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Dylan Love / Business Insider:
Updating To iOS 5 Has Been A Massive Headache — Ever since iOS 5 was made available to the public around 1 PM ET or so, we've been attempting to update in vain. — The download goes through, but an error message keeps popping up when people try to install iOS 5.
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TechCrunch, GigaOM, The Next Web, Computerworld, CNET News, The Register, Between the Lines Blog, GottaBeMobile, SocialTimes.com, LAUNCH and App Advice
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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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TiPb, Computerworld, GigaOM, BGR, BaltTech, Engadget, Ars Technica, VentureBeat, TechCrunch, TUAW, ITworld.com, The Next Web and blog.chron.com
Jonathan Seff / Macworld:
Apple TV 4.4 update adds Photo Stream, NHL, and more — As part of its barrage of updates on Wednesday, Apple bumped the second-generation Apple TV's software to version 4.4, bringing with it support for Photo Stream, AirPlay mirroring, NHL hockey, Wall Street Journal content, and more.
AppleInsider:
Apple updates iWork, iMovie, Remote & Find My iPhone, adds Cards & iTunes trailers apps
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PC World, 9to5Mac, MacStories, Gizmodo, Redmond Pie, everythingiCafe, Gizmodo, 9to5Mac, GigaOM, iLounge, TUAW and The Next Web
Matt Brian / The Next Web:
Apple releases iOS 5, go update your iPhone, iPad and iPod right now!
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Daring Fireball, MacStories, dailywireless.org, 9to5Mac, Engadget, iPhone, Gizmodo UK, GigaOM, AllThingsD, 9to5Mac and App Advice
Christian Zibreg / 9to5Mac:
Apple releases AirPort Utility for iOS
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MacStories, GigaOM, Techie Buzz, Redmond Pie, MacRumors, CNET News, GottaBeMobile, The Next Web and everythingiCafe
Arnold Kim / MacRumors:
iCloud.com Website Updated, No Longer in “Beta”
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BetaNews, ReadWriteWeb, Digital Trends, CNET News, App Advice, Gizmodo, Computerworld, GigaOM, MacRumors, CNET News, TUAW, everythingiCafe, PadGadget, ZeroPaid.com, Redmond Pie, MacDailyNews, 9to5Mac, reddit.com, Engadget and PhoneArena
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+.
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Ed Bott / The Ed Bott Report Blog:
Google engineer calls Google+ a “pathetic afterthought” and “knee-jerk reaction” — Summary: A Google software engineer who accidentally broadcast a 4,578-word rant about the company's failings saved his toughest criticism for the Google+ service. A list of features can't make up for a complete lack …
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gHacks Technology News and @taylorbuley
Joshua Topolsky / This is my next:
Siri says some weird things — Look, I'm not going to go into great detail about what I've been doing with Siri during my testing period, but I will tell you this — Siri says some crazy stuff. — Hit the gallery below for a look at a number of bizarre items the AI / voice recognition …
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Bits, App Advice, GigaOM, LAPTOP Magazine, CNET News and MobileBurn.com
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John Gruber / Daring Fireball:
The iPhone 4S — This is the easiest product review I've ever written.
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Fabian De Simone, paidContent, PetaPixel, GMSV, AppleInsider, 9to5Mac, Digital Trends, parislemon and The Loop
Ina Fried / AllThingsD:
RIM Still Doesn't Know When BlackBerry Service Will Be Restored — Research In Motion held a conference call on Wednesday afternoon to talk about its ongoing spate of outages. Disruptions that began earlier this week have now spread to North America. — On the call, RIM CTO …
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Wall Street Journal, Computerworld, TechCrunch, Reuters, Tech Trader Daily, Internet Evolution, SlashGear and Technologizer
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Stuart Miles / Pocket-lint:
RIM: Right now we're letting you down, here's what's actually going on with BlackBerry service
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Reuters, Thanks:alex_clough
Brian Barrett / Gizmodo:
BlackBerry Picked the Wrong Day to Die
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Gizmodo UK, Yahoo! News and AllThingsD, Thanks:spinland
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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Engadget, iPhone, MacRumors, Sprint Community, Daring Fireball, PC Magazine, Gadget Lab, TechnoBuffalo, Macgasm, iDownloadBlog.com, TUAW, Business Insider, TechCrunch, VentureBeat and MobileBurn.com
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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L.A. Times Tech Blog, About Foursquare, paidContent, Betabeat, Lifehacker, CNET News, TechCrunch, Gizmodo UK, ReadWriteWeb, WebProNews, The Next Web, GigaOM, Mashable! and IntoMobile
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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Apple, 9to5Mac, AppleInsider, PC Magazine, Product Reviews, Computerworld, The Loop, GottaBeMobile and GigaOM
Todd Bishop / GeekWire:
Exclusive: Hands-on with Amazon Locker, now working — We've had fun tracking the appearance of Amazon Lockers around the Seattle region over the past few weeks, and this week I stumbled across an intriguing option in my Amazon.com address book — allowing me to “search for a locker location” to add as a shipping destination.
Thanks:johnhcook
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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MediaFile, Gadgetell, The Next Web, Engadget, BGR, Product Reviews, Sammy Hub, PC World, IntoMobile, Digital Trends, TechCrunch, BetaNews, Neowin.net, iPhone Buzz, Gizmodo UK, MobileWhack.com, TechSpot and Android Community
Reuters:
AOL CEO pitches investors on Yahoo deal: sources — (Reuters) - AOL Inc CEO Tim Armstrong has been meeting with top shareholders in the past couple of weeks to push the idea of a sale to Yahoo Inc that could wring up to $1.5 billion of cost savings, according to sources with knowledge of the discussions.
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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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AppleInsider, VentureBeat, The Register, Daring Fireball, Macgasm and ITProPortal, more at Mediagazer »
Ryan Kim / GigaOM:
With X.commerce, eBay eyes a bigger prize as sales enabler — EBay and PayPal formally unveiled their X.commerce platform, an ambitious attempt to bridge online and offline commerce and arm developers and merchants with a host of tools to help part consumers from their money.
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Social Markets, Computerworld, VentureBeat and Social Markets
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Eriq Gardner / Hollywood Reporter:
Winklevoss Twins to Pay $13 Million to Lawyers for Facebook Settlement — A NY appeals court declines to reopen consideration that the twins' lawyers committed malpractice in the settlement with Facebook and subsequent disclosure of how much money the twins got in the case.
Vic Gundotra / Google+:
Real-time search and improved hashtag support — Today we're rolling out two new features: 1) real-time search results; and 2) improved hashtag support. Together, we're trying to make it easier to follow and contribute to live events on Google+, including breaking news, sporting events, and many others.
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Search Engine Land, Googling Google Blog, 9to5Google, CNET News, The Next Web and LAUNCH
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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Daily Patricia and FierceMobileContent
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Eric Schmidt Finally Appears On Google+ — For a company that is supposed to eat its own dog food, Google has been criticized for how few of its senior executives are visible on Google+. Larry+ and Sergey+ are there, and now so too is executive chairman Eric Schmidt+.
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9to5Google
