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According to IDC, an amazing 42% of the Windows "commercial" installed base, or anything other than consumers' home machines, was Window XP, making Microsoft's job of moving everyone off the old OS by its April 2014 retirement nearly impossible.

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Chinese blog Ynet reports that over 70% of Apple’s iPhones are now made in Foxconn’s Zhengzhou plant, where this video was shot. The video, courtesy of iFeng by way of M.I.C Gadget, shows a Chinese reporter from iFeng and Foxconn CEO Terry Gou taking a tour of the iPhone production line.

The idea of using computer-based technologies to increase spectrum capacity is catching on rapidly in the United States and overseas. Twice this month in speeches before cellular and cable companies Julius Genachowski, the Federal Communications Commission chairman, has called on industry to embrace spectrum-sharing technologies to make room for the wireless data explosion.

“When the same brand name is used on multiple new products, those new brands should be all similar in key ways,” he says. Trying to extend the “Live” from Xbox to Windows, with a bewilderingly diverse set of unrelated products and services was a mistake, in his view.

It's a simply solution to one of the biggest problems facing many of the music streaming services: having a catalogue to match Apple's iTunes. Tsui shows us with a Beatles track he has bought in iTunes, uploaded to his digital locker and is now streaming on Music Hub. "The software auto-syncs with your iTunes catalogue and automatically adds the music to your digital locker" adds Tsui. That means playlists, tracks, albums anything.

"I have decided not to open another investigation into Google Street View," Pilgrim wrote in a statement today. "In 2010 the Office found Google in breach of the Privacy Act after it was confirmed that Google collected personal information through unsecured WiFi payload data from its Street View vehicles."

With less than two weeks to go until WWDC 2012 kicks off, Apple has this morning released the conference schedule as well as the official iOS app and some guides for the conference goers. Developers who were lucky enough to snag tickets to WWDC ’12 can access the schedule here. There are over 100 sessions and labs that have been categorised into six technical tracks covering:

Those following us on Twitter already know that last week Apple rejected Instacast, a well-love podcatcher, over its Flattr integration. What does this mean for the future of Flattr inside applications for iPhone and iPad?

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RT @Techmeme: Sergey Brin Finally Lets Someone Else Wear Google Glass (@strngwys / Wired)

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RT @Techmeme: Patent Wars Are "Pain in the Ass," Says Tim Cook (@johnpaczkowski / AllThingsD)

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RT @Techmeme: Fear and Loathing and Windows 8 (@michaelmace / MobileOpportunity)

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On Zagat’s Google+ page, founders Tim and Nina Zagat write, “We’re excited to announce today that our content is now free on Zagat.com and a cornerstone of the new Google+ Local experience.” They go on to say,

If only he was equally as concerned with supporting our great nation. Much to the delighted displeasure of Twitter, one particular frame option betrays Romney's secret agenda working toward bettering a place known as Amercia.