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Apple Introduces iPhone 5 — Thinnest, Lightest iPhone Ever Features All-New Aluminum Design, Stunning 4-Inch Retina Display, A6 Chip & Ultrafast Wireless — Apple® today announced iPhone® 5, the thinnest and lightest iPhone ever, completely redesigned to feature a stunning …
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Apple introduces iPhone 5, 4″ screen, 7.6mm thick, 112 grams, 4G LTE capable, A6 processor, Lightning dock connector — Today at a special event in San Francisco, Apple introduced the iPhone 5. — “It's a jewel. It's the most beautiful product we've ever made, bar none,” said Apple's Phil Schiller.
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iPhone 5 Pricing And Availability Revealed: $199 For 16GB, $299 For 32GB, $399 For 64GB, Ships On Sept. 21 — Now that everyone's appetite for the iPhone 5 has been whetted, when can people actually get one? Apple's Phil Schiller took the stage after playing a brief video to talk …
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iPhone 4S drops to $99, iPhone 4 now free; Apple discontinues the 3GS — To make room for its latest iPhone, Apple has just announced new prices for the rest of the line — and the iPhone 3GS isn't part of the mix. Cupertino followed a similar strategy to what it used last year …
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iPhone 5 vs. iPhone 4S: what's changed? — Its name is enough to send CEOs into cold sweats, which is why the rest of the mobile world spent last week announcing their hardware back-to-back to steal a march on this handset. Now, after all of the rumor, speculation and leaks … | Darren Murph / Engadget: |
iPhone 5 hands-on! — At long last, the iPhone 5. We just got our hands on Apple's latest smartphone following its unveiling in San Francisco, and suffice it to say, it's a beautiful thing. Some might say we've been waiting for this moment since October 4th of last year … | Mat Smith / Engadget: |
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Apple's iOS 6 Available September 19: Facebook, Maps, Passbook, Photo Sharing, Siri And More — Apple first previewed iOS 6 back in June at WWDC, but today it showed off the shipping product in detail. It arrives September 19 as a free update. — In the intervening time you may have forgotten …
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Apple Releases A Totally Redesigned iTunes With iCloud Built-In — As with every new hardware releases, Apple updated iTunes. But the media software received a major update today. The interface is now totally new with an edge-to-edge design. Browsing your music feels completely different with a great emphasis on album art.
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Apple enhances iOS 6 multitasking with new background navigation updates — As new iOS devices become more powerful and sophisticated, Apple is likely to continue to evolve the platform's multitasking features, as exemplified by Maps' new background direction updates.
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iTunes 10.7 available for download, adds support for iOS 6 devices and new iPod Nanos, Shuffles — Ahead of an October launch for the completely revamped “new iTunes,” Apple has served up iTunes 10.7, which “adds support for iOS 6 running on compatible iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch models” …
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Apple redesigns the iPod touch with 4-inch display, Siri, and upgraded cameras — After two years of maintaining the same aesthetic design, Apple has given the iPod touch a much deserved overhaul. As rumored last week, Apple has redesigned the iPod touch to feature a larger 4-inch Retina display …
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| David Pierce / The Verge: |
Apple updates iPod nano with a larger screen, Bluetooth, and an FM tuner for $149 — It may not be the focal point of the day's announcements, but Apple's not forgetting about its line of iPods. In addition to the new iPhone 5-inspired iPod touch, the company's also updated its cheaper line …
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The Undercover Report on How the New iPhone 5 is Made Inside Foxconn Factory — A Chinese news agency, Shanghai Evening Post, has sent an experienced journalist to slip into the Foxconn Tai Yuan factory and pretended as a new worker, his mission is to find out how the new iPhone 5 is produced.| Stephen Shankland / CNET: |
Google: 500 million Android devices activated — Just before Apple debuts its next-gen iPhone, Google announces that people have activateda half billion Android devices. Also, 1.3 million new ones arrive each day. — Google won't be able to compete with the attention lavished on Apple …
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Apple iPhone 5 to ship with new EarPods: Headphones with a ‘breakthrough design’, shipping today — Alongside the launch of the iPhone 5, Apple has announced that it will launch a new version of its bundled headphones called EarPods, offering “breakthrough design for a more natural fit … | David Streitfeld / New York Times: |
Amazon, Forced to Collect a Tax, Is Adding Roots — PATTERSON, Calif. — At the moment, it is little more than dirt and gravel. But a sunbaked field at the edge of this farming town will play a significant role in one of the most ambitious retailing ventures of the era …
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Microsoft patent shows Holodeck-style, full-room “immersive display” — The patent describes this figure as showing how the device could “project a peripheral image in a 360-degree field around [the] environmental display.” — Microsft / USPTO — A newly published patent shows Microsoft …
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Preparing For An IPO, Online Customer Service Platform Zendesk Raises $60M From Redpoint, Goldman Sachs And Others — Online customer service company Zendesk has raised $60 million in new financing led by Redpoint Ventures with participation by Index Ventures, GGV Capital, Goldman Sachs …
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