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iPhone 5 Pre-Orders Top Two Million in First 24 Hours — Apple® today announced pre-orders of its iPhone® 5 topped two million in just 24 hours, more than double the previous record of one million held by iPhone 4S. Demand for iPhone 5 exceeds the initial supply and while the majority …
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| Sam Byford / The Verge: |
iPhone 5 breaks Apple and AT&T sales record in ‘most successful iPhone launch ever’ (update) — The iPhone 5 has set a new pre-order record for AT&T, the carrier announced today, selling faster than any previous iPhone. The phone became available to order on September 17th and quickly sold … | AppleInsider: |
First Apple iPhone 5 orders now shipping from China — Customers who were among the first to preorder the iPhone 5 from Apple have begun seeing updates that their orders are shipping from China. — While some iPhone 5 orders are now shipping, the packages are still not scheduled … | Ellis Hamburger / The Verge: |
Google takes on Instagram and Facebook by acquiring top iOS photo app Snapseed — Google has agreed to acquire Nik Software, the German developer of photography app Snapseed, for an undisclosed amount. Sources close to the deal tell The Verge that while Nik Software produces all sorts …
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| Robin Wauters / The Next Web: |
Nokia confirms: Amazon has licensed its Location Platform for maps and geocoding — It's not that a big surprise anymore, after Reuters earlier reported that Amazon teamed up with Nokia for mapping services, but to my knowledge the Finnish smartphone and mobile software maker has never actually confirmed this to date.
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| Tricia Duryee / AllThingsD: |
Square Finally Closes $200 Million Round at a $3.25 Billion Valuation — Square has finally closed its fourth round of funding, which values the three-year-old company at a jaw-dropping $3.25 billion. — The payments company is perhaps best known for allowing small businesses …
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| Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
Microsoft confirms October 25 launch for Windows 8 — Summary: Microsoft officials are now confirming the Windows 8 — and Surface RT — launch will be on October 25 in New York City. — Mary Jo Foley — It's not a big surprise to readers of this blog, but Microsoft officials confirmed … | John Jannarone / Wall Street Journal: |
Winklevoss Twins of Facebook Fame Return to Invest in SumZero — The Winklevoss twins lost the biggest social-network showdown ever when their rival, Mark Zuckerberg, walked away with Facebook. Now they are trying again—with a social network for professional investors.
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Skype preparing to launch video messaging and ‘Metro’ design — Skype is preparing to update its range of clients to support a new video messaging option, The Verge has learned. The feature will launch in time for the holidays, possibly as early as next month — according to sources familiar with Skype's plans.
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Google's Loss=Yandex's Gain In iOS6: Russian Search Giant Nabs Apple Maps API; Search Deal In The Works — Apple's gradual extrication from Google services is having a knock-on effect in international markets — and Google's competitors elsewhere. In Russia, the local search leader Yandex …
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Search Engine Land, Bloomberg, MacNN, CNET and Marketing Pilgrim
| iFixit: |
Kindle Fire HD Teardown — The Kindle Fire HD has landed on the doorstep of iFixit. Naturally, we've embarked on the epic voyage of exploring the electronic innards of the Kindle Fire HD. What will we find? Follow along as we methodically break down each component.
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Inquirer, Android News, Rumours …, WebProNews, Mashable!, Gizmodo, 9to5Google, Engadget, Geek.com and Liliputing
| Ellyne Phneah / ZDNet: |
Samsung to unveil Galaxy S4 in Feb 2013 — Summary: New handset expected to sport 5-inch screen, and will see some “external changes” but retain its rectangle shape with rounded corners concept; to be unveiled at Mobile World Congress (MWC) in Barcelona next year. — Ellyne Phneah
| Ben Worthen / Wall Street Journal: |
H-P Tries On a Sleeker Look — Taking a Cue From Apple, CEO Whitman Makes Better Design Central to Turnaround — When Meg Whitman took over as chief executive of Hewlett-Packard Co. a year ago, she got a company-issued laptop. — “They gave me a brick,” she said, referring to the device's weight and chunky appearance.
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VentureBeat, 9to5Mac, The Verge and Softpedia News
| Scott Hanselman: |
Everything's broken and nobody's upset — Software doesn't work. I'm shocked at how often we put up with it. Here's just a few issues - [literally] off the top of my head - that I personally dealt with last week. — My iPhone 4s has 3 gigs of “OTHER” taking up space, according to iTunes.
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| Emil Protalinski / The Next Web: |
As predicted, Google+ passes 400M registered users, now has 100M monthly active users — As part of Google's announcement to acquire Snapseed's creator Nik software, Vic Gundotra, the Senior Vice President of Engineering for Google, just announced a new milestone for Google+ …
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BGR, ReadWriteWeb, BetaNews, CNET, TechCrunch, 9to5Google, Business Insider, ValueWalk and WebProNews
| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
Critical zero-day bug in Internet Explorer under active attack — Remotely triggered vuln can affect a wide variety of IE and Windows versions. — Researchers have uncovered active malware attacks that exploit a critical and previously unknown vulnerability in the latest versions of Microsoft's Internet Explorer browser.| Seth Weintraub / 9to5Mac: |
First third-party Lightning to 30-pin adapters show up on Amazon for $10-18 (Ebay too) — Look what just popped up on Amazon: A company called Nanotch is offering pre-orders for 30-pin to Lightning adapters. There had been concern when a report last month said the 9-pin adapters …
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CNET, Gizmodo, iPhone, Pocketnow, App Advice, Gotta Be Mobile, Mobile Magazine and PhoneArena
| Chris Dixon: |
Facebook's embedded option — The best way to think of Facebook's stock is as the sum of two businesses: the existing display ad businesses, and a probability-weighted option on a new line of business. This is how Wall Street views it. For example, here is a section of a recent Goldman Sachs analyst report on Facebook:
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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 …
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 …
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An Army Is Forming To Battle Patent Trolls — For the past several months, we've exposed the flaws in the patent system and how they're being exploited by opportunistic patent trolls looking to extort a quick buck …
An Army Is Forming To Battle Patent Trolls — For the past several months, we've exposed the flaws in the patent system and how they're being exploited by opportunistic patent trolls looking to extort a quick buck …
Hortonworks » Blog:
Mobile Telco Dials In and Harnesses Big Data with Hadoop — Smartphones have transformed our daily lives. A key indicator of this trend is our increased spend on data plans versus voice.
Mobile Telco Dials In and Harnesses Big Data with Hadoop — Smartphones have transformed our daily lives. A key indicator of this trend is our increased spend on data plans versus voice.
Unison's blog:
“Yammer sucks” — Not to be mean to Yammer, or anything — it's a very good tool for some use cases — but that's what a customer told me recently (and others feel the same way).
“Yammer sucks” — Not to be mean to Yammer, or anything — it's a very good tool for some use cases — but that's what a customer told me recently (and others feel the same way).Who's Hiring In Tech?
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