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| David Pogue / New York Times: |
In Arrival of 2 iPhones, 3 Lessons — We can draw three lessons from the arrival of Apple's two new iPhone models, the 5C and 5S. — LESSON 1 Apple may have set its own bar for innovation too high. — Year after year, Steve Jobs used to blow our minds with products we didn't know we wanted.| Walter S. Mossberg / AllThingsD: |
iPhone 5s is “the best smartphone on the market” — A New Touch for iPhone — Apple brings out a new top-of-the-line iPhone model every year, but a redesign only every other year. In the intervening cycles, the company tends to keep the phone's exterior the same, but change the innards and the software.| Anand Lal Shimpi / AnandTech: |
The iPhone 5s Review — For much of the iPhone's life Apple has enjoyed a first-mover advantage. At the launch of the first iPhone, Steve Jobs expected the device and OS would give it a multi-year head start over the competition. Indeed that's how the market played out.| Myriam Joire / Engadget: |
iPhone 5s review — Forward-thinking. It's ironic that Apple's marketing slogan for the iPhone 5s invites us to look ahead to the future when, from the outside, the device looks like a carbon copy of last year's model, the iPhone 5. But just like any other odd-year iPhone — the “S” …
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| Anand Lal Shimpi / AnandTech: |
The iPhone 5c Review — For years now Apple has followed a rather intelligent waterfall of its products down the pricing stack. With the arrival of every new iPhone, the previous generation gets a $100 discount from its on-contract price, and the generation before that one is offered for free on-contract.
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| CNET: |
iPhone 5C review: A cheaper iPhone that doesn't cut corners — The iPhone 5C is kinda, sorta, technically a new product — colorful, cute, with a variety of interchangeable color cases much like the recently released Motorola Moto X — but under the hood it's really an iPhone 5 with a new paint job …
| Nick Heer / Pixel Envy: |
iOS 7 Review — iOS 7: The Pixel Envy Review — A year ago — to the day — I closed my review of iOS 6 by noting that Apple tends to prefer subtler updates: … You can therefore imagine how dumb I feel now, staring at a version of iOS that looks vastly different to those which preceded it.| Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch: |
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| Jonathan S. Geller / BGR: |
Apple testing iOS 7.0.1, preparing iOS 7.1 - iPhone 5s supply ‘severely constrained’ — It's no secret Apple is working on newer versions of iOS 7 even before iOS 7 is released to the public. We're able to confirm this two ways: one is through multiple sources of ours and the second is, well, because we have one.
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| Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac: |
iPhone 5s to be constrained at launch as Apple preps app to check availability — While supply for Apple's iPhone 5c has been strong enough to deter complete sell-outs from carrier stores and Apple's own online store, sources say that supplies of the higher-end iPhone 5s will be constrained at launch (as we expected).
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| Alistair Barr / USA Today: |
Google looking to replace third-party cookies with new anonymous identifier AdID — Google eyes big change in online tracking for ads — Google is developing an anonymous identifier for advertising, or AdID, that would replace third-party cookies as the way advertisers track people's …
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See also Mediagazer| Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac: |
Apple takes redesigned iCloud.com with iOS 7-like design out of beta — Ahead of tomorrow's launch of iOS 7, Apple has taken the wraps off of a brand-new iCloud website. The new website went into beta earlier this year, and it is completely redesigned to match the simpler …
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AppleInsider, GeekWire, The Next Web, MacRumors, TechHive, The Verge, SlashGear and App Advice. Tweets: @thetechblock
| Martin Bryant / The Next Web: |
Adobe moves into hardware: Project Mighty ‘cloud pen’ and Project Napoleon ruler to launch in 2014 — At its MAX event in May this year, Adobe revealed that it was experimenting with hardware in the form of ‘Project Mighty’ - an Internet-connected stylus, and ‘Project Napoleon’, an accompanying digital ruler.
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Creative Layer, AllThingsD, Electronista, Engadget, AppleInsider, MacRumors, TechCrunch, The Verge, ZDNet, VentureBeat, iClarified and Gizmodo. Thanks:@thekenyeung
| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
| Matt Brian / Engadget: |
Apple offering ‘last compatible version’ of iOS apps for older hardware — With iOS 7 arriving tomorrow, Apple is extending some love to the owners of older iOS devices that have been left behind. New compatibility features, first spotted on Reddit, will now kick into action if you attempt … | Matthew Panzarino / TechCrunch: |
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| Hayley Tsukayama / Washington Post: |
White House petitions FCC to require all carriers to unlock all mobile devices — Obama administration urges FCC to require carriers to unlock mobile devices — Several months after calling for legislation to unlock cellphones, the White House filed a petition with the Federal Communications Commission …
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| Alex Wilhelm / TechCrunch: |
Microsoft Leaves Windows 8.1 Pricing Unchanged From Windows 8 But Kills System Builder SKUs — Microsoft today announced the pricing structure for its upcoming Windows 8.1 operating system. Windows 8 users will receive the new code free of charge, but for those not currently on Microsoft's …
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The Windows Blog, ZDNet, The Windows Blog, BetaNews, LiveSide.net, Electronista, InfoWorld, The Register, TechHive, The Verge, Softpedia News and Ars Technica. Thanks:@fredericl
| Brett Martin / Medium: |
Why Sonar failed: Co-founder and former CEO Brett Martin shares lessons learned — Postmortem of a Venture-backed Startup … For those unfamiliar, Sonar Media Inc. was a mobile app created to help make the world a friendlier place. Our mobile app buzzed in your pocket when friends … | Pete Swabey / Information Age: |
Cloud provider Nirvanix gives customers two weeks to vacate data — US-based cloud storage provider Nirvanix tells employees it has “gone to the wall”, gives customers until the end of the month to move their data elsewhere — UK partner seeking financial rescue deal| Cyrus Farivar / Ars Technica: |
Secret court declassifies opinion providing rationale for metadata sharing — For the first time, the United States' most secret court, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC), has published its legal rationale as to why the telecom metadata sharing program under Section 215 of the PATRIOT Act is legitimate.
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| Om Malik / GigaOM: |
Airbnb hires maverick hotelier Chip Conley as its head of hospitality, hoping for better hosts, happier customers — A few years ago, I got a chance to listen to hear Chip Conley, the enigmatic founder of Joie de Vivre Hotels, address a group of founders and share his journey.| Dennis Fisher / Threatpost: |
NSA Bought Exploit Service From VUPEN, Contract Shows — The U.S. government-particularly the National Security Agency-are often regarded as having advanced offensive cybersecurity capabilities. But that doesn't mean that they're above bringing in a little outside help when it's needed.| Evelyn M. Rusli / Digits: |
Facebook's Shaffer and Zandy to Depart — Facebook is losing two key employees: Justin Shaffer, a project manager who is helping to lead the company's video ad product, and Ashley Zandy, a manager on its corporate communications team. — The departures, confirmed by Facebook … | Anthony Ha / TechCrunch: |
Longtime Microsoft Evangelist Jeff Sandquist Joins Twitter As Director Of Platform Partnerships — Jeff Sandquist, who's currently senior director of developer relations at Microsoft, just announced that he will be joining Twitter as director of platform partnerships. — “Change invigorates the soul,” he wrote.| Graham Cluley: |
Zero day IE flaw exploited in targeted attacks. Microsoft releases temporary fix — Microsoft has released an emergency workaround for users of Internet Explorer, to protect against a “limited number” of targeted attacks being specifically directed at IE 8 and IE 9 - but which could potentially affect all versions of the web browser.| Jason Del Rey / AllThingsD: |
New Google Wallet App Moves Past NFC and to All Major Carriers. iPhone Version on Tap? — Google is launching a new version of its Google Wallet app for Android today and there are some big changes. — Most notably, the app will now be available on all Android devices running version 2.3 …
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