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Like iPhone 5S, next Galaxy smartphone will be 64-bit, Samsung's mobile chief tells partners — Samsung to expand China business — A Samsung Electronics executive said Wednesday the firm will expand its smartphone business in China to better compete with Apple in the world's largest smartphone market.
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Apple Increases iPhone 5C and 5S Battery Sizes relative to iPhone 5 — While poking through the FCC documents and piecing together a story on the network band situation for the iPhone 5S and 5C, I remembered that part of a normal disclosure is in fact battery size.| Danny Yadron / Digits: |
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Microsoft testing virtual personal assistant “Cortana”, likely to ship with Windows Phone 8.1 — ‘Cortana’: More on Microsoft's next-generation personal assistant — Summary: Microsoft is working on its ‘Cortana’ rival to Apple's Siri and Google Now, which will be integrated into all flavors of Windows in the future.
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Outlook.com now has IMAP — As we shared on Reddit, we're happy to announce the immediate availability of IMAP (and OAuth) for Outlook.com. Outlook.com already supports the industry's best email connectivity with Exchange ActiveSync (EAS), which is available on the majority of smartphones and tablets …
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| Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac: |
iPhone's M7 motion processor to integrate with Maps as Apple develops indoor mapping, public transit — Besides the main 64-bit A7 processor in the new iPhone 5s, Apple has included a dedicated motion co-processor called the M7. The chip powers many of the sensor technologies in the iPhone … | Kara Swisher / AllThingsD: |
Exclusive: Hugo Barra Talks About His Future at Xiaomi and Why He Really Left Google — Lauren Goode/ATD Hugo Barra shows me Xiaomi. — “First, let's begin with the name,” said Hugo Barra to me, in his first extended interview since he was named new head of global for Xiaomi a little over two weeks ago.
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Walmart to sell iPhone 5C for $79, iPhone 5S for $189 — The retail chain will also offer a trade-in deal for existing smartphone owners. — Consumers looking to pick up either of the two new iPhones can save a bit of cash via Walmart. — The company announced today that it will sell …
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Preview: Fall 2013 Windows Tablets from Acer, Asus, Dell, Lenovo, Nokia, Microsoft, & Toshiba — Fall 2013 Windows Tablet Preview — Microsoft and its hardware partners will unleash a new generation of Windows tablets for the 2013 holiday season, in a variety of price points, sizes, and form factors.| Dan Primack / Fortune: |
Exclusive: Jawbone raises more than $100 million — Electronics maker Jawbone raises new capital to handle excess demand. — FORTUNE — Electronics startup Jawbone seems to have everything going for it. More than $200 million in venture capital funding.
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Dell Shareholders Approve $25 Billion Buyout to Go Private — Michael Dell and the private equity firm Silver Lake have prevailed in their 14-month-long effort to convince shareholders in the computing company Dell to take the company private in a leveraged buyout.
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CloudFlare CEO: ‘Insane’ NSA gag order is costing U.S. tech firms customers — We've now moved beyond mere talk about how the National Security Agency's surveillance programs may hurt U.S. cloud providers, says Matthew Prince, the chief executive of CloudFlare. The companies are already feeling the pain.
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Microsoft's Concept Videos From 2000 Were Spot-On. So Why Didn't Ballmer Build Any of It? — Epic Fail: Microsoft's Internet Vision From 2000 — On June 22, 2000, a few months after Steve Ballmer took over as CEO of Microsoft, the company summoned several hundred reporters and analysts … | Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
Security of Java takes a dangerous turn for the worse, experts say — The security of Oracle's Java software framework, installed on some three billion devices worldwide, is taking a turn for the worse, thanks to an uptick in attacks targeting vulnerabilities that will never be patched …
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Calendars 5 for iOS review: Combine your calendars and tasks into one beautiful, easy to use app — Calendars 5 has just become available for both iPhone and iPad and is a complete redesign of Readdle's popular Calendars+ app. With a great new design, support for natural language input …
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Another Big-Money Bet on YouTube, as Maker Raises $26 Million More — Can you build a really big business on the world's biggest video site? — That's a subject of much debate this year, as many of YouTube's biggest partners have complained that they're getting lots of views on the site, but not enough money.| Mike Isaac / AllThingsD: |
Mark Zuckerberg Has Some Advice for Twitter's IPO: Don't Be Afraid — Going public ain't easy. And no tech company CEO of late knows that better than Mark Zuckerberg. — Perhaps Twitter, which is gearing up for its IPO to come early next year, could learn something from the social giant's experience: Don't be scared.
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Gigabyte's tiny new gaming PC is smaller than an Xbox controller — It used to be difficult to find a computer that could play games and still fit underneath your TV. Now, devices like the Alienware X51, Falcon Northwest Tiki, and Digital Storm Bolt can handily fill that role.
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Reeder 2 for iOS leaps back into the RSS battle — When Google announced that it was killing off Google Reader, it essentially issued a death notice to apps that relied on its RSS backend. In the absence of a contingency plan, top RSS app Reeder quickly updated its iPhone app to include support …
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FCC pics out an LG phone that looks like the Nexus 5 — It's looking more and more like LG is building the Nexus 5 handset. After an image in an official Google video for Android 4.4 showed off a new Nexus, the FCC has pictures of what appears to be the same handset.| Dan Seifert / The Verge: |
Twitter for Android getting major redesign, beta available now — Twitter's first-party Android app has been steadily getting better over the years, but it has generally maintained the same look and feel, with four navigation tabs located at the bottom of the app.| Stephanie Yang / TechCrunch: |
Mobile News App Circa Launches Its Web Platform For Browsing And Following Stories — Circa, a startup that offers quick and mobile news consumption, is expanding its services to the web by launching its online platform for following and sharing news. While the website doesn't have the full functionality …
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