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September 13, 2012, 5:50 PM

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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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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 …

More: BetaNews, SiliconBeat, TechRadar.com, Daring Fireball, I4U News, Business Insider and Betabeat

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 …

More: MacRumors, Macworld, PC Magazine, Electronista, Reuters, TodaysiPhone.com, Engadget, iDownloadBlog.com, PhoneArena, VentureBeat, 9to5Mac, Pocketnow, everythingiCafe and iMore.com

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.

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 …

More: Pulse2 Technology …. Tweets: @mattbuchanan and @reneritchie

Chris Matyszczyk / CNET:

Kimmel fools people into believing iPhone 4S is iPhone 5

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Jake Smith / 9to5Mac:

Apple releases Lightning to Micro USB adapter for Europeans

More: SlashGear, Engadget, CNET and TechnoBuffalo

Wall Street Journal:

Is the iPhone 5's ‘Lightning Connector’ a Pain in the Neck?

More: ReadWriteWeb, PadGadget, New York Times, Gotta Be Mobile and digitaltrends.com. Tweets: @danfrakes

Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Fortune:

Apple's strategically-timed iPhone 5 rollout schedule

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Juro Osawa / Wall Street Journal:

Sharp Starts Shipping iPhone 5 Screens to Apple

More: CNET, iDownloadBlog.com, Macgasm, The Tech Block, MacRumors, AppleInsider and ABCNEWS

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 …

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Ben Gilbert / Engadget:

Nintendo unveils ‘Nintendo TVii’ for Wii U (video)

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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.

More: Search Engine Watch, Guardian, Digital Media Wire, The Verge, TechCrunch, Computerworld, 9to5Google, New York Magazine, Gizmodo, WebProNews, Laughing Squid, Search Engine Land and Mashable!

Roger Cheng / CNET:

Isis mobile payment service hits snag, delays trial run — Isis was supposed to have turned on the mobile payment systems in two cities by the end of summer. — Google Wallet getting tested out in a store in Manhattan. Isis won't be coming here soon. — Isis won't be launching its mobile payment trials at the end of summer.

More: Engadget, Computerworld, Reuters and GigaOM. Thanks:@rogerwcheng

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.

More: nbcnews.com, Electronic Frontier Foundation, Wired, PC World, Betabeat and ACLU

Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:

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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Henry Blodget / Business Insider:

ANALYST: Facebook Has A Big New Problem You Need To Worry About

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.

More: BuzzFeed, Business Insider, Engadget, Digits, The Verge, internetretailer.com, Gizmodo, AllThingsD, BetaNews, The Next Web, Mashable!, SlashGear, Reuters and WebProNews

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.

More: Digits, ZDNet, TechSpot and Inquirer

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.

More: CNET, Ars Technica, 9to5Google, The Next Web, SlashGear, Engadget and PhoneArena

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 …

More: CNET, The Next Web, VentureBeat, parislemon, WebProNews, App Advice and LockerGnome

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 …

More: BGR, CNET, Bloomberg, Talk Android and Tecca

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 …

More: TechSpot

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 …

More: TechnoBuffalo, CNET, MacStories, Engadget, everythingiCafe, Web 2.0 Asia Blog and Tech in Asia. Tweets: @asymco

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:

With New iOS 6 App Store, The Most Important Changes Are Under The Hood

More: Inside Mobile Apps

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