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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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Apple Confirms iPhone 5 Pre-Orders Start at 12:01 a.m. Sept. 14 — Get that credit card ready for a late-night purchase. Photo: John Bradley/Wired — 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.
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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.| Nathan Ingraham / The Verge: |
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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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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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 …
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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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| 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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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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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 … | 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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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 Meyer| 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.| 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 … | Robin Wauters / The Next Web: |
University of California sues Facebook, Disney and Wal-Mart over interactive technology patents — The Regents of the University of California and its lawsuit-happy patent licensee Eolas Technologies yesterday filed lawsuits against Facebook, Disney and Wal-Mart over four interactive technology patents …
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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 …
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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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