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| The Verge: |
Live from Apple's iPhone 5 event! — Apple iPhone 5 event live blog: up-to-the-minute coverage, direct from San Francisco Event Updates 9:57:14 AM PDT “Ladies and gentlemen, we'll begin shortly. Please switch devices to silent mode.”
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| Matthew Panzarino / The Next Web: |
Apple introduces the iPhone 5, 4″ in-cell display, 7.6mm thick, 112 grams, LTE capable, A6 processor — 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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| Walter S. Mossberg / AllThingsD: |
Kindle Fire HD Is Better but It Isn't the Best Color Tablet — Amazon is upping its game in the color tablet market. Last year, it launched the 7-inch Kindle Fire, a pretty good, but limited, device mostly distinguished by its low price of $199 and its seamless access to Amazon's massive ecosystem …
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| Cyril Chang / M.I.C. Gadget: |
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.
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| 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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| Leena Rao / TechCrunch: |
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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| Kyle Orland / Ars Technica: |
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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| 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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| Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
Mark Zuckerberg promises a native Android app, says betting on HTML5 for mobile was a ‘mistake’ — Speaking with Michael Arrington at the TechCrunch Disrupt conference, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg admitted that “we've had a bunch of missteps on [mobile],” specifically referring to its mobile app strategy.| Ina Fried / AllThingsD: |
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| Daniel Eran Dilger / AppleInsider: |
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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| Kara Swisher / AllThingsD: |
Exclusive: Mayer Set to Get Yahoo's Alibaba Billions in One Week (But Will Investors Get Some Back Too?) — According to sources close to the situation, Yahoo will officially close the multi-billion sale of half its assets in China's Alibaba Group in one week.| Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
Microsoft readies Office 2010 to Office 2013 upgrade program — Summary: Microsoft is said to be prepping to launch its latest Office upgrade offer this fall, and give qualifying users a choice of different Office versions to which they can move. — Just like it does with Windows …
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| Richard Lawler / Engadget: |
Google Fiber announces qualified areas tomorrow, snags ABC channels including ESPN, Disney — The official list of the first “fiberhoods” Google's Gigabit internet + TV service will be available in doesn't come out until tomorrow, but it's already looking like a more attractive option …
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| Om Malik / GigaOM: |
New app MindMeld heralds the era of anticipatory computing — Tim Tuttle, a serial entrepreneur who co-founded web acceleration technology company Bang Networks and video search engine Truveo (acquired by AOL), has returned with his third startup, Expect Labs, which he co-founded with Moninder Jheeta …
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| Ben Sisario / New York Times: |
A Creator of Turntable.fm Plans Online Hub DJZ — The music industry's latest gold rush is over dance music, which lures tens of thousands of fans to festivals and dominates pop radio. — But to Seth Goldstein, a technology entrepreneur who was one of the creators of Turntable.fm … | Rebecca Grant / VentureBeat: |
Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff drops bomb on Box and Okta — SAN FRANCISCO — Chairman and CEO of Salesforce Marc Benioff was the epitome of mellow on stage at TechCrunch Disrupt today, leaning back with a foot over one leg, casually chatting with Michael Arrington and talking about his trip to Hawaii … | Sarah Frier / Bloomberg: |
IBM Boosts Social Network With Feed for Facebook, Twitter — International Business Machines Corp. (IBM), the largest computer services provider, has bolstered its social networking tool for companies by integrating e-mail and adding a news feed with Twitter Inc. and Facebook Inc. (FB)
| Mikael Ricknäs / Computerworld: |
Amazon Web Services lets users sell reserved instances — The company hopes to make reserved instances more attractive by increasing flexibility — Amazon Web Services (AWS) has announced an online marketplace where users of its cloud computing services can sell their reserved server instances …
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| Bloomberg: |
Apple Said to Lose Cheyer, Co-Creator of Siri Voice Unit — Adam Cheyer, an engineer who helped build the Siri voice-recognition software that was acquired by Apple Inc. (AAPL), is no longer working for the iPhone maker, according to three people familiar with the situation.
| Dave McClure: |
Screw the Black Swans: Ichiro is our role model, not Barry Bonds. — There are probably better things for me to do today, however i feel compelled to respond to the Black Swan Farming post by Paul Graham, founding partner of Y Combinator. — Maybe you can call this post “Grooming for Ugly Ducklings”.
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