Techmeme: Apple Had 186 iPhone Carriers at the End of March; Now It Has 200 (John Paczkowski/AllThingsD)

6:30 AM ET, June 7, 2011

Top Items:

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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Darrell Etherington / GigaOM:

iMessage: Biting RIM's style and sticking it to network operators — 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 …

Discussion: TechCrunch, WinRumors, SlashGear, Daring Fireball, DisplayBlog and SAI

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 …

Discussion: Twitter Blog and MediaFile, Thanks:jasoncosta

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 …

MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
About The Nuance No-Show At Apple's WWDC Keynote

Discussion: Electricpig.co.uk, SAI and TechCrunch

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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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.

Discussion: Neowin.net, Tech GadgetX and The Next Web

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.”

Discussion: DisplayBlog, VentureBeat and GigaOM

Nick Bilton / Bits:
Apple Sounds the PC Death Knell

Discussion: Open Source Blog, @mrinaldesai, Computerworld and MacRumors

Audrey Watters / ReadWriteWeb:
You Can't Always Get What You Want: Apple's Disappointing Music Announcements at WWDC

Discussion: Cult of Mac, Music Machinery and Core77

AppleInsider:
Apple's iCloud will automatically store, sync data for free

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Nilay Patel / This is my next:
iTunes in the Cloud iOS 4.3 beta hands-on (video)

Discussion: Redmond Pie, Know Your Cell and MacStories

Chris Rawson / TUAW:
MobileMe stays live through June 30, 2012

Discussion: Apple, MacStories, Geeky-Gadgets, Apple, 9 to 5 Mac, SAI, The Next Web, CNET News, Hardware 2.0 Blog, MacRumors, iPodNN, MacDailyNews, Joel Housman and GigaOM

Donald Melanson / Engadget:
Apple announces iTunes in the Cloud, iTunes Match

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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 …

Discussion: Nieman Journalism Lab, Anthony DeRosa, VentureBeat, @joehewitt, TidBITS, @marcoarment, The Business Insider, Memex 1.1, AllThingsD, Computerworld, Lifehacker, TUAW, @cdixon, AllThingsD and Brij Singh's Blog, more at Mediagazer »

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 …

Discussion: App Advice, SocialTimes.com, Cult of Mac, Rex Hammock's RexBlog.com, GigaOM, paidContent:UK, The Next Web, ReadWriteWeb and Betabeat, more at Mediagazer »

Rafe / rc3.org:
When platform vendors attack

Discussion: App Advice and MacStories

Dustin Curtis / @dcurtis:
Apple just pissed off:Dropbox, Sparrow, Instapaper, Readability, Remember the Milk, Facebook, RIM, & the carriers. Well done.

Discussion: @marcoarment, @marcoarment and @mh, more at Mediagazer »

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 …

Discussion: Help Net Security, Gizmodo, Softpedia News, AllThingsD, TheStreet.com and Ars Technica

Andy Greenberg / The Firewall:
RSA Offers To Replace Some Customers' Compromised SecurID Tokens

Discussion: Inquirer, PC World, Naked Security and CNET News

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 …

Discussion: AllThingsD and Slashdot

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 …

Discussion: AppleInsider, Apple, Between the Lines Blog, GigaOM, TechCrunch, BGR, @tuaw, VentureBeat, App Advice, AllThingsD and Gizmodo

Jason Kincaid / @jasonkincaid: (you can find the rest of the new features here: http://t.co/ND6VBST )

Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:

Lady Gaga, Eric Schmidt And Others Invest Over $1M In Backplane — What do Lady Gaga and Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt have in common? — Well according to a very interesting piece in the New York Times by former TechCruncher Evelyn Rusli, they've both invested in Backplane …

Discussion: TomorrowVentures, LLC and VentureBeat

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 …

Discussion: Big Government, Washington Post, The Business Insider, TechCrunch, The Not-So Private Parts, CNET News, The Daily What, @alexia, Gawker, Guardian, @thebiglead, Los Angeles Times, msnbc.com, Mediaite, Gawker, CANNONFIRE and Tools, more at Mediagazer »

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 …

Discussion: VentureBeat, VatorNews and The Next Web

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