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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 …
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| 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.
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| Kelly Hodgkins / MacRumors: |
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| 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.
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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Beats Music brand will be shut down, product could be rolled into iTunes — Apple Plans To Shut Down Beats Music — Apple will discontinue the streaming music service Beats Music it acquired in May, according to five sources, including several prominent employees at Apple and Beats.
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Tweets: @markgurman, @stevekovach, @joshconstine, @benedictevans, @thecheekytaurus and @mikeisaac
| 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 …
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Tweets: @ev, @toddbishop, @rozzie and @erickschonfeld
Thanks:@johnhcook| 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.
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| 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?
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Business Insider, MacNN, TechnoBuffalo, iPhone in Canada Blog, Cult of Mac, 9to5Mac, Ubergizmo, MacRumors and ReadWrite. Tweets: @jyarow
| 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.
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| 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 … | 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 … | 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?| 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.| 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 … | 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.| 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 …
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| 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 … | 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 … | Tyler Wilde / PC Gamer: |
Steam Discovery Update adds curators, recommendations, and hides unpopular new releases — 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!
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| 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.| 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 …
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| Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols / ZDNet: |
Red Hat CEO announces a shift from client-server to cloud computing — Summary: In other words, Red Hat is moving from Linux to OpenStack as its primary breadwinner. — Red Hat is in the midst of changing its image from a top Linux company to the future king of cloud computing.
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