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HTC introduces Desire Eye, with highest resolution front-facing camera on a smartphone, 13MP front and back — HTC's Desire Eye wants to be the king of selfies — The Desire Eye has the most powerful front-facing camera ever put on a smartphone — It's no secret that taking selfies …
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| Joshua Goldman / CNET: |
HTC announces screenless RE action camera that uses smartphone as screen, priced at $199 — HTC Re camera pulls the focus away from smartphones — The vertical tube that bends down from the lens barrel gives you something easy and stable to hold onto unlike trying to shoot with your phone.| Billy Steele / Engadget: |
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Apple suppliers postpone production of 12.9" iPad from December to early next year, to cope with strong iPhone demand — Larger Apple iPad to Be Delayed — Apple Suppliers Concentrating on Meeting Demand for New iPhones — Apple Inc. suppliers have pushed back plans to mass produce …
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| Neil Hughes / AppleInsider: |
Surging Mac sales put Apple among top five global PC vendors for first time, IDC says — The Macintosh may have posted its strongest worldwide market share yet last quarter, according to the latest estimates from IDC, which place Apple among the top five global PC vendors for the first time.
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| Sam Biddle / Valleywag: |
A sampler of Slack group names at major tech companies, obtained through the service's dubious usability “feature” — Slack Is Letting Anyone Peek at Their Competitors — Few pieces of corporate software have earned so many fans so quickly as Slack, which is basically a sophisticated chat room for businesses.
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iOS 8 adoption rates stagnating is mainly about lack of space for 5GB OTA update, not trust — Note to Self: It's the Storage Space, Stupid — Last night I speculated that the slow uptake of iOS 8 was about people not trusting Apple with iOS software updates — too many bugs …
| Caitlin Dewey / Washington Post: |
Piper Jaffray study finds Facebook use among teens down from 72% in spring to 45% in fall 2014 — Teens are officially over Facebook — Since children are the future, and no one over 21 really knows what they find “cool” (do the kids even say cool these days...?), researchers have devoted many … | Kara Swisher / Re/code: |
Twitter News Head Vivian Schiller Out in Media Unit Consolidation — Vivian Schiller, the high-profile NBC and NPR exec who Twitter hired to run its news unit, is leaving the company as part of a consolidation. — Adam Sharp will now be in charge of both news and government …
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See also Mediagazer| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Google Chromecast Is The Top “Connected Device” App — Google's Chromecast is the most popular “connected device” - or so infers a new report from app analytics firm App Annie, which analyzed the top apps associated with connected devices across both iTunes and Google Play …
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| Douglas MacMillan / Wall Street Journal: |
Snapchat CEO Spiegel Says Untargeted Advertising Is Coming Soon — Snapchat, the popular mobile app for disappearing messages, is close to launching its first disappearing ads as the company sets out to prove its $10 billion valuation. — Evan Spiegel, the startup's 24-year-old co-founder …
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| Chris Chavez / Phandroid: |
Chromecast update brings custom wallpapers, news, weather backdrops, and more — It's been awhile since we've seen a good Chromecast update, but today, one of the most long requested features is finally being addressed. New for Android and iOS are backdrops, custom backgrounds the user …
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| Liam Spradlin / Android Police: |
Droid Turbo details leak in 73-page guide: 5.2" display, 21MP camera, wireless charging, more — Motorola Droid Turbo Breaks Cover In Full Guide - 5.2" Display, 21MP Camera, Wireless Charging, And More — Thanks to MotoFirmware.com, Motorola's Droid Turbo has just broken cover …
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| Kyle Alspach / BostInno: |
Hubspot raises $125M in IPO, sells 5M shares at $25 ahead of trading Thursday on NYSE as HUBS — HubSpot IPO Raises $125M; Big Investor Demand, Big Symbolism for Boston Tech — The IPO by Cambridge's HubSpot found strong demand from investors Wednesday and raised $125 million to bankroll the company's expansion plans.
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Thanks:@kylealspach| Jordan Kushins / Gizmodo: |
Square's new “arrival prediction” technology lets you order ahead, alerts cafe to your arrival, available in NY and SF now — Square Now Knows When You're Nearing a Cafe, Will Have Your Order Ready — When Square permanently folded its Wallet app earlier this year …
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| Liam Spradlin / Android Police: |
Google experimented with split-screen feature for Android late last year — An Exclusive Look At Google's Early Multi-Window Explorations For Android — One of Samsung's claims to fame is a feature meant to improve productivity on mobile devices. One that users of stock Android …
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| Juan Carlos Perez / Computerworld: |
Microsoft tightens integration between Outlook Web App and OneDrive for Business — Microsoft wants to promote the use of OneDrive for Business among Office 365 customers, so it's building links between the work cloud storage service and Outlook Web App (OWA), the suite's browser-based email interface.
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