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Apple Confirms iPhone 5 Pre-Orders Start at 12:01 a.m. Sept. 14 — Get that credit card ready for a late-night purchase. Apple has confirmed to Wired via e-mail that it will begin accepting online pre-orders of the iPhone 5 during the wee hours of the morning beginning at 12:01 a.m. PDT on Sept. 14.| 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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Sprint says its iPhone 5 won't have HD Voice support — One of the new iPhone 5 hardware features announced yesterday was support for wideband audio — or HD voice — which increases the fidelity of voice calls. In the US, the only carrier that has publicly announced support for the HD voice protocol … | Eric Slivka / MacRumors: |
Cricket and C Spire to Offer iPhone 5 Beginning September 28 [Updated] — While the three major U.S. iPhone carriers AT&T, Verizon, and Sprint will be launching the iPhone 5 on Friday, September 21, it will not take long for availability to extend to other carriers.| Jake Smith / 9to5Mac: |
Apple releases Lightning to Micro USB adapter for Europeans — The Apple Store has come back online following Apple's media event that just wrapped up in San Francisco. We've gotten a look at several smaller products from Apple, and we've found one more. For the Euro-folk …
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| Christopher Grant / The Verge: |
Nintendo Wii U release date is November 18th in US, starting at $299.99, November 30th in Europe — Nintendo's Wii U will launch November 18th in North America starting at $299.99, the company announced today during a New York City press conference. — The console will launch in two varieties … | Ben Gilbert / Engadget: |
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| Leena Rao / TechCrunch: |
After 17 Years, eBay Debuts A New, Sleeker Logo — Following in the footsteps of Microsoft, eBay is debuting a new logo today. The colors of the logo are the same, but the font is a bit more modern and sleek, and the word “eBay” is cleanly aligned in a straight line.
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Facebook Throws a Coming-Out Party for Its Ad Exchange — Mark Zuckerberg says Facebook is going to make a lot of money from mobile ads. In the meantime, the company is trying to figure out how to make more money from the Web ads it already sells. — Here's one way: Take the small … | Matt Brian / The Next Web: |
Google adds another cool tool to Search: The Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon — Forget using Google's more powerful search operators, the best ones are the most fun ones. We've seen ‘tilt’ and ‘do a barrel roll’, but over the past day or so, the company has added another cool new search operator: Bacon number.| 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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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft disrupts millions of botnet connections after discovering PCs with preloaded malware — Microsoft revealed this week that it has helped disrupt more than 500 different strains of malware in an attempt to slow the emerging threat of the Nitol botnet.| Michael Kan / Computerworld: |
Google threat blamed as Acer cancels China smartphone launch — PC maker Acer has allegedly canceled the launch of a new smartphone using a Chinese-developed mobile operating system because Google threatened to cancel the company's license to use the Android OS.
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| Lance Whitney / CNET: |
Apple wins ‘rubber-banding’ patent ban against Motorola — A German court finds that Apple can enforce a ban in the country against certain Motorola devices over patent infringement claims. — Apple has eked out yet another legal victory against its Android competition.
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| 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 … | Lucas Mearian / PC World: |
Helium-filled WD drives promise huge boost in capacity — Density of helium is one-seventh that of air, thus reducing hard drive platter drag. — HGST's five-platter Ultrastar 7K4000 4TB hard drive.For more than 50 years, hard disk drives have run on air. That's about to change.
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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 …
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Facebook For iOS App's Review Average Climbs From 1.5 Stars To 4 Stars In Three Weeks Since Relaunch — Facebook will still push HTML5 innovation, but stripping it out to speed up the Facebook for iOS app has been very successful. Half of its iOS users updated their apps in just four days …
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Intel ports Android Jelly Bean to x86 phones, but no rollout date set — Summary: The company has reportedly got Android 4.1 working on its architecture, although it is unclear when those who have picked up handsets such as the Orange San Diego will get the upgrade. — David MeyerSponsor Posts
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