Motorola customer support has started to contact some of the XOOM device owners about 4G LTE upgrades taking place. 4G LTE upgrades are spreading across Verizon’s XOOM customers. Below is the full text:

The next Nintendo console is a handheld device called the Wii U. The Wii U is a set-top box that is interlinked wirelessly with a tablet-style controller. The Wii U controller is the size of a paperback novel. The interlinking means that you can switch the game back-and-forth between the TV and the controller.

Facebook has added the facial recognition technology to millions of additional users. Prior to today’s news, Facebook had only enabled facial recognition to users in North America.

Mobile payment services company Square is raising a new round of funding that would give them a billion dollar valuation. It is believed that Square is raising $50 million or more. The talks of the new round of funding is in early stages as of right now. Square is processing about $3 million per day in mobile payments. Square is also working on a cash register service. Square has raised over $37.5 million in funding thus far from multiple venture capital companies and Visa. [TechCrunch]

For those of you that prefer to update Twitter from the web instead of a third party application, your life has just been made easier. Twitter has added automatic link shortening to Twitter.com. When you paste a link into the tweet box on Twitter.com and hit the “Tweet” button, Twitter will automatically shorten it for you. If you want analytics for the links that are pasted on the Twitter website, you are encouraged to use third-party link shortening services. [Twitter Blog]

Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) introduced iCloud at the WWDC conference. iCloud works with the iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch, Mac, or PC. iCloud allows users to store content on the Internet and wirelessly push it to all iOS devices. When something changes on one device, all devices are wirelessly updated instantly.

Today Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) announced iOS 5 at the WWDC conference in California. A beta version was released to iOS Developer Program members. iOS 5 beta has over 200 new features available on the iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch. Some of the new features include:

People that use the WordPress platform knows about the eco-system built around it. Plugins are one of the most important aspects of running a blog that runs on WordPress. Below is a list of over 20 plugins available that would come in handy for WordPress admins.