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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, iDownloadBlog.com, GottaBeMobile, AppleInsider, The Apple Core Blog, Techland, Redmond Pie, App Advice, Know Your Cell, LAPTOP Magazine, PhoneArena, Macgasm, TUAW, Inquirer, Ars Technica, MobileBurn.com, TechSpot, CNET News, CydiaHelp, ExtremeTech, Neowin.net, I4U News, PalmAddicts, Geekosystem, MacDailyNews and O'Grady's PowerPage, 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, SlashGear, iClarified, Apple Herald, PhoneArena, TiPb, Phones Review, MacPost, Business Insider, TUAW, MacDailyNews, CNET News, everythingiCafe, I4U News, iDownloadBlog.com 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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Mashable!, VentureBeat, GigaOM, paidContent, Inside Social Games, AllThingsD, All Facebook, Reuters, Zynga, @zynga, Social Markets 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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TechCrunch and VentureBeat
Rafe Needleman / CNET News:
Zynga works ‘social magic’ with new games, Project Z
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Guardian, Inside Mobile Apps, Kotaku, Business Insider, @zynga, VentureBeat, TUAW, @sjcobrien, PadGadget, Gawker, NBC Bay Area, VatorNews, VentureBeat, Mashable!, @axelmobil, Geekosystem and @zynga
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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Computerworld, MacStories, The Register, T3 News, Ubergizmo, PadGadget, Electronista, GigaOM, TechCrunch, Matt Mullenweg, Business Insider, 9to5Mac, WinBeta, Ars Technica, TechnoBuffalo, IntoMobile, msnbc.com, Mashable!, BGR, GottaBeMobile 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 and MacRumors
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, Digits, Computerworld, The Not-So Private Parts, L.A. Times Tech Blog, Reuters and Inside Google
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 and Mashable!
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
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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Between the Lines Blog, SlashGear and Electronista, Thanks:stuartmiles
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Charles Arthur / Guardian:
BlackBerry users revolt against RIM as disruption spreads
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Daring Fireball, AllThingsD and Neowin.net, Thanks:charlesarthur
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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TechCrunch
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
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 …
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, silicontap.com, Mashable!, K9 Ventures and @jeffweiner
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
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, ReadWriteWeb, Matt Cutts, Computerworld, The Register, InformationWeek, My Microsoft Life, Softpedia News, gHacks Technology News and WinRumors, Thanks:edbott
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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Digits, CNET News, BetaNews, Electronista, This is my next and paidContent
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 »
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 …
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eWeek, LAUNCH, Venture Capital Dispatch, VatorNews, GeekWire, Digits, GigaOM, Collaboration 2.0 Blog, Mashable!, TechFlash, Pulse2 and The Technology Chronicles
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
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 …
Laura Hazard Owen / paidContent:
Kobo France, FNAC Smackdown Against Le Kindle — Four days after Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) launched the French Kindle and accompanying Kindle store, rival e-book company Kobo announced that it's partnering with French bookstore chain FNAC to create what it is calling France's largest e-bookstore.
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.
Tom Espiner / ZDNet:
RSA: Nation state double-teamed on SecurID attack — Two groups of hackers working in tandem for a nation state were behind the sophisticated cyberattack on RSA that stole information on its SecurID tokens, the encryption company has revealed. — “We know there were two groups …
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PC World, The Register, Naked Security and Reuters
Liz Gannes / AllThingsD:
Spotify Bug Kept Users Logged In to Facebook Even After They Disconnected — Spotify's music software recently had a bug — since removed — that logged users back in to their Facebook accounts even after they had actively disconnected. — That the bug existed is particularly notable …
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Friending Facebook Blog, Gizmodo, msnbc.com and PC Magazine
