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| Mat Honan / Wired: |
The iPhone 5 Is Completely Amazing and Utterly Boring — Apple shows off its newest iPhone. Photo: John Bradley/Wired — The iPhone 5 is the greatest phone in the world. It has top-notch hardware with a zippy new A6 processor and amazing four-inch display. Its new operating system, iOS 6, is slicker than slugs on ice.| Mg Siegler / TechCrunch: |
Apple's Magic Is In The Turn, Not The Prestige — The opening dialogue of Christopher Nolan's 2006 film, The Prestige: … This is what was on my mind following today's Apple event. It's essentially the story of the iPhone. — Apple took something ordinary, a phone …
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| AnandTech: |
iPhone 5 Hands On Pics and Video - Updated: With Impressions — We just spent a good amount of time with the iPhone 5. The phone feels very thin and light (obviously), and the improvement in performance is very noticeable compared to the 4S. Apple didn't have any games (and obviously no benchmarks) …
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iDownloadBlog.com, SlashGear, The Next Web, CNET, iMore.com, Geek.com, PhoneArena, GigaOM, SplatF, TUAW, Gizmodo, iPhone in Canada Blog, MacRumors, biskero, Softpedia News and dailywireless.org
Tweets: @ryan and @parislemon
| Ina Fried / AllThingsD: |
Interview: Phil Schiller on Why the iPhone 5 Has a New Connector but Not NFC or Wireless Charging — While Apple managed to pack a bunch of new technologies into the iPhone 5, the company opted not to include the wireless charging found on Nokia's Lumia 920 or the near field communications technology found in the Galaxy S III.
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Computerworld, CNET, AnandTech, GigaOM, The Verge, Bloomberg Tech Blog, Pocket-lint, TechnoBuffalo, Tech Sanity Check Blog, TechCrunch, Engadget, iDownloadBlog.com, Mercury News, The Seattle Times, Macgasm, iPhone in Canada Blog, PhoneArena, WMPoweruser, TodaysiPhone.com, Business Insider, MacRumors, The Verge, TechCrunch, iClarified, Light Reading, Gizmodo, App Advice, MacStories, New York Magazine, A VC, Fortune and Daring Fireball. Tweets: @asymco
| Apple: |
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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SiliconANGLE, Computerworld, ZDNet, Apple, CNET, Featured News, AT&T Cell Phones …, Pulse2 Technology …, MacRumors, MacStories, IEEE Spectrum Recent …, New York Times, The Tech Block, Gotta Be Mobile, ITProPortal, TelecompetitorTelecompetitor, DailyTech, SiliconBeat, iPhone Savior, The Next Web, TPM IdeaLab, Geek Beat Technology News, Washington Post, Forbes, SlashGear, nbcnews.com, Computerworld, Geekosystem, AnandTech, Current Editorials, Pocket-lint, Engadget, The Verge and Geek.com. Tweets: @bill_gross
| Wall Street Journal: |
Is the iPhone 5's ‘Lightning Connector’ a Pain in the Neck? — Apple Inc. rolled out a host of new features for the latest iPhone, then threw in one big pain in the neck. — Along with a bigger screen, better camera and faster speeds, the iPhone 5 sports a redesigned plug for cords …
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| Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Fortune: |
Apple's strategically-timed iPhone 5 rollout schedule — Why 9 countries on Sept. 21 and 22 more on Sept. 28? Because fiscal 2012 ends Sept. 29. — FORTUNE — Several analysts have pointed out that the launch schedule for the iPhone 5 is the most aggressive Apple (AAPL) has ever attempted.
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| Matthew Panzarino / The Next Web: |
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| Juro Osawa / Wall Street Journal: |
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| Louis Goddard / The Verge: |
Official Apple list shows international availability for each iOS 6 feature — As iOS 6 features such as turn-by-turn navigation and Siri become increasingly localized, it can be difficult to keep track of exactly what is available where. To help ease confusion in the wake … | Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
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| Henry Blodget / Business Insider: |
ANALYST: Facebook Has A Big New Problem You Need To Worry About — Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said several encouraging things when he spoke at a tech conference yesterday. — One thing he didn't address, however, is the rate at which Facebook's desktop usage is declining in its most mature market—the U.S.| Cyrus Farivar / Ars Technica: |
Cops might finally need a warrant to read your Gmail — If Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-VT) is able to pass his amendement, e-mail and other electronic communication will have stronger privacy protection. — Eric Constantineau — Right now, if the cops want to read my e-mail, it's pretty trivial for them to do so.
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| Todd Brix / The Windows Blog: |
Windows Phone 8 SDK Preview program is now open — Today we begin accepting requests for access to the Windows Phone SDK 8.0 Developer Preview program. The objective is to let developers of our most-downloaded apps start optimizing them for Windows Phone 8, and we expect the majority …
| Matthew Panzarino / The Next Web: |
Apple is shuttering failed social music network Ping on September 30th — After making hints about its future back in May, Apple has announced plans to shut down Ping as of September 30th via a notice in its iTunes 10.7 update, reports Mark Gurman at 9to5Mac.| Romain Dillet / TechCrunch: |
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| Alex Wilhelm / The Next Web: |
Meet the Mobile Device Privacy Act: A new bill to protect mobile consumers that is already causing a stir — Out today is a proposed piece of legislation from Representative Ed Markey designed to protect consumers from being unfairly tracked in a mobile environment, to inform as to who is tracking them … | Andrew Nusca / ZDNet: |
Apple's era of secrecy is over — Summary: Apple introduced the new iPhone 5 today. It was entirely underwhelming. Why? Because we knew about it well ahead of time. — Andrew Nusca — Steve Jobs must be rolling in his grave. — No disrespect to the late Apple chief executive … | Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
Crack in Internet's foundation of trust allows HTTPS session hijacking — Attack dubbed CRIME breaks crypto used to prevent snooping of sensitive data. — Researchers have identified a security weakness that allows them hijack web browser sessions even when they're protected by the HTTPS encryption … | Darren Murph / Engadget: |
7th-generation iPod nano hands-on! — Not to be outdone by a refreshed iPod touch (and, let's face it, a new iPhone), Apple also shot out a 5.4mm-thick iPod nano today — that's 38 percent thinner than the one it replaces. We just got our hands on the newest, tiniest music player outside …
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| Darren Murph / Engadget: |
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| Chris Velazco / TechCrunch: |
And The Winner Of TechCrunch Disrupt SF 2012 Is... YourMechanic! — After nearly three days and plenty of pitches, our list of 30 hungry startups was trimmed down until there were only seven startups left standing: Expect Labs, Gyft, Lit Motors, Prior Knowledge, Saya, YourMechanic, and Zumper.| Cade Metz / Wired: |
Intel Confirms Decline of Server Giants HP, Dell, and IBM — Diane Bryant, the head of Intel's data center group, says that eight server makers — not three — now account for 75 percent of Intel's server chip revenues. Photo: Ariel Zambelich/Wired — In 2008, says Intel bigwig Diane Bryant …
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| Richard Lawler / Engadget: |
Chrome for Android's first post-beta update brings better sandboxing, other tweaks — Chrome users on Android might have felt a bit neglected over the last couple of months, during which Google pushed a few updates to its browser on iOS while leaving its own platform untouched after it dropped the beta tag in June.| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Vinod Khosla: “I Feel Sad Sometimes For Y Combinator Companies That Get So Much Hype” — The legendary mentor Vinod Khosla criticized accelerators like Y Combinator who produce startups with overly slick pitches that he says garner “so much hype that they get valuations that no one who will help the team are going to pay.”
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| Emil Protalinski / The Next Web: |
Instagram redesigns mobile photo pages to match Web, adds ‘Open in App’ button — After all the Apple hoopla, Instagram today announced it has revamped its mobile photo pages, both in design and function, for its 100 million users. In terms of design, they now have a more consistent look and feel with the Web-based photo pages.
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Inside NuGet for C++ — NuGet support for C++ projects in Visual Studio has arrived in NuGet 2.5! It's been around for about a month now so we figured we'd go talk to one of the developers who helped make it happen, Garrett Serack.
Inside NuGet for C++ — NuGet support for C++ projects in Visual Studio has arrived in NuGet 2.5! It's been around for about a month now so we figured we'd go talk to one of the developers who helped make it happen, Garrett Serack.
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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 …
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 …
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An Army Is Forming To Battle Patent Trolls — For the past several months, we've exposed the flaws in the patent system and how they're being exploited by opportunistic patent trolls looking to extort a quick buck …
An Army Is Forming To Battle Patent Trolls — For the past several months, we've exposed the flaws in the patent system and how they're being exploited by opportunistic patent trolls looking to extort a quick buck …
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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.
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.
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“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).
“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).Who's Hiring In Tech?
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