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Apple plans March Apple Watch 2 event, 4-inch ‘iPhone 6c’ possible — Apple is currently planning a March 2016 event to unveil the second-generation Apple Watch, according to sources with knowledge of the plans. The second version of the Apple Watch would then ship by April, nearly a year after the original model first went on sale.
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| Mikey Campbell / AppleInsider: |
Apple debuts $99 Smart Battery Case for iPhone 6/6S, extends talk time to 25 hours, LTE browsing to 18 hours, available to order online now — Apple debuts Smart Battery Case for iPhone 6s, extends life up to 25 hours — In a surprise release on Tuesday, Apple debuted the Smart Battery Case …
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Thanks:@mikeycampbell81| Joanna Stern / Wall Street Journal: |
Apple Smart Battery Case review: extends battery by 80%, well behind competition and at higher cost, but uses lightning cable and lets phone show charge levels — Apple Smart Battery Case Review: iPhone Battery Life Nearly Doubled — Apple enters the battery case business with a funny-looking, iOS-integrated option
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| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
Mozilla launches Focus by Firefox, a content blocker for iOS 9 aimed at stopping trackers — Mozilla launches Focus by Firefox, a content blocker for iOS 9 — Mozilla today launched an iOS content blocker called Focus by Firefox. We say “content blocker” because, although Focus is capable …
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| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
Google wants to bring Fiber to Chicago and Los Angeles, the two largest metro areas Google has publicly considered — Google wants to bring Fiber to Chicago and Los Angeles — Google today announced Google Fiber could be coming to two of the biggest cities in the U.S.: Chicago and Los Angeles.
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| Ron Amadeo / Ars Technica: |
Pixel C review: despite its great screen, battery life, and build quality, Android tablet software fails for a productivity device — Pixel C review—New hardware ignores an Android tablet's core problem: software — A “productivity” device that can only display a single app at a time?| Official Google Blog: |
Google's Pixel C Android tablet now available on the Google Store, starting at $499 — Meet the Pixel C, our take on the tablet — This holiday season, there's no shortage of electronics to choose from. When it comes to picking out what device to use, sometimes you want a laptop to hammer out a lengthy document.| Anick Jesdanun / Associated Press: |
Apple says Apple Maps is used 3X more often than its next leading competitor on iOS, now logging 5B requests per week — Apple Maps, once a laughingstock, now dominates iPhones — 3 photos — NEW YORK (AP) — Apple Maps quickly became the butt of jokes when it debuted in 2012.
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Tweets: @roxyabadi, @dannysullivan and @joshconstine
| Janko Roettgers / Variety: |
Amazon Brings Showtime, Starz and Other Video Services to Prime As Add-Ons — Amazon's Prime members just got a new perk: Showtime and Starz, unbundled and cheap. The internet company launched a new initiative called “Streaming Partners Program” Tuesday that allows Prime members … | Mark Scott / New York Times: |
Qualcomm Is Accused of Violating Antitrust Rules in Europe — The European Commission on Tuesday filed antitrust charges against the chip maker Qualcomm, the latest in a growing number of competition investigations targeting American technology companies. — Europe's antitrust officials …
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| Matt Hamblen / Computerworld: |
AT&T to expand its 1Gbps GigaPower service to 38 more cities including LA, San Francisco, Birmingham, Pensacola, Reno, Memphis, Charleston, Detroit, Tulsa — AT&T GigaPower fiber expanding to 38 more cities — AT&T announced Monday it will expand its 1Gbps GigaPower fiber optic broadband service …
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| Leena Rao / Fortune: |
Pinterest acquires talent from product search app The Hunt and image and messaging app Pext — Pinterest Acquires Talent From Two Startups to Expand Engineering Team — Social media curation app Pinterest added to its product and engineering teams, with the announcement of two acquisitions on Tuesday.
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| Sydney Ember / New York Times: |
Digital ad spending will overtake TV as biggest category by 2017 or 2018, forecasts say — Digital Ad Spending Expected to Soon Surpass TV — Television has lost its longtime grip on advertising budgets as digital ad spending continues to surge, according to some of the advertising industry's …
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