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Apple Cuts iPhone 5C Orders — Move Raises Concerns About Demand, Pricing Strategy for Low-Cost Device — A customer looks at an Apple iPhone 5c at a store in Palo Alto, Calif., on Sept. 20. Bloomberg News — HONG KONG— Apple Inc. has notified its two assemblers for the low-cost iPhone 5C …
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| Patrick May / Mercury News: |
Cupertino council clears huge Apple ‘spaceship’ campus for liftoff — CUPERTINO — Apple's (AAPL) proposed new spaceship-shaped headquarters got a super-charged blast-off Tuesday night when the Cupertino City Council voted unanimously to approve the 2.8-million-square-foot behemoth beside Interstate 280 …
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| Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
What comes next after Windows 8.1? — Summary: Microsoft's Windows 8.1 will be commercially available starting this week. What will Microsoft do for an encore on the Windows front? — Microsoft is making Windows 8.1 commercially available over the next day-plus (depending on your time zone).
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| Ellis Hamburger / The Verge: |
Square Cash lets anyone with a debit card send money instantly over email — What if sending money was as simple as sending an email? — That's the premise of Square Cash, launching today for all debit card users in the US, using any email service. To use Square Cash …
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| Walter S. Mossberg / AllThingsD: |
Square Cash is the quickest, simplest way to send money from your debit card to anyone else's — The Money Is in the Email — While you can buy a $500 iPad at Amazon.com with a single click, sending even small amounts of cash to a friend or relative is still often a tedious and slow task.
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| Sarah Kessler / Fast Company: |
Think You Can Live Offline Without Being Tracked? Here's What It Takes — Nico Sell, the cofounder of a secure communication app called Wickr, has appeared on television twice. Both times, she wore sunglasses to prevent viewers from getting a full picture of what she looks like.| Dana Wollman / Engadget: |
Lenovo intros the Miix2, its first 8-inch Windows 8.1 tablet; coming soon for $299 — Remember when we reviewed Acer's (sorta crappy) W3 tablet, and assured you it wouldn't be long before we saw more 8-inch Windows 8.1 tablets? Well, with that latest Windows update due out tomorrow …
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| Ken Yeung / The Next Web: |
LinkedIn brings its Work With Us job tool to mobile, launches iOS app to help recruiters manage candidates — LinkedIn today unveiled two new mobile products designed to help recruiters and job candidates better connect with one another and “increase productivity”.
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| Blair Hanley Frank / GeekWire: |
Watch out, Nike: Adidas announces smartwatch for runners, starting at $399 — SAN FRANCISCO - Another big shoe brand just joined Nike in the wearable technology race: Adidas. — At today's GigaOM Mobilize conference in San Francisco, Paul Gaudio, the Vice President in charge … | Timothy B. Lee / The Switch: |
Many of the most-pirated movies aren't available for legitimate online purchase — Why does movie piracy persist after years of efforts to stamp it out? A new website called PiracyData.org suggests a simple explanation: people pirate movies because they don't have the option of paying for a legitimate copy online.
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| Matthew M. Aid / Foreign Policy: |
The NSA's New Codebreakers — America's using front companies, break-in artists, and hacktivists to spy on everyone — and only North Korea seems able to resist. — There was a time when the codebreakers of the National Security Agency actually took the lead in solving enemy encryption systems.| Rachel King / ZDNet: |
Twitter headed to New York Stock Exchange under the symbol ‘TWTR’ — Summary: The move to the NYSE is quite the contrast to Facebook's tumultuous public launch on the Nasdaq. — Twitter has filled in another blank as it goes through the legal process to become a publicly traded company.
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| Sarah Frier / Bloomberg: |
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See also Mediagazer| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Akamai: Half Of All Internet Connections Now At 4Mbps+, Safari Remains Most Used Mobile Browser Globally — The ITU has recently published figures noting 2.7 billion internet connections globally, and today Akamai has released some numbers pointing to how fast those connections actually are.| Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: |
Intel says hardware bargains to multiply this fall: $99 tablets, $299 Haswell laptops, $349 2-in-1 hybrids — Nov. 12 - 13, 2013 — Intel chief executive Brian Krzanich said he expects bargains galore this holiday season as computermakers take advantage of the latest Intel Haswell and Bay Trail microprocessors.
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CNET, Geek.com, AllThingsD, bizjournals, Gotta Be Mobile, ZDNet, Inquirer, InfoWorld, SlashGear, eWeek, PC World, TechEye, Engadget, Electronista and Mercury News. Tweets: @lessien
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Telefonica Takes A Strategic Stake In Rhapsody, Will Bring Napster Into Latin America, Deeper Into Europe — In the allegro-paced race between music streaming providers to see who will be the first to achieve profitable scale, today Rhapsody got a significant leg up, courtesy of Telefonica.| Mark Hosenball / Reuters: |
Exclusive: Greenwald exits Guardian for new Omidyar media venture — (Reuters) - Glenn Greenwald, who has made headlines around the world with his reporting on U.S. electronic surveillance programs, is leaving the Guardian newspaper to join a new media venture funded by eBay founder Pierre Omidyar …
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See also Mediagazer| Emil Protalinski / The Next Web: |
Google to retire Chrome support for Windows XP users in April 2015, a year after Microsoft stops updating the OS — Google today announced it will stop supporting Chrome on Windows XP in April 2015. This means the company will stop providing regular updates and security patches a year …
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| Mark Hachman / PC World: |
Microsoft gives Office to students whose teachers buy it — For years, Microsoft, Apple, and others have offered educational discounts to students. Now, Microsoft has gone significantly further, providing a free copy of Office to students whose schools license it for their faculty and staff.
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