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iPhone 5 Teardown — Behold, the sixth generation of iPhone! We shall call it...iPhone 5! Buckle down for the iPhone 5 teardown: the biggest thing to happen to teardowns since teardowns. Follow us on Twitter for all the latest teardown shenanigans, or go on that Facebook thing to keep up with iFixit news.
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| Joshua Topolsky / The Verge: |
iPhone 5 review — Apple's latest smartphone gets a bigger screen, LTE, and more power — but does it keep the crown? — Ah, to review the iPhone 5 — what a blessing, and what a curse. It's actually funny to think that there was a time not that long ago that the iPhone wasn't even a thing, let alone an iconic part of pop culture.
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| Nilay Patel / The Verge: |
Wrong turn: Apple's buggy iOS 6 maps lead to widespread complaints — Apple has a maps problem. — The major new feature of the company's new iOS 6 mobile operating system is a new mapping module developed by Apple itself — a replacement for the Google-supplied maps that have been standard on the iPhone since it debuted in 2007.
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| Matthew Panzarino / The Next Web: |
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| Steve Huff / Betabeat: |
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Tweets: @jasonsantamaria, @xdamman, @tomwarren, @sirkneeland, @tim, @clairecm and @mathewi
| Jake Smith / 9to5Mac: |
Google has an iOS 6 Maps app awaiting approval. It is solely up to Apple to approve. — Previous version of Google Maps on iOS. — If you are missing Google Maps after updating to iOS 6 over the past 24 hours, good news may be just around the corner. As previously rumored …
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Tweets: @stroughtonsmith and @jdalrymple
| AppleInsider: |
Rumor of Google Maps for iOS 6 submission likely false — A rumor that Google had submitted an iOS 6-compatible maps app to Apple after the built-in version was removed with the new mobile OS is false, says the well-connected Jim Dalrymple. — In a trademark terse post to his website The Loop …
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| Spandas Lui / ZDNet: |
Are the iPhone queues for the fans or the publicity? — Summary: Apple launch events have turned into a honeypot for companies looking to get some free publicity, and the Australian launch of the iPhone 5 is no exception. — Spandas Lui — My impression of Apple's product launches … | Luke Hopewell / Gizmodo Australia: |
iPhone 5 Launch Scandal: Apple Accused Of Ignoring Queue To Find Its Own First Owners — Sydney's flagship Apple Store threw its doors open at 8am this morning to the sound of thunderous applause. Those at the front of the queue who had been queueing for three days entered the store … | Jordan Golson / MacRumors: |
Swiss Federal Railways Says Apple Copied Its Iconic Railway Clock — Switzerland's Schweizerische Bundesbahnen, or Swiss Federal Railway service, has accused Apple of using their iconic clock in its Clock app for iPad without permission, according to a report in the Swiss newspaper Blick [Google Translate].| Matthew Panzarino / The Next Web: |
IFTTT forced to remove Twitter triggers on September 27th to comply with new API policies — The internet service glue product IFTTT has been forced to remove its Twitter triggers after recent changes to Twitter's API policies. The change was confirmed in an email sent out to IFTTT users today.
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Tweets: @ifttt, @eldon, @stephtara, @elliottlpayne, @xdamman, @ablaze and @mathewi
Thanks:@getboyce| Megan Garber / The Atlantic Online: |
Google News at 10: How the Algorithm Won Over the News Industry — Google's “billions of clicks” are only half of the story. — In April of 2010, Eric Schmidt delivered the keynote address at the conference of the American Society of News Editors in Washington, D.C. During the talk …
Tweets: @venkatananth, @kvox and @brad_pw
| Reuters: |
Exclusive: Wal-Mart stops selling Amazon Kindles — (Reuters) - Wal-Mart Stores Inc will no longer sell Amazon.com Inc's Kindle products, making the world's largest retailer the second major chain to stop selling Amazon's devices, according to an internal memo and a source familiar with the situation.
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| Liz Gannes / AllThingsD: |
Google Welcomes Vince Vaughn and Owen Wilson's “The Internship” on Campus — You wouldn't know that relations between Google and Hollywood are testy by the week they've had together. — Google has taken in movie stars Owen Wilson and Vince Vaughn with open arms, lending its campus as the set for their upcoming film “The Internship.”
Tweets: @eacohn
| John Lilly / John's Tumblr: |
Fear & Loathing in Nerdtown: Apple Maps & Twitter Shutoffs — My Twitter feed is full of people bitching about the new Apple Maps in iOS6 today, plus IFTTT shutting down pushing tweets into other places because of Twitter's new TOS. Pretty different things, but in my part of the Twittersphere, similar sense of outrage.
| Ellyne Phneah / ZDNet: |
Google shuts China-only music site — Summary: The search giant's music download service, exclusive to China users, has been shuttered as its impact was “not as great as expected”. — Ellyne Phneah — Google has shut its music download service in China as it has not been doing as well as the Web giant wanted it to.
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| Nick Wingfield / NYT Bits: |
Salon Sells The Well to Longtime Members — One of the earliest online communities, The Well, has a new owner: its members. — On Thursday evening, Salon Media Group, the previous owner of The Well, said it had sold the community to The Well Group, a private investment group consisting …
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| Daniel Terdiman / CNET: |
Twitter CEO touts building ‘true platform,’ ignores developers' anger — Appearing on “Charlie Rose,” Dick Costolo said Twitter is focusing on a broad ecosystem, but chalked API access limits up to its broad vision, sidestepping developers' ire at being cut out.| Matthew Panzarino / The Next Web: |
Nokia would like to take this opportunity to remind you that its maps are better than Apple's — Nokia took the opportunity today to post up an interesting entry on its Conversations blog called “Benchmarking mobile maps” (thanks to Tim Bradshaw for pointing this out).
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ValueWalk, Forbes, Nokia Conversations and Light Reading
| Dan Seifert / The Verge: |
iOS 6 review — Apple's latest iPhone and iPad OS offers a new Maps experience and small, iterative improvements elsewhere in the OS. — A review of iOS 6 is not a review of revolution, but of refinement. iOS has been the gold standard for smartphones and tablets since the day it was first introduced … | Emil Protalinski / The Next Web: |
Facebook promises to update its mobile apps every 4 to 8 weeks — Following the update of Facebook for Android, Facebook Messenger for Android, Facebook for iOS and Facebook Pages Manager for iOS today, the social networking giant has even more news to share: a new schedule for mobile app updates.
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| Tom Cheredar / VentureBeat: |
Apple sees 15% of devices upgrade to iOS 6, gives App Store traffic a huge boost — While Apple's iOS 6 software was only release yesterday, about 15 percent of eligible devices have already upgraded, according to data from research firm Chitika. — The firm notes that it took iOS 5 nearly three days …
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