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iPhone 6s to have ‘3D Touch’ three-level, next-gen Force Touch interface — One of the cornerstone features of the iPhone 6s and iPhone 6s Plus, to be announced next Wednesday, is a screen based on the Force Touch technology from the latest MacBook trackpads and the Apple Watch.
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| Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica: |
Comcast tests letting Florida customers pay an extra $30 per month to avoid 300GB data cap — New Comcast innovation: A $30 charge to eliminate your data cap — Florida data cap trial limits users to 300GB unless they pay extra each month. — Comcast has unveiled a new $30 charge …
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| Jeffrey A. Trachtenberg / Wall Street Journal: |
Hachette, HarperCollins Publishers, and Simon & Schuster report declining revenues on ebooks after winning the right to set prices in deal with Amazon — E-Book Sales Fall After New Amazon Contracts — E-book revenue is falling, and some people in the publishing industry say it is partly …
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Snapchat now draws 4B daily video views, putting it on par with Facebook, and doubling its views in just 3 months — Snapchat's video push clicks with users — Snapchat's aggressive push into curated video appears to be paying off. — The social media app, popular with young users … | Bruce Einhorn / Bloomberg Business: |
ZTE nearly doubles its US smartphone marketshare to 8% in the past 15 months through low-cost offerings, ranking it as the fourth largest smartphone maker in US — The Cheap Phones Quietly Winning the U.S. — China's once-embattled ZTE almost doubled its share in 15 months
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| Eugene Wei / Remains of the Day: |
Twitter's network is its key strength, it should remove arbitrary 140 character limit and other legacy restrictions to appeal to mainstream users — The network's the thing — Last week Instagram announced it was supporting more than just square aspect ratios for photos and videos.
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| Robert Cookson / Financial Times: |
YouTube to allow third parties to track and verify video ad views by the end of the year — YouTube to provide viewer data to advertisers — YouTube is preparing to allow companies to independently verify what proportion of the adverts they place on the video platform can be seen by viewers.| Luke Johnson / Digital Spy: |
Samsung looking to open Gear S2 to iOS after adding support for non-Samsung Android devices — Exclusive: Move over Android Wear, Samsung has confirmed it's looking at Gear S2 iPhone support — Run an iPhone 6 but covet the new Samsung Gear S2 smartwatch?| Alex Wagner / PhoneDog.com: |
LG V10 leaks, said to have 5.7-inch display with auxiliary ‘ticker’ screen — The Samsung Continuum launched on Verizon in 2010 with a unique feature: a secondary ticker display beneath its main display. We never saw a second Continuum, but new leaks have suggested that LG may be prepping a new device in the same vein.
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| Kurt Wagner / Re/code: |
Facebook begins testing new, content-heavy, immersive mobile ad format — Facebook Is Testing Its Fancy New Mobile Ads — Facebook is testing a new, content-heavy mobile ad that wraps a lot of the company's existing ad formats like image carousels and autoplay video into one product.| Yusuf Ozuysal / Chromium Blog: |
Latest Chrome for Android brings “custom tabs”, a faster alternative to WebView for apps — Chrome custom tabs smooth the transition between apps and the web — Android app developers face a difficult tradeoff when it comes to showing web content in their Android app.
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