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Early iPhone 6/6 Plus orders in Korea reportedly top Galaxy Note 4 launch numbers by over 3X — Koreans Snap Up iPhones in Presales — Is Apple Inc.'s smartphone market share set to increase in Samsungland? Presales figures for the U.S. company's latest, large-screen models in South Korea suggest so.
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iMore, The Verge, BGR, CNET, 9to5Mac, MacNN, Tech in Asia, MacRumors, DailyTech, iPhone, iPhone in Canada Blog, TechCrunch, MacDailyNews, iDownloadBlog.com, Patently Apple, Neowin and App Advice. Tweets: @jonrussell
| David Carr / New York Times: |
As Facebook considers hosting content on mobile, publishers worry about losing control — Facebook Offers Life Raft, but Publishers Are Wary — For publishers, Facebook is a bit like that big dog galloping toward you in the park. More often than not, it's hard to tell whether he wants to play with you or eat you.
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Fitbit Charge, Charge HR and Surge unveiled: Hands-on with Fitbit's new wearables — Fitbit dives into all-day heart-rate tracking with its new Charge HR and Surge, but you'll have to wait til early 2015 to buy them. We went wrists-on. — Fitbit is the runaway leader in the fitness-tracker market …
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| Casey Johnston / Ars Technica: |
The ugly afterlife of crowdfunding projects that never ship and never end — An all-terrain camera slider, successfully funded on Kickstarter in 2012 and effectively abandoned by the creator in 2013. — Kickstarter — The public life-cycle of a Kickstarter rarely ends in tragedy.
Tweets: @jbrodkin
| Lee Gomes / IEEE Spectrum: |
Interview with AI expert Michael Jordan on big data, machine learning, and our current limits — Machine-Learning Maestro Michael Jordan on the Delusions of Big Data and Other Huge Engineering Efforts — The overeager adoption of big data is likely to result in catastrophes of analysis comparable …
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AMPLab and Forbes. Tweets: @nicolasterry, @aj20000, @pmarca, @stochastician, @cmastication, @johnplattml, @skynetbot and @pieromuscara
| Dan Rayburn / StreamingMediaBlog.com: |
Amazon announces Chromecast like $39 Fire TV Stick with dual-core CPU, 1GB of RAM and 8GB of storage, direct access to streaming services — Amazon Announces New Streaming Device, Fire TV Stick, Special Limited Pricing Of $19 — This morning Amazon announced a new HDMI streaming device called …
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Amazon, Engadget, TechCrunch, The Verge, Gizmodo, CNET, GeekWire, 9to5Google and VentureBeat. Thanks:@danrayburn. See also Mediagazer
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EU Court rules that it is legal to embed copyrighted content without rightholders' permission — Embedding Is Not Copyright Infringement, EU Court Rules — One of the key roles of the EU's Court of Justice is to interpret European law to ensure that it's applied in the same manner across all member states.| Harrison Weber / VentureBeat: |
Data suggests Foursquare usage continues to decline after relaunching as two distinct apps — Will the check-in survive? Foursquare's controversial relaunch, by the numbers — It's been two months since Foursquare relaunched, and things aren't looking good. App usage and downloads are down.| Jeff Sommer / New York Times: |
iPhone sales estimated to add a quarter to a third of a percent to annualized US GDP growth — When iPhones Ring, the Economy Listens — Gloomy economic news and the wild swings of the stock market may be getting you down. But at least you can count on this: We've entered the sweet spot of the iPhone cycle.| Nathan Mattise / Ars Technica: |
Apple, once eager to promote new music artists, now pushes more established acts — “Oprah” for indie bands: Apple once loved unknown acts—what changed? — In April 2007, only diehard Broken Social Scene fans salivated when band member Leslie Feist released a solo album titled The Reminder.| Krisztina Than / Reuters: |
Thousands of Hungarians protest against tax on Internet traffic — (Reuters) - Thousands of Hungarians protested in Budapest on Sunday against a planned new tax on Internet data transfers, which they said would not only increase the tax burden but would also curb fundamental democratic rights and freedoms.
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Sean Parker building an app aiding beachgoers as part of his settlment with Coastal Commission — Sean Parker s novel restitution - a statewide beach access mobile app — Sean Parker is working on a California public access mobile app as part of his settlement last year with the state Coastal Commission over his wedding at Big Sur.
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