Zynga unveils Hanging With Friends for iPhone

Popular social-network and iOS game maker Zynga has debuted its latest title, a continuation of the "With Friends" line begun with with the Scrabble-like Words With Friends and Chess With Friends with its take on the classic game of Hangman, entitled Hanging With Friends for iPhone. The game, which is already available in the Canadian iTunes App Store, will premiere shortly in the U.S. and other countries....

Source: http://feeds.macnn.com/click.phdo?i=e99ad5cb564421de95ba31596a156ce5

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Google?s browser-based cloud to be challenged by Apple?s apps

Apple showed its hand today during the WWDC keynote, and the company is clearly all-in on a cloud-based mobile future. In fact, in many ways it looks a lot like the approach Android has taken, but in fact, Apple's strategy couldn't be more different.

Source: http://gigaom.com/apple/googles-browser-based-cloud-to-be-challenged-by-apples-apps/

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iCloud Free Trial, $25 Per Year, and Ads?

Rumors are flowing fast in the days before WWDC. LATimes reveals some additional details about Apple's iCloud service.

The iCloud service will function as many have expected. Offering iTunes users the ability to save their purchases to iCloud and then being able to listen to it from any web browser or Apple device. Apple will be offering a free trial for those who buy music from iTunes and later expects to charge "about" $25/year for the service.

The LATimes also adds without detail that "Apple would also sell advertising around its iCloud service." It's not clear in what form this advertising would be, and whether it would be present for only free or also paid customers.

Finally, Apple expects to extend the iCloud concept to movies, TV shows and other digital content. Apple will be announcing iCloud at next week's WWDC.


Source: http://www.macrumors.com/2011/06/02/icloud-free-trial-25-dollars-ads/

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More Claims of 'Deep' Twitter Integration in iOS 5

Earlier this week, TechCrunch reported that Apple is said be integrating Twitter into iOS 5, offering users the ability to easily share photos and other content via the service. Those claims dovetail nicely with Twitter's announcement the following day that it will launch its own photo-sharing service. Daring Fireball's John Gruber hinted, however, that Apple is planning to take things even further when it comes to Twitter integration, making it a "system-level service" within iOS 5.

Another source has now spoken out on Apple's plans, with the well-connected Robert Scoble now tweeting that Apple will indeed be building Twitter "deeply" into iOS 5.

Next week will be a huge week for those of us who have lived on Twitter for last few years. Apple is building Twitter in deeply into iOS5.
In a series of follow-up tweets responding to commenters, Scoble says he's had "actual knowledge" of Apple's plans for several months now, but does not know the details. He does, however, claim that the integration will go well beyond photos and "lame 'send to Twitter buttons'".
I know someone who built the Twitter integration into iOS5 and I believe him when he says I'll love it.
Apple has announced that Steve Jobs will be providing a preview of iOS 5 at next Monday's keynote presentation at the company's Worldwide Developers Conference in San Francisco, and we should learn more about the rumored Twitter integration at that time if it is indeed in the works.


Source: http://www.macrumors.com/2011/06/03/more-claims-of-deep-twitter-integration-in-ios-5/

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