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Steve Jobs on Why Facebook Is Not Part of Apple's New Ping Music Social Network: "Onerous Terms"

September 2, 2010

BoomTown / Kara Swisher

Yesterday, at the Apple music event in San Francisco, I had a short chat with Apple CEO Steve Jobs about its new social music service, called Ping.

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Exclusive: Facebook Blocked API Access to Ping After Failure to Strike Agreement, So Apple Removed Feature After Launch

September 2, 2010

BoomTown / Kara Swisher

It's not as mysterious as it seems, this mini-controversy about find friends on Facebook for Apple's new social music network called According to sources familiar with Facebook's platform, the ...

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Video: Even Apple Product Marketing Head Schiller Touts Facebook Connect, Which Apple Has Now Disappeared on Ping

September 2, 2010

BoomTown / Kara Swisher

The plot thickens! While two official Apple pages tout an ability to use Facebook to find friends on Ping--its new social music offering in ITunes--which would be very useful, the feature is now not ...

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Why did Apple take Facebook Connect out of Ping?

September 2, 2010

Engadget / Nilay Patel

Apple certainly took its sweet time releasing iTunes 10 yesterday, and we're beginning to think it's because the company was making a last-second change to its new Ping social-network-for-music: the ...

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Google rebuffs Apple's claims of exaggerated Android numbers

September 2, 2010

Electronista

In response to Steve Jobs' disbelief that Google is seeing 200,000 Android device activations daily, Google CEO Eric Schmidt said in a response today that Android numbers do not include upgrades.

Xcode 4 Preview 3 now available

September 2, 2010

9 to 5 Mac - Apple Intelligence / Mark Gurman

Apple has just released their 3rd preview/beta of their upcoming Xcode 4 software. Hot off the heals for iOS 4.1′s golden master release, this new preview of Xcode for includes iOS 4.

Hands-on: Twitter officially comes to the iPad

September 2, 2010

Ars Technica / jacqui@arstechnica.com (Jacqui Cheng)

When we interviewed Tweetie developer Loren Brichter in June, he made two things clear: 1) Tweetie (now branded simply as "Twitter" after the company was acquired by the ...

Amazon strikes back against Apple TV with $0.99 unlimited streaming

September 2, 2010

DVICE / Kevin Hall

Just a day after Steve Jobs showed off a freshly shrunk, content-backed Apple TV, Amazon is taking the Cupertino company's streaming policy head-on.

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Twitter for iPad Review: Ahead of the Pack

September 2, 2010

GigaOM : On Broadband, VoIP & The Next Generation Internet / James Kendrick

The folks at Twitter took their time releasing an app for the iPad, but it was time well spent.

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iPhone Adds Carriers in Germany

September 2, 2010

WSJ.com: Markets

Deutsche Telekom will lose exclusivity for Apple's iPhone in Germany ahead of the holiday shopping season.

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Exclusive: Facebook Blocked API Access to Ping After Failure to Strike Agreement, So Apple Removed Feature After Launch [BoomTown]

September 2, 2010

All Things Digital / Kara Swisher

It's not as mysterious as it seems, this mini-controversy about find friends on Facebook for Apple's new social music network called According to sources familiar with Facebook's platform, the ...

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Ping Averts Its Gaze: Apple's New Social Network Doesn't Really Want to Know Much About You [MediaMemo]

September 2, 2010

All Things Digital / Peter Kafka

Apple's new "social music discovery" service only cares about what you do at the iTunes store -- not in your iTunes library.

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Social Music Mystery! What Happened to Apple's Ping-Facebook Connection?

September 2, 2010

MediaMemo / Peter Kafka

Why isn't Ping playing with Facebook? It's Facebook's fault, says Apple CEO Steve Jobs: The social network demanded "onerous terms" to connect with Apple's social music play.

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Millions and Billions: Apple's Music Event by the Numbers [Digital Daily]

September 2, 2010

All Things Digital / John Paczkowski

Apple events are typically heavy on metrics and yesterday’s affair was no exception.

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Ranking the digital living room barbarians: Netflix rules; Apple, Google others likely to struggle

September 2, 2010

| Between the Lines | ZDNet.com / Larry Dignan

Apple is trying again with Apple TV in an attempt to be the center of the digital living room.

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New features will not apply to older Apple TVs

September 2, 2010

MacNN

The features of the new Apple TV will not carry over to older models, an Apple spokesperson clarifies.

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Video: Apple's Dad–Chris Martin of Coldplay–Jams for Apple's CEO [BoomTown]

September 2, 2010

All Things Digital / Kara Swisher

While I am sure there is a better video of this on the Apple site, here are the three songs that Coldplay frontman Chris Martin did at the Apple music event, held at the Yerba Buena Center for the ...

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Confusion Over Facebook's Brief Appearance in Ping for iTunes

September 2, 2010

MacRumors : Mac News and Rumors

Screenshot from Follow Music and People with Ping video tutorial With yesterday's release of iTunes 10, Apple also deployed a new music-focused social network feature known as Ping.

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Social Music Mystery! What Happened to Apple's Ping/Facebook Connection? [MediaMemo]

September 2, 2010

All Things Digital / Peter Kafka

Why isn't Ping playing with Facebook? It's Facebook's fault, says Apple CEO Steve Jobs: The social network demanded "onerous terms" to connect with Apple's social music play.

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Steve Jobs on Why Facebook Is Not Part of Apple's New Ping Music Social Network: "Onerous Terms" [BoomTown]

September 2, 2010

All Things Digital / Kara Swisher

Yesterday, at the Apple music event in San Francisco, I had a short chat with Apple CEO Steve Jobs about its new social music service, called Ping.

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Apple patents document media browsing, cloud sync

September 2, 2010

MacNN

Two new Apple patent applications have appeared in listings at the US Patent and Trademark Office.

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Samsung Unveils iPad Rival in Galaxy Tab [Voices]

September 2, 2010

All Things Digital / Roger Cheng | Reporter, The Wall Street Journal

Samsung Electronics Co. on Thursday unveiled the Galaxy Tab, its take on Apple Inc.'s iPad, as more technology companies trickle into the nascent tablet market.

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Count The Beats: Akai brings the analog synth to your iPhone, and more

September 2, 2010

The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) / Matt Tinsley

If you have a secret love affair with shoulder padded t-shirts (that you wear around the house when no one's looking), and you instinctively roll up your sleeves when you put on your favourite blazer ...

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Apple TV found using A4 processor

September 2, 2010

MacNN

A brief check of the Apple TV's technical specifications reveals that it is actually based on an A4 processor, like the iPad, iPhone 4 and the new iPod touch.

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September 2, 2010

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What’s keeping you from importing Facebook friends into Apple’s Ping social network

September 2, 2010

VentureBeat / Devindra Hardawar

Facebook friend importing was a key feature of Apple’s new Ping social network, until discussions between the companies fell through, Facebook blocked Ping’s access to its data, and Apple ...

Amazon Kindle Searches Spike Signaling Challenge To Possible iPad Mini

September 2, 2010

paidContent.org / Robin Goad

In the last year, generic searches for e-readers have doubled, while Kindle-related searches have increased eight fold.

Samsung Galaxy Tab vs. Apple iPad : comparison sheet

September 2, 2010

Ajay's Writings on the Wall... / ajay

Gadget addicts look up: in the ongoing IFA electronics show in Berlin, the much-talked about so far has been the Samsung Galaxy Tab, Samsung’s Android-powered tablet which is now touted to be ...

Timbuk2 Announces New, Stylish iPad Sleeves

September 2, 2010

Gearlog

Timbuk2 is best known for its rugged and reliable messenger bags and backpacks, but the company announced three new iPad sleeves designed to keep your iPad safe and secure whether the sleeve is going ...

Facebook Blocked Ping's API Access Because Apple Didn't Have Authorization To Use It [Unconfirmed]

September 2, 2010

Gizmodo / Rosa Golijan

We've heard that Apple launched Ping without Facebook support because the two companies couldn't agree on some terms, but today AllThingsD explains ...

All Adult Swim Games On Sale For $.99 Each For A Limited Time

September 2, 2010

App Advice / Tyler Tschida

Adult Swim has slashed the prices of each and every one of their iOS games to $.99 for a limited time.All Adult Swim Games On Sale For $.99 Each For A Limited Time is a story by AppAdvice.

Apple Removed Facebook Following Ping API Block

September 2, 2010

LAPTOP Magazine: The Pulse of Mobile Technology

In our hands-on with iTunes 10, we wondered if there was a reason for Facebook’s quick inclusion and exclusion from Ping since the social network launched yesterday.

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