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Sapphire screens miss new iPhones “by weeks” due to finishing issues resulting in low yields — Sapphire Screens Miss The Apple iPhone 6 Launch By “Weeks” — I have been busy on the phone checking in with my supply chain sources. Since Apple announced the iPhone 6 yesterday people are beginning to talk.
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Apple revamps retail store process for buying products on launch day with new digital queueing system — Apple aims to make buying an iPhone 6 easier at its stores with new digital queue system — Apple has its product launches down to a science. But sometimes issues arise and not everyone can …
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Apple delays launch of new iPhones in China, possibly because they haven't been approved by regulators — Release of iPhone 6 Delayed in China — BEIJING — Apple is facing a potential setback in China, one of its biggest and fastest-growing markets, after the much-anticipated introductions … | Killian Bell / Cult of Mac: |
iPhone 6 vs. iPhone 6 Plus: notable differences include the display, camera, battery life — Big vs. bigger: Which iPhone 6 deserves a place in your pocket? … For the second consecutive year, Apple has delivered not one but two new iPhones. Unlike the iPhone 5c, however … | Ben Woods / The Next Web: |
Chromebooks can now run some Android apps for the first time, including Evernote and Vine — We knew that Google planned to add support for running Android apps on Chromebooks since the company announced it back at Google I/O in June, but today we've had confirmation that the first Android apps … | Benjamin Clymer / HODINKEE: |
A Watch Guy's Thoughts On The Apple Watch After Seeing It In The Metal (Tons Of Live Photos) — I'm not even sure we can call it a watch. Okay, it goes on the wrist, and it happens to tell the time, but that's about where the similarities between Apple's just announced watch and the hand-assembled …
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Leaked Windows 9 screens reveal virtual desktops, windowed “modern” apps, search button on taskbar, and more — Leaked Windows 9 screenshots reveal the future of the desktop — Leaked Windows 9 screenshots have surfaced previously, but this time we're getting a closer look … | Emerging Technology From the arXiv: |
How the SuperVision algorithm, developed in 2012, marked the turning point in image recognition when machines surpassed humans — The Revolutionary Technique That Quietly Changed Machine Vision Forever — Machines are now almost as good as humans at object recognition … | Kia Kokalitcheva / VentureBeat: |
Not to be outdone by rival Stripe, Braintree announces Apple Pay support — Yesterday was a huge — huge! — day for Apple, as it unveiled new and bigger phones, its first smartwatch, and a new wireless, NFC-based payments system: Apple Pay. — Apple announced a long list of financial …
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| Cade Metz / Wired: |
Uber's Revenue Is 12 Times The Size of Lyft's, New Study Says — The bitter battle between Uber and Lyft isn't exactly a close fight. — According to new research that draws on credit and debit card transactions by 3.8 million Americans, Uber's revenue was about 12 times that of its rival between May 2013 and May 2014.| Alistair Barr / Wall Street Journal: |
Google acquires polling service Polar for Google+, will shut down service at end of the year — Google's Deal for Polar Shows it Has Not Given Up On Google+ — Google's social network Google+ has failed to catch Facebook, but the Web giant has not given up on the business entirely.
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| Sebastian Anthony / ExtremeTech: |
Western Digital unveils world's first 10TB hard drive: Helium-filled, shingled recording — In what can only be described as the hard drive equivalent of Game of Thrones, Western Digital's HGST has announced the world's first 10-terabyte hard drive: the helium-filled Ultrastar He10.
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| Roger Cheng / CNET: |
HTC's smartwatch is alive and kicking, and due in early 2015 — CNET has learned that HTC still plans to enter the burgeoning wearables business despite speculation its watch was scratched. — LAS VEGAS — HTC still wants in on the wearables game, even after Apple made its big move.
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Android Police, PC World, 9to5Google, Wearable World News, Ubergizmo, Pocketnow, Android and Me, SlashGear, GadgeTell, Android Authority, Droid Life and Android Central. Thanks:@jeskillings
| Arik Hesseldahl / Re/code: |
Brad Garlinghouse Out as CEO of Hightail — Brad Garlinghouse, the former Yahoo executive tapped two years ago to transform the company formerly known as YouSendit into the file-sharing company Hightail, has left the company. — Garlinghouse confirmed the move to Re/code.
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BlackBerry acquires virtual SIM startup Movirtu, plans to support ‘all major smartphone operating systems’ — BlackBerry today announced it has acquired Movirtu, a UK startup that allows multiple numbers to be active on a single device. The Canadian company's hope is to boost …
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| David Lieberman / Deadline: |
Verizon CEO Says Its Internet TV Service Will Be Up By Mid-2015 And Will Include “Custom Channels” — CEO Lowell McAdam offered a few more details this morning about Verizon's plan to offer a TV-like service over the Internet, a market that Sony and Dish Network also hope to lead.
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| Marco Chiappetta / HotHardware.com News: |
Preliminary benchmark tests of Intel's Core M Broadwell platform show impressive performance — First Actual Intel Broadwell Core M Benchmarks From IDF 2014 — We're currently at the Intel Developers Forum checking out all of the technology being showcase by Intel and its partners.
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| Jon Russell / The Next Web: |
Viber introduces videos calls to its mobile chat apps for Android and iOS — Viber, the mobile messaging app bought by Japan's e-commerce giant Rakuten for $900 million, is spreading its wings beyond voice calling on mobile after it introduced video calling to its Android and iOS apps.| Andrew Cunningham / Ars Technica: |
New U2 album gets pushed to iTunes users by default, may appear on your iPhone automatically — U2's new album is showing up on your iPhone whether you want it or not — U2's new Songs of Innocence. — U2 — I'm not here to tell you what music you should be listening to …
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| Josh Kosman / New York Post: |
EMC explores selling stake in VMware — EMC Corp., a $60 billion tech giant specializing in cloud-based applications, has decided to explore selling its stake in VMware, a 16-year-old software services company, The Post has learned. — The decision to consider putting the Palo Alto …
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Spotify: Aussie Music Piracy Down 20% The Year After Our Launch — Since its launch Spotify always had a very clear goal in mind. Compete with piracy and make it obsolete. — To see how the company is faring on this front Spotify regularly researches piracy rates in countries where they enter the market.| Ryan Lawler / TechCrunch: |
Peer-To-Peer Airport Car Rental Startup FlightCar Raises Another $13.5M Led By GGV Capital — FlightCar wants to enable its users to rent out their cars at airports all around the country, and today is announcing that it has raised an additional $13.5 million to help fund that expansion.
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| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
LaCie d2 External Hard Drives Upgraded With Thunderbolt 2, SSD Option — LaCie today updated its d2 desktop storage hard drives, adding an aluminum unibody, dual Thunderbolt 2 ports, and an optional SSD upgrade. Designed to be a companion device to the Mac Pro, the d2 is aimed at audio/video/photography professionals.Sponsor Posts
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