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Jesus Diaz / Gizmodo:
How to Upgrade to iOS 5 Today, Without Any Developer Account — One day and iOS 5 has been hacked already. Gizmodo reader and Apple lover Mert Erdir has discovered how to upgrade to iOS 5 without developer accounts, using a simple backdoor. Everyone can do it following these extremely simple instructions:
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L.A. Times Tech Blog, 9 to 5 Mac, Redmond Pie, App Advice, iPhone Download Blog, WinRumors, iClarified and MobileCrunch, Thanks:jesusdiaz
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Sarah Perez / ReadWriteWeb:
iOS5 Has Been Jailbroken — Good news, iPhone jailbreakers!
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VentureBeat, The Register, CNET News, BGR, Neowin.net, Computerworld, The Apple Core Blog, PhoneArena, IntoMobile, App Advice, NBC Bay Area, everythingiCafe, DailyTech, MacStories, BlogsDNA and Gadgets DNA
Jordan Golson / MacRumors:
iOS 5 Works Just Fine On iPhone 3GS
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9 to 5 Mac, Electronista and App Advice
Carolyn Penner / Twitter Blog:
Link sharing made simple — We've been working on a bunch of features to make Twitter easier to use. Today, we're releasing something that many of you have been asking for - automatic link shortening on Twitter.com — How does it work? — Just paste a link of any length into the Tweet box on Twitter.com.
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TechCrunch, AllThingsD, siliconfilter.com and CNET News
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Brad McCarty / The Next Web:
Twitter introduces automatic link shortening on Twitter.com — Ever since we saw the first t.co links appear some time ago, we've longed for automatic link shortening on Twitter.com and now we have it. … This should work right in tune with what Twitter does with any external link …
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Square Raising New Round, Joining Billion Dollar Valuation Club — There are a bevy of startups in the process of raising big rounds of capital at billion dollar or higher valuations - something that was a rare occurrence even a few months ago. We're tracking most of these deals (and have written about the ones we've confirmed).
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SAI, VentureBeat and Everything Ventured
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Naked Security / Sophos:
Facebook changes privacy settings for millions of users - facial recognition is enabled — When Facebook revealed last year it was introducing facial recognition technology to help users tag their friends in photographs, they gave the functionality to North American users only.
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Gizmodo, CNET News, PC World, PC Magazine, Bits, Facebook Blog, The Register, Inside Facebook, ZDNet, Friending Facebook Blog, Geek.com, All Facebook and ReadWriteWeb
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Jack Purcher / Patently Apple:
Apple Files a Whopping 11 Separate US iCloud Trademark Applications — On June 7, 2011, the US Patent & Trademark Office published Apple's eleven iCloud trademark applications. Apple filed one iCloud application per International Classification. The reason for filing eleven separate trademark applications …
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Audrey Watters / ReadWriteWeb:
You Can't Always Get What You Want: Apple's Disappointing Music Announcements at WWDC
Staci D. Kramer / paidContent:
Apple iTunes And The Cloud: The Fine Print
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Daring Fireball, GigaOM, TUAW, App Advice, iClarified and DigiTimes
Michael Muchmore / PC Magazine:
Apple iCloud vs. Amazon Cloud Player vs. Google Music Beta
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Computerworld, TUAW, Search Engine Watch, paidContent, GottaBeMobile, MacDailyNews, FSMdotCOM, blog.chron.com and Tech GadgetX
John Cook / GeekWire:
Jeff Bezos on innovation: Amazon ‘willing to be misunderstood for long periods of time’ — One question at Amazon.com's shareholder meeting this morning in Seattle clearly made an impression on Jeff Bezos, sparking an extraordinary response from the Amazon CEO and founder on the qualities …
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SAI and paidContent, Thanks:toddbishop
Christian Zibreg / 9 to 5 Mac:
AirPlay Mirroring in action (video) — One of the new iOS features that has been met with great enthusiasm from journalists and developers attending yesterday's WWDC keynote is AirPlay Mirroring. Apple's iOS software head honcho Scott Forstall only briefly described it during the keynote talk:
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BGR, AppleInsider, eHomeUpgrade, Gizmodo, Edible Apple, MacRumors, GottaBeMobile, Gadgets DNA, MacHackPC, App Advice, PadGadget and I4U News
Florian Mueller / FOSS Patents:
Oracle wants a huge cut of Google's mobile advertising revenue plus compensation for fragmentation of Java — One of the best-kept secrets in the patent dispute between Oracle and Google is what Oracle demands in terms of compensation for past damages and on which terms (monetary and other conditions) …
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SAI, Computerworld, InfoWorld and TechEye
Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft Blog:
Microsoft finalizes Windows Thin PC; available July 1 — Microsoft has released to manufacturing its Windows Thin PC client, and plans to make it available to Software Assurance customers starting July 1, company officials said on June 7. — Windows Thin PC (WinTPC) is the successor to Windows Fundamentals for Legacy PCs (WinFLP).
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ReadWriteWeb, The Windows Blog and The Next Web
Steve Boxer / Guardian:
Wii U: first hands-on with Nintendo's new console — With its tablet-like controller, the Wii U is a seriously weird piece of kit. But, yet again, once you get your hands on it, a multitude of new gaming experiences tumble out of it. And the machine will have more hardcore appeal, too.
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The Seattle Times, Digits, Gizmodo, This is my next, AllThingsD, PC World, CNET News, GigaOM, BGR, Digits, GeekWire, gameinformer.com, Electronista, Ars Technica, parislemon, GottaBeMobile, Inquirer, Joystiq, Ars Technica, Tech GadgetX and AllThingsD
Jay Yarow / SAI: Silicon Alley Insider:
iPhones And iPads Could Be Getting Intel Chips, Says Citi — Intel is in talks with Apple to manufacture its custom A4 and A5 chips, says Citi analyst Glen Yueng. — However, the manufacture of Apple's chips is only a prelude to a much bigger partnership.
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Shiny Objects, AllThingsD, SlashGear, Geek.com and The Business Insider
Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:
Kindles Getting Cheaper, and Huge: 10 Percent of Amazon's Business Next Year — Amazon's Kindle e-reader, a gawky novelty just three years ago, is now a big business getting bigger. Really big. — Jeff Bezos and company continue not to release sales numbers for the devices, but everyone else keeps guessing.
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GigaOM, TechCrunch and Digital Trends
JP Mangalindan / Fortune:
Bain: 80% of Twitter engagement is link clicking — The social network's real-time access to myriads of content and high levels of user engagement is why marketers keep coming back for more. — Adam Bain of Twitter — FORTUNE — Hours after Apple (AAPL) announced deep integration …
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Jeff Bercovici / Mixed Media:
AOL After the Honeymoon — Arianna Huffington. Image by Getty Images for AOL via @daylife — What happens when you mix the ambition of Arianna Huffington with the desperation of Tim Armstrong? AOL shareholders will soon find out. — AOL Chairman Tim Armstrong seemed to find his ideal mate in Arianna Huffington.
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Gawker, SAI, @jason and Poynter, more at Mediagazer »
Alex Chitu / Google Operating System:
Google Discontinues Its First Specialized Search Engines — They're no longer popular, but they're the first specialized search engines offered by Google, long before Image Search, Google News or Blog Search. Some people might remember Google Linux, Google BSD, Google Mac, Google Microsoft …
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ReadWriteWeb, INFOdocket, Softpedia News, Adotas and Search Engine Roundtable, Thanks:arpitnext
Marshall Kirkpatrick / ReadWriteWeb:
Google Begins Tracking & Will Rank Individual Content Creators — Google announced today that it has begun indexing attribution of content to particular authors, not just to the websites they appear on. Links associated with the author of a page can now have the code rel="author" …
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Fast Company, Inside Search, The Business of Search, Computerworld, Slashdot and InfoQ
Marshall Kirkpatrick / ReadWriteWeb:
Google Launches Game for Access to Preview Chromebooks — Google has just begun a two-day long game wherein it will post links to famous places around the web where you can now find a link to get preview access to the company's Chromebook web-only notebooks.
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Google Chrome Blog, TechCrunch and Softpedia News
Scott Austin / Venture Capital Dispatch:
Will Investors Take Groupon's Andrew Mason Seriously? — Andrew Mason's oddball tendencies have served him well as the head of a quirky Internet upstart. … But now that Groupon Inc. is on the cusp of holding an initial public offering, will the 30-year-old's unconventional leadership style resonate with public investors?
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Tim Conneally / BetaNews:
HP earmarks $2 billion to finance hybrid cloud projects — HP Financial Services, a subsidiary of leading information tech hardware company Hewlett-Packard, announced it will be making up to $2 billion available to “help clients finance their way into the cloud.”
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GigaOM and Computerworld
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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VentureBeat, VatorNews, Social Markets, Fast Company, Gizmodo, Gawker and The Pondering Primate
Kevin Krause / Android Phone Fans:
Motorola Contacting XOOM Owners about 4G LTE, Upgrade Process Underway? — One of our gracious readers just forwarded along an email he received from Motorola customer support. According to said email the XOOM's promised 4G LTE upgrade for Verizon is already under way.
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Gizmodo, Electronista, Droid Life, GottaBeMobile, Android and Me and Softpedia News
