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Joshua Topolsky / This is my next:
iPhone 4S review — Reviewing the iPhone 4S is in many ways a lot like reviewing the original iPhone 4, except that it's not. The device, which was just announced at a special event on Apple's campus, is very much the same phone the company released in June of 2010 — but it's also something completely new.
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Walter S. Mossberg / AllThingsD:
The iPhone Finds Its Voice — Sometimes, as we all know, looks can be deceiving. While Apple's latest iPhone doesn't look different, and may not be the kind of blockbuster people expect from the late Steve Jobs's company, it thinks different, to quote one of Apple's old ad slogans.
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John Gruber / Daring Fireball:
The iPhone 4S — This is the easiest product review I've ever written. The iPhone 4S is exactly what Apple says it is: just like the iPhone 4, but noticeably faster, with a significantly improved camera, and an impressive new voice-driven feature called Siri. — Siri — Siri feels like old-school Apple.
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Jesus Diaz / Gizmodo:
Real Life iPhone 4S' Siri Demonstration Is Pretty Damn Impressive
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Dan Moren / Macworld:
iOS 5 Review: Ambitious update rings in the changes — It seems like every time a major software revision comes along, it's described as the “biggest ever.” In the case of iOS 5, though, that might not be hyperbole—there's hardly a part of Apple's mobile operating system that isn't altered in some way by the latest update.
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Matt Brian / The Next Web:
Apple releases iOS 5, go update your iPhone, iPad and iPod right now! — The day has come, millions of iPhone, iPad and iPod owners finally have the chance to experience the new iOS 5 software from Apple, bringing a large number of new features, services and bug fixes.
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Arnold Kim / MacRumors:
iCloud.com Website Updated, No Longer in “Beta”
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Christian Zibreg / 9to5Mac:
Apple releases AirPort Utility for iOS
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Frederic Lardinois / SiliconFilter:
Google Engineer: “Google+ is a Prime Example of Our Complete Failure to Understand Platforms” — Last night, high-profile Google engineer Steve Yegge mistakenly posted a long rant about working at Amazon and Google's own issues with creating platforms on Google+.
Philip Reitinger / PlayStation Blog:
An Important Message From Sony's Chief Information Security Officer — We want to let you know that we have detected attempts on Sony Entertainment Network, PlayStation Network and Sony Online Entertainment ("Networks") services to test a massive set of sign-in IDs and passwords against our network database.
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Georgina Prodhan / Reuters:
Millions of BlackBerry users cut off for third day — (Reuters) - Millions of BlackBerry users around the world were left without text communication services for a third day on Wednesday as Research in Motion struggled to fix what it said was a switching failure in its private network.
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Euan Rocha / Reuters:
RIM tells BlackBerry users of outage in Americas
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Charles Arthur / Guardian:
BlackBerry users revolt against RIM as disruption spreads
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Ben Grubb / Sydney Morning Herald:
Samsung ambushes Apple's iPhone 4S launch in Sydney — Apple fans queue outside Sydney's Apple store for Friday's delivery of the new iPhone 4S as bargain-hunters queue for the $2 Samsung Galaxy S II, just one shop away. — Samsung has ambushed the launch of the iPhone 4S by offering $2 smartphones …
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Casey Johnston / Ars Technica:
Sprint won't sell iPhone 4S with unlocked micro-SIM card slot — Sprint customers who buy the iPhone 4S will be able to roam internationally on GSM networks, but will not find themselves with unlocked microSIM slots, a Sprint representative tells Ars. While some initial reports suggested …
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Eric Slivka / MacRumors:
Apple Releases OS X 10.7.2 with iCloud Support — As part of Apple's rollout of its iCloud service today, Apple has just released OS X 10.7.2. The new update includes support for iCloud and will ensure that users have full access to their iCloud-hosted data across all of their devices.
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Matt Mullenweg:
What's Next for Apple — I have no inside information or insight, but historically Apple's product improvements have strongly broadcasted where they're going in the future. Here are six things I think are inevitable for Apple to do over the next decade, from most to least obvious: maps, iCloud, payments, TVs, search, and cars.
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Foursquare Blog:
The real world, now in real-time! Say hi to foursquare Radar! — [The new version should be available in the App Store soon! Thanks for your patience] — The initial vision for foursquare centered around one question: can we build something to help make the world easier to use.
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CNET News:
How Gizmodo escaped indictment in iPhone prototype deal — The great iPhone prototype caper of 2010 has finally ended, with the two men accused of shopping the device to gadget blogs sentenced to probation yesterday. — Last year's investigation began with a raid on Gizmodo editor Jason Chen's Fremont …
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Miyoung Kim / Reuters:
Samsung says upgrades smartphones to avoid Dutch sales ban — (Reuters) - Samsung Electronics Co said on Wednesday it will soon release upgraded versions of three Galaxy smartphones in Europe to get around temporary sales bans on earlier versions of products that violated an Apple patent.
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Glyn Moody / Techdirt:
Facebook Says Some of Your Personal Data Is Its ‘Trade Secrets or Intellectual Property’ — A few weeks back, Techdirt posted a story about a European campaign group called “Europe vs. Facebook”, which is trying to find out exactly what information Facebook holds about its users.
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Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft Blog:
Microsoft to develop Hadoop distributions for Windows Server and Azure — Summary: Microsoft is stepping up its support of Hadoop with new Windows Azure and Windows Server distributions in order to better support users' big data and unstructured data needs.
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