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Apple today, at their annual music event, announced new iPods and an updated version of iTunes that includes a new social media service called Ping. iTunes 10, which is available now, features Ping which add social media capabilities to iTunes where you can can join friends in discovering new music and even follow your favorite artist and see what ...

When you can’t defeat the enemy, befriend him. This is the new strategy apparently adopted by the much struggling social networking site, MySpace.

If you're anything like me, you've been hitting refresh on the Apple iTunes website waiting for them to put iTunes 10 up for download. Sure, it has said it was available since this morning, but when you click through, it would still be iTunes 9.2.1 with a promise that iTunes 10 was

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EpicMix, a new RFID-based app for skiers, combines performance tracking with real-time, location-based social networking functionality. (Think Nike+ meets Foursquare.) It'll go live at several Colorado ski resorts in November, and we've got an early look.

Marketontwitr(MOT) is an amazing twitter app offering amazing features for twitter marketing and enhancing your twitter business. With this twitter software you can follow lots of twitter followers, manage your twitter accounts, schedule tweets, schedule rss feeds and much more automatically.

Twitter has just announced the service's official iPad app. It's free and comes with a slew of touch interface bells and whistles built right in. The app is

Social media and jurors do not mix.

There was a spider hanging out in an upper corner of my room. My bed is right up against this wall. I couldn't fall asleep with a fucking spider hanging right over me, so I got a shoe, stood there like an idiot for maybe eight seconds because my conscience was getting the best of me, then said "Sorry guy" and smashed that motherfucker. Am I a pussy? Tell me this is within normal, manly human behavior. I mean, the poor bastard wasn't doing anything to me besides existing. submitted by munnerlyng to AskReddit [link] [124 comments]

and tell us which country you are from to make this even more interesting. Edit: It's great getting so many perspectives. Edit (2): Please stop saying 'you' and 'your' when talking about the US. Guys I'm Australian. Edit (3): Why the downvotes? This isn't a US vs the World thing. I just want to learn about how people view the US no matter how outrageous. submitted by nuttyalmond to AskReddit [link] [133 comments]

Don't blink -- if you do, you may miss IBM's new processor. The company is boldly claiming that the chip within IBM's new zEnterprise clocks in at 5.2GHz, making it the world's fastest microprocessor. We're sure this claim could be challenged on multiple fronts, namely by hardcore overclockers who have seen their own chips operate at much...

Apple's new Ping social network -- introduced alongside iTunes 10 -- required a special trademark agreement to make happen, a press statement reveals. Karsten Manufacturing notes that it technically owns the Ping name for one of its sub-brands, which produces golf equipment.

Sony Ericsson is aiming high, as the company said it wants to be the world’s biggest supplier of Android phones. It has its work cut out for it.

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Which open source API will rule the roost?
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