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Windows Phone 8.1 review: a magnificent smartphone platform — It's a 0.1 update that feels like a 2.0 update. — For the growing number of Windows Phone users, Windows Phone 8 was a frustrating release. The major difference between Windows Phone 7.5 and Windows Phone 8 was invisible to end users …
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The Verge, Windows Phone Central, Gigaom, ZDNet, Gizmodo, ReadWrite, Re/code, Engadget, TechCrunch, Neowin, Pocketnow, Liliputing, MobileBurn.com, TIME, SuperSite for Windows, WMPoweruser, CNET, Mashable and SlashGear. Tweets: @arstechnica
| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Windows Phone 8.1 Developer Preview now available to download — Windows Phone 8.1 now available to download — After 18 months since the last major Windows Phone update, Microsoft is finally releasing Windows Phone 8.1 to developers today. The software maker detailed the update …
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| Jessica Dolcourt / CNET: |
Cortana vs. Siri vs. Google Now: An early look at how Cortana stacks up (hands-on) — Can Windows Phone's new voice-activated assistant stand up to Siri and Google Now? We put an early version to the test. — The iPhone has Siri. Android has Google Now. And Windows Phone now has Cortana.
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| Ina Fried / Re/code: |
Early internal document reveals Android was initially designed without touchscreen support — Here's What Android Looked Like Before the iPhone — One of the more interesting documents that came to light during the Apple-Samsung document last week was an early internal Google document …
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| David Streitfeld / New York Times: |
Free of the desire to do the right thing, highest-paid CEO Larry Ellison does what he wants — Still No. 1, and Doing What He Wants — It is good to be the king. It is even better to be Larry Ellison. — Most of us spend much of our lives thinking that we should do the right thing …
Tweets: @nickbilton, @obrien, @timbray, @poornimagupta, @darlin, @vkopytoff and @caseynewton
| New York Times: |
How and why startups like Lyft and Quora are increasingly taking big late-stage investments — Rich Start-Ups Go Back for Another Helping — Quora, a question-and-answer website, didn't need to raise money. It had barely touched $60 million in venture capital that it accepted just two years ago.| Kaylene Hong / The Next Web: |
Facebook is reportedly prepping an e-money service, and is close to getting approval in Ireland — Facebook wants to be more than a social network — it is planning to facilitate financial services in the form of electronic money and remittances, the Financial Times reports (as spotted first by Benedict Evans).
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Financial Times, Quartz, Engadget, The Verge, Wall Street Journal, Business Insider, Softpedia News, Yahoo Tech and bizjournals. Tweets: @jeffjohnroberts. Thanks:@hanskainz
| Nick Wingfield / New York Times: |
A profile of Benchmark venture capitalist Richard Barton — The Art of ‘Something From Nothing’ — SEATTLE — Entrepreneurs are lucky to have one big score. Richard Barton has had a string of them, by repeatedly asking the same simple question: What piece of marketplace information do people crave and don't have?
Tweets: @trengriffin, @jeffjarvis and @nickwingfield
| Dan Seifert / The Verge: |
Dell Chromebook 11 review: solid build quality and 10 hour battery life for under $300 — Dell Chromebook 11 review — There's a new king in Chromebook town — Chromebooks are the simplest computers you can buy today, but they've proven a tricky formula for manufacturers to get right.| Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: |
As phone designs homogenize, some manufacturers experiment with unused rear space — Phones Go Back To The Future — I'm no fan of LG's rear smartphone control keys — but turns out the company had its finger on the pulse of looming hardware disruption when it ushered in those backside smartphone controls last summer, with the G2.| Richard Padilla / MacRumors: |
Alpine Planning to Release Aftermarket CarPlay Console This Fall — Car electronics manufacturer Alpine will begin selling a standalone aftermarket console that will support Apple's CarPlay vehicle integration feature, reports Japanese business newspaper Nikkei.
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| Jim Finkle / Reuters: |
Blackberry plans Heartbleed patches as mobile threat scrutinized — (Reuters) - BlackBerry Ltd said it plans to release security updates for messaging software for Android and iOS devices by Friday to address vulnerabilities in programs related to the “Heartbleed” security threat.
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