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		<title>PayPal handles 60% of web transactions, leaves Google in the dust</title>
		<description><![CDATA[PayPal processes 60% of web transactions, Google is the fastest payment gateway, and some unlucky surfer had to wait over 92 seconds for his online purchase to complete. Those are only a few of the findings in New Relic&#8217;s study of the web&#8217;s most popular payment gateways (infographic below). A payment gateway is the web equivalent [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Windows racket: Microsoft will clean crapware off your PC for $99</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The PC crapware problem has finally gotten bad enough that Microsoft is now charging users to fix it. For $ 99 Microsoft is now offering to strip consumers&#8217; Windows PCs of all unnecessary software pre-installed by PC makers, AllThingsD reports. Affectionally dubbed &#8220;crapware&#8221;,  the software  is installed by PC makers in exchange for cash from vendors and is almost universally [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dressed in Metro, LinkedIn looks good on Windows Phone</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Good news, Windows Phone owners. Professional social network LinkedIn, in its quest to master mobile, has released another stunning mobile application &#8212; but this one is just for you. The application, the company&#8217;s first official release for the platform, is a full-featured release that plays perfectly with the Windows Phone operating system, and even incorporates [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Zuck’s dawdle in the NY Sheraton bathroom, a sign of things to come</title>
		<description><![CDATA[That little anecdote about Facebook&#8217;s roadshow meeting in New York was  widely reported this past week, but it&#8217;s being picked up as symbolic of Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg&#8217;s indifference to Wall Street. For those of you who missed the report, Zuckerbeg was still in the men&#8217;s room as the audience of Wall Street heavy-hitters [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Spotify update lets you create radio stations from playlists, share to Tumblr, &amp; more</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Streaming music service Spotify is rolling out a new version of its desktop software for Windows and Mac today, adding a handful of new features and improved functionality. Version 0.8.3 of Spotify includes the ability to create custom radio stations based on a particular playlist or album, much in the same way Pandora does with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Urban Airship has delivered 20B push notifications, doubling in just 4 months (exclusive)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Mobile marketing and messaging leader Urban Airship has served more than 20 billion push notifications through iOS, Android, and other platforms, the company revealed. Urban Airship currently is helping more than 65,000 companies &#8212; including ESPN, Groupon, and other big names &#8212; with app notifications, a challenging but ultimately rewarding aspect to apps. You don&#8217;t [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://agatheringoffibers.com/2012/05/urban-airship-has-delivered-20b-push-notifications-doubling-in-just-4-months-exclusive/</link>
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		<title>Want to try your hand at Windows Phone development? This should make it easier</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Microsoft has just released hundreds of pre-built mobile app components, open-source projects, and SDKs for Windows Phone development into the wild. The new components and APIs come via Verious, a marketplace for plug-and-play bits and pieces for mobile applications. And from what we&#8217;ve been hearing from mobile developers around the world, this library of goodies [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://agatheringoffibers.com/2012/05/want-to-try-your-hand-at-windows-phone-development-this-should-make-it-easier/</link>
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		<title>Apple dominating Android with 84 percent of mobile gaming revenue</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s a reason why so many developers feels iOS users are more valuable than Android: Apple is killing it in mobile gaming with 84 percent of all mobile gaming revenue in the US. &#8220;When analyzing Apple’s successful monetization, there is one dominant factor outside of differences in audience demographics and preferences: Apple requires users to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://agatheringoffibers.com/2012/05/apple-dominating-android-with-84-percent-of-mobile-gaming-revenue/</link>
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		<title>Amazing new touch technology could revolutionize smartphones, doorknobs, your sofa</title>
		<description><![CDATA[What if any object in the world, not just smartphones and tablets, could know when and how you were touching them? If a team working at Disney Research and Carnegie Mellon University continues to make progress, soon we may have smarter chairs, doorknobs, bathtubs, and even living things. Using the researchers&#8217; new technology, called Touché, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://agatheringoffibers.com/2012/05/amazing-new-touch-technology-could-revolutionize-smartphones-doorknobs-your-sofa/</link>
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		<title>Is the Call of Duty: Black Ops II drone war realistic? (videos)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In Call of Duty: Black Ops II, a terrorist leader takes over America&#8217;s drone and robot armies and turns them against their creators. But some gamers have reacted to this scenario &#8212; set in 2025 &#8212; with scepticism. Now Activision has released videos describing all of the research it did on the subject of future [...]]]></description>
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