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Eric Eldon / Inside Facebook:
Facebook Sees Big Traffic Drops in US and Canada as It Nears 700 Million Users Worldwide — Facebook is still growing towards 700 million users, having reached 687 million monthly actives by the start of June, according to our Inside Facebook Gold data service.
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Joe Wilcox / BetaNews:
Why did Apple choose Twitter over Facebook? — Apple will deeply integrate Twitter into iOS 5 when it releases this Fall, but not Facebook. Now why is that? Facebook is the largest social networking platform on the planet, with more than 500 million users, according to the company (Hell …
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Steve Gillmor / TechCrunch:
Game, Set, iMatch — Usually Apple launches are all about new product, and the WWDC keynote by Steve Jobs and crew was no exception. IOS 5, OS/X Lion, and iCloud were the tech version of a triple play, mainlining the iPad into the Mac and virtualizing the two product lines via the Cloud.
Caroline Graham / Daily Mail:
This is not the way I'd imagined Bill Gates... A rare and remarkable interview with the world's second richest man — Rocking gently in his chair, he begins to sing: ‘I wanna be a billionaire so freakin’ bad. Buy all the things I never had. I wanna be on the cover of Forbes magazine.
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Peter Bright / Ars Technica:
Feature: Why Microsoft has made developers horrified about coding for Windows 8 — When Microsoft gave the first public demonstration of Windows 8 a week ago, the reaction from most circles was positive. The new Windows 8 user interface looks clean, attractive, and thoughtful …
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Electronista:
US rumored getting unlocked iPhone 4 Wednesday — Yet more rumors about Apple's mystery Wednesday update have suggested the US might finally get the option of unlocked iPhones. A claim Sunday afternoon has the unlocked iPhone 4 appearing at Apple stores in both capacities and colors.
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Paul Sawers / The Next Web:
The multilingual web: A year of non-Latin script domain names — May 6th 2010 was a monumental day for the Internet. Why? It was the day the first ever entirely non-Latin script country code top-level domains (ccTLD) went live. If that just made you blurt out huh?, let me explain.
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Arnold Kim / MacRumors:
Mac OS X Lion Can Run in Chrome OS-Like Browser Only Mode — While all the focus has been the many new features found in iOS 5 Beta, Apple also released a new developer beta of Mac OS X Lion last week. — Many of Mac OS X Lion's features have been known for months, but Apple has snuck …
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Vikas SN / The Next Web:
Anonymous' Operation India removed from Facebook and Twitter — After all the activities Anonymous carried out last week, it seems like the ‘hacktivist’ group is now on the receiving end of censorship from Facebook and Twitter. — Anonymous, which started its Indian operations very recently …
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Lauren Fisher / The Next Web:
Only 30% of YouTube Users Skip Pre-Roll Ads — Youtube introduced a new form of advertising in December 2010, called TrueView, where they gave people the option to skip past pre-roll ads on videos. The news didn't seem too great for advertisers. Although it meant you only payed …
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Christian Zibreg / 9 to 5 Mac:
Surprise: iOS 5 bumps up video exports in apps from 720p to 1080p — Media framework strings in iOS SDK have added a new 1080p video export preset — In addition to the newly discovered ability to render 1080p videos on A4-powered devices by scaling down high-definition content on-the-fly …
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Anna Mulrine / Christian Science Monitor:
CIA chief Leon Panetta: The next Pearl Harbor could be a cyberattack — Leon Panetta, at a confirmation hearing for the post of Defense secretary, says the US will need to take ‘both defensive ... as well as aggressive measures’ to deal with the threat of cyberattack. — Washington
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