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| Jeff Benjamin / iDownloadBlog.com: |
The Verizon iPhone 5 is GSM unlocked, tested with AT&T — I can confirm that the Verizon iPhone 5 is indeed GSM unlocked. Even though I bought an iPhone 5 from Verizon under contract, I was able to cut down my AT&T Micro SIM, and use it in my Verizon iPhone 5 to pick up an AT&T signal.
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| Anand Lal Shimpi / AnandTech: |
Apple A6 Die Revealed: 3-core GPU, — Our good friends at UBM TechInsights sent over the first diffusion images of Apple's new A6 SoC. It's still too early to tell a lot but we have confirmation of a lot of things. The image above shows two 32-bit LPDDR2 memory channels and three GPU cores.
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| Arnold Kim / MacRumors: |
Black iPhone 5 Anodized Aluminum Susceptible to Scratching? — After the original announcement of the iPhone 5, one early concern amongst readers was how well the anodized aluminum back and edges of the black iPhone 5 would hold up over time. — One lengthy thread on our forums …
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| Nathan Ingraham / The Verge: |
Verizon finally rolling out Android 4.1.1 Jelly Bean for the Galaxy Nexus — Google announced Android 4.1 Jelly Bean back in June and released it for the unlocked GSM Galaxy Nexus a few weeks later, but Verizon's version has remained stuck on Ice Cream Sandwich.| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Facebook Turns Off Facial Recognition In The EU, Gets The All-Clear On Several Points From Ireland's Data Protection Commissioner On Its Review — The ongoing investigation into Facebook's transparency on user data and privacy by Ireland's Data Protection Commissioner has come to a positive conclusion for the social network.| Emil Protalinski / The Next Web: |
Facebook adds searches to the Activity Log, allows you to view and remove your search activity — Facebook today announced it has added searches to the Activity Log. As with most Facebook updates, the new addition will be rolling out over the next few weeks.| Robin Wauters / The Next Web: |
Good Karma! Facebook to launch social gifting app in the US in a matter of weeks — Around the same time it started listing its shares on NASDAQ, Facebook announced that it had acquired social gifting app maker Karma for a reported $80 million+, making it one of the company's largest purchases to date.| Liz Gannes / AllThingsD: |
OpenStreetMap Gets First Major Funding From Knight News Challenge — OpenStreetMap, the increasingly popular Wikipedia-like project to create a map of the world — it's now used by Apple, Foursquare and others — has gotten its first major funding grant. — Knight News Challenge … | Reuters: |
China's Alibaba to spin off team developing mobile operating system — (Reuters) - Alibaba Group, China's biggest e-commerce firm, will spin off the team developing its Aliyun mobile operating system, which Google Inc claims uses aspects of its own mobile operating system Android.
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| Arnold Kim / MacRumors: |
iPhone 5 Now on Sale in the U.S. — The iPhone 5 just launched in the U.S. along the east coast. Fortune's Philip Elmer-Dewitt is at the 5th Avenue Store and notes that the line is longer than last year's iPhone 4S line: … The first day pre-orders for the iPhone 5 doubled last year's iPhone 4S launch.| Liz Gannes / AllThingsD: |
Google Welcomes Vince Vaughn and Owen Wilson's “The Internship” on Campus — You wouldn't know that relations between Google and Hollywood are testy by the week they've had together. — Google has taken in movie stars Owen Wilson and Vince Vaughn with open arms, lending its campus as the set for their upcoming film “The Internship.”| Bloomberg: |
Apple Loses German Court Ruling Against Samsung in Patent Suit — The 4G Price War Brewing Over the IPhone 5 — Apple Inc. (AAPL) lost a court ruling against Samsung Electronics Co. (005930) in Germany regarding claims the South Korean company's Galaxy devices infringed patents on the iPhone maker's touch-screen technology.| John Herrman / BuzzFeed: |
Facebook Pulling Back On Frictionless Sharing Apps — On Thursday, Facebook's Manager of Media Partnerships, Andy Mitchell, told a panel of journalists and fellow Facebookers that the site was moving away from “passive sharing,” referring to apps released by the Washington Post … | Brad Linder / Liliputing: |
Asus to unveil the Padfone 2 in October — The Asus Padfone hasn't exactly taken the world by storm since Asus first introduced the smartphone that can transform into a tablet, notebook, or desktop with liberal use of docking stations. In fact, the Padfone has yet to officially go on sale in the US.
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| Megan Garber / The Atlantic Online: |
Google News at 10: How the Algorithm Won Over the News Industry — Google's “billions of clicks” are only half of the story. — In April of 2010, Eric Schmidt delivered the keynote address at the conference of the American Society of News Editors in Washington, D.C. During the talk … | Peter Bright / Ars Technica: |
W3C announces plan to deliver HTML 5 by 2014, HTML 5.1 in 2016 — The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), the group that manages development of the main specifications used by the Web, has proposed a new plan that would see the HTML 5 spec positioned as a Recommendation—which in W3C's lingo represents …
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| Anthony Ha / TechCrunch: |
YouTube Testing Feature To Quiz You While You're Watching A Video — YouTube videos may soon be getting a little more interactive. There's now a page on the YouTube website describing a feature called “Video Questions Editor Beta,” which was spotted by the Dutch tech site WebSonic.nl.| Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica: |
LightSquared redux: Lawmakers admit lack of expertise, but blame FCC — US Rep Cliff Stearns (R-FL) is mad at the FCC for halting LightSquared's plan to build a cellular network. — Cliff Stearns — The saga of LightSquared and its failed plan to build a nationwide LTE network …
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