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Exclusive: Amazon phone confirmed, could be announced tomorrow — Amazon's updated Kindle Fire and new backlit “Paperwhite” Kindle e-reader have already leaked out ahead of the company's event tomorrow, but there may be one more surprise in store: a mobile phone.| Bryan Bishop / The Verge: |
Amazon shows new Kindle Fire and backlit ‘Paperwhite’ Kindle readers in TV ad — We're expecting quite a few things out of tomorrow's Amazon event, and the company just helped heighten expectations a little bit more with a new commercial. The brief spot aired during tonight's Giants and Cowboys game … | Peter Kafka / AllThingsD: |
Does Amazon Have Its Own Apple TV Plan? — We know that Amazon will unveil new devices tomorrow, including a replacement for the Kindle Fire it stopped selling last week. — What about a gadget that isn't a tablet or an e-reader? — There has been lots of speculation that Amazon … | Nokia: |
New Nokia Lumia Range Delivers Latest PureView Camera Innovation, New Navigation Experiences and Wireless Charging on Windows Phone 8 — Nokia Lumia 920 Captures Best Pictures and Video Ever Seen on a Smartphone — Espoo, Finland and New York, NY - Nokia today announced the Nokia Lumia 920 … | Steven Levy / Wired: |
Nokia's Visionary Wants to Out-Design Apple — Marko Ahtisaari, head of Nokia's design studio. Photo: nomadig/Flickr — Marko Ahtisaari spreads out several models of Nokia's new smart phone with the self-assurance of a Tiffany diamond salesman. It is several weeks before the launch … | Arik Hesseldahl / AllThingsD: |
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Motorola announces Droid RAZR HD with 4.7-inch display — Motorola has just announced the Droid RAZR HD, updating its old flagship with a larger 4.7-inch screen, HD display, and Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich. The RAZR HD comes with a 2,500mAh battery, a bit under the 3,300mAh RAZR Maxx … | Matthew Panzarino / The Next Web: |
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Current status: API v1.1 — @jasoncosta Jason Costa — Today, we're excited to release the next version of the Twitter API, version 1.1. A few weeks ago, we outlined many of the v1.1 changes, and with today's release, we've also updated the Developer Rules of the Road … | Christina Warren / Mashable!: |
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An apology is due — We're excited about the Lumia 920 and the ground-breaking PureView imaging capabilities we announced today. — In an effort to demonstrate the benefits of optical image stabilization (which eliminates blurry images and improves pictures shot in low light conditions) … | T.C. Sottek / The Verge: |
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No New Apple Television Products Coming in 2012 as Content Negotiations Stall Once Again — Bloomberg reports that Apple will not be releasing a new “TV product” this year as difficult negotiations with media companies have slowed Apple's plans. The Wall Street Journal reported last month … | Andrea Chang / Los Angeles Times: |
Californians spend freely on Amazon.com before sales tax deadline — With Amazon.com set to begin collecting sales taxes on California purchases Sept. 15, many tech-savvy consumers are cramming in some last-minute tax-free shopping. — Amazon.com won't say whether sales to California customers … | John Paczkowski / AllThingsD: |
Apple: We Didn't Give FBI Any Device IDs — Apple has finally weighed in on hacker group AntiSec's claims that it has obtained millions of unique device identifiers for Apple devices (UDIDs) from an FBI laptop. The gist of its comment: If the FBI has iPhone and iPad UDIDs, it didn't get them from us.| Anthony Ha / TechCrunch: |
Adobe Social Launches To Create And Monitor Social Ads — After several months in beta testing, Adobe is launching Adobe Social, which it's pitching as a way to connect social marketing campaigns with real business results. — That was the big emphasis when the company first announced … | Roger Cheng / CNET: |
Verizon Wireless confirms multiple Windows Phones in Q4 — The carrier's chief operating officer also said the company plans to work with Nokia. — Windows Phone 8 is heading to Verizon Wireless. Will Nokia and CEO Stephen Elop be part of that? — Verizon Wireless will be selling … | Jeremy Horwitz / iLounge: |
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Introducing Quora for Android — Mobile usage is increasingly important for people who use Quora — accounting today for over 25% of Quora's traffic. We are excited to announce Quora for Android, available today on the Google Play store (https://play.google.com/store/apps/ details?id=com.quora.android& feature=search_result#?t=W25...| Jeff John Roberts / GigaOM: |
Chinese outfit files for Pinterest, Quora trademarks — A Chinese man has been snapping up dozens of domain names related to popular American start-ups and is seeking to trademark some of the names in the US and China. — Qian Jin of Nanjing, China, has applied to register marks like Foursquare … | Eric Eldon / TechCrunch: |
After Long Startup Journey, Seesmic Is Bought By Social Media Management Service Hootsuite [Confirmed] — Seesmic is one of those startups that never quit, it just kept pivoting. And today, it's getting rewarded for all the work — we're hearing it is about to close a sale to Hootsuite.| T.C. Sottek / The Verge: |
Samsung Galaxy S III sales surpass 20 million — Samsung's Galaxy S III hit the 10 million mark at the end of July, and in the time since then the company has doubled that figure — Samsung says it's reached 20 million Galaxy S III sales, 100 days after the handset launched in May.| Owen Thomas / Business Insider: |
Top Startup Advisor Paul Graham Just Warned Against Taking Google's Money — Y Combinator founder Paul Graham, the influential advisor to dozens of startups like Dropbox and Airbnb, sent his entrepreneurs an email Wednesday afternoon against taking “lowball offers”—in particular, he said, from Google Ventures.
Defrag Tools: WPT - Command Line — Andrew Richards, Chad Beeder, and Larry Larsen continue walking you through the Windows Performance Toolkit (WPT).
Static.com Adds Hadoop Support for Cloud Foundry — In this guest post, Jake Farrell, CTO for Static.com, explains how the major shift in the hosting industry towards platforms for high developer productivity …
Love, Magic, & APIs — I will confess, I am old enough to remember my GeoCities page. Don't hate. It was amazing, it was... this transformative moment in which I took real, actual information, and transformed it into something visible and memorable.
Hadoop, Hadoop, Hurrah! HDP for Windows is Now GA! — Today we are very excited to announce that Hortonworks Data Platform for Windows (HDP for Windows) is now generally available and ready to support the most demanding production workloads.
“Yammer sucks” — Not to be mean to Yammer, or anything — it's a very good tool for some use cases — but that's what a customer told me recently (and others feel the same way).This is a Techmeme archive page. It shows how the site appeared at 1:30 AM ET, September 6, 2012.
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