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Audrey Watters / ReadWriteWeb:
You Can't Always Get What You Want: Apple's Disappointing Music Announcements at WWDC — There was a lot of buzz prior to today's announcements at WWDC about the deals that Apple had reportedly struck with the major record labels. Even before any Apple executives took the stage …
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Dan Frommer / SAI: Silicon Alley Insider:
Apple Snubs The iAd — Remember Apple's iAd? Apple might not, either. — A year after being shown off as a “tentpole” feature of iPhone software, Apple's mobile advertising business didn't earn a single mention today, as execs previewed a new version of iOS at the company's Worldwide Developers Conference in San Francisco.
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John Paczkowski / AllThingsD:
25 Million iPads, 1 Billion Tweets: WWDC 2011 by the Numbers
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TechCrunch and CNET News
John Gruber / Daring Fireball:
Demoted — Today's was a jam-packed keynote.
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MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
About The Nuance No-Show At Apple's WWDC Keynote
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Jacob Schulman / Engadget:
Apple iOS 5 hands-on preview — iOS 5 won't be ready for the masses until this Fall, but lucky developers — and eager tech bloggers — are able to get in on the action right now. We just got done downloading the 730MB BETA, and have decided to turn our iPhone 4 and iPad 2 into guinea pigs for all the newness.
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Tom Warren / WinRumors:
Microsoft ‘flattered’ with Apple's iOS 5 Windows Phone features — Apple introduced its new iOS 5 operating system on Monday. — The OS, which powers Apple's iPad and iPhone devices, will be available in the fall and will include more than 200 new features.
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Marshall Kirkpatrick / ReadWriteWeb:
How Twitter + iOS 5 Will Change Mobile Apps
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Darrell Etherington / GigaOM:
iMessage: Biting RIM's style & sticking it to carriers
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Vlad Savov / Engadget:
Apple's iOS 5: all the details
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Staci D. Kramer / paidContent:
Apple iTunes And The Cloud: The Fine Print — For a certain segment of geeks, checking the changes to the Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) iTunes Store Terms and Conditions after new features are added or a new version is released is as much a ritual as unboxing. One reason, at least in my case …
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Michael Muchmore / PC Magazine:
Apple iCloud vs. Amazon Cloud Player vs. Google Music Beta — With Apple dropping the third shoe in online streaming music services, after Amazon and Google, some striking differences are now apparent. — The biggest player in digital music has finally vaporized its content.
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Wall Street Journal:
Security ‘Tokens’ Take Hit — RSA Offers to Replace Nearly All of Its SecurIDs in Use or Provide Monitoring — RSA Security is offering to provide security monitoring or replace its well-known SecurID tokens—devices used by millions of corporate workers to securely log on to their computers …
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Andy Greenberg / The Firewall:
RSA Offers To Replace Some Customers' Compromised SecurID Tokens
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Cade Metz / The Register:
App Engine: Google's deepest secrets as a service — The software scales. But will the Google rulebook? — Google will never open source its back end. You'll never run the Google File System or Google MapReduce or Google BigTable on your own servers.
Peter Parkes / Heartbeat:
Problems signing in to Skype — Update 3: — Today's problems have stabilised, and recovery is ongoing. Skype should return to normal soon. — If you were disconnected from Skype earlier, you shouldn't need to manually sign back in to Skype - it should reconnect automatically when it's able to do so.
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Robin Wauters / TechCrunch:
FT Bypasses Apple's iTunes, Launches HTML5 Web App (Free Access First Week) — The Financial Times would rather not have Apple take a 30 percent cut of in-app subscriptions for its iOS publications, and has launched a HTML5 Web app that enables readers to access content across tablets and smartphones.
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DealBook:
AT&T's Bid for T-Mobile Is Backed by Microsoft and Facebook — In its quest to win approval of its $39 billion takeover of T-Mobile USA, AT&T just got a lot of help from its friends. — Eight technology giants, including Facebook and Microsoft, and 10 venture capital firms, filed letters supporting the acquisition late on Monday.
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Ed Pilkington / Guardian:
One in four US hackers ‘is an FBI informer’ — The FBI and US secret service have used the threat of prison to create an army of informers among online criminals — The underground world of computer hackers has been so thoroughly infiltrated in the US by the FBI and secret service …
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Marco Arment / Marco.org:
What Safari's Reading List means for Instapaper — Before today, I knew that a reading-list feature similar to Instapaper's core bookmark-saving purpose was being added to Safari in Lion, and wrote a big blog post about its potential impact on Instapaper. — I speculated that they wouldn't add …
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Jack Neff / AdAge:
Groupon Goes Into Supermarkets Via Loyalty Cards — Deal Has ‘Potential to Revolutionize Grocery-Marketing Landscape’ — Groupon is joining two Boston marketing-services and analytics firms to get deeper into the traditional grocery coupon business with a test today by Springfield …
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Federico Viticci / MacStories:
OmniVision and Sony to Supply 8-Megapixel Camera for iPhone 5 — According to a new report from Digitimes, camera image sensor supplier OmniVision has won “significant orders” for Apple's next-generation iPhone, set to debut later this year. Whilst OmniVision has been the selected supplier …
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Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Exclusive: Patent Lawsuit Filed Against Skype Same Day Microsoft Deal Was Announced — Skype is no stranger to patent litigation. One time, even its founders pursued a lawsuit against it. But this is a new lawsuit, not yet reported as far as I can tell.
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Liz Gannes / AllThingsD:
Next Big Thing in E-Commerce? Groupon Founders Fund Online Pawn Shop. — Groupon founders Eric Lefkofsky and Brad Keywell, who have famously extracted all sorts of money from the soon-to-IPO deals start-up and now run an investment group called Lightbank, are onto the next big thing in e-commerce: Pawn shops.
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Brian Stelter / New York Times:
Glenn Beck to Charge Fee for Online Show — Glenn Beck is planning to charge his fans a monthly subscription for his daily talk show online starting this summer, as he makes the move from being a Fox News host to the owner of his own Internet network. — On Tuesday, Mr. Beck will announce …
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Andrew Webster / Ars Technica:
NGP renamed PlayStation Vita: WiFi-only $249, AT&T-only 3G $299 — As rumored, Sony's PSP successor has been rebadged as the PlayStation Vita and given a retail price. The WiFi-only version of the device will run users $249, while the 3G model will cost $299, which puts the handheld …
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