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September 23, 2014, 10:10 AM

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Raymond M. Soneira / DisplayMate:

iPhone 6 Plus display is “best performing smartphone LCD we ever tested”, iPhone 6 “very good” — iPhone 6 Display Technology Shoot-Out — Introduction A key element for a great Smartphone has always been a truly innovative and top performing display …

More: BetaNews, MobileSyrup.com, BGR, SlashGear, DISPLAYBLOG, iDownloadBlog.com, Tech2, Macworld, TechnoBuffalo, iPhone in Canada Blog, Redmond Pie, Business Insider, Gizmodo, MacRumors and iMore. Tweets: @stevesi

Nathan Olivarez-Giles / Wall Street Journal:

SquareTrade breakability tests show iPhone 6/6 Plus are the most durable iPhones yet — iPhone 6 Is the Most Durable iPhone Yet, Says Insurer — The new iPhone 6 and 6 Plus may be the largest iPhones Apple has ever made, but they're also the toughest, according to SquareTrade, a gadget insurer that publishes a “breakability” index.

More: squaretrade.com, ZDNet, Inquirer, Bloomberg, Gizmodo, Telegraph, Yahoo Tech, VentureBeat, iPhone in Canada Blog, CNET, The Register, PC Magazine, ABC News, BGR and App Advice

Kelly Hodgkins / MacRumors:

iPhone 6 and 6 Plus Capable of Faster Charging Using iPad 2.1A Adapter

More: iLounge, BGR, Ubergizmo, SlashGear, iPhone in Canada Blog, 9to5Mac, BGR and Business Insider

Joshua Ho / AnandTech:

iPhone 6/6 Plus beat competition in browser and GPU benchmarks, web browsing battery life test

More: Business Insider, The Guardian, 9to5Mac, Electronista, TechnoBuffalo, NEWS.com.au, AppleInsider, iPhone in Canada Blog, Daring Fireball, App Advice and iDownloadBlog.com. Tweets: @fmanjoo

Peter Kafka / Re/code:

Apple won't shut down the Beats Music streaming service, but the Beats Music brand may change — Apple's Beats Music Brand May Go Away. Apple's Beats Music Service Is Sticking Around. — Earlier this year, Apple bought Beats Music and Beats Electronics for $3 billion.

More: Gigaom, Inquirer, Guardian, The Register, Ubergizmo, GSMArena Blog, MobileSyrup.com, Mashable and Seeking Alpha. Tweets: @llsethj. See also Mediagazer

Josh Constine / TechCrunch:

Beats Music brand will be shut down, product could be rolled into iTunes

Todd Bishop / GeekWire:

Say hello to Talko: Ray Ozzie's startup wants to reinvent the phone call, starting with an iPhone app — What has Ray Ozzie been focusing on since leaving his position as Microsoft's chief software architect? Here's the answer. A new app and online service called Talko …

More: Medium, Re/code, The Register, TechCrunch, The Verge, Fast Company, Medium, Gigaom, Gizmodo, Wall Street Journal, Medium, CNET, Associated Press, USA Today, New York Times, Wired, Engadget and The Next Web

Tweets: @ev, @toddbishop, @rozzie and @erickschonfeld

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iClarified:

Apple Announces iOS 8 Adoption Has Already Reached 46% — Apple has announced that iOS 8 adoption has already reached 46%. First spotted by iClarified, Apple quietly revealed the statistic on its App Store Distribution page. — The company says iOS 8 adoption reached 46% on September 21, 2014.

More: AppleInsider, TechCrunch, BGR, Business Insider, The Next Web, Inquirer, The Verge, MacRumors, 9to5Mac, Cult of Mac, iMore, Ubergizmo and ITProPortal

John Brownlee / Co.Design:

iPod Mastermind Tony Fadell On The Death Of The iPod: “You Can't Get Too Nostalgic” — After 13 years, the iPod Classic is dead. Google's Tony Fadell tells us what killed the iPod, and why we shouldn't be bummed about it. — What does it feel like to lose your design child?

More: Business Insider, MacNN, TechnoBuffalo, iPhone in Canada Blog, Cult of Mac, 9to5Mac, Ubergizmo, MacRumors and ReadWrite. Tweets: @jyarow

Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica:

Eric Schmidt says Google will cut ties with ALEC because group is lying about climate change — Google will stop supporting climate change science deniers, calls them liars — Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt. — JD Lasica — Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt today said it was a …

More: The Diane Rehm Show …, SiliconBeat, The Verge, ThinkProgress, Bloomberg, National Journal, SlashGear, The Register, ZME Science, msnbc.com, Guardian, PandoDaily, Washington Post, Business Insider and The Technology Chronicles

Sean Gallagher / Ars Technica:

Home Depot's former security architect had history of techno-sabotage — “We sell hammers” was the justification Home Depot managers gave for cheaping out on security to IT employees. — WestportWiki — When Home Depot suffered a breach of transaction data that exposed …

Peter Kafka / Re/code:

HBO, Amazon Prime and Broadband for $40 a Month at AT&T — It's still nearly impossible to get HBO, or any other pay-TV channel, without subscribing to a pay-TV package that gives you a bundle of channels, whether you want them or not. — But the people who sell you TV are starting to tinker with the model, at least at the margins.

More: Engadget, Variety, DSLreports, Wired, Tech Times, Ubergizmo, PC World, Gizmodo, StreetInsider.com, GeekWire and The Verge

Barry Schwartz / Search Engine Land:

Google Structured Snippets Officially Live In Search Results — Earlier this month, we caught Google testing a form of knowledge graph data within the search results snippet. This feature is now officially being confirmed by Google on the Google Research Blog.

More: Google Research Blog, Engadget, Search Engine Roundtable, SEO by the Sea, 9to5Google, WebProNews and The Next Web

Henry Blodget / Business Insider:

Q&A with LinkedIn CEO Jeff Weiner on strategy, management, setbacks, and company culture — LinkedIn's CEO Jeff Weiner Reveals The Importance Of Body Language, Mistakes Made Out Of Fear, And One Time He Really Doubted Himself — Who is the best CEO in the country?

More: ITProPortal. Tweets: @greylockvc, @pkafka, @felixsalmon and @mdudas

John Battelle / John Battelle's Search Blog:

Buying into murky Alibaba is buying into a corrupt government that's excluded US companies — Thoughts On Alibaba — The post Thoughts On Alibaba appeared first on John Battelle's Search Blog. — A caveat before I think out loud, quite possibly getting myself into a running battle I know I can't win …

More: DISPLAYBLOG. Tweets: @mhelft, @pennockd, @jjhikes, @mattrosoff, @arrington and @bryce

Elzio Barreto / Reuters:

With $25B raised, Alibaba IPO ranks as world's biggest after underwriters sell 48M more shares

More: TechCrunch and PC Tech Magazine

Kevin Fitchard / Gigaom:

Huawei buys UK internet-of-things networking firm Neul for $25M — Huawei buys internet-of-things networking firm Neul — Huawei sees an opportunity in the industrial internet of things, so its buying a U.K. company specializing is sensor and meter networking for a reported $25 million.

More: Business Weekly, Inquirer, Engadget, Forbes, Rethink Wireless, Tech in Asia, New Electronics, ITProPortal, Tech City News, VentureBeat, The Register and Light Reading

Melissa Eddy / New York Times:

2,000 Amazon workers from four distribution centers in Germany walk off the job in wage dispute — Amazon Workers Walk Off the Job in Germany Over Wage Dispute — BERLIN — Amazon employees in Germany, frustrated by the company's refusal to hold wage talks, walked off their jobs Monday …

More: ZDNet, ThinkProgress, Wall Street Journal, GeekWire, Fox Business, Agence France-Presse, DW.DE, BBC and The Register

Kim Zetter / Wired:

MIT students behind Bitcoin mining tool Tidbit fight New Jersey subpoena demanding source code — MIT Students Battle State's Demand for Their Bitcoin Miner's Source Code — Four MIT students behind an award-winning Bitcoin mining tool will face off against New Jersey state authorities …

More: Boston Magazine. Tweets: @josephzhou

Tyler Wilde / PC Gamer:

Big changes to Steam: ‘Discovery Update’ adds curators, recommendations, and hides unpopular new releases — The Steam homepage finally has a new look! A very slightly different, bluer new look! OK, it looks about the same, but the functional changes in today's ‘Discovery Update’ are really big.

More: Steam, Digital Trends, PC World, gameinformer.com, VG247, Gamasutra, Engadget, Blue's News, destructoid and GameSpot

Jeff John Roberts / Gigaom:

Rackspace knocks out patent troll that claimed monopoly on rotating smartphone displays — A troll called called Rotatable claimed a patent monopoly on the use of rotating mobile screen displays. Rackspace won a victory for everyone by destroying its patent.

More: The Official Rackspace Blog, The Register, SlashGear and Android Police. Tweets: @mattcutts

Tom Fairless / Wall Street Journal:

Google Must Improve Search Settlement or Face Charges, EU's Almunia Says — Antitrust Chief Says Investigation Hasn't Been Swayed by Political Pressure — BRUSSELS— Google Inc. must improve its proposal to settle European Union concerns over its search practices or face formal antitrust charges …

More: EU Press Room, Computerworld, The Register, WebProNews and The Verge

Anthony Ha / TechCrunch:

Adobe Acquires Photo-Editing Platform Aviary — Aviary just announced that it has been acquired by Adobe. — Aviary offers a software development kit to developers who want to add photo-editing capabilities to their apps. Aviary has also created apps of its own, which it says have been …

More: Aviary Blog, Adobe, Inquirer, CNET, The Register, Adobe Featured Blogs, VentureBeat, Android Police, Electronista, The Next Web, Seeking Alpha and Re/code

Tweets: @om and @inakib

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