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September 15, 2012, 11:45 PM

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AnandTech:
iPhone 5 Memory Size and Speed Revealed: 1GB LPDDR2-1066  —  Quick analysis of the A6 SoC photos from the iPhone 5 launch event tells us all we need to know about the memory interface, speed and bandwidth of the new platform.  As always, the A6 features a PoP stack combining the SoC itself and its DRAM.
Amir Efrati / Wall Street Journal:
Google Objects to Acer Smartphone  —  Google Inc. said late Friday that it objected to Taiwanese PC maker Acer Inc.'s development of a smartphone that is powered by a rival mobile operating system, the launch of which was delayed this week.  —  Acer postponed the launch of the phone …
Liz Gannes / AllThingsD:
In New Ad Campaign, Samsung Tries to Win on the Merits  —  For many, the iPhone 5 is the talk of the weekend — and that includes Samsung.  —  The Korean phone maker will tomorrow start running a print ad campaign in national and regional papers that compares the features of its Galaxy S III with those of Apple's iPhone 5.
Paul Krill / InfoWorld:
Google's Java translator eases path to iPad, iPhone apps  —  Google on Thursday made accommodations for Java and Python developers by offering a Java-to-Objective-C translator and advancing its Python client library for Google APIs.  With the open source release of J2ObjC …
Tim Cushing / Techdirt:
Demanding A Student's Facebook Password A Violation Of First Amendment Rights, Judge Says  —  For some strange reason, a large number of schools adhere to the notion that their students are not actually citizens of the United States and therefore, not granted the same rights as the “grownups.”
Mike Masnick / Techdirt:
LEAKED!  Here's The White House's Draft Cybersecurity Executive Order  —  Earlier this week, we wrote about how the White House was working on an executive order to act as a “stand in” for cybersecurity legislation that has so far failed to pass Congress (CISPA passed in the House …
Kimber Streams / The Verge:
T-Mobile to offer nano-SIM cards for iPhone 5 in mid-October  —  T-Mobile will begin carrying nano-SIMs in mid-October according to a tweet from the carrier's support account and confirmation from a T-Mobile spokesperson.  We've already noted T-Mobile's desire to attract customers …
Ryan Lawler / TechCrunch:
Google Fiber Adds Turner Channels, Including Cartoon Network, CNN, TBS, And TNT  —  When Google first announced the details of its Kansas City fiber rollout, one of the knocks against it was that its channel lineup was a little thin.  While it had struck deals to bring video subscribers …

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Channel 9:
Announcing TypeScript 0.9: Generics and More  —  Anders Hejlsberg, Steve Lucco, and Luke Hoban join us for a conversation about TypeScript 0.9.  TypeScript now has generics! (and more)
Cloud Foundry:
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 …
Rackspace Blog:
99.999 Is Not Enough: An OpenCloud Approach to Delivering Application Uptime and Performance  —  Executive Summary — The pressure to keep vital applications online and performing well is extreme.
Hortonworks » Blog:
University makes major investment in big data development  —  As news of the benefits provided by big data platforms such as Apache Hadoop spreads, more organizations are investing in the burgeoning technology.
 

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