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Amazon Announces The Kindle HDX 7- And 8.9-Inch Tablets With High-Res Screens, 2GHz Processors — Amazon has upped the Fire tablet ante with two new HDX models in 7- and 8.9-inch sizes with brand-new, high-resolution screens and running an updated Snapdragon 800 quad-core processor at 2GHz.
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| Brad Stone / Businessweek: |
Amazon's Jeff Bezos Talks New Kindles and What He's Doing Next — For the last two years, Amazon.com (AMZN) has scraped and clawed its way to a relatively minor position in the exploding tablet market. Its Kindle Fire tablets, which plug directly into Amazon's own media and e-commerce services … | Peter Kafka / AllThingsD: |
Amazon Tries Breaking From the Streaming-Video Pack With Offline Viewing for New Kindles — Amazon has been spending a lot of time and money trying to catch up to Netflix in the subscription-video race. So far, not much luck: Many more people seem to be watching video via Reed Hastings's service.| Dan Seifert / The Verge: |
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Samsung Electronics to launch smartphone with curved display in October — (Reuters) - Samsung Electronics Co Ltd said it will introduce a smartphone with a curved display in October, as the world's top handset maker seeks to set the pace of hardware innovation and maintain its supremacy in a fiercely competitive business.
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| Vlad Savov / The Verge: |
Samsung counters iPhone 5S with a golden Galaxy S4 — Two weeks after Apple's September 10th reveal of a champagne-colored iPhone, Samsung is launching its own golden phone in the shape of a new Gold Edition Galaxy S4. There are two options, Gold Pink or Gold Brown, which Samsung … | Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security: |
Data Broker Giants Hacked by ID Theft Service — An identity theft service that sells Social Security numbers, birth records, credit and background reports on millions of Americans has infiltrated computers at some of America's largest consumer and business data aggregators, according to a seven-month investigation by KrebsOnSecurity.
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Finnish media: Nokia pleads with Elop to accept smaller bonus - Elop claims he needs full $25M for his divorce — According to the early Wednesday morning edition of Finland's biggest newspaper Helsingin Sanomat, Nokia has pleaded with former CEO Stephen Elop to accept a smaller bonus in order …
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| Harry McCracken / TIME: |
The Myth of Steve Jobs' Constant Breakthroughs — Last Friday, Apple's iPhone 5s and iPhone 5c went on sale. The company sold nine million of them in the first weekend, breaking the five-million-phone record it set last year with the iPhone 5. I sort of thought that was clearly good news for Apple and the iPhone.| Jason Del Rey / AllThingsD: |
Google Is Going to Pay You Back for Your Unused Google Offers — Google has started sending out emails this week notifying its customers that it will soon start refunding their unused Google Offers. — The refunds signal a shift in how the Google Offers local deals platform works, as outlined in a July blog post.
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| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
Bypassing TouchID was “no challenge at all,” hacker tells Ars — Ars expressed surprise on Monday that a hacker was able to bypass fingerprint protection less than 48 hours after its debut in Apple's newest iPhone, but not everyone felt the same way. The hack, carried out by well-known …
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Alibaba Said to Shift Target from Hong Kong to U.S. for I.P.O. — HONG KONG-The Chinese Internet company Alibaba has ended talks with the Hong Kong stock exchange over an initial public offering and is now moving forward with plans to list in New York, a person close to the Chinese company said on Wednesday.
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Hyperlocal Power: Urban Compass Raises $20M At A $150M Valuation; Adds Advance Publications And Marc Benioff As Investors — Urban Compass, the young New York startup that emerged from stealth mode in May with a home rentals platform and accompanying hyperlocal social network …
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| Kim Zetter / Wired: |
How a Crypto ‘Backdoor’ Pitted the Tech World Against the NSA — In August 2007, a young programmer in Microsoft's Windows security group stood up to give a five-minute turbo talk at the annual Crypto conference in Santa Barbara. — It was a Tuesday evening, part of the conference's …
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| Sean Hollister / The Verge: |
Valve announces Steam Machines, the Steam Box hardware beta. — Valve is building a game console, but not just one. The company wants to create an entirely new class of computers that brings the power of Linux and the distribution might of Steam to the living room. That's why on Monday, it announced SteamOS.
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Roku launches new TV streaming boxes and brings Roku 3 to the UK and Ireland — Roku, makers of the streaming TV, film, music and gaming boxes, has today launched a new family of Roku devices and is bringing its top-of-the-line Roku 3 unit which has been available in the US since earlier in the year to the UK and Ireland.
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| Vlad Savov / The Verge: |
Nokia will announce six new devices at its October 22nd event — There'll be a range of new form factors as well — Nokia's Innovation Reinvented event in Abu Dhabi next month will host the launch of at least six new devices from the Finnish company, including at least two new Lumias.| Stephen Shankland / CNET: |
Future Firefox to deactivate most plug-ins by default — The Aurora test version of Firefox won't load browser plug-ins such as Silverlight and QuickTime unless the user grants permission — except in the case of Flash. — Mozilla has dealt another blow to the use of plug-ins to extend browser abilities …
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| Alex Wilhelm / TechCrunch: |
Senators Demand Answers On NSA Snooping - By The End Of 2014 — This week nine members of the Senate Judiciary Committee sent a letter to the inspector general of the Intelligence Community, I. Charles McCullough III, asking him to conduct a full review of U.S. intelligence operations, and to “make public the findings.”
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| Arik Hesseldahl / AllThingsD: |
Many Questions for Michael Dell on Going Private, and What's Next — Michael Dell is feeling aggressive. Fresh off the vote by which shareholders approved his plan to take the company that bears his name private in a $25 billion transaction, Dell the man is ready to get down to the business … | Venu Satuluri / Twitter: |
Twitter recommends accounts and tweets in notifications based on @MagicRecs algorithms — Stay in the know — We've started rolling out a new notification that recommends interesting accounts and Tweets for you. — If you're like me, you occasionally feel like you're missing …
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