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iPad Air Geekbench: Over 80% faster than iPad 4, A7 processor 100MHz faster than iPhone 5s — iPad Air Benchmarks — Geekbench 3 results for the new iPad Air are starting to appear on the Geekbench Browser. I've charted the results for all iOS 7 capable iPads below.
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| Walter S. Mossberg / AllThingsD: |
Speed and Power Packed Into a Thin iPad Air — One reason for the phenomenal success of the iPad has been Apple's ability to pack speed and versatility into a thin, light body with long battery life. It doesn't do everything a laptop does, but for many common scenarios, it has replaced the laptop as its owners' go-to device.
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| Anand Lal Shimpi / AnandTech: |
iPad Air review: lighter, more portable, more usable and faster than any previous iPad — The iPad Air Review — It seemed like a foregone conclusion that the 10-inch tablet market was done for, with all interest and excitement shifting to smaller, but equally capable 7 or 8-inch tablets instead.
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| John Gruber / Daring Fireball: |
iPad Air light enough to supplement a laptop, fast enough to replace one for most people — The iPad Air — There are so many millions of iPad users that no simple explanation can cover all use cases. But my take, since last year, has been that the full-size iPad is best seen …
Tweets: @reneritchie, @adamnash and @dlpasco
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NSA infiltrates links to Yahoo, Google data centers worldwide, Snowden documents say — The National Security Agency has secretly broken into the main communications links that connect Yahoo and Google data centers around the world, according to documents obtained from former NSA contractor Edward Snowden …
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| AllThingsD: |
Intel May Turn Over Its Web TV Project to Verizon — Intel's efforts to break into the TV business may be coming to a close. — Sources say the chipmaker is close to a deal to hand over control of Intel Media, the unit that has been trying to build a Web-based subscription TV service … | Matt McGee / Glass Almanac: |
California Woman Gets the First Ticket for Driving with Google Glass — This is history: the first known case of a Glass Explorer getting a ticket for driving while wearing Google Glass. — Cecilia Abadie told her story on Google+ late Tuesday night, and shared this image of the citation … | Jean-Baptiste / Forbes: |
Exclusive: Intel Opens Fabs To ARM Chips — As the old adage goes, if you can't beat them, join them! Well, that's exactly what Intel finally decided to do relative to its lagging mobile business. — At the ARM developers' conference today, Intel partner Altera announced …
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| Brian X. Chen / NYT Bits: |
“Manufacturing issue” responsible for fast battery drain on “limited number” of iPhone 5Ss — Shortened Battery Life Found in Some New iPhones — The Apple iPhone 5S is supposed to have significantly longer battery life than its predecessors.
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| Roger Cheng / CNET: |
Sprint swings to profit of $383M, but loses a net 313,000 customers — Sprint swung to a third-quarter profit its first period under new ownership. — The company, which reports for the first time after the completion of the SoftBank takeover and Clearwire acquisition …
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| Mat Smith / Engadget: |
Nintendo sells 300,000 more Wii U consoles, but over two million more 3DS handhelds — Nintendo's just released its financial results for the last three months, and while hardware sales have increased substantially, it still made a loss. Wii U sales have rebounded significantly.
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| Janko Roettgers / Gigaom: |
Mozilla will add H.264 to Firefox as Cisco makes eleventh-hour push for WebRTC's future — Cisco staged a major coup Wednesday by announcing a new initiative that is meant to turn H.264 into the default codec for real-time communication on the web: the company open-sourced its H.246 codec implementation … | John Herrman / BuzzFeed: |
Favorite, Reply, RT now directly in Twitter feed, reducing the threshold for sharing, virality — Why Twitter Just Turned Itself Inside Out — Clicking is dead, scrolling is king. Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, and the fight for the ultimate feed. — dailydot.com
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| Andy / TorrentFreak: |
IsoHunt Resurrected Less Than Two Weeks After $110 Million MPAA Deal — Earlier this month some pretty surprising news hit the file-sharing scene. After many years battling aggressively with the MPAA, Canadian BitTorrent site isoHunt suddenly agreed to a settlement with the MPAA.
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| Iljitsch van Beijnum / Ars Technica: |
OS X 10.9 brings fast but choppy Thunderbolt networking — If you open your network settings in the System Preferences after upgrading to OS X 10.9 “Mavericks”, you'll be informed that a new “Thunderbolt Bridge” network interface was added to the system. So it's now possible to network two Macs over Thunderbolt.
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| Steve Rosenbush / The CIO Report: |
Facebook Tests Software to Track Your Cursor on Screen — Risk-based authentication solutions can help thwart cyber intruders' attempts to access enterprise systems. By learning users' expected log-in patterns, and by setting appropriate risk thresholds for various systems … | Jack Clark / The Register: |
IBM gives up fight to build CIA's $600m secret cloud, hands deal to Amazon — Withdraws injunctive action and scuttles back into shadow — IBM has stumbled away from its legal tussle with Amazon over a strategically important contract to build a $600m cloud system for the CIA.
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| Sharon Gaudin / Computerworld: |
Mysterious barges in Maine and San Francisco ignite Google rumors — Is Google building floating data centers? Transporting Google Glass outlets or retail stores? Everyone is mum on the subject — Speculation that had been growing about mysterious barges harbored on both sides of the U.S. is exploding.| Jason Del Rey / AllThingsD: |
Amazon Will Let You Direct Up to .05 Percent of Your Purchase Order to Charity — Amazon Will Donate Some of Your Purchase Amount to the Charity of Your Choice — Amazon is known for pouring the revenue it generates back into its business. Now, it's ready to give a chunk away.
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Cloud-Based Device Management Startup Soluto Acquired By Device Insurers Asurion For Up To $130M — Looks like another exit for an Israel-based startup - this one straddling the worlds of cloud services and hardware control. Soluto, a service that lets users manage PCs and other connected devices remotely … | Kevin Fitchard / Gigaom: |
Intel is back in the 4G game, shipping its first smartphone LTE chip — Intel on Wednesday announced the commercial availability of its long-awaited LTE modem targeted at smartphones and tablets - the first step in making it a credible challenger to dominant 4G chipmaker Qualcomm.
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