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September 14, 2012, 12:35 AM

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Roberto Baldwin / Wired:

Apple Confirms iPhone 5 Pre-Orders Start at 12:01 a.m. Sept. 14 — Get that credit card ready for a late-night purchase. Apple has confirmed to Wired via e-mail that it will begin accepting online pre-orders of the iPhone 5 during the wee hours of the morning beginning at 12:01 a.m. PDT on Sept. 14.

More: VentureBeat, Business Insider, Computerworld, VR-Zone, Engadget, Verizon Wireless, Los Angeles Times, Gizmodo, iDownloadBlog.com, CNET, TechnoBuffalo, BGR, everythingiCafe, The Verge, Macgasm, The Next Web, IntoMobile, blog.chron.com, The Tech Block, Business Insider, Gotta Be Mobile, App Advice and 9to5Mac. Tweets: @dannysullivan. Thanks:@nateog

Matt Townsend / Bloomberg:

Wal-Mart to Offer Apple's IPhone Pre-Orders for First Time — Sept. 13 (Bloomberg) — Wal-Mart Stores Inc., the world's largest retailer, will take pre-orders for the new Apple Inc. iPhone for the first time and offer discounts on the device. — The iPhone 5, announced yesterday …

More: CNET, Gizmodo, 9to5Mac, IntoMobile and Bloomberg

Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch:

iPhone 5 Unlocked U.S. Pricing: $649 (16GB), $749 (32GB), And $849 (64GB) — Apple's website now shows the unlocked pricing for the iPhone 5 in the U.S. Using the site's compare tool, you can see that the 16GB model starts at $649, with the 32GB version costing $749, and the 64GB top-tier configuration running $849.

More: MacRumors, CNET, Gizmodo, iDownloadBlog.com, Gotta Be Mobile, The Verge, iClarified and Gotta Be Mobile

Eric Slivka / MacRumors:

Cricket and C Spire to Offer iPhone 5 Beginning September 28 [Updated]

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Dan Seifert / The Verge:

iPhone 5 won't support simultaneous voice and data on Verizon or Sprint — Apple's new iPhone 5 features support for LTE networks across the world, but it won't be able to offer simultaneous voice and data on all of them. The Verge has confirmed with Verizon Wireless that the iPhone 5 …

Brian X. Chen / NYT Bits:

Why the iPhone 5 on Verizon and Sprint Won't Juggle Calls and Data — A lot has changed in Apple's new iPhone. But with the Verizon Wireless and Sprint versions of the iPhone 5, there's something that will remain the same from the old model: The phone still won't be able to place a call …

More: Engadget, Examiner, TUAW, BGR, MacRumors, Gizmodo, ...by Matt Galligan, Macworld, MacRumors, everythingiCafe, Associated Press, 9to5Mac and nbcnews.com. Thanks:@bxchen

Chris Ziegler / The Verge:

Will LTE buckle under the iPhone 5's weight?

More: Ars Technica, AllThingsD, iDownloadBlog.com and TechCrunch

John Gruber / Daring Fireball:

Thoughts and Observations Regarding Yesterday's iPhone 5 and Music Event — A Double Feature — There's been a consistent formula to the post-Steve Jobs Apple keynote events. Tim Cook opens, and speaks in broad terms about where Apple is. Numbers and milestones.

More: The Verge and TechCrunch

Sean Hollister / The Verge:

Apple says Lightning to HDMI and Lightning to VGA cables will arrive in a matter of months — There's been some confusion as to what Apple's new all-digital Lightning connector will be capable of, but the company has just cleared that up. An Apple spokesperson told The Verge that Lightning …

More: TechCrunch, MacRumors, Macworld, 9to5Mac, iMore, TUAW, TechnoBuffalo, Gizmodo and MacDailyNews

Jake Smith / 9to5Mac:

Apple releases Lightning to Micro USB adapter for Europeans

More: SlashGear, CNET, Examiner and Engadget

Matt Brian / The Next Web:

Google adds another cool tool to Search: The Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon — Forget using Google's more powerful search operators, the best ones are the most fun ones. We've seen ‘tilt’ and ‘do a barrel roll’, but over the past day or so, the company has added another cool new search operator: Bacon number.

Dan Frommer / SplatF:

Why Does Apple Announce iPhone Pricing And Availability But Other Phone Makers Don't? — One of the nice things Apple does when announcing a new product — which its competitors only sometimes do, especially in the phone industry — is tell you how much it will cost and when it will go on sale.

Tweets: @ldignan

David Pogue / Pogue's Posts:

Google Glass and the Future of Technology — New gadgets — I mean whole new gadget categories — don't come along very often. The iPhone was one recent example. You could argue that the iPad was another. But if there's anything at all as different and bold on the horizon, surely it's Google Glass.

Emil Protalinski / The Next Web:

Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak on Samsung patent verdict: 'I hate it and I don't agree with it' — Late last month in a California court, Samsung was ordered to pay Apple over $1 billion as part of a patent lawsuit in which an American jury concluded the Korean company copied the American company …

More: Talk Android, Droid Life, Bloomberg, TechnoBuffalo, Forbes, BGR and CNET

Matthew Panzarino / The Next Web:

Apple's new iCloud.com officially launches with updated Mail, Find My iPhone, Reminders and Notes apps — Apple has today launched the new official version of iCloud.com — its web portal for cloud services — to all users, reports 9to5Mac. The site features versions of its Mail …

More: CNET, The Verge, VentureBeat, Macgasm, AppleInsider, Gizmodo, MacRumors, MacStories and TechnoBuffalo

Liz Gannes / AllThingsD:

Google Finally Adds Do-Not-Track Support in Latest Test Version of Chrome — Google has included support for the Do Not Track privacy setting in its latest Chrome developer build, which was released today. — Do Not Track — which aims to help users opt out of being tracked across Web sites …

More: BrowserFame and Neowin

Tom Warren / The Verge:

Microsoft details Office 2013 RT, confirms Preview release and lack of Macros or add-ins — We got a brief look at Office 2013 RT for Windows RT tablets at IFA last month, but Microsoft is revealing the finer details of the software today. In a post on the company's Office Next blog …

More: Ars Technica, The Register, DailyTech, Computerworld, Seattle Times, The Microsoft Office Blog, Neowin, Business Insider, WinBeta, Liliputing and Engadget

Christopher Grant / The Verge:

Nintendo Wii U release date is November 18th in US, starting at $299.99, November 30th in Europe — Nintendo's Wii U will launch November 18th in North America starting at $299.99, the company announced today during a New York City press conference. — The console will launch in two varieties …

More: Engadget, AllThingsD, CNET, BuzzFeed, Joystiq, BGR, Associated Press, WebProNews, Engadget, Engadget, Pocket-lint, GeekWire, VG247, VentureBeat, TechnoBuffalo and Mashable!

Ben Gilbert / Engadget:

Nintendo unveils ‘Nintendo TVii’ for Wii U (video)

More: digitaltrends.com, Engadget, The Verge, The Verge, VentureBeat, Examiner and CNET

Josh Constine / TechCrunch:

Facebook For iOS App's Review Average Climbs From 1.5 Stars To 4 Stars In Three Weeks Since Relaunch — Facebook will still push HTML5 innovation, but stripping it out to speed up the Facebook for iOS app has been very successful. Half of its iOS users updated their apps in just four days …

More: SiliconBeat, CNET, The Next Web, WebProNews, LockerGnome and VentureBeat

Lucas Mearian / PC World:

Helium-filled WD drives promise huge boost in capacity — Density of helium is one-seventh that of air, thus reducing hard drive platter drag. — HGST's five-platter Ultrastar 7K4000 4TB hard drive.For more than 50 years, hard disk drives have run on air. That's about to change.

More: ZDNet, VR-Zone, Digits, The Register, TechSpot and Inquirer

Harrison Weber / The Next Web:

Google and Khan Academy launch contest to bring new forms of education to YouTube — Google has just announced that it is teaming up with Khan Academy for a new competition to find the next generation of “educational YouTube stars.” This news comes as interest in new forms …

More: TechCrunch, YouTube Blog and SocialTimes

Enigmax / TorrentFreak:

French 3 Strikes: Court Fines First File-Sharer, Even Though He's Innocent — For almost two years France has been running its controversial “3 strikes” mechanism to deal with the issue of online digital media piracy. — Alleged pirates are sent three warnings before being punished …

More: Techdirt, CNET, Electronic Frontier Foundation, Ars Technica and Daily Dot

Roger Cheng / CNET:

Isis mobile payment service hits snag, delays trial run — Isis was supposed to have turned on the mobile payment systems in two cities by the end of summer. — Google Wallet getting tested out in a store in Manhattan. Isis won't be coming here soon. — Isis won't be launching its mobile payment trials at the end of summer.

More: GigaOM, Engadget, Reuters, Know Your Cell and Droid Life. Thanks:@rogerwcheng

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