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Flipboard at two: 20m users, one new signup every second

Flipboard Blog :: This summer, we celebrated our second birthday. Just the last year alone makes our bones hurt: we launched iPhone and smartphone editions; debuted features like Cover Stories, audio and shopping; added seven new social networks; forged partnerships with publishers like The New York Times, and localized into eight languages.

Highlights & curious facts - Infographic by inside.flipboard.com

Instagram goes mainstream as the AP plans convention coverage via iPhones

Beet.TV :: The AP's staff photographers covering the upcoming political conventions in Tampa and Charlotte will not just be shooting for the wire service with their high-end DSLR cameras, they will shoot separate stories using iPhones and uploading the images via Instagram.

Video interview with Shazna Nessa, AP's Deputy Managing Editor for Editorial Products and Innovations by Andy Plesser, www.beet.tv

AP announces coverage plan press release, www.ap.org

Flickr update its Android app: New tabbar, metadata editing & more

The Next Web :: Launching in September 2011, Flickr’s Android app took its time to come to the platform and since then has lacked behind its iPhone counterpart. However, Yahoo has pushed an new update today, overhauling its UI to add a new tabbar, new ways to explore, the editing of metadata and whole host of other new features.

A report by Matt Brian, thenextweb.com

Mat Honan: How Apple and Amazon security flaws led to my 'epic hacking'

It can take little to destroy a (digital) identity.

Mat Honan | Wired :: In the space of one hour, my entire digital life was destroyed. First my Google account was taken over, then deleted. Next my Twitter account was compromised, and used as a platform to broadcast racist and homophobic messages. And worst of all, my AppleID account was broken into, and my hackers used it to remotely erase all of the data on my iPhone, iPad, and MacBook.

In many ways, this was all my fault.

A report by Mat Honan, www.wired.com

Former Gizmodo writer Mat Honan's hacked iCloud password leads to nightmare

TUAW The Unofficial Apple Weblog :: Former Gizmodo writer Mat Honan is having a pretty bad day. As you can read on his Tumblr post (not to mention elsewhere), hackers compromised his iCloud account. They used that access to reset his iCloud password, reset his Gmail password, gain control of his Twitter account (which in turn gave them access to Gizmodo's Twitter feed and 400K followers) and generally wreak mayhem.

A report by Michael Rose, www.tuaw.com

Facebook for iPhone and iPad gains a new "save for later" feature

iMore :: Facebook has added a new feature to the Facebook for iPhone and iPad app that allows you to save posts for later. In reality, this works similar to what other services call "favorites". If you browse the Saved posts, you are able to scroll through them later as their own feed. You have to physically mark them as Unsave to remove them from the Saved folder.

A report by Leanna Lofte, www.imore.com

HT: Elaine Burke, siliconrepublic.com

'The Essential Mobile Journalism Kit': What you need to know if you use iPhone for reporting

Multimediashooter.com :: Here’s a peak at the Mobile Reporting Field Guide, an iBook on everything journalists need to know about using an iPhone for reporting. It includes reviews on equipment, apps, as well as example videos. The guide is the culmination of work by several students enrolled in a mobile journalism course at the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism.

Mobile reporting, equipment - Continue here Koci Hernandez, www.multimediashooter.com

Direct iBook [267.MB] download

iBook via Apple iTunes

Direct PDF [267.MB] download - (This version is text only, no A/V samples)

Overview download options

HT: Mediabistro/10,000 Words via journalism.co.uk

Has Apple started to hand out iPhone 5 specs to trusted accessory makers?

TechCrunch :: Anyone want an iPhone 5 case? A bunch of manufacturers are currently taking orders and shipping nearly every style from cheap silicon sleeves to hard shell Hello Kitty cases. All of them feature a design taller than that of the iPhone 4S and most of them make room for a smaller dock connector.

A report by Matt Burns, techcrunch.com

Apple's next iPhone has thinner screen, better display quality

Wall Street Journal :: Hong Kong — Apple Inc.'s next iPhone, currently being manufactured by Asian component makers, will use a new technology that makes the smartphone's screen thinner, people familiar with the matter said, as the U.S. technology giant strives to improve technological features amid intensifying competition from Samsung Electronics Co. and other rivals.

A report by [exclusive subscriber content] Juro Osawa | Lorraine Luk, online.wsj.com

Discussion: "Report: The Next-Gen iPhone Will Have A Thinner, Higher Quality Display" - Continue to read here Jordan Crook, techcrunch.com

Extreme journalism: Waterproof and disinfectable iPhone and iPad covers

Maybe interesting for those of you using iPhone and iPad as reporting tools.

siliconrepublic :: Healthcare professionals who are using touchscreen devices on the job can now protect their iPhones and iPads from water and contamination with a new and transparent form-fitting skin. SEAL SHIELDS polyurethane covers have been designed to make iPhones and iPads waterproof, washable and disinfectable.

A report by Tina Costanza, www.siliconrepublic.com