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Twitter is testing out a new push notifications feature called for the Twitter iPhone application. Twitter is currently internally testing out the push notifications feature. People that have iOS 4.1 installed (Gold Master for developers) have the option to enable push notifications for Twitter. The push notifications don’t work yet, but the feature ... Full story

Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) is ramping up production to meet the demand of the iPad device. Currently they are running at about 2 million iPads per month. They plan to hit 3 million iPads per month soon enough. “Apple recently indicated to its suppliers a desire to move to 3 million per month in C4Q10. This implies ... Full story

Internet security firm Sophos has reported that the Ping social network built into Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) iTunes is vulnerable to spam and scams. There are 160 million credit card holders on iTunes. You don’t necessarily need to add a credit card to create an iTunes account. That means tons of spammers can join ... Full story

Twitter announced in a blog post that they now have over 145 million registered users. There are also 300,000 registered applications in the Twitter ecosystem now too. These applications use OAuth for support. Twitter switched from basic authentication to OAuth several days ago and that means several applications were left behind. Ever since the ... Full story

Twitter has launched an iPad application and it supports website browinsg, photos, videos, check-ins, hashtags, etc. The Twitter for iPad application has Panes, embedded media, and no need for logging in to see tweets. You can search, view trends, and find breaking news with the application. The application also has gesture ... Full story

Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT) has hired viral YouTube sensation Paul “Bear” Vasquez, also known as the Double Rainbow guy to do an ad for them. The original Double Rainbow video has over 15 million views on YouTube and the auto-tuned remix of Double Rainbow has close to 9 million YouTube views. Vasquez did a video ... Full story

Dell Inc. (NASDAQ:DELL) decided to back out of an acquisition deal of cloud data storage company 3PAR after there was a bidding war with Hewlett-Packard Company (NYSE:HPQ). Dell said that they will not increase their $2 billion proposal for 3PAR. As part of the deal, Dell is entitled to a $72 million break-up fee ... Full story

AOL has renewed a search engine deal with Google Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOG). AOL’s five-year partnership with Google ranges across more properties than the previous deal they had with the search engine company. Google will provide search technology and search advertising to AOL Search. The deal also includes global search, mobile search, and video distribution ... Full story

Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) has announced a new line of iPods today. We are going to focus on the new iPod Touch first and then we’ll talk about the new iPod Nano. The new iPod Touch has a Retina screen and dual camera. The new screen is the same as the iPhone 4 (960×640 and 3.5″). ... Full story

Intel Corporation (NASDAQ:INTC) has flexed their acquisition muscles once again by agreeing to buy Infineon Technologies’ Wireless Solutions for $1.4 billion. This strategic acquisition increases Intel’s smartphone presence. “The global demand for wireless solutions continues to grow at an extraordinary rate,” stated Intel CEO Paul Otellini. “The acquisition of Infineon’s WLS (Wireless Solutions) business ... Full story