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iPhone 5 First Weekend Sales Top Five Million — Apple® today announced it has sold over five million of its new iPhone® 5, just three days after its launch on September 21, and more than 100 million iOS devices have been updated with iOS 6, the world's most advanced mobile operating system. iPhone 5 …
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| Bloomberg: |
Apple IPhone 5 Misses Estimates Even as 5 Million Units Are Sold — Apple Inc. (AAPL) reported debut weekend sales for the iPhone 5 that fell short of some analysts' estimates amid supply constraints. — More than 5 million units of the iPhone 5 were sold in the first three days …
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| Colleen Taylor / TechCrunch: |
Facebook Confirms No Private Messages Appearing On Timeline. They're Old Wall Posts. — Updated. Some Facebook users were alarmed this morning when it appeared that private messages written in 2009 and earlier were showing up on viewable Timelines as messages “Posted by friends.”
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| Anthony Drendel: |
iOS Maps and China — It seems like people really hate the new Maps in iOS 6. Now, I'm not disputing that Maps does give a lot of strange results to a lot of people all around the world, but for a large, large number of people, iOS 6 Maps has been a huge improvement over Google Maps.
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| Raymond M. Soneira / DisplayMate: |
iPhone 5 Galaxy S III Display Technology Shoot-Out — The iPhone 5 has been the most anticipated mobile device of 2012 together with its cousin the iPad Mini, which we expect to be seeing shortly. Apple has made displays their most prominent marketing feature because it determines the quality … | Harrison Weber / The Next Web: |
Myspace teases a completely rethought service, and believe it or not, it looks beautiful — Myspace has just revealed a video of what appears the be the future of the once wildly popular social network, now that Justin Timberlake and others have steered it in a new direction.
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| Negar Salek / The Australian Financial Review: |
Wozniak likes NBN so much, he's applying for citizenship — Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak has listed the rollout of a national broadband network as one of the reasons he wants to become an Australian. Mr Wozniak told The Australian Financial Review in Sydney that he had spoken … | CNN: |
Facebook raises fears with ad tracking — (Financial Times) — Facebook is working with a controversial data company called Datalogix that can track whether people who see ads on the social networking site end up buying those products in stores. Amid growing pressure for the social networking site … | Elinor Mills / CNET: |
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| Roger Cheng / CNET: |
Apple supplier Foxconn: Production will resume tomorrow — Production at the Taiyuan factory was halted due to a riot that occurred last night. Foxconn says there were no employees deaths related to the incident. — Foxconn, which builds many Apple products, told CNET that while it had shut … | Peter Svensson / Associated Press: |
Verizon says iPhone 5 won't be ‘relocked’ — NEW YORK (AP) — Verizon Wireless said Monday that it won't prevent its version of the iPhone 5 from being used on AT&T's network. The Verizon version of the iPhone 5, which went on sale Friday, came with an unexpected feature …
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| David Breger / LinkedIn Blog: |
Introducing Endorsements: Give kudos with just one click — On LinkedIn, you have many smart, talented, and skilled professional connections. Starting today, we are introducing Endorsements, a new feature that makes it easier to recognize them for their skills and expertise.| Matthew Panzarino / The Next Web: |
Apple TV updated to iOS 5.1, bringing Shared Photo Streams, AirPlay broadcasting and more — Apple has updated the Apple TV software to version 5.1, bringing along with it support for the new Shared Photo Streams introduced in iOS 6, as well as iTunes Account Sharing and other goodies, reports MacRumors.| Iain Marlow / Globe and Mail: |
Flatlining user base spells end of RIM's growth story — A decade after Research In Motion Ltd. introduced its first smartphone, the tribe of BlackBerry users has stopped growing. — RIM is in the midst of a long-running slump in sales, but despite that, it has still managed to sell enough devices … | James Glanz / New York Times: |
Data Centers in Rural Washington State Gobble Power — QUINCY, Wash. — Set in the dry hills and irrigated farmland of Central Washington, Grant County is known for its robust harvest of apples, potatoes, cherries and beans. But for Microsoft, a prime lure was the region's other valuable resource: cheap electrical power.| Matthew Panzarino / The Next Web: |
Beloved email client Sparrow will get yet another post-acquisition update to support iPhone 5 — The much-loved email client Sparrow will be getting another compatibility update, adding support for the iPhone 5′s larger screen. The news came from a tweet by Sparrow founder Dom Leca today.| Liz Gannes / AllThingsD: |
3Taps Countersues Craigslist for Anticompetitive Business Practices — 3Taps today filed a response to the copyright infringement lawsuit Craigslist filed in July against 3Taps' data supply business and one of its customers, the apartment rental site PadMapper.| Matt Brian / The Next Web: |
Apple warns ex-MobileMe users with 20GB free iCloud storage of ‘downgrade’ coming Sept. 30 — Apple has begun sending last-minute reminders to users currently enjoying 20GB of free iCloud storage, warning that from September 30, it will downgrade their accounts unless they take action.
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Revenge of the Nerds, the Sequel: Silicon Valley Wallflowers Now Hot — As Web Darlings See Stocks Fall, Spotlight Hits Business Tech; ‘Sexy Again’ — Phil Fernandez was used to being a Silicon Valley wallflower. — His start-up makes software for marketing departments, and for years …
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TechCrunch and Venture Capital Dispatch
| Sarah Clark / NFC World: |
Microsoft demos Windows Phone 8 mobile wallet — John Skovron, group program manager for Windows Phone 8, showed off the capabilities of the software giant's new NFC-enabled wallet at the NFC World Congress last week and explained how the technology could help Microsoft gain mobile phone market share.
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The Next Web, Neowin and WMPoweruser
| Josh Kopelman / Redeye VC: |
The Dorm Room Fund — I was a dorm room entrepreneur. — I co-founded my first company, Infonautics, back in 1991 while I was a Junior at Penn. By the time I (barely) graduated, we had 20 employees. It was through this personal experience at Penn that I first learned that college campuses …
| Kevin C. Tofel / GigaOM: |
Amazon heads off app fragmentation on Kindle Fire, Android — Amazon added a new developer feature called “device targeting” on Monday, which will making it easier for device owners to find the right applications for their particular smartphone or tablet. Mobile app developers … | Alexei Oreskovic / Reuters: |
Google shares hit all-time high — (Reuters) - Google Inc shares set an all-time high on Monday, with the Web giant's reliable advertising business back in vogue among Wall Street investors disenchanted with younger social media companies. — The stock reached $747.84 around noon eastern time …
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