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Ina Fried / AllThingsD:
Apple Confirms iOS 5 Bugs Causing Battery Issues for Some iPhones — Apple on Wednesday said it had found a few problems that are leading some iPhone customers to experience less-than-expected battery life with iPhones running its latest software. — “A small number of customers …
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Jordan Golson / MacRumors:
Apple Seeds iOS 5.0.1 Beta: Multitasking Gestures for iPad 1, Battery Life Improvements — Apple just released iOS 5.0.1 beta to developers. The build number of 5.0.1 is 9A402. … The last note about files addresses an iOS 5.0 issue raised by Marco Arment.
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Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac:
Apple fixes iPad 2 Smart Cover passcode security flaw with iOS 5.0.1
Apple fixes iPad 2 Smart Cover passcode security flaw with iOS 5.0.1
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Matthew Izatt / Gmail Blog:
Introducing the Gmail app for iPhone, iPad and iPod touch — Waiting. Walking. Watching TV. Working out. Winding down. Waking up. We check email pretty much everywhere these days. And when we do, we want easy access to our important messages so we can respond quickly and get back to life …
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Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
New Gmail App For iPhone Is Unusable, Shows Errors Upon Launch
New Gmail App For iPhone Is Unusable, Shows Errors Upon Launch
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David Pierce / The Verge:
Gmail for iOS hands-on
Bruno Fernandez-Ruiz / YDN Blog:
Yahoo! Announces Cocktails - Shaken, Not Stirred — Developers, time to geek out. Yahoo! has been working behind the scenes for the past several months on an exciting new technology that we think will deeply impact the web developer community. We call it “Cocktails” …
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Yahoo! Debuts a More Personal Web With Its Fall Collection of Mobile and Social Products
Yahoo! Debuts a More Personal Web With Its Fall Collection of Mobile and Social Products
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Jennifer Van Grove / VentureBeat:
Yahoo reinvents TV-tagging app IntoNow, releases it on the iPad
Yahoo reinvents TV-tagging app IntoNow, releases it on the iPad
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Wall Street Journal:
Amazon, Now a Book Lender — Kindle Owners Who Subscribe to Prime Service Will Be Able to Borrow E-Titles — As the e-reader and tablet wars heat up, Amazon.com Inc. is launching a digital-book lending library that will be available only to owners of its Kindle and Kindle Fire devices …
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Chris Rawson / TUAW:
Apple to require sandboxing in Mac App Store apps as of March 2012 — Apple sent an email to registered developers today that's bound to ruffle some feathers — again. As of March 2012, Apple will require all apps submitted to the Mac App Store to implement sandboxing.
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Kevin Fox / fox @ fury:
My offer to Google Reader — Like many others, I was curious when Google announced that it would be revamping the Google Reader UI and refactor its social components into Google Plus. To that end, I wrote a brief blog post about what I felt would be a better alternative to stripping out Google Reader's social functionality.
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Walter S. Mossberg / AllThingsD:
Dialing Up 20 Years of Gadget Reviews — I began writing these Personal Technology columns 20 years ago, in October 1991, with the aim of reviewing computers and other digital products for average, mainstream users. The first line of my first column was: “Personal computers are just too hard to use, and it's not your fault.”
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Joanna Stern / The Verge:
Slate 2: HP tries tablets again with Windows, Swype, and a stylus for $699 — If you had asked us six months ago which tablet HP would still be making come November — the TouchPad or the Slate — the obvious answer would have been the TouchPad. But just as HP's exiting the webOS hardware business …
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Dana Wollman / Engadget:
Jawbone Up detailed: tracks activity, food intake and sleep cycles, available November 6 for $100 (video) — Back in July, Jawbone did something puzzling. The company, best known for its Bluetooth headsets, teased a photo of a colorful wristband called the Up — a deceptively simple thing …
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Bloomberg:
RIM's Stock Falls Below Book Value — Research In Motion Ltd. (RIMM)'s stock fell below its book value for the first time in nine years, a signal investors consider the BlackBerry maker to be worth less than the net value of its property, patents and other assets.
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Alex Wilhelm / The Next Web:
What's driving Hotmail's massive mobile adoption? The iPhone — Well, you didn't see this coming, did you? Hotmail, which due to some feat of magic remains the world's most popular webmail client, has exploded on Apple's mobile products since the introduction of the latest firmware edition, iOS 5.
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Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
Facebook Co-Founder Eduardo Saverin Leads $7M Round In Scanning And Product Search App ShopSavvy — Barcode scanning and product search app ShopSavvy has raised $7 million in new funding led by Facebook co-founder Eduardo Saverin with Brad Martin (Former CEO of retailer Saks Fifth Avenue), James Bailey, and participating.
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Ellis Hamburger / Business Insider:
Is Apple Preparing An All-Out Onslaught Against Dropbox? — If you place files inside a hidden Mobile Documents folder on your Mac, these files will sync immediately to all of your other Apple devices and Macs, MacWorld discovered. — This file-syncing solution is meant only for apps that utilize iCloud's …
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Laura Hazard Owen / paidContent:
The Truth About Amazon Publishing — Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) isn't exactly lacking for praise these days, and much of it is deserved. The company has revolutionized digital publishing: Its Kindle sparked the e-book boom, its e-bookstore has the widest selection of titles online …
Josh Ong / AppleInsider:
Rumor: Suppliers say Apple will overhaul all product lines in 2012 — Apple is rumored to be planning a complete overhaul for each of its product lineups, including the iPad, iMac, iPhone and MacBook Air, next year, according to sources within the company's supply chain.
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Philip Stone / Bookseller news:
Jobs biog sells 379,000 copies Stateside — Walter Isaacson's biography of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs sold 379,000 copies in the US in its first week on bookshop shelves, BookScan US data has revealed. — The $35 publication, published by Simon & Schuster in the US …
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Josh Rosenthall / Edible Apple:
Samsung to depose Jony Ive and other Apple designers by December 1, 2011 — By Josh Rosenthall: — Apple and Samsung's US-based litigation on track for trial in July 2012. That being the case, depositions of some of Apple's key iPhone inventors will be taking place relatively soon.
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Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
Amazon's Flow iPhone App Brings Augmented Reality To Barcode Scanning And Product Search — Amazon subsidiary A9.com has just launched a new augmented reality iPhone app—Flow Powered by Amazon. Flow uses augmented reality to help users explore and discover tens of millions of products …
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Alex Heath / Cult of Mac:
Apple Updates iTunes Match and Adds Apple TV Support, Still Not Available to the Public — Apple has sent out an email to developers saying that iTunes Match has updated alongside the release of iTunes 10.5.1 beta 2. The update includes a “number of important stability and performance improvements” …
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