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September 19, 2012, 2:00 PM

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Walter S. Mossberg / AllThingsD:

The iPhone Takes to the Big Screen — The world's most popular smartphone becomes significantly faster, thinner and lighter this week, while gaining a larger, 4-inch screen—all without giving up battery life, comfort in the hand and high-quality construction. — [ See post to watch video ]

AnandTech:

iPhone 5/A6 SunSpider Performance: Faster than Intel's Atom Z2460 — The first iPhone 5 reviews have lifted, confirming the leaked Geekbench data we saw in our earlier post. Apple's A6 appears to feature two custom ARM cores running at up to 1GHz. A new datapoint comes courtesy …

More: Ars Technica, Daring Fireball, Gizmodo, 9to5Mac, SlashGear, PadGadget and PhoneArena

John Gruber / Daring Fireball:

The iPhone 5 — The iPhone 5 is really nice. It feels great, looks great, has the best display I've seen at any size, runs noticeably faster, networks noticeably faster, is way thinner and lighter than any of its predecessors, takes better photos, and, in my six days of testing, gets totally decent iPhone-4S-level battery life.

More: Fortune

David Pogue / New York Times:

IPhone 5 Scores Well, With a Quibble — If you were taking a college course called iPhone 101, your professor might identify three factors that have made Apple's smartphone a mega-success. — First, design. A single company, known for its obsession over details, produces both the hardware and the software.

More: SocialTech Connection, eWeek, Business Insider, Guardian, LAPTOP Magazine, Techland, WebProNews, Global Nerdy and Forbes

Andrew Rassweiler / iSuppli:

iPhone 5 Carries $199 BOM, Virtual Teardown Reveals — This is an IHS iSuppli News Flash from information and analytics provider IHS (NYSE: IHS) covering the IHS iSuppli Teardown Analysis Service's virtual teardown of the iPhone 5. This virtual teardown information is based on an analysis …

More: PC Magazine, MacRumors, 9to5Mac, Forbes, Mashable!, iDownloadBlog.com, PhoneArena and Gotta Be Mobile

Arnold Kim / MacRumors:

First iPhone 5 Reviews: Thinner, Lighter, LTE “Stunningly Fast” — The embargo has just lifted on the first iPhone 5 reviews. Apple has provided some publications with an early review unit of the iPhone 5. We are collecting some of the more interesting points from each review, but you can click each title to read the full writeup.

More: TechCrunch, CNET, Washington Post, T3 News, everythingiCafe, ExtremeTech and The Appside

CNET:

iPhone 5 review: Finally, the iPhone we've always wanted

More: Bloomberg

Dan Moren / Macworld:

Review: Refined iOS 6 highlighted by stunning Maps overhaul — Every iOS release has its marquee feature, and with iOS 6 it's unquestionably Maps. The app has gotten a in-depth makeover, perhaps the most thorough ever to be applied to one of iOS's built-in applications.

More: TechCrunch, Ars Technica, GigaOM, Ars Technica, LAPTOP Magazine, BGR, ReadWriteWeb, Pogue's Posts, MacStories and MacStories

Kevin Smith / Business Insider:

Apple's New iPhone Software, iOS 6, Is Available Now! — Apple's new operating system for iPhones and iPads, iOS 6 is out now. — The update is rolling out slowly, probably to save Apple's servers from going down. So if you don't see it right away, keep checking.

More: BGR, ABCNEWS, The Next Web, Engadget, The Verge, AllThingsD, CNET, 9to5Mac, Gizmodo, MacRumors, Techie Buzz, iPhone BlogiPhone Blog, Touch Arcade and Absinthe Jailbreak

Anil Dash:

Who benefits from iOS6's crappy maps? — The classic criticism that thoughtless Apple haters use against the company is that it makes products that are pretty but dumb. Usually those criticisms are by people who don't understand the value of a comprehensible user experience …

More: Lumatic City Maps, BetaNews, Daring Fireball and Daring Fireball

Michael Degusta / the understatement:

Quantifying the Impending iOS 6 Maps Backlash

More: App Advice, Business Insider, TUAW and GigaOM

Danny Sullivan / Marketing Land:

YouTube Is Top App In iTunes Chart; Google Maps To Be Next?

More: LAPTOP Magazine, Mashable! and TechCrunch

Matthew Panzarino / The Next Web:

TNW's Complete Review: iOS 6 bets big on Maps and Siri

More: Geek Beat Technology News

Tom Warren / The Verge:

Windows Phone 8X by HTC has a 4.3-inch display and Beats, launches early November — HTC is unveiling its flagship Windows Phone 8 handset today, the Windows Phone 8X. The branding might sound Microsoft-like, but there's a good reason for that — the two companies have joined forces …

Brian X. Chen / NYT Bits:

HTC Unveils Phones Running Microsoft's Mobile Software

More: Windows Phone Blog, The Verge, TechCrunch, Inquirer, Engadget, ZDNet and The Official Microsoft Blog

Tom Warren / The Verge:

HTC rekindles its old Microsoft romance and bets on Windows Phone 8

More: CNET

Jessica Dolcourt / CNET:

Verizon gets back on board with Windows Phone

More: Engadget, The Verge and ZDNet

Gideon Spanier / London News:

Sir Jonathan Ive and entire Apple design team fly to London to collect prestigious D&AD awards — Apple has been named the best brand and the best design studio of the last 50 years at the D&AD Awards, one of the world's most prestigious prizes for advertising and design.

More: MacRumors, The Next Web, Techie Buzz, TUAW, iLounge, DailyTech, 9to5Mac, Softpedia News, PalmAddict and Macgasm

Dan DeSilva / 9to5Mac:

Apple Marketing SVP Phil Schiller confirms: Apple has no iPhone 5 dock in the works — We were recently forwarded an email where a reader reached out to Philip Schiller, Apple's Senior VP of Marketing, to ask if Apple was planning to release a dock for the new iPhone 5.

More: CNET, Ars Technica, iDownloadBlog.com, Mashable!, Pocketnow, Know Your Cell, WebProNews and everythingiCafe

Spencer E. Ante / Digits:

Former TechCrunch Editor Erick Schonfeld To Run DEMO — The technology conference wars just got a bit more dramatic. Former TechCrunch editor Erick Schonfeld is taking over the management of DEMO from VentureBeat editor in chief Matt Marshall, who is returning to the tech blog exclusively …

Tweets: @eldon and @rafat

Erick Schonfeld / TechStream:

Show Me Your Best DEMO

More: VentureBeat and Uncrunched

Claire Cain Miller / NYT Bits:

Google Updates Android Maps App as Apple Moves On — The fight over mobile maps is on. — Google plans to add new features to its Google Maps app for Android phones on Wednesday. Conveniently, it is the same day that Apple's latest mobile operating system is due to be released …

More: AllThingsD, TechCrunch, Google LatLong, The Verge, Neowin, iDownloadBlog.com and IntoMobile

Brad McCarty / The Next Web:

Apple releases OS X 10.8.2 with single sign on for Facebook, iMessage number merging and more — Hot on the heels of the release of iOS 6 (catch our full review here) Apple has just pushed out the update for OS X 10.8.2 which gives a huge set of new features.

More: BGR, TechCrunch, The Verge, 9to5Mac and MacStories

Christina Farr / VentureBeat:

Keynote: Marc Benioff wants to lead a ‘social revolution’ in the enterprise — SAN FRANCISCO -"Are you pumped up and ready to go? We are hear to excite you!" Marc Benioff addressed a screaming crowd at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts this morning, after an opening performance by rapper, MC Hammer.

More: TechCrunch and ZDNet

Chris Kanaracus / Computerworld:

Salesforce.com shows off upcoming Chatterbox, Identity services

More: AllThingsD, InfoWorld, InfoWorld, TechCrunch and fiercecontentmanagement.com

Brooke Crothers / CNET:

Intel sets Windows 8 tablet event with HP, Samsung, others — Chip giant will host a coming-out party for Windows 8 tablets using its latest system-on-a-chip. — Intel is going to kick off the season of the Windows 8 tablet by hosting an event next week attended by virtually all of the major PC players.

More: SiliconANGLE, VentureBeat, ZDNet, TechEye, The Verge and digitaltrends.com

Robin Wauters / The Next Web:

U.S. Internet giants, including Google, Facebook, Amazon and Yahoo, form new lobbying association — A group of 14 Internet juggernauts such as Facebook, Google, eBay, Amazon.com, Zynga, Yahoo and others have formed a brand new lobbying group in the United States called The Internet Association …

More: VentureBeat, eWeek, CNET, SiliconBeat, Engadget, The Internet Association, Bloomberg, Washington Post, Mashable! and Betabeat

Lee Chyen Yee / Reuters:

ZTE, Mozilla aim to roll out mobile operating system in coming months — (Reuters) - China's ZTE Corp, the world's fourth largest mobile phone handset vendor, is cooperating with Mozilla, maker of web browser Firefox, to introduce a new mobile operating system later this year or early next year, a ZTE spokesman said on Wednesday.

More: Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, Liliputing, Computerworld, Inquirer, The Next Web and The Verge

T-Mobile Newsroom:

John Legere Named as Chief Executive Officer of T-Mobile USA — Deutsche Telekom (OTCQX: DTEGY), one of Europe's leading telecommunications and information technology service companies and the parent company of T-Mobile USA, today announced that John Legere, a 32-year veteran of the U.S …

More: The Seattle Times, GigaOM, AllThingsD, GeekWire, VentureBeat, Washington Post, BGR, GadgeTell, TechCrunch, WebProNews, CNET and IntoMobile

Tricia Duryee / AllThingsD:

Groupon Promising Merchants “Lowest Cost” Payments Service (And It's Using an iPhone) — Groupon is rolling out a new payments service today, which it hopes will create new reasons for merchants to continue using the Chicago daily deal provider. — In an interview, Mihir Shah …

More: PandoDaily, Business Insider, Engadget, GigaOM, Screenwerk, Mashable!, WebProNews, Groublogpon and internetretailer.com

Mike Isaac / AllThingsD:

Here Come The Tweets: Gnip Offers Access to Full Twitter Archive (For a Price) — Twitter is largely credited with the rise of the “interest graph,” the name for the network of various and sundry things we as humans like to do, and the ways in which those interests connect us to one another.

More: GigaOM, TechCrunch, VentureBeat, Gnip Blog and The Next Web

Paul Spain / Tech Jungle:

Acer shares Windows 8 tablet pricing — Acer shares Windows 8 tablet pricing — Microsoft New Zealand have been showcasing a number of Windows 8 devices from Acer at events in recent weeks. The Acer Iconia Tab W510 and Iconia Tab W700 particularly stood out to me so I asked for more detail.

More: ZDNet

Barb Darrow / GigaOM:

OpenStack gets real — After a sometimes contentious incubation period, the OpenStack Foundation is now official, with a new 24-member board chaired by SUSE exec and Linux Foundation director Alan Clark; 5,600 members; and $10 million in backer's funding. Rackspace's Jonathan Bryce …

More: ZDNet, Computerworld, Data Center Knowledge, OStatic blogs, The Next Web and Wired

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