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iOS 6 — It will take your iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch in entirely new directions — iOS 6 gives you more features to make the things you do every day even better. It's coming this fall, and it's free and easy to upgrade wirelessly on your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch — the moment it's available.
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| Chris Ziegler / The Verge: |
iOS 6 developer beta previewed in leaked photos, video — We've just received photos and impressions from a number of tipsters alleging to have access to the developer beta of iOS 6 announced today at Apple's WWDC event in San Francisco; we're aggregating those tips here.
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Twilight of the Trucks: WWDC Was All About Apple's Big Bet on Mobile — Almost exactly 2 years ago, Steve Jobs outlined his view of personal computing. We used to be an agrarian nation, he explained, and as a result our vehicles were largely trucks. As the country became more urban and suburban …
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Three Takeaways From Today's WWDC Keynote — 1. — On the software side, Apple has — dare I say finally — become a company that can walk and chew gum at the same time. Remember back in 2007 when Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard) was delayed six months because, Apple flat-out admitted …
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| Nathan Ingraham / The Verge: |
Watch this: Apple's WWDC 2012 keynote video now live — If following our liveblog today wasn't enough for you, Apple has posted its video of its entire WWDC 2012 keynote presentation. The whole two-hour event is available to stream, though only if you're using Safari — we tried in Chrome and Firefox and had no luck.| Wall Street Journal: |
Apple Steps Up Rivalry With Google — Apple Inc. unveiled a series of software features for its mobile phones and computers Monday that place erstwhile partner Google Inc. squarely in its path. — Speaking at the company's annual developer conference in San Francisco …
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MacBook Pro Retina Display Analysis — I'm in San Francisco until tomorrow morning, but aside from dinner I've been spending as much time with the next-gen MacBook Pro as possible. Apple, as always, has done an excellent job of giving users enough reasons to want this thing.
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| Jordan Golson / MacRumors: |
David Pogue: New iMacs and Mac Pro's Coming “Probably in 2013” [Update] — According to New York Times technology columnist David Pogue, Apple still believes in desktop Macs, including both the iMac and the Mac Pro. — The Mac Pro in particular has raised the ire of some Apple fans … | Donald Melanson / Engadget: |
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Apple's Power Nap Is Basically Microsoft's Windows SideShow/Connected Standby — Isn't Power Nap an awesome new feature of OS X? It is if you're a Mac user but to Windows users, it's old news. If you missed the news, Power Nap allows your Mac to keep up to date while in sleep mode.| Mike Beasley / 9to5Mac: |
| Nick Bilton / Bits: |
Apple's Stash of Credit Card Numbers Is Its Secret Weapon — That little iPhone in your pocket is perfectly positioned to become a clone of the credit cards in your wallet or purse. And Apple can thank the music purchases on the iPod if and when it pulls this off.
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The Antivirus Era Is Over — Conventional security software is powerless against sophisticated attacks like Flame, but alternative approaches are only just getting started. — Continue » — Tom Simonite … ViewsThanks:@tsimonite
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
New Ebook Player? UK Supermarket Giant Sainsbury's Buys HMV's 64%b Stake In Anobii For £1 — A sudden, but perhaps unsurprising, bit of e-book M&A today in the UK: the music and entertainment company HMV is selling its 64 percent stake in e-book retailer Anobii to the supermarket chain Sainsbury's …
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| Sara Yin / PC Magazine: |
LulzSec Reborn Leaks 10,000 Twitter Accounts — LulzSec Reborn, the so-called redux of disbanded hacker group LulzSec, leaked around 10,000 Twitter usernames and passwords of members who used TweetGif, an animated Gif-sharing application. — The file contained an unusually detailed trove …
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| Zachary Lutz / Engadget: |
Go to school, get a Lumia 900: all incoming Seton Hall University freshmen to receive a Windows Phone — Granted, this'll be just one more way for upperclassmen to quickly identify the newbies, but all incoming freshmen to New Jersey's Seton Hall University will be given a Nokia Lumia 900 upon orientation …
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| Florian Mueller / FOSS Patents: |
IBM, Activision Blizzard latest heavyweights to oppose Xbox import ban requested by Google — Interesting statements on public interest considerations keep showing up on the ITC document system. The two latest submissions were made by IBM and Activision Blizzard, both of which oppose …
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| Tricia Duryee / AllThingsD: |
Amazon's Appstore to Open Internationally This Summer; Will the Fire Follow? — Amazon is getting close to launching its Appstore in Europe later this summer, marking the first time the store will be available outside the U.S., according to sources familiar with the company's plans.
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| Ina Fried / AllThingsD: |
Verizon Overhauls Its Rate Plans, Focusing on Shared Data — In a major shakeup to how it handles its billing, Verizon Wireless plans to start charing customers almost exclusively based on how much data they are using, rather than on the amount of phone calls or text messages sent.
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| Lois Beckett / ProPublica: |
How Microsoft and Yahoo Are Selling Politicians Access to You — Microsoft and Yahoo are selling political campaigns the ability to target voters online with tailored ads using names, Zip codes and other registration information that users provide when they sign up for free email and other services.
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Broadcast moves beyond the TV set as 17% of consumers get network content on multiple screens — People who watch a network's video online also spend 25 percent more time watching that network on their television sets, according to a new comScore study. From the report:| Jerry Hildenbrand / Android Central: |
Exclusive: Sprint Touch Wallet slides show carrier is serious about NFC wallet app — Last week we heard that Sprint was developing their own NFC-based mobile wallet application, and today an insider has passed along to us a couple presentation slides to let us know that it's real.
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