got done downloading the 730MB BETA, and have decided to turn our iPhone 4 and iPad 2 into guinea pigs for all the newness.
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Dan Frommer / SAI: Silicon Alley Insider:
Apple Snubs The iAd — Remember Apple's iAd? Apple might not, either. — A year after being shown off as a “tentpole” feature of iPhone software, Apple's mobile advertising business didn't earn a single mention today, as execs previewed a new version of iOS at the company's Worldwide Developers Conference in San Francisco.
Marshall Kirkpatrick / ReadWriteWeb:
How Twitter + iOS 5 Will Change Mobile Apps — A deep integration of Twitter and iOS 5 was among the many things announced by Apple today but it's not just that you'll be able to post to Twitter from inside official Apple apps like photos and maps. Any 3rd party iOS developer will be able …
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Darrell Etherington / GigaOM:
iMessage: Biting RIM's style & sticking it to carriers — The iOS 5 upgrade introduces a lot of changes for Apple's mobile operating system, but iMessages is one of the most significant. It lets iPad, iPhone and iPod touch owners send messages back and forth, including photos, videos …
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MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
About The Nuance No-Show At Apple's WWDC Keynote
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Vlad Savov / Engadget:
Apple's iOS 5: all the details
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Michael Muchmore / PC Magazine:
Apple iCloud vs. Amazon Cloud Player vs. Google Music Beta — With Apple dropping the third shoe in online streaming music services, after Amazon and Google, some striking differences are now apparent. — The biggest player in digital music has finally vaporized its content.
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Staci D. Kramer / paidContent:
Apple iTunes And The Cloud: The Fine Print — For a certain segment of geeks, checking the changes to the Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) iTunes Store Terms and Conditions after new features are added or a new version is released is as much a ritual as unboxing. One reason, at least in my case …
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TUAW, App Advice and GigaOM
Audrey Watters / ReadWriteWeb:
You Can't Always Get What You Want: Apple's Disappointing Music Announcements at WWDC — There was a lot of buzz prior to today's announcements at WWDC about the deals that Apple had reportedly struck with the major record labels. Even before any Apple executives took the stage …
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Washington Post, PSFK and Cult of Mac
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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John Gruber / Daring Fireball:
Demoted — Today's was a jam-packed keynote. Apple announced a lot of news; there is much to talk and think about. But the key line was when Steve Jobs, describing iCloud replacing iTunes as your digital hub, said, “We're going to demote the PC and the Mac to just be a device.”
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Nick Bilton / Bits:
Apple Sounds the PC Death Knell
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Open Source Blog, @mrinaldesai, Computerworld and MacRumors
Nilay Patel / This is my next:
iTunes in the Cloud iOS 4.3 beta hands-on (video)
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Redmond Pie, Know Your Cell and MacStories
AppleInsider:
Apple's iCloud will automatically store, sync data for free
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Chris Rawson / TUAW:
MobileMe stays live through June 30, 2012
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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 …
Wall Street Journal:
Security ‘Tokens’ Take Hit — RSA Offers to Replace Nearly All of Its SecurIDs in Use or Provide Monitoring — RSA Security is offering to provide security monitoring or replace its well-known SecurID tokens—devices used by millions of corporate workers to securely log on to their computers …
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Andy Greenberg / The Firewall:
RSA Offers To Replace Some Customers' Compromised SecurID Tokens
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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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AllThingsD
Robin Wauters / TechCrunch:
Ever-Growing Evernote Hits 10 Million Users (425,000 Paying Ones, Too) — May 2009: Evernote hits 1 million registered users — December 2009: Evernote hits 2 million registered users — May 2010: Evernote hits 3 million registered users — August 2010: Evernote hits 4 million registered users
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Evernote Blogcast, Peter O'Kelly's Reality Check, SocialTimes.com, GigaOM and VentureBeat
Andrew Webster / Ars Technica:
NGP renamed PlayStation Vita: WiFi-only $249, AT&T-only 3G $299 — As rumored, Sony's PSP successor has been rebadged as the PlayStation Vita and given a retail price. The WiFi-only version of the device will run users $249, while the 3G model will cost $299, which puts the handheld …
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Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Exclusive: Patent Lawsuit Filed Against Skype Same Day Microsoft Deal Was Announced — Skype is no stranger to patent litigation. One time, even its founders pursued a lawsuit against it. But this is a new lawsuit, not yet reported as far as I can tell.
DealBook:
AT&T's Bid for T-Mobile Is Backed by Microsoft and Facebook — In its quest to win approval of its $39 billion takeover of T-Mobile USA, AT&T just got a lot of help from its friends. — Eight technology giants, including Facebook and Microsoft, and 10 venture capital firms, filed letters supporting the acquisition late on Monday.
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Electronista, GeekWire and @toddbishop
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 …
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GigaOM, Softpedia News and VentureBeat
Jack Neff / AdAge:
Groupon Goes Into Supermarkets Via Loyalty Cards — Deal Has ‘Potential to Revolutionize Grocery-Marketing Landscape’ — Groupon is joining two Boston marketing-services and analytics firms to get deeper into the traditional grocery coupon business with a test today by Springfield …
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VentureBeat, VatorNews and The Next Web
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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