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Jesus Diaz / Gizmodo:
How to Upgrade to iOS 5 Today, Without Any Developer Account — One day and iOS 5 has been hacked already. Gizmodo reader and Apple lover Mert Erdir has discovered how to upgrade to iOS 5 without developer accounts, using a simple backdoor. Everyone can do it following these extremely simple instructions:
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Dave Caolo / TUAW:
iOS 5 hints at iPhone, iPad updates — TUAW sources inspecting the USB device files in yet-unreleased iOS 5 firmware have discovered suggestions of two future iPad 3 models as well as a pair of iPhone 5 models. What's most surprising is a big omission: no mention of an iPod touch 5.
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Neowin.net, Redmond Pie, MacStories, Geeky-Gadgets, Appletell, iPhone Download Blog, AppleInsider, TiPb, 9 to 5 Mac, MacRumors, BGR, Guardian, Electronista, Electricpig.co.uk, DisplayBlog and iClarified
Steve Kovach / SAI: Silicon Alley Insider:
iOS 5 Is Amazing — You Have To See It To Believe It! — For most people, iOS 5 is still a few months away. It's likely that it won't launch until September, when Apple is expected to announce the iPhone 5. — But iOS developers get to try the version 5 beta now, and we just loaded it on our own iPhone 4.
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9 to 5 Mac and Tools, Thanks:alleyinsider
Jordan Golson / MacRumors:
iOS 5 Works Just Fine On iPhone 3GS
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PhoneArena, Softpedia News, GottaBeMobile, ZDNet, iPodNN and Geek.com
Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:
Jobs To Cupertino: We Want A Spaceship-Shaped, 12K Capacity Building As Our New Apple Campus — After having a banner WWDC start yesterday, Apple founder and CEO Steve Jobs humbly presented his idea for a new Apple campus at the Cupertino City Council today.
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SAI, Engadget, AppleInsider, TUAW, MacRumors, Cupertino, CNET News, GeekWire, Cupertino Patch, Gadgetell, Electronista, MacHackPC, Geek.com, Gizmodo, I4U News, Geeky-Gadgets, The Next Web, Tech GadgetX, @alexia, louisgray.com, parislemon, 9 to 5 Mac, techeblog.com and Washington Post
Carolyn Penner / Twitter Blog:
Link sharing made simple — We've been working on a bunch of features to make Twitter easier to use. Today, we're releasing something that many of you have been asking for - automatic link shortening on Twitter.com — How does it work? — Just paste a link of any length into the Tweet box on Twitter.com.
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PC World, Reuters, Geeky-Gadgets, Drew B's take on tech PR, Softpedia News, TechCrunch, Digital Trends, @jason, AllThingsD, SiliconFilter, CNET News, Pulse2, iClarified and textually.org
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Brad McCarty / The Next Web:
Twitter introduces automatic link shortening on Twitter.com
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Naked Security / Sophos:
Facebook changes privacy settings for millions of users - facial recognition is enabled — When Facebook revealed last year it was introducing facial recognition technology to help users tag their friends in photographs, they gave the functionality to North American users only.
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Nick O'Neill / All Facebook:
Facebook Expands Availability Of Facial Recognition Globally — Here's How To Turn It Off
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Square Raising New Round, Joining Billion Dollar Valuation Club — There are a bevy of startups in the process of raising big rounds of capital at billion dollar or higher valuations - something that was a rare occurrence even a few months ago. We're tracking most of these deals (and have written about the ones we've confirmed).
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SAI, Pulse2, VentureBeat and Everything Ventured
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Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
Mobile Payments Startup Square Adds Vinod Khosla To Board
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L.A. Times Tech Blog and PE Hub Blog
Robert X. Cringely / I, Cringely:
iCloud's real purpose: kill Windows — Apple's announcements yesterday about OS X 10.7 pricing (cheap), upgrading (easy), iOS 5, and iCloud storage, syncing, and media service can all be viewed as increasing ease of use, but from the perspective of Apple CEO Steve Jobs they perform an even more vital function — killing Microsoft.
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SuperSite for Windows:
Three Screens: Celebrating Microsoft'S Cohesive New User Experience Strategy — Three different products, one cohesive user experience: Suddenly, Microsoft has a strategy that makes sense. — In March 2010, I met with several members of the Windows Phone team in Redmond to discuss …
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Matt Buchanan / Gizmodo:
Nintendo Wii U Hands On: An Entirely Different Way to See Things — It looks like the product of a fevered fanboy wetdream. A 6.2-inch touchscreen, surrounded by dual analog sticks and oodles of buttons. Like the portable hardcore gamers wish Nintendo made. But it's the most incredible controller ever.
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The Toybox Blog, Seattle Times, PC World, Guardian, Electronista and parislemon
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Steve Boxer / Guardian:
Wii U: first hands-on with Nintendo's new console
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TechEye, The Toybox Blog, This is my next, PC World, Electronista, New York Times, Pulse2, Ars Technica, The Seattle Times, Digits, AllThingsD, gameinformer.com, Ars Technica, Tech GadgetX, GottaBeMobile, The Tech Herald …, GigaOM, BGR, Joystiq, Inquirer, CNET News, Ars Technica, GeekWire, Digits and AllThingsD
Adrienne Walker / Google Chrome Blog:
A new stable release of Chrome: safer and snazzier — Today's new stable release of Chrome brings improvements in security, privacy, and graphics to Chrome's 160 million users. — Chrome is now more secure, thanks to enhancements to our Safe Browsing technology.
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Computerworld, Google Chrome Releases, Mashable!, Softpedia News, The Download Blog, Google Operating System, TechSpot, ReadWriteWeb, Liliputing, BetaNews, Web Browser, WebProNews, ConceivablyTech and Digitizor, Thanks:arpitnext
Brad McCarty / The Next Web:
CloudFlare: A website security product accidentally makes sites 60% faster — I remember sitting in the front row of TechCrunch: Disrupt when CloudFlare was giving its pitch. At the time I commented to some other people around about how the service was answering a lot of questions …
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Nathan Olivarez-Giles / L.A. Times Tech Blog:
Advertising on mobile phones up 128% in last 2 years, study says — Display advertising on mobile devices has more than doubled in the last two years, according to a study from research firm ComScore. — “Although mobile advertising is still in its relative infancy, it is quickly gaining importance …
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Mobile Marketing Watch, comScore, Inc., MediaPost and The Next Web
Tom Warren / WinRumors:
Microsoft details Windows Phone Mango SkyDrive improvements — Microsoft has detailed its Windows Phone Mango improvements for SkyDrive on Tuesday. — The software giant describes SkyDrive and Windows Phone Mango as the “deepest connection to cloud storage available on a smartphone” …
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The Windows Blog, SlashGear, The Next Web and WMPoweruser.com
Richard MacManus / ReadWriteWeb:
Is Schema.org Really a Google Land Grab? — Last week the Web's three leading search companies - Google, Microsoft and Yahoo! - announced a new structured data collaboration called Schema.org. It includes more than 100 new types of website markup for content like movies, music, organizations, TV shows, products, places and more.
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Inside Search, Hack Education, creativebits™ and Nine By Blue, Thanks:ricmacnz
Bill Coughran / The Official Google Blog:
Changes to the open Internet in Kazakhstan — The genius of the Internet has always been its open infrastructure, which allows anyone with a connection to communicate with anyone else on the network. It's not limited by national boundaries, and it facilitates free expression …
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Computerworld, TechEye, CNET News, The Register, SlashGear and Bloomberg
John Cook / GeekWire:
Jeff Bezos on innovation: Amazon ‘willing to be misunderstood for long periods of time’ — One question at Amazon.com's shareholder meeting this morning in Seattle clearly made an impression on Jeff Bezos, sparking an extraordinary response from the Amazon CEO and founder on the qualities …
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SAI, Thanks:toddbishop
bizjournals:
AT&T to help collect $1B in tax refunds — A unit of AT&T Inc. is helping certain customers collect a total of as much as $956.16 million in tax refunds as part of a settlement of a class-action lawsuit. — A federal judge in the U.S. District Court of Northern Illinois last week approved …
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FierceWireless, PhoneNews.com, CNET News, Mobile Technology News, PhoneArena and MobileBurn.com
Matt Rosoff / SAI: Silicon Alley Insider:
Guess Which Company Is Winning The War For Tech Talent — Of all the big tech companies competing for engineering talent, Twitter has fared the best while Yahoo is doing the worst. — That's according to statistics released today by TopProspect, which helps companies find technical employees based on peer recommendations.
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TechCrunch, @scobleizer, Epicenter and The Business Insider
Carolyn Duffy Marsan / Computerworld:
Can't reach your favorite site? IPv6 may be to blame — Network World - A small number of Internet users will experience delays or time-outs as they attempt to visit Facebook, Google, Yahoo and other popular websites tonight and tomorrow, due to a 24-hour trial of a new Internet standard called IPv6.
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Inquirer, TechEye, SANS Internet Storm Center …, Engadget, CNET News, Arbor Networks Security, Search Engine Watch, ZDNet, PC World and ITProPortal
Eric Eldon / Inside Mobile Apps:
No iOS 5 Integration, No Credits Deal — The Facebook-Apple Relationship Cools — Until the launch of Ping, the music social network feature in iTunes, last fall, Apple looked like it was getting close with Facebook. After yesterday, though, the two companies have never looked more distant.
