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Apple's WWDC touts new iOS 6 features

At its developers conference this year, Apple unveiled a handful of the upcoming 200 new features arriving to iOS 6. Some of these include Facebook photo integration, turn-by-turn navigation, and an updated Siri, the personal assistant/voice command service. In addition, the new mobile OS will have Passbook, where you can store movie stubs and sports tickets. Though it's different than Google Wallet, both services consolidate what many put into their wallets into a mobile space
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Apple's WWDC touts new iOS 6 features
At its developers conference this year, Apple unveiled a handful of the upcoming 200 new features arriving to iOS 6. Some of these include Facebook photo integration, turn-by-turn navigation, and an updated Siri, the personal assistant/voice command service. In addition, the new mobile OS will have Passbook, where you can store movie stubs and sports tickets. Though it's different Google Wallet, both services consolidate what many put into their wallets into a mobile space,

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