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| Matthew Panzarino / The Next Web: |
Apple introduces iPhone 5, 4″ screen, 7.6mm thick, 112 grams, 4G LTE capable, A6 processor, Lightning dock connector — Today at a special event in San Francisco, Apple introduced the iPhone 5. — “It's a jewel. It's the most beautiful product we've ever made, bar none,” said Apple's Phil Schiller.
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| Mat Smith / Engadget: |
Apple details new iPhone 5 dock connector: It's called Lightning and it's 80 percent smaller — The new iPhone deserves a new dock connector. Say hello to the reversible, 80 percent smaller, Lightning. The likes of Bose, BLW and B&O are already working on new compatible docks …
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| Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch: |
Apple's iOS 6 Available September 19: Facebook, Maps, Passbook, Photo Sharing, Siri And More — Apple first previewed iOS 6 back in June at WWDC, but today it showed off the shipping product in detail. It arrives September 19 as a free update. — In the intervening time you may have forgotten …
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| Bryan Bishop / The Verge: |
iPhone 4S drops to $99, iPhone 4 now free; Apple discontinues the 3GS — To make room for its latest iPhone, Apple has just announced new prices for the rest of the line — and the iPhone 3GS isn't part of the mix. Cupertino followed a similar strategy to what it used last year …
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| Scott Lowe / The Verge: |
Apple redesigns the iPod touch with 4-inch display, Siri, and upgraded cameras — After two years of maintaining the same aesthetic design, Apple has given the iPod touch a much deserved overhaul. As rumored last week, Apple has redesigned the iPod touch to feature a larger 4-inch Retina display … | Romain Dillet / TechCrunch: |
Apple Releases A Totally Redesigned iTunes With iCloud Built-In — As with every new hardware releases, Apple updated iTunes. But the media software received a major update today. The interface is now totally new with an edge-to-edge design. Browsing your music feels completely different with a great emphasis on album art.
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| Anand Lal Shimpi / AnandTech: |
Apple's iPhone 5 Uses A6 SoC: ARM Cortex A15s Inside — This one caught us off guard, but Apple just announced the A6 SoC powering the new iPhone 5 features 2x faster CPU and GPU performance compared to the iPhone 4S. Apple reserves major Ax SoC number iterations for architecture changes … | Chris Ziegler / The Verge: |
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| Cyril Chang / M.I.C. Gadget: |
The Undercover Report on How the New iPhone 5 is Made Inside Foxconn Factory — A Chinese news agency, Shanghai Evening Post, has sent an experienced journalist to slip into the Foxconn Tai Yuan factory and pretended as a new worker, his mission is to find out how the new iPhone 5 is produced.
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| Walter S. Mossberg / AllThingsD: |
Kindle Fire HD Is Better but It Isn't the Best Color Tablet — Amazon is upping its game in the color tablet market. Last year, it launched the 7-inch Kindle Fire, a pretty good, but limited, device mostly distinguished by its low price of $199 and its seamless access to Amazon's massive ecosystem …
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| Daniel Eran Dilger / AppleInsider: |
Apple enhances iOS 6 multitasking with new background navigation updates — As new iOS devices become more powerful and sophisticated, Apple is likely to continue to evolve the platform's multitasking features, as exemplified by Maps' new background direction updates.
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| Stephen Shankland / CNET: |
Google: 500 million Android devices activated — Just before Apple debuts its next-gen iPhone, Google announces that people have activateda half billion Android devices. Also, 1.3 million new ones arrive each day. — Google won't be able to compete with the attention lavished on Apple …
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| Leena Rao / TechCrunch: |
Preparing For An IPO, Online Customer Service Platform Zendesk Raises $60M From Redpoint, Goldman Sachs And Others — Online customer service company Zendesk has raised $60 million in new financing led by Redpoint Ventures with participation by Index Ventures, GGV Capital, Goldman Sachs …
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| David Streitfeld / New York Times: |
Amazon, Forced to Collect a Tax, Is Adding Roots — PATTERSON, Calif. — At the moment, it is little more than dirt and gravel. But a sunbaked field at the edge of this farming town will play a significant role in one of the most ambitious retailing ventures of the era …
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| Kyle Orland / Ars Technica: |
Microsoft patent shows Holodeck-style, full-room “immersive display” — The patent describes this figure as showing how the device could “project a peripheral image in a 360-degree field around [the] environmental display.” — Microsft / USPTO — A newly published patent shows Microsoft …
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| Kara Swisher / AllThingsD: |
Exclusive: Mayer Set to Get Yahoo's Alibaba Billions in One Week (But Will Investors Get Some Back Too?) — According to sources close to the situation, Yahoo will officially close the multi-billion sale of half its assets in China's Alibaba Group in one week.| Rebecca Grant / VentureBeat: |
Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff drops bomb on Box and Okta — SAN FRANCISCO — Chairman and CEO of Salesforce Marc Benioff was the epitome of mellow on stage at TechCrunch Disrupt today, leaning back with a foot over one leg, casually chatting with Michael Arrington and talking about his trip to Hawaii … | Ben Sisario / New York Times: |
A Creator of Turntable.fm Plans Online Hub DJZ — The music industry's latest gold rush is over dance music, which lures tens of thousands of fans to festivals and dominates pop radio. — But to Seth Goldstein, a technology entrepreneur who was one of the creators of Turntable.fm … | Mikael Ricknäs / Computerworld: |
Amazon Web Services lets users sell reserved instances — The company hopes to make reserved instances more attractive by increasing flexibility — Amazon Web Services (AWS) has announced an online marketplace where users of its cloud computing services can sell their reserved server instances …
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| Om Malik / GigaOM: |
New app MindMeld heralds the era of anticipatory computing — Tim Tuttle, a serial entrepreneur who co-founded web acceleration technology company Bang Networks and video search engine Truveo (acquired by AOL), has returned with his third startup, Expect Labs, which he co-founded with Moninder Jheeta …
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