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• Rene Ritchie wrote a new blog post: Apple announces 1 million Ping users in 48 hours   7 hours, 17 minutes ago
  

  48 hours after Apple introduced Ping, their new social music network, they’ve announced 1 million users already signed on.

  “One-third of the people who have downloaded iTunes 10 have joined Ping,“ said Eddy Cue, Apple’s vice president of Internet Services. “As many more people download iTunes 10 in the coming weeks, we expect the [...]

• Rene Ritchie wrote a new blog post: Documents to Go maker DataViz bought by RIM?   9 hours, 32 minutes ago
  

  Did BlackBerry maker RIM just buy DataViz, maker of Documents to Go for iPhone and iPad (and other platform)? CrackBerry.com has multiple sources saying they did, and for about $50 million cash.

  This might just be why Docs to Go has cancelled their webOS app before ever releasing it. What does this mean for the iPhone [...]

• Rene Ritchie wrote a new blog post: Regarding Skyfire and proxied Flash on iPhone   16 hours, 24 minutes ago
  

  Skyfire is a browser on other mobile platforms that was at one point purely proxy-based like Opera Mini (where everything was pre-rendered on a server then pushed out to the device via compressed files) but is now an all-grown up WebKit engine where Flash content is still proxied (processed server side and sent out as [...]

• Rene Ritchie wrote a new blog post: $0.99 iTunes ringtone creator no more?   16 hours, 32 minutes ago
  

  It seems like only yesterday Steve Jobs introduced make-your-own ringtones in iTunes, where you could take a song you already bought, and pay again just to use it in cut-down form as a ringtone. And — whoosh! — now it’s gone from iTunes 10?

  The recording industry is no doubt to blame for the $0.99 price [...]

• Rene Ritchie wrote a new blog post: iOS 4.1 features: HDR photos   19 hours, 35 minutes ago
  

  iOS 4.1 adds HDR photo capability to the iPhone — and now iPod touch — Camera app. HDR stands for high dynamic range and usually involves a photo with one or more identical photos that are over and under exposed and then combined together so that far more light and shadow information is available than [...]

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