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The Problem With Ping
With the launch of Ping this week in the latest update for iTunes, Apple is finally adding social elements to its software. Ping is essentially a social music discovery feature in iTunes. You can friend, follow, or lurk to see what music other people on iTunes—people you know, people you...
Read more »September 3, 2010, 11:06 am| Read full article | More articles from techcrunch.com
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iTunes Ping: The Missing Thing
Apple this week launched Ping, a new social network that runs within the iTunes software.Ping takes the “activity stream” format popularized by Twitter and Facebook and applies it to the music your friends are “talking about, listening to, and downloading”.In theory, this should take us beyond mainstream hits and further...
Read more »September 3, 2010, 11:01 am| Read full article | More articles from mashable.com
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iTunes Ping’s Latest Problem: Spam
iTunes Ping is apparently full of spam, yet another hiccup in Apple’s road to establishing a legitimate social network.As Sophos notes on its blog, a barrage of spam links are hitting the music-themed social network. Many of these links are to offers promising free iPad, iPhone or iPod touch devices.Apple...
Read more »September 3, 2010, 9:38 am| Read full article | More articles from mashable.com
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Etc: Apple has revamped its movie trailers page to now offer showtimes, along with a map. It can automatically detect your location too, so no input necessary.
<!--body--> Apple has revamped its movie trailers page to now offer showtimes, along with a map. It can automatically detect your location too, so no input necessary. Read More: Apple Trailers/Showtimes Read the comments on this post
September 3, 2010, 8:38 am| Read full article | More articles from arstechnica.com
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iHome teases first AirPlay-compatible portable speaker dock
No surprise that iHome is first out of the gate with a speaker dock that's compatible with Apple's newly-open AirPlay music streaming system, but unfortunately the teaser page is maddeningly light on details -- all we know is that it'll have a rechargeable battery and be available for the holidays....
Read more »September 3, 2010, 8:21 am| Read full article | More articles from engadget.com
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iTunes 10 hands-on: snappier performance, questionable UI choices
<!--body--> By now, most iTunes users have already downloaded and installed iTunes 10. We've already given you the low-down on the biggest addition to the new version of iTunes—the Ping social network—but we also wanted to give our impressions on two "improvements" promised in the release notes: look-and-feel and performance....
Read more »September 3, 2010, 8:05 am| Read full article | More articles from arstechnica.com
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iTunes 101: Using the Album Art widget
<!--CONTENT START-->Here's a cool new feature in iTunes 10 that we haven't mentioned yet: when listening to any song in your library, you can double click on the album art window in the lower left hand corner to detach it from the main window and see it full size. That's...
Read more »September 3, 2010, 8:00 am| Read full article | More articles from tuaw.com
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Etc: Apple has posted a page teasing the upcoming features of iOS 4.2 for iPad, including the wireless printing and AirPlay compatibility. Just ship it already!
<!--body--> Apple has posted a page teasing the upcoming features of iOS 4.2 for iPad, including the wireless printing and AirPlay compatibility. Just ship it already! Read More: Apple Read the comments on this post
September 3, 2010, 7:22 am| Read full article | More articles from arstechnica.com
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iOS Bigger than Linux and Android Combined [STATS]
According to the latest numbers from Net Applications, iOS is the third most popular platform on the Internet, surpassing Linux and Android combined.In August 2010, Android had a 0.20% market share, Linux was at 0.85%, while iOS devices – the iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad – had a 1.13% market...
Read more »September 3, 2010, 7:07 am| Read full article | More articles from mashable.com

