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September 17, 2013, 5:10 AM

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Bloomberg:

China Unicom Reservations for New IPhones Pass 100,000 Units — China Unicom (Hong Kong) Ltd. (762), the nation's second-largest wireless carrier, said online reservations for Apple Inc.'s new iPhone 5C and 5S have passed 100,000 units since the devices were unveiled last week.

More: The Next Web, Digits, App Advice, Electronista, Global Tech, Mobile Marketing Watch, TUAW, iDownloadBlog.com, AppleInsider, ZDNet, MacNN, iMore, Business Insider, TechnoBuffalo, AppleTell, iPhone in Canada Blog, PhoneArena, Yahoo! News and Softpedia News

Chris Welch / The Verge:

Apple quiet on iPhone 5c pre-orders as stock price slides — Apple is clearly positioning the upcoming iPhone 5c as its next smartphone for the masses. The colored, plastic device is the first thing you see when visiting Apple.com or the company's iPhone page.

More: CNET, Digits, AppleInsider, MacRumors, MarketWatch, www.pocketgamer.biz, Mercury News, iPhone Hacks, Mobile Marketing Watch, AllThingsD, Josh Kerr and Gotta Be Mobile

Tweets: @joshuatopolsky and @pkedrosky

Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica:

Gabe Newell: Linux is the future of gaming, new hardware coming soon — Gabe Newell speaking at LinuxCon today. — Linux Foundation — Gabe Newell, the co-founder and managing director of Valve, said today that Linux is the future of gaming despite its current minuscule share of the market.

More: ZDNet, The Verge, GeekWire, Electronista, Gamasutra, TechCrunch, VentureBeat, Kotaku and Blue's News

Josh Constine / TechCrunch:

Bump Mobile Contact Sharing App Acquired By Google, Will Stay Alive For Now — After raising nearly $20 million and becoming one of the most downloaded mobile apps but failing to find real revenue, Bump Technologies has been acquired by Google. Its namesake app Bump lets …

More: TechnoBuffalo, SocialTimes, BetaNews, 5by5 Master Audio Feed, PE Hub Blog, 9to5Google and silicontap.com

Tweets: @joshconstine and @caseynewton

Liz Gannes / AllThingsD:

Google Acquires Bump for at Least $30M

Mike Isaac / AllThingsD:

Twitter iOS Redesign Focuses on Streams, Media, TV and Photos — Twitter has lots of users. It wants a lot more. — That is, in part, why it is planning a massive overhaul of its mobile apps, designed to make the service more appealing to mainstream users.

Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac:

Apple airs new ‘Plastic Perfected’ ad to showcase iPhone 5c colors — Apple has started airing a new advertisement for the iPhone 5c. The ad is called “Plastic Perfected” and it focuses on the colors and materials of the new iPhone model. Much of the advertisement is reminiscent of scenes …

More: Electronista, iLounge, MacRumors, MacRumors, AppleInsider, The Next Web, AllThingsD, iPhone Hacks, TUAW and iMore

Tom Warren / The Verge:

Bing gets a new logo and modern design to take on Google — Microsoft's Bing search engine is getting a new look. A year in the making, Bing is dropping its curly blue logo for a modern design that closely matches the rest of Microsoft's recently redesigned product branding.

More: Search Blog, Bing, Engadget, The Next Web, Gizmodo, LiveSide.net, ZDNet, CNET, TechCrunch, Digits, Softpedia News, Ubergizmo, Bloomberg and Beyond Search. Tweets: @le3ky

Alex Williams / TechCrunch:

Box Gets A Little More Palatable With Some Added Encryption From CipherCloud — Box appears on the verge of becoming a publicly traded company. It may not happen until next year but the file storage and collaboration company has as much momentum as any enterprise startup looking to trade on the public exchanges.

More: PR Newswire

Cade Metz / Wired:

Box.com Melds Google and Microsoft Into Document Engine of the Future

More: Wired. Thanks:@randall1976

Ken Yeung / The Next Web:

Box helps users get more out of their content with new Preview, mobile app, Notes, and platform play

More: The Box Blog and CITEworld

Matt Rosoff / CITEworld:

Box Notes takes on Google Docs with a web beta for collaborative, lightweight file editing

More: The Box Blog, Ars Technica, ZDNet, The Verge, ZDNet, The Next Web, VentureBeat, Digits, TechCrunch, TechCrunch, GeekWire, SiliconANGLE, Electronista, Pocket-lint, Engadget, Softpedia News, PC Magazine, ITworld.com, NYT Bits, CNET, GigaOM and The Technology Chronicles

Tweets: @levie and @mattrosoff

Thanks:@citeworld

Don Clark / Digits:

IBM Again Pledges $1 Billion to a Linux Effort — Linux continues to dominate data centers. IBM wants more of that action to take place on its hardware. — The computer giant on Tuesday plans to pledge that it will spend $1 billion over four or five years on Linux and related open-source technologies …

More: Business Insider, ZDNet and eWeek

Brian Roemmele / Quora:

What is Apple's new Secure Enclave and why is it important? — ·clave noun \en-klv, än-klv\ : A group that is set off from a larger population by its characteristic or behavior. A Seven Year Apple Odyssey That Ended At The Enclave With the September 10th, 2013 announcement [1] …

More: Daring Fireball. Tweets: @anildash

Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica:

Google and Samsung soar into list of top 10 Linux contributors — And Microsoft's days of major Linux contributions have come to a halt. Google and Samsung have become increasingly frequent contributors to Linux, and each is now among the top 10 companies sponsoring the open source kernel …

More: ZDNet, VentureBeat, The Register, ITworld.com, BetaNews, eWeek, Softpedia News and ReadWrite

Greg Sandoval / The Verge:

Eclipsed by rivals, Rhapsody reduces staff and ousts key managers — Rhapsody's managers were right in predicting more than a decade ago that consumers would one day flock to subscription music services. The only problem is, Rhapsody isn't one of the services they're choosing.

More: GeekWire, TechStartups.com, New York Times and Brier Dudley's blog. Tweets: @sandonet. See also Mediagazer

Josh Constine / TechCrunch:

Facebook And Internet.org Detail “1000X” Technologies They Hope Will Bring Earth Online — Air Traffic Control, HipHop, WebP, and Supplemental Downlink are some of the futuristic technologies that Facebook and its Internet.org partners will deploy to bring the Internet to the five billion people still not connected.

More: Facebook Newsroom, The Register, Softpedia News, VentureBeat, GigaOM, Engadget and AllFacebook. Tweets: @joshconstine

Gregg Keizer / Computerworld:

Mozilla postpones Metro Firefox release to late January — Slower development pace leads to new launch forecast for touch-ready Windows 8 browser — Mozilla last week said that slower-than-expected progress on Firefox for Microsoft's Windows 8 “Modern” user interface (UI) …

More: ZDNet and WinBeta

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