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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 ]
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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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| 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.
| 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 … | CNET: |
iPhone 5 review: Finally, the iPhone we've always wanted — The good: The iPhone 5 adds everything we wanted in the iPhone 4S: 4G LTE, a longer, larger screen, and a faster A6 processor. Plus, its top-to-bottom redesign is sharp, slim, and feather-light. The bad: Sprint and Verizon models can't use voice and data simultaneously.
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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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| 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 … | 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.| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Facebook Beta Launches New Mobile Ad Network Using Your Data To Target You With Banner Ads In Other Apps — Facebook today begins testing its own mobile ad network. Advertisers can pay to target you with ads for app stores or websites based on your Facebook data that appears while you're on other apps and mobile sites.
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| iFixit: |
Apple EarPods Teardown — After three years of research and development, Apple has released the newest version of their popular headphones, now dubbed “EarPods.” Join us as we crack these pods open and take a look at what three years of R & D can accomplish. Love all of these gadget teardowns?| Reuters: |
German government urges public to stop using Internet Explorer — (Reuters) - The German government urged the public on Tuesday to temporarily stop using Microsoft Corp's Internet Explorer following discovery of yet-to-be repaired bug in the web browser that the software maker said makes PCs vulnerable to attack by hackers.
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| Simon Sharwood / The Register: |
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| Matthew Panzarino / The Next Web: |
Developers seeing lightning fast app review times as Apple readies the App Store for iPhone 5 — Apple is getting its ducks in a row for the release of the iPhone 5. One of the ways it's doing that is ensuring that as many apps as possible are ready for the new taller screen of the new device.| Jordan Kahn / 9to5Mac: |
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| Jon Russell / The Next Web: |
‘Slim’ Sony PlayStation 3 to debut in North America September 25, worldwide October — Sony has taken the wraps off its new ‘slim’ PlayStation 3 at the Toyko Games Show. The new version of the console will debut in North America on September 25 before hitting Japan, Europe and the rest …
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| 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.| 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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| Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica: |
Samsung, Intel prepare wireless devices for AirPlay-like streaming — WiFi Alliance certifies network equipment and consumer devices for Miracast. — The WiFi Alliance today unveiled its certification program for Miracast, a new wireless technology for streaming video from phones, laptops, and tablets to television sets.
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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.
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Gizmodo, Inquirer, The Verge, Wall Street Journal, Computerworld, Business Insider and Engadget
| Matt Brian / The Next Web: |
Sky wins exclusive Warner Bros. movie rights, dealing a blow to Netflix and its rivals — Pushing back against Netflix and its satellite, video-on-demand and pay-per-view rivals, Sky has signed a new movie deal with Warner Bros., which sees it granted exclusive access to movies six months after they end their run in theaters.
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Engadget, Sky News, The Wrap, Hollywood Reporter, Digital Spy and Deadline.com
| Wade Roush / Xconomy: |
Twitter's iPad App Update Provokes a Backlash — Twitter CEO Dick Costolo appeared on NBC's Today Show this morning to unveil a new look for profile pages on Twitter's website and, much more interesting to this reporter, the new “5.0″ version of Twitter's iPad app.| Eric Slivka / MacRumors: |
Shipping Estimates for New iPhone 5 Pre-Orders Through Apple Slip to 3-4 Weeks — The iPhone 5 does not officially launch until Friday, but pre-orders are clearly continuing to roll in through Apple's online store as the company has now bumped shipping estimates for new pre-orders to 3-4 weeks.| David Kravets / Wired: |
Feds Charge Activist with 13 Felonies for Rogue Downloading of Academic Articles — Federal prosectors added nine new felony counts against well-known coder and activist Aaron Swartz, who was charged last year for allegedly breaching hacking laws by downloading millions of academic articles … | Bryan Bishop / The Verge: |
AT&T LTE goes live in Seattle and Portland ahead of iPhone 5 launch (updated) — We knew that AT&T was planning to turn on its LTE service in a number of new regions before the end of the year, and it appears one city has been given the green light: Seattle.
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| Jack Clark / ZDNet: |
Google reveals Spanner, the database tech that can span the planet — Summary: The Spanner technology sees Google craft a globally distributed database to underpin its massive software platforms with the help of atomic clocks, GPS systems and some of its most lauded computer scientists. — Jack Clark| Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica: |
Comcast data caps hit test cities, range from 300GB to 600GB — Caps hit Nashville and Tucson in trials, broader deployment coming later. — When Comcast decided to suspend its 250GB per month caps on Internet service, the reprieve for customers was only temporary.
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