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| Nathan Olivarez-Giles / The Verge: |
Google is done selling the Nexus 4 in the US — The Nexus 4's run in Google Play is now over. On Monday, Google's online storefront sold out of the 16GB version of the flagship phone in the US, and a trusted source with knowledge of the company's plans tells The Verge that this marks the end for the LG-built device.| 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.
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Digits, CNET, AppleInsider, MacRumors, AllThingsD, MarketWatch, www.pocketgamer.biz, iPhone Hacks, Mercury News, Mobile Marketing Watch and Josh Kerr
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| Digits: |
Preorders Show Weaker Demand for New iPhones in China — Just days before the new iPhones are set to go on sale in China, there are indications that demand for Apple Inc.'s iPhone 5S and iPhone 5C may not match up to its previous model. — The country's second largest wireless carrier China Unicom …
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AllThingsD, iDownloadBlog.com, Global Tech, AppleInsider, ZDNet and Business Insider
| 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.
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ZDNet, The Verge, ITworld.com, Electronista, Gearburn, GeekWire, TechCrunch, Gamasutra, VentureBeat, Kotaku, Softpedia News and Blue's News. Tweets: @counternotions
| Joe Mullin / Ars Technica: |
Angry entrepreneur replies to patent troll with racketeering lawsuit — FindTheBest CEO Kevin O'Connor and Director of Operations Danny Seigle. — FindTheBest.com — Most business owners sued by patent trolls don't talk about it to anyone other than their lawyer; a typical response …
Tweets: @jeffjarvis, @dangillmor and @cdixon
| 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 …
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| 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.
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Search Blog, Bing, Search Engine Land, Gizmodo, BetaNews, Engadget, The Next Web, TechCrunch, LiveSide.net, CNET, ZDNet, I4U News, Digits, memeburn, Softpedia News, Ubergizmo, Beyond Search and Bloomberg. Tweets: @le3ky
| Liz Gannes / AllThingsD: |
Google Acquires Bump for at Least $30M — Google has acquired the mobile startup Bump. A source close to the transaction said it was worth at least $30 million, and perhaps as much as $60 million. — Bump had raised about $20 million from backers including Sequoia Capital and Andreessen Horowitz …
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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
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Tweets: @joshconstine and @caseynewton
| Brian Roemmele / Quora: |
“Secure Enclave” in new A7 is where Touch ID biometric data is encrypted, stored, and secured — 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.| 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.
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iDownloadBlog.com, stratechery, VatorNews, TechnoBuffalo, MacNN, PadGadget, AppleInsider, PC Magazine, iPhone in Canada Blog, Lastest ITProPortal news, Pocket-lint, MacRumors, VentureBeat, GigaOM, App Advice, iMore, Yahoo! News, Cult of Mac, Gizmodo, The Verge and iClarified
Tweets: @mikeisaac, @mikeisaac, @niemanlab and @miriamgottfried
See also Mediagazer| Thomas Erdbrink / New York Times: |
Facebook and Twitter Blocked Again in Iran After Respite — TEHRAN — Internet users in Iran lost access Tuesday to Facebook and Twitter, a day after they were surprised to find that they could get on the sites without having to evade a government's firewall that had blocked direct access to the Web sites for years.
| Jason Rezaian / WorldViews: |
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Quartz, BBC, Digits, The Next Web, Reuters, Reuters, WebProNews, ABC News, Valleywag, Nextgov and The Verge. Tweets: @washingtonpost. See also Mediagazer
| 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 …
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Business Insider, ZDNet and eWeek
| 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.
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Facebook Newsroom, The Register, VentureBeat, Softpedia News, Engadget, GigaOM and AllFacebook. Tweets: @joshconstine
| 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.
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GeekWire, TechStartups.com, New York Times and Brier Dudley's blog. Tweets: @sandonet. See also Mediagazer
| Alex Williams / TechCrunch: |
CipherCloud adds AES 256-bit encryption to Box — 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 …
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Ars Technica and PR Newswire
| Cade Metz / Wired: |
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