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| Roberto Baldwin / Wired: |
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.
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| Matt Townsend / Bloomberg: |
Wal-Mart to Offer Apple's Pre-Orders for First Time — Wal-Mart Stores Inc. (WMT), the world's largest retailer, will take pre-orders for the new Apple Inc. (AAPL) iPhone for the first time and offer discounts on the device. — The iPhone 5, announced yesterday, can be ordered tomorrow …
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| Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch: |
iPhone 5 Unlocked U.S. Pricing: $649 (16GB), $749 (32GB), And $849 (64GB) — Apple's website now shows the unlocked pricing for the iPhone 5 in the U.S. Using the site's compare tool, you can see that the 16GB model starts at $649, with the 32GB version costing $749, and the 64GB top-tier configuration running $849.
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| Eric Slivka / MacRumors: |
| Dan Seifert / The Verge: |
iPhone 5 won't support simultaneous voice and data on Verizon or Sprint — Apple's new iPhone 5 features support for LTE networks across the world, but it won't be able to offer simultaneous voice and data on all of them. The Verge has confirmed with Verizon Wireless that the iPhone 5 …
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| Brian X. Chen / NYT Bits: |
Why the iPhone 5 on Verizon and Sprint Won't Juggle Calls and Data — A lot has changed in Apple's new iPhone. But with the Verizon Wireless and Sprint versions of the iPhone 5, there's something that will remain the same from the old model: The phone still won't be able to place a call …
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| Chris Ziegler / The Verge: |
Will LTE buckle under the iPhone 5's weight? — If you've owned a smartphone on AT&T for longer than a couple years, you likely remember this well: the network was pushed to the brink of disaster by the overwhelming popularity of the iPhone 3G, 3GS, and 4. Prior to the iPhone …
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| John Gruber / Daring Fireball: |
Thoughts and Observations Regarding Yesterday's iPhone 5 and Music Event — A Double Feature — There's been a consistent formula to the post-Steve Jobs Apple keynote events. Tim Cook opens, and speaks in broad terms about where Apple is. Numbers and milestones.
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| Sean Hollister / The Verge: |
Apple says Lightning to HDMI and Lightning to VGA cables will arrive in a matter of months — There's been some confusion as to what Apple's new all-digital Lightning connector will be capable of, but the company has just cleared that up. An Apple spokesperson told The Verge that Lightning …
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| Dan Frommer / SplatF: |
Why Does Apple Announce iPhone Pricing And Availability But Other Phone Makers Don't? — One of the nice things Apple does when announcing a new product — which its competitors only sometimes do, especially in the phone industry — is tell you how much it will cost and when it will go on sale.
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| David Pogue / Pogue's Posts: |
Google Glass and the Future of Technology — New gadgets — I mean whole new gadget categories — don't come along very often. The iPhone was one recent example. You could argue that the iPad was another. But if there's anything at all as different and bold on the horizon, surely it's Google Glass.| 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.| Emil Protalinski / The Next Web: |
Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak on Samsung patent verdict: 'I hate it and I don't agree with it' — Late last month in a California court, Samsung was ordered to pay Apple over $1 billion as part of a patent lawsuit in which an American jury concluded the Korean company copied the American company …
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| Matthew Panzarino / The Next Web: |
Apple's new iCloud.com officially launches with updated Mail, Find My iPhone, Reminders and Notes apps — Apple has today launched the new official version of iCloud.com — its web portal for cloud services — to all users, reports 9to5Mac. The site features versions of its Mail …
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| Liz Gannes / AllThingsD: |
Google Finally Adds Do-Not-Track Support in Latest Test Version of Chrome — Google has included support for the Do Not Track privacy setting in its latest Chrome developer build, which was released today. — Do Not Track — which aims to help users opt out of being tracked across Web sites …
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft details Office 2013 RT, confirms Preview release and lack of Macros or add-ins — We got a brief look at Office 2013 RT for Windows RT tablets at IFA last month, but Microsoft is revealing the finer details of the software today. In a post on the company's Office Next blog … | Anthony Ha / TechCrunch: |
Friendster Founder Jonathan Abrams Launches Nuzzel: A Fast, Simple, Social News Reader — Jonathan Abrams, whose resume as a founder or co-founder includes the Founders Den startup workspace, event service Socializr, social bookmarking service HotLinks, and Friendster (I don't need to explain that last one …
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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
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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| 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.| Harrison Weber / The Next Web: |
Google and Khan Academy launch contest to bring new forms of education to YouTube — Google has just announced that it is teaming up with Khan Academy for a new competition to find the next generation of “educational YouTube stars.” This news comes as interest in new forms …
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| Todd Bishop / GeekWire: |
Microsoft employees getting free Surface tablets, new work PCs, Windows Phone 8 — Microsoft employees are just getting out of their big company meeting at KeyArena in Seattle, and if you hear any of them comparing Steve Ballmer to Oprah, there's a reason: The company announced a surprise package … | Enigmax / TorrentFreak: |
French 3 Strikes: Court Fines First File-Sharer, Even Though He's Innocent — For almost two years France has been running its controversial “3 strikes” mechanism to deal with the issue of online digital media piracy. — Alleged pirates are sent three warnings before being punished …
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