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| Walter S. Mossberg / AllThingsD: |
The iPhone Takes to the Big Screen — The world's most popular smartphone becomes significantly faster, thinner and lighter this week, while gaining a larger, 4-inch screen—all without giving up battery life, comfort in the hand and high-quality construction. — [ See post to watch video ]| AnandTech: |
iPhone 5/A6 SunSpider Performance: Faster than Intel's Atom Z2460 — The first iPhone 5 reviews have lifted, confirming the leaked Geekbench data we saw in our earlier post. Apple's A6 appears to feature two custom ARM cores running at up to 1GHz. A new datapoint comes courtesy …
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| John Gruber / Daring Fireball: |
The iPhone 5 — The iPhone 5 is really nice. It feels great, looks great, has the best display I've seen at any size, runs noticeably faster, networks noticeably faster, is way thinner and lighter than any of its predecessors, takes better photos, and, in my six days of testing, gets totally decent iPhone-4S-level battery life.
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| David Pogue / New York Times: |
IPhone 5 Scores Well, With a Quibble — If you were taking a college course called iPhone 101, your professor might identify three factors that have made Apple's smartphone a mega-success. — First, design. A single company, known for its obsession over details, produces both the hardware and the software.
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| Arnold Kim / MacRumors: |
First iPhone 5 Reviews: Thinner, Lighter, LTE “Stunningly Fast” — The embargo has just lifted on the first iPhone 5 reviews. Apple has provided some publications with an early review unit of the iPhone 5. We are collecting some of the more interesting points from each review, but you can click each title to read the full writeup.
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| Andrew Rassweiler / iSuppli: |
iPhone 5 Carries $199 BOM, Virtual Teardown Reveals — This is an IHS iSuppli News Flash from information and analytics provider IHS (NYSE: IHS) covering the IHS iSuppli Teardown Analysis Service's virtual teardown of the iPhone 5. This virtual teardown information is based on an analysis … | Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Windows Phone 8X by HTC has a 4.3-inch display and Beats, launches early November — HTC is unveiling its flagship Windows Phone 8 handset today, the Windows Phone 8X. The branding might sound Microsoft-like, but there's a good reason for that — the two companies have joined forces … | Brian X. Chen / NYT Bits: |
HTC Unveils Phones Running Microsoft's Mobile Software — As the first manufacturer to support Google's Android software, HTC, the Taiwanese handset maker, was briefly the top American smartphone maker before it was surpassed by Apple and Samsung. Now HTC is pushing another underdog: Microsoft's Windows Phone software.
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| Michael Degusta / the understatement: |
Quantifying the Impending iOS 6 Maps Backlash — Apple's new Maps app is the very first item on their list of major new features in iOS 6, but for many iPhone and iPad users around the world those new maps are going to be a major disappointment. — In iOS 6, Apple no longer uses Google's traffic …
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| Danny Sullivan / Marketing Land: |
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| Gideon Spanier / London News: |
Sir Jonathan Ive and entire Apple design team fly to London to collect prestigious D&AD awards — Apple has been named the best brand and the best design studio of the last 50 years at the D&AD Awards, one of the world's most prestigious prizes for advertising and design.
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| Kevin Smith / Business Insider: |
Apple's New iPhone Software, iOS 6, Is Available Now! — Apple's new operating system for iPhones and iPads, iOS 6 is out now. — The update is rolling out slowly, proabably to save Apple's servers from going down. So if you don't see it right away, keep checking.
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| Dan Moren / Macworld: |
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| Dan DeSilva / 9to5Mac: |
Apple Marketing SVP Phil Schiller confirms: Apple has no iPhone 5 dock in the works — We were recently forwarded an email where a reader reached out to Philip Schiller, Apple's Senior VP of Marketing, to ask if Apple was planning to release a dock for the new iPhone 5.| Claire Cain Miller / NYT Bits: |
Google Updates Android Maps App as Apple Moves On — The fight over mobile maps is on. — Google plans to add new features to its Google Maps app for Android phones on Wednesday. Conveniently, it is the same day that Apple's latest mobile operating system is due to be released …
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TechCrunch, The Verge, Google LatLong, iDownloadBlog.com and IntoMobile
| Brooke Crothers / CNET: |
Intel sets Windows 8 tablet event with HP, Samsung, others — Chip giant will host a coming-out party for Windows 8 tablets using its latest system-on-a-chip. — Intel is going to kick off the season of the Windows 8 tablet by hosting an event next week attended by virtually all of the major PC players.
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| Robin Wauters / The Next Web: |
U.S. Internet giants, including Google, Facebook, Amazon and Yahoo, form new lobbying association — A group of 14 Internet juggernauts such as Facebook, Google, eBay, Amazon.com, Zynga, Yahoo and others have formed a brand new lobbying group in the United States called The Internet Association … | T-Mobile Newsroom: |
John Legere Named as Chief Executive Officer of T-Mobile USA — Deutsche Telekom (OTCQX: DTEGY), one of Europe's leading telecommunications and information technology service companies and the parent company of T-Mobile USA, today announced that John Legere, a 32-year veteran of the U.S …
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| Lee Chyen Yee / Reuters: |
ZTE, Mozilla aim to roll out mobile operating system in coming months — (Reuters) - China's ZTE Corp, the world's fourth largest mobile phone handset vendor, is cooperating with Mozilla, maker of web browser Firefox, to introduce a new mobile operating system later this year or early next year, a ZTE spokesman said on Wednesday.| Mike Isaac / AllThingsD: |
Here Come The Tweets: Gnip Offers Access to Full Twitter Archive (For a Price) — Twitter is largely credited with the rise of the “interest graph,” the name for the network of various and sundry things we as humans like to do, and the ways in which those interests connect us to one another.
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GigaOM, TechCrunch, VentureBeat, Gnip Blog and The Next Web
| Tricia Duryee / AllThingsD: |
Groupon Promising Merchants “Lowest Cost” Payments Service (And It's Using an iPhone) — Groupon is rolling out a new payments service today, which it hopes will create new reasons for merchants to continue using the Chicago daily deal provider. — In an interview, Mihir Shah …
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Business Insider, Engadget, GigaOM, Screenwerk, Mashable!, WebProNews, Groublogpon and internetretailer.com
| Spencer E. Ante / Digits: |
Former TechCrunch Editor Erick Schonfeld To Run DEMO — The technology conference wars just got a bit more dramatic. Former TechCrunch editor Erick Schonfeld is taking over the management of DEMO from VentureBeat editor in chief Matt Marshall, who is returning to the tech blog exclusively … | Robert McMillan / Wired: |
No-Name Company Sues Internet, Misunderstands GitHub — A virtually unknown company called PersonalWeb Technologies has launched a series of patent infringement suits against some of the internet's most important companies, including Facebook, Apple, Yahoo, Microsoft, and IBM.
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| David Carr / New York Times: |
Barry Diller and Scott Rudin Form E-Book Publishing Venture — Two powerful entertainment moguls, Scott Rudin, the film and theater producer, and Barry Diller, the chairman of IAC/InterActiveCorp, are joining together to enter the turbulent world of book publishing.| Barb Darrow / GigaOM: |
OpenStack gets real — After a sometimes contentious incubation period, the OpenStack Foundation is now official, with a new 24-member board chaired by SUSE exec and Linux Foundation director Alan Clark; 5,600 members; and $10 million in backer's funding. Rackspace's Jonathan Bryce …
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ZDNet, Computerworld, Data Center Knowledge, The Next Web, Wired and TalkinCloud
| Jordan Kahn / 9to5Mac: |
Mainstream apps optimized for iPhone 5, Passbook, & iOS 6 — I f you want to take full advantage of iOS 6 and the new iPhone 5′s extra screen real estate, you will want to pick up some of the apps and updates below, which are specifically optimized for the device's bigger screen size and latest OS.
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VentureBeat, Pocket Blog and Instapaper Blog
| Paul Spain / Tech Jungle: |
Acer shares Windows 8 tablet pricing — Acer shares Windows 8 tablet pricing — Microsoft New Zealand have been showcasing a number of Windows 8 devices from Acer at events in recent weeks. The Acer Iconia Tab W510 and Iconia Tab W700 particularly stood out to me so I asked for more detail.
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