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iPhone 5 Pre-Orders Top Two Million in First 24 Hours — Apple® today announced pre-orders of its iPhone® 5 topped two million in just 24 hours, more than double the previous record of one million held by iPhone 4S. Demand for iPhone 5 exceeds the initial supply and while the majority … | Sam Byford / The Verge: |
iPhone 5 breaks Apple and AT&T sales record in ‘most successful iPhone launch ever’ (update) — The iPhone 5 has set a new pre-order record for AT&T, the carrier announced today, selling faster than any previous iPhone. The phone became available to order on September 17th and quickly sold … | AppleInsider: |
First Apple iPhone 5 orders now shipping from China — Customers who were among the first to preorder the iPhone 5 from Apple have begun seeing updates that their orders are shipping from China. — While some iPhone 5 orders are now shipping, the packages are still not scheduled … | Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Fortune: |
iPhone 5: Customers in the Big Apple camp out 8 days early — By Sunday there were 7 in the queue — each of them for commercial purposes — FORTUNE — In the popular imagination — and in Samsung TV ads — the people willing to wait in line for days to buy the newest Apple (AAPL) … | Chris Dixon: |
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iPhone 5 Benchmarks Appear in Geekbench Showing a Dual Core, 1GHz A6 CPU — John Poole of PrimateLabs let us know that the first iPhone 5 benchmark has hit Geekbench. — The results show an iPhone5,2 device running iOS 6 with a Dual-Core 1.02GHz ARMv7 processor and 1GB of RAM.| Ellyne Phneah / ZDNet: |
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Shazam hits 250 million users, now lets you tag TV shows on any channel — Music-tagging app Shazam today announced that it's expanding its functionality to let you tag any TV show on any channel in order to find out what music is playing, who's acting on screen, and more.| Enigmax / TorrentFreak: |
Top BitTorrent Countries In The World, Top Torrent Towns In The UK — The Digital Music Index is a report produced by Musicmetric, a data and analytics company that maps the trends and preferences of music fans around the world. The data collated and crunched is then supplied to the music industry … | Scott Hanselman: |
Everything's broken and nobody's upset — Software doesn't work. I'm shocked at how often we put up with it. Here's just a few issues - literally off the top of my head - that I personally dealt with last week. — My iPhone 4s has 3 gigs of “OTHER” taking up space, according to iTunes.| Todd Hoff / High Scalability: |
4 Reasons Facebook Dumped HTML5 and Went Native — Facebook made quite a splash when they released their native iOS app, not because of their app per se, but because of their conclusion that their biggest mistake was betting on HTML5, so they had to go native.| John Jannarone / Wall Street Journal: |
Winklevoss Twins of Facebook Fame Return to Invest in SumZero — The Winklevoss twins lost the biggest social-network showdown ever when their rival, Mark Zuckerberg, walked away with Facebook. Now they are trying again—with a social network for professional investors.
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Accelerate AI Adoption at F5's AI Virtual Summit — Learn how to architect, secure, and scale AI for production with real-world insights from industry leaders on June 23. Register now to save your spot.
Website traffic analytics: How to read your data and take action — Traffic is up. Sessions look healthy. The dashboard is full of green arrows and yet — conversions are flat, revenue targets are slipping, and the leads coming through aren't closing.
Protecting your Cloud Applications Data — Backing up Office 365, Google Workspace, Dropbox & Salesforce data is critical to preventing data loss or corruption, complying with laws and avoiding critical downtime in case of a disaster.
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