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AnandTech:
iPhone 4S Preliminary Benchmarks: ~800MHz A5, Slightly Slower GPU than iPad 2, Still Very Fast — Apple's ability to control the entire information chain, down to the point of limiting leaks, appears to be gradually slipping as it grows as a company. Case in point are the numerous hardware …
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MacRumors, SlashGear, TiPb, AppleInsider, iDownloadBlog.com, GottaBeMobile, Techland, Redmond Pie, App Advice, Know Your Cell, LAPTOP Magazine, PhoneArena, TUAW, MobileBurn.com, TechSpot, CNET News, Ars Technica, The Apple Core Blog, Macgasm, Inquirer, CydiaHelp, Geekosystem, ExtremeTech, Neowin.net, PalmAddicts and I4U News, Thanks:nerdtalker
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Jesus Diaz / Gizmodo:
Real Life iPhone 4S' Siri Demonstration Is Pretty Damn Impressive — Apple's demos of the new iPhone 4S' Siri smart assistant are very impressive, but they're just controlled demos. Stuff.tv got their hands on an iPhone 4S and played quite a bit with in a public place. It's still very impressive.
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MacRumors, Redmond Pie, Laughing Squid, GottaBeMobile and Geek.com
Katie Marsal / AppleInsider:
iPhone 4S delivered early in Germany, packaging & Siri shown off — One customer in Germany has been delivered an iPhone 4S early, offering a first glimpse at the packaging of the handset as well as screenshots from the device. — The iPhone 4S was delivered by German Telekom …
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VentureBeat, MacRumors, MacStories, TUAW, SlashGear, iClarified, Apple Herald, PhoneArena, TiPb, MacPost, Business Insider, MacDailyNews, CNET News, everythingiCafe, I4U News, iDownloadBlog.com, Phones Review, Electronista and 9to5Mac
Zynga:
More social, more fun - Come out and play! — We just wrapped up Zynga Unleashed, a news event where we announced brand spankin' new play - including a gaggle of new social games including our next “Ville”, and our very own new play service, code named, “Project Z.”
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Reuters, GigaOM, paidContent, Inside Social Games, ReadWriteWeb, All Facebook, Zynga, @zynga and Neowin.net
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Rachel King / Between the Lines Blog:
Zynga branches away from Facebook, becomes more competitive — Summary: Zynga is touting is new games as more social yet still easy to learn, but these titles are far more complex than anything we've seen before. — SAN FRANCISCO — Zynga rolled out a slew of new and upcoming releases …
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PC World, Inside Social Games, Bits and VentureBeat
Rafe Needleman / CNET News:
Zynga works ‘social magic’ with new games, Project Z — Zynga CEO Mark Pincus today about to kick off his company's press conference. — SAN FRANCISCO—Facebook gaming giant Zynga today took the wraps off several new games, some of which work on the new Facebook iPad app that was released yesterday.
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Social Markets, Guardian, Inside Mobile Apps, Kotaku, Business Insider, @zynga, @sjcobrien, PadGadget, Gawker, NBC Bay Area, VentureBeat, VentureBeat, Mashable!, @axelmobil, Geekosystem, @zynga and VatorNews
Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:
Zynga launches three HTML5 games to run on mobile browsers
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Mashable!, AllThingsD, TechCrunch, TUAW and Social Markets
Ryan Tate / Gawker:
Steve Jobs on Why He Wore Turtlenecks — Steve Jobs's black turtlenecks helped make him the world's most recognizable CEO. But the Apple co-founder wouldn't have worn them if his employees had accepted the nylon jacket he proposed as a corporate uniform instead.
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Shiny Objects, Business Insider, 9to5Mac, @davepell, MacRumors, Daring Fireball, MacDailyNews and Mashable!
AppleInsider:
Apple releases iTunes 10.5 with support for iOS 5 wireless syncing — Apple on Tuesday released iTunes 10.5 for both Mac and PC, bringing with it support for wirelessly syncing with devices running the soon-to-be-released iOS 5. — iTunes 10.5 is now available as a direct download from Apple.
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MacStories, Computerworld, everythingiCafe, T3 News, Ars Technica, Ubergizmo, GigaOM, PadGadget, Electronista, The Register, Matt Mullenweg, 9to5Mac, Business Insider, WinBeta, TechnoBuffalo, IntoMobile, msnbc.com, Mashable!, TechCrunch, BGR and App Advice
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Donald Melanson / Engadget:
Apple releases iTunes 10.5 with iTunes in the Cloud
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GigaOM, The Next Web, MacRumors and TUAW
Stuart Miles / Pocket-lint:
RIM details why BlackBerry users haven't had email for two days — BlackBerry maker RIM has issued a statement as to why its users in Europe, the Middle East, Africa and other parts of the world have struggled with email browsing, and using BBM over the last two days.?
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Digital Trends, Between the Lines Blog, Electronista and SlashGear, Thanks:stuartmiles
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Charles Arthur / Guardian:
BlackBerry users revolt against RIM as disruption spreads — RIM faces customer fury at further loss of services such as BlackBerry Messenger (updated with new statement from RIM) — Smartphone maker Research In Motion (RIM) is facing a user revolt after tens of millions of users in Europe …
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Computerworld, Daring Fireball, AllThingsD and Neowin.net, Thanks:charlesarthur
Jonathan Mayer / Stanford Center for Internet …:
Tracking the Trackers: Where Everybody Knows Your Username — Click the local Home Depot ad and your email address gets handed to a dozen companies monitoring you. Your web browsing, past, present, and future, is now associated with your identity. Swap photos with friends on Photobucket …
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PC Magazine, Bits, Hillicon Valley, AllThingsD, The Register, PC World, The Not-So Private Parts, Digits, L.A. Times Tech Blog, Reuters and Inside Google
Eric Slivka / MacRumors:
AppleCare+ to End Informal Free Replacement Policy for Damaged iPhones — Last week, we noted that Apple had introduced a new “AppleCare+” offering for iPhone, replacing the previous $69 AppleCare with the new $99 warranty extending coverage to two years from the date of device purchase …
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AppleInsider, Gizmodo, Gadget Lab, TUAW, App Advice, Electronista and TechnoBuffalo
Adrian Covert / Gizmodo:
Asus Zenbook Hands On: Good Lord There's a Lot of Awesome Packed Into Something This Thin — It's kind of insane it took a $300 million slush fund from Intel to get notebook makers to create MacBook Air-like ultrabooks, the first results from Asus are, well, pretty damn impressive.
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VentureBeat, Mashable! and SlashGear
Alistair Barr / Reuters:
EBay to deepen Facebook relationship — * EBay to unveil online ID service PayPal Access — EBay Inc is set to deepen its relationship with social network leader Facebook at a developer conference this week, a person familiar with the e-commerce company said on Tuesday.
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Danielle Kucera / Bloomberg:
PayPal Announces Services Aimed at Wooing Developers, Merchants
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comScore, Inc.:
Smartphones and Tablets Drive Nearly 7 Percent of Total U.S. Digital Traffic — iOS Accounts for Largest Share of U.S. Smartphone and Tablet Devices while Driving the Majority of Non-Computer Traffic — comScore Releases Report, “Digital Omnivores: How Tablets, Smartphones and Connected Devices …
CNET News:
iPhone theft suspects enter no-contest plea — Two men pleaded no contest today to theft of lost property in a case involving last year's iPhone 4 prototype, which Apple claimed was so valuable that a price could not be placed on it. — The men, who were accused of selling the device …
Alex Chitu / Google Operating System:
Google+ Photos Replaces Picasa Web in the Navigation Bar — This is really weird. The “photos” link from Google's navigation bar no longer sends you to Picasa Web Albums if you're logged in. Google decided to send users to the Photos section from Google+ which shows photos from your circles …
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9to5Google, The Next Web and Search Engine Land
Diego Basch / IndexTank Blog:
[In]dexTank - LinkedIn Acquires IndexTank — This is not a typical acquisition blog post. You and I have read lots of those. Many tend to sound like Oscar speeches, as if being acquired were the culmination of a career. This one is different, and there are many themes that I'd like to touch on.
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GigaOM, TechCrunch, Mashable!, silicontap.com, K9 Ventures and @jeffweiner
Ina Fried / AllThingsD:
Wireless Carrier Execs Trade Jabs, but Land No Major Punches — Six months ago, the heads of Verizon, AT&T and Sprint shared a stage just hours after AT&T announced its plans to buy T-Mobile USA. That discussion, moderated by Jim Cramer, was a pretty fun hour of theater.
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CNET News, Electronista, BetaNews, This is my next, Digits and paidContent
Ed Bott / The Ed Bott Report Blog:
Microsoft calls out Firefox and Chrome for security weaknesses — In a move that's sure to raise hackles in Silicon Valley, Microsoft today debuted a new web site designed to raise awareness of security issues in web browsers. — When you visit the site, called Your Browser Matters …
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The Windows Blog, MSDN Blogs, ReadWriteWeb, Matt Cutts, InformationWeek, My Microsoft Life, Softpedia News, gHacks Technology News, Computerworld and WinRumors, Thanks:edbott
Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:
Here Comes Another Cloud: Hollywood Hopes “UltraViolet” Will Save DVDs — Say this for UltraViolet: It actually launched. — When word first got out that most of Hollywood and the tech industry was working on a “Giant Media DRM Cloud Coalition Featuring Everyone Except Apple and Disney” …
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Internet Evolution, @fitzroy, ReelSEO Online Video … and GigaOM, more at Mediagazer »
Yancey Strickler / Kickstarter Blog:
One Million Backers — Last week a woman named Rachel Perrie pledged to a film project called Cargo. At that moment she became the millionth person to have ever backed a Kickstarter project. — Rachel backed the film because she knew the creator. People often support people they know on Kickstarter.
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ReadWriteWeb and Betabeat
Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
Cloud Storage Platform Box.net Raises $81M From Salesforce, SAP At $600M-Plus Valuation — Cloud storage platform Box.net has raised $81 million in Series D funding from strategic investors Salesforce.com and SAP Ventures with Bessemer Venture Partners, NEA, and prior investors including Andreessen Horowitz …
Mike Masnick / Techdirt:
As Expected, Alternative DNS Systems Sprouting Up To Ignore US Censorship — After the US government, via Homeland Security's Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) division, started seizing domains without any notification or adversarial hearing (things that most of the world would consider …
Matt Rosoff / Business Insider:
Now, Meg Whitman May NOT Spin Off HP's Hardware Business — A couple months ago, Hewlett-Packard announced it might spin off its PC business. — But that was under old CEO Leo Apotheker. Now that Meg Whitman is in charge, HP is reconsidering and may hang on to the PC unit after all, according to the Wall Street Journal.
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CNET News, Wall Street Journal and Electronista
Alex Wilhelm / The Next Web:
Microsoft tweaks the Windows 8 UI following user pushback — Microsoft stuck its neck out when it released a very early build of Windows 8 to the world, likely knowing beforehand the level of complaint that it was going to receive from users who did not appreciate the changes implemented.
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All about Microsoft Blog, Neowin.net and MSDN Blogs
Brandon / Nielsen Wire:
Social Media and TV - Who's Talking, When and What About? — Social media continues to influence how consumers interact with brands and share content every day. Increasingly, TV viewers leverage social media as a platform to talk about and engage with TV content.
