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The iPhone 5 Performance Preview — This morning we finally got our hands on Apple's iPhone 5. While we are eager to get started on battery life testing, that'll happen late tonight after a full day's worth of use and a recharge cycle. Meanwhile, we went straight to work on performance testing.
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iPhone 5 Benchmarked: The Fastest Smartphone in the Land — The iPhone 5 looks to be the fastest smartphone we've ever tested at PCMag.com. — With its mysterious, Apple-designed A6 processor, the iPhone 5 is unique in the world of smartphones. Most high-end phones nowadays run …
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Apple A6 Die Revealed: 3-core GPU, < 100mm^2 — Our good friends at UBM TechInsights sent over the first diffusion images of Apple's new A6 SoC. It's still too early to tell a lot but we have confirmation of a lot of things. The image above shows two 32-bit LPDDR2 memory channels and three GPU cores.
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Startup = Growth — A startup is a company designed to grow fast. Being newly founded does not in itself make a company a startup. Nor is it necessary for a startup to work on technology, or take venture funding, or have some sort of “exit.” The only essential thing is growth.
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Twitter CEO says curation tools for newsrooms are coming — “So, how does it feel to be the voice of the press in the 21 century?,” Emily Bell asked Twitter CEO Dick Costolo during a keynote interview Friday at the Online News Association Conference in San Francisco. — “I don't view that as my job, of course,” he said.
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You Might Be Able To Download Your Tweets By The End Of The Year … Users might able to download all of their past tweets by the end of the year, according to reports from those attending Twitter CEO Dick Costolo's talk at the Online News Association conference.| Jay Yarow / Business Insider: |
TomTom: Don't Blame Apple Maps Problems On Us! — When Apple launched the original iPhone, one of the biggest complaints about the phone was that it was awful for making phone calls. — Apple did not bear the brunt of this criticism, though. It was its cellular partner AT&T who was …
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| Jeff Benjamin / iDownloadBlog.com: |
The Verizon iPhone 5 is GSM unlocked, tested with AT&T — I can confirm that the Verizon iPhone 5 is indeed GSM unlocked. Even though I bought an iPhone 5 from Verizon under contract, I was able to cut down my AT&T Micro SIM, and use it in my Verizon iPhone 5 to pick up an AT&T signal.
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Apple seeks U.S. Samsung sales ban, $707 million more in damages — (Reuters) - Apple Inc has asked for a court order for a permanent U.S. sales ban on Samsung Electronics products alleged to have violated its patents along with additional damages of $707 million on top of the billion-dollar verdict won by the iPhone maker last month.
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| Seth Weintraub / 9to5Mac: |
The first three iPhone 5 (and one EarPod) ads hit: Thumbs, Physics, Cheese and Ears — It sounds like the first iPhone 5 ads are narrated by Jeff Daniels of Dumb and Dumber and Newsroom fame. — Thumbs shows how the 4-inch screen is tailored to the windshield-wiper motion of your thumb.
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iMore.com, Gizmodo, MacStories, AppleInsider, Business Insider, Softpedia News, CNET, The Verge, TechCrunch, MacRumors and Mashable!
| Kara Swisher / AllThingsD: |
Fortune's “Most Powerful Women” Features Techies: IBM's Rometty Tops List, but Yahoo's Mayer Grabs Cover — Fortune magazine put out its “50 Most Powerful Women in Business” list today, which was topped by IBM CEO Ginni Rometty. — The nod to the leader of the longtime tech giant was followed … | Daniel Rubino / wpcentral: |
Lenovo ThinkPad Tablet 2 with Windows 8 to be priced at $799 with keyboard — Last night we popped by PepCom, a little tech event that happens every few months here in New York City. We were curious if Samsung would be there with their ATIV lineup (answer: no) and we were hoping to maybe spot some interesting tidbits for you folks.
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