Techmeme: How to Upgrade to iOS 5 Today, Without Any Developer Account (Jesus Diaz/Gizmodo)

10:15 AM ET, June 8, 2011

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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:

Dave Caolo / TUAW:

iOS 5 hints at iPhone, iPad updates — TUAW sources inspecting the USB device files in yet-unreleased iOS 5 firmware have discovered suggestions of two future iPad 3 models as well as a pair of iPhone 5 models. What's most surprising is a big omission: no mention of an iPod touch 5.

Steve Kovach / SAI: Silicon Alley Insider:

iOS 5 Is Amazing — You Have To See It To Believe It! — For most people, iOS 5 is still a few months away. It's likely that it won't launch until September, when Apple is expected to announce the iPhone 5. — But iOS developers get to try the version 5 beta now, and we just loaded it on our own iPhone 4.

Discussion: 9 to 5 Mac and Tools, Thanks:alleyinsider

Jordan Golson / MacRumors:
iOS 5 Works Just Fine On iPhone 3GS

Discussion: PhoneArena, ZDNet, GottaBeMobile, iPodNN, Softpedia News and Geek.com

Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:

Jobs To Cupertino: We Want A Spaceship-Shaped, 12K Capacity Building As Our New Apple Campus — After having a banner WWDC start yesterday, Apple founder and CEO Steve Jobs humbly presented his idea for a new Apple campus at the Cupertino City Council today.

Monica Chen / DigiTimes:

Microsoft reportedly considers launching own-brand tablet PC — Microsoft is reportedly considering to launch an own-brand tablet PC that features Windows 8 by the end of 2012 with cooperation from Texas Instruments and Taiwan-based OEMs/ODMs, according to sources from the upstream supply chain.

Discussion: All about Microsoft Blog, Engadget, Hardware 2.0 Blog, The Next Web, Electronista, Geek.com, MacHackPC, WinRumors, PhoneArena, SlashGear and Neowin.net, Thanks:michaelkroker

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.

Discussion: SAI, Reuters, Computerworld, msnbc.com, AllTwitter, WebProNews, @jason, Geeky-Gadgets, Softpedia News, Digital Trends, Drew B's take on tech PR, SiliconFilter, TechCrunch, AllThingsD, Pulse2, CNET News, iClarified and textually.org

Brad McCarty / The Next Web:
Twitter introduces automatic link shortening on Twitter.com

Discussion: Gizmodo

Stephanie Bodoni / Bloomberg:

Facebook Faces EU Probe Over Facial-Recognition Photo Tagging — Facebook Inc. will be probed by data- protection regulators from the 27-nation European Union over a feature that uses a facial-recognition program to automatically suggest people's names to tag in pictures.

Naked Security / Sophos:
Facebook changes privacy settings for millions of users - facial recognition is enabled

Justin Mitchell / Facebook Blog:
Making Photo Tagging Easier

Discussion: PC World, Bits, Guardian, Disruptors and CNET News

Arild Moen / Dow Jones Newswires:

Samsung Declines Comment On Nokia Bid Speculation — HELSINKI (Dow Jones)—Samsung Electronics Co. (005930.SE) Wednesday declined to comment on market speculation that it could be preparing a bid for ailing Finland-based handset maker Nokia Corp. (NOK). — “It seems like a market rumor …

Discussion: TechEye, The Next Web and Peter O'Kelly's Reality Check

Robert X. Cringely / I, Cringely:

iCloud's real purpose: kill Windows — Apple's announcements yesterday about OS X 10.7 pricing (cheap), upgrading (easy), iOS 5, and iCloud storage, syncing, and media service can all be viewed as increasing ease of use, but from the perspective of Apple CEO Steve Jobs they perform an even more vital function — killing Microsoft.

Discussion: Stowe Boyd

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).

Discussion: VentureBeat, SAI, Pulse2 and Everything Ventured

Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
Mobile Payments Startup Square Adds Vinod Khosla To Board

Discussion: L.A. Times Tech Blog and PE Hub Blog

Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:

Vidyo launches low-cost HD video conferencing for up to 20 people at a time — Vidyo is seeking to disrupt the market for “telepresence” systems that sell for hundreds of thousands of dollars. It will do so with the launch of Vidyo Panorama, a video conferencing system that delivers high-speed …

Discussion: AllThingsD, Reuters and Venture Capital Dispatch

Bill Coughran / The Official Google Blog:

Changes to the open Internet in Kazakhstan — The genius of the Internet has always been its open infrastructure, which allows anyone with a connection to communicate with anyone else on the network. It's not limited by national boundaries, and it facilitates free expression …

Discussion: Gizmodo, Computerworld, TechEye, Washington Post, CNET News, Softpedia News, The Register, SlashGear and Bloomberg

Brad McCarty / The Next Web:

CloudFlare: A website security product accidentally makes sites 60% faster — I remember sitting in the front row of TechCrunch: Disrupt when CloudFlare was giving its pitch. At the time I commented to some other people around about how the service was answering a lot of questions …

Discussion: Slashdot

Adrienne Walker / Google Chrome Blog:

A new stable release of Chrome: safer and snazzier — Today's new stable release of Chrome brings improvements in security, privacy, and graphics to Chrome's 160 million users. — Chrome is now more secure, thanks to enhancements to our Safe Browsing technology.

Discussion: 9to5 Google, eWeek, Computerworld, Google Chrome Releases, Techie Buzz, Softpedia News, Mashable!, The Download Blog, Google Operating System, TechSpot, Lifehacker, ReadWriteWeb, Liliputing, BetaNews, Web Browser, WebProNews and ConceivablyTech, Thanks:arpitnext

SuperSite for Windows:

Three Screens: Celebrating Microsoft'S Cohesive New User Experience Strategy — Three different products, one cohesive user experience: Suddenly, Microsoft has a strategy that makes sense. — In March 2010, I met with several members of the Windows Phone team in Redmond to discuss …

Discussion: LiveSide.net

Nathan Olivarez-Giles / L.A. Times Tech Blog:

Advertising on mobile phones up 128% in last 2 years, study says — Display advertising on mobile devices has more than doubled in the last two years, according to a study from research firm ComScore. — “Although mobile advertising is still in its relative infancy, it is quickly gaining importance …

Discussion: Mobile Marketing Watch, comScore, Inc., The Next Web and MediaPost

Tom Warren / WinRumors:

Microsoft details Windows Phone Mango SkyDrive improvements — Microsoft has detailed its Windows Phone Mango improvements for SkyDrive on Tuesday. — The software giant describes SkyDrive and Windows Phone Mango as the “deepest connection to cloud storage available on a smartphone” …

Discussion: The Windows Blog, SlashGear, The Next Web and WMPoweruser.com

Bloomberg:

Zynga Said to Favor ‘Low-Float’ IPO Like LinkedIn — Zynga Inc. plans to sell a small number of shares in its initial public offering, adopting a strategy used by LinkedIn Corp. to maintain control of the company while raising money to expand, according to a person with direct knowledge of the matter.

Discussion: FT Tech Hub

bizjournals:

AT&T to help collect $1B in tax refunds — A unit of AT&T Inc. is helping certain customers collect a total of as much as $956.16 million in tax refunds as part of a settlement of a class-action lawsuit. — A federal judge in the U.S. District Court of Northern Illinois last week approved …

Discussion: FierceWireless, PhoneNews.com, CNET News, Mobile Technology News, PhoneArena and MobileBurn.com

Carolyn Duffy Marsan / Computerworld:

Can't reach your favorite site? IPv6 may be to blame — Network World - A small number of Internet users will experience delays or time-outs as they attempt to visit Facebook, Google, Yahoo and other popular websites tonight and tomorrow, due to a 24-hour trial of a new Internet standard called IPv6.

Discussion: PC World, TechEye, SANS Internet Storm Center …, Inquirer, Engadget, CNET News, Arbor Networks Security, Search Engine Watch, ZDNet and ITProPortal

Brooke Crothers / CNET News:

Flash fire hits Intel plant in Arizona — A fire broke out today at an Intel chip plant in Arizona, injuring seven people. However, the chipmaker said it would have no impact on production. — The fire was in a “support building” next to an Intel fabrication facility—referred to as a …

Discussion: bizjournals, Reuters, Bloomberg, Wall Street Journal, Engadget, SAI and 24/7 Wall St.

Marshall Kirkpatrick / ReadWriteWeb:

Glassboard: Rock Star Team Regroups From RSS-Land to Tackle Private Mobile Content Sharing — Private mobile content sharing for groups is something no one has really nailed yet, but feels like it could be a very big deal. Rising from the tragic ashes of the consumer RSS reader market …

Richard MacManus / ReadWriteWeb:

Is Schema.org Really a Google Land Grab? — Last week the Web's three leading search companies - Google, Microsoft and Yahoo! - announced a new structured data collaboration called Schema.org. It includes more than 100 new types of website markup for content like movies, music, organizations, TV shows, products, places and more.

Discussion: Inside Search, Hack Education, creativebits™ and Nine By Blue, Thanks:ricmacnz

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