Apple's iOS Update Speeds Web Browsing, Expands AirPlay

The iPhone's multitasking drawer contains a playback widget for controlling audio apps. Photo: Jon Snyder/Wired.com
The next operating system upgrade for the iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad is landing sometime this week, and customers can look forward to major improvements in Safari performance and AirPlay media streaming.
Wired.com reported on most of the changes in iOS 4.3 when the beta released January. The newest additions that Apple announced last week included a significant speed boost to the Safari web browser, using the new Nitro JavaScript engine, which should make JavaScript run twice as...
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Facebook Teams Up With Warner Bros. to Stream Movies
In its march to become a portal to the entire internet, Facebook has signed a deal with Warner Brothers to test out whether its 600-plus million users will be willing to pay to stream new movies from within the social networking site’s virtual walls.
Warner Brothers will start the trial with The Dark Knight, the 2008 Batman movie from Christoper Nolan, and Facebook users will have to pay 30 Facebook credits (about $3) to watch the movie. To rent the movie, Facebook users in the United States have to visit the movie’s Facebook page, and start watching the movie from there. The rental period...