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| 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.
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| 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 …
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Gizmodo, Lumatic City Maps, Daring Fireball, The Tech Block and BetaNews
| 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.
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| Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land: |
As Google Maps Disappears In iOS 6, Google Remains Cagey About Releasing Its Own App — The latest version of Apple's operating system for iPhones and iPads, iOS 6, is now out. As people upgrade, the Maps application previously powered by Google is now being replaced by Apple's own homegrown one.| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
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| 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 … | 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 ]| 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.
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| 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 …
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Nokia slams HTC's Windows Phone 8 announcement, calls it a ‘tactical re-branding’ — HTC has just unveiled two new Windows Phone 8 devices today, making them the signature phones for Microsoft. We asked Nokia about today's announcements and the company's head of marketing, Chris Weber …
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| Anand Lal Shimpi / AnandTech: |
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
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| Aaron Greenspan: |
The Lost Chapter — 2003: Cambridge, Massachusetts — In college, my computer's filing system was relatively straightforward: I had a folder for each year of school, and within each of those folders there were additional folders for each course I was taking.
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| 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.
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| 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 …
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| 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 …
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| 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.
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| Chris Kanaracus / Computerworld: |
| 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.
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| T.C. Sottek / The Verge: |
True to form, Samsung mocks iPhone 5 buyers in latest commercial — We caught Samsung preparing its latest salvo against Apple last week, and now the company's next big attack ad is finally here. Staying true to the theme of its earlier commercials, Samsung's new ad mocks those waiting early …
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| 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.
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| 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 … | Colleen Taylor / TechCrunch: |
Sources: Zynga Chief Security Officer Nils Puhlmann Has Resigned From Company — We're hearing that Nils Puhlmann, the cloud security expert who has worked as Zynga's Chief Security Officer since 2009, resigned from the company yesterday, according to several sources familiar with the matter.
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| Dan Burns / Reuters: |
Bill Gates remains richest American, Ellison No. 3; Zuckerberg's net worth drops by half — NEW YORK — The net worth of the richest Americans grew by 13 percent in the past year to $1.7 trillion, Forbes magazine said on Wednesday, and a familiar cast of characters once again populated the top …
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The Technology Chronicles, CNET, AllFacebook and WebProNews
| Terrence O'Brien / Engadget: |
MakerBot unveils Replicator 2, 2X and launches retail store, we go eyes-on — The Replicator may have just been pushed off this writer's Christmas list. (Note to self: send updated letter to Santa.) But, this isn't a loss for MakerBot Industries, because it's being replaced by the Replicator 2 …
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VentureBeat and TechCrunch
| 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.
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