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Apple

Submission + - Next Apple iPhone to have a 4 inch Display? (gadgetizor.com) 2

dkd903 writes: "According to reports from Macotakara, Hitachi Displays Ltd and Sony Mobile Display Corporation has started shipping the screens for the iPad 3 and a 4-inch LCD screen for an unnamed iOS device. It would be fairly safe to assume that the 4-inch display will be for the next iPhone – the iPhone 5."
Facebook

Submission + - Facebook Says That Google Plus Has No Users (digitizor.com)

dkd903 writes: "Sean Ryan, Director of Games partnership at Facebook says "Google has emulated aspects of our system, which is what they have the right to do. We just need to be better. Google is at 5% because they don't have any users.""
Google

Submission + - Google adds games to Google+ (blogspot.com)

derGoldstein writes: From the Google blog: "Today we’re adding games to Google+. With the Google+ project, we want to bring the nuance and richness of real-life sharing to the web. But sharing is about more than just conversations. The experiences we have together are just as important to our relationships. We want to make playing games online just as fun, and just as meaningful, as playing in real life." Isn't it funny that they phrase it as though this was their original realization?
Ubuntu

Submission + - Ubuntu One Hits The One Million Users Mark (digitizor.com) 1

dkd903 writes: "Roberta Nilerud of Canonical has announced that their cloud storage service – Ubuntu One – has hit the one million users mark. Ubuntu One is a cloud storage service from Canonical that is very tightly integrated into Ubuntu. Although Ubuntu One is installed by default in Ubuntu, it is also available on Windows and Android."

Submission + - CentOS Linux 6.0 Released (digitizor.com)

dkd903 writes: The CentOS team just announced the availability of CentOS Linux version 6.0 for both i386 and x86_64 architectures. CentOS 6.0 is based on the upstream release of RHEL 6.0 (Red Hat Enterprise Linux) and includes packages from all variants.
Google

Submission + - Google Plus Runs Out Of Disk Space; Spams Users (digitizor.com)

dkd903 writes: Yesterday, many users of Google+ noticed Google spamming their inbox with multiple email notifications in very quick succession. Earlier today, Vic Gundotra, Head of Social at Google, explained what was causing it – Google ran out of disk space on the server that keeps track of notifications.
Google

Submission + - Google To Discontinue Blogger & Picasa Brands (digitizor.com) 1

dkd903 writes: Google plans to discontinue it’s Photo sharing platform Picasa and the blogging platform Blogger and will re-introduce them as Google Photos and Google Blogs. All this forms a part of the massive feature addition to Google’s new social network – Google+
Government

Submission + - US Congress To Use Skype For Video Teleconference (digitizor.com)

dkd903 writes: The US House of Representatives Committee on Administration has announced that Skype will be made available to the Members of Congress and their staff to improve efficiency and cut down on time spent traveling.
KDE

Submission + - KDE 4.7 RC is Here: GRUB2 Integration, KWin Mobile (digitizor.com) 1

dkd903 writes: KDE 4.7 is almost here and brings along with it a number of features and performance improvements such as a better Dolphin with a faster file search, ability of KWin to run on Mobile devices, Grub2 integration in KDM and offline search support in the KDE virtual globe – Marble.
Apple

Submission + - Apple Agrees To Pay Licensing Fees To Nokia (gadgetizor.com)

dkd903 writes: After almost two years of litigation of Nokia and Apple suing and counter suing each other, the patent war between the two companies has come to an end. The winner out of this settlement is, however, Nokia. As a part of the settlement, Apple has agreed to become a licensee of Nokia’s patents. As a part of the licensing agreement, Apple has agreed to give Nokia a one-time payment and ongoing royalties. The exact terms of the agreement has not been disclosed.

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