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Apple's iPhone trade-in program to add consumer choice — Apple is poised to start offering an in-store trade-in program, but consumers already have plenty of options to turn their old iPhone into cash—enough, in some cases, to get their next one for free.
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Apple aims for convenience over value as competing iPhone trade-in firms continue to offer better deals — Cook at Palo Alto Apple Store (Getty Images) — Following our reports detailing the new service, Apple today officially kicked off its new Apple Store iPhone trade-in program … | Brad Smith / TechNet Blogs: |
Standing Together for Greater Transparency — General Counsel & Executive Vice President, Legal & Corporate Affairs, Microsoft — To followers of technology issues, there are many days when Microsoft and Google stand apart. But today our two companies stand together.
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Twitter General Counsel Alexander Macgillivray to Leave Company — Twitter's free speech defender is leaving the nest. — Alexander Macgillivray, Twitter's general counsel and chief navigator of its thorny digital First Amendment issues, is departing the company.
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See also Mediagazer| Brian Fung / The Switch: |
Obama's intelligence czar vows to release his own transparency report — Director of National Intelligence James Clapper will begin releasing annual reports about the National Security Agency's surveillance activity in the coming months, a spokesperson for the Office of the Director of National Intelligence has confirmed.
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Scoop: Google acquired WIMM Labs to bolster its own smartwatch plans — Watch out, Samsung: Google has some smartwatch development projects of its own, and it quietly snapped up Los Altos, Calif.-based WIMM Labs last year to kickstart these efforts. WIMM Labs not only gives Google the talent …
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| Neil Hughes / AppleInsider: |
Apple blocking support personnel vacations from Sept. 15-28 for launch of new iPhones & iOS 7 — AppleCare employees have been restricted from taking time off for a two-week period, from Sept. 15 through 28 — a span during which Apple is expected to launch its new iPhone lineup, as well as the revamped iOS 7 mobile operating system.
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| Kaylene Hong / The Next Web: |
Forget 1TB, China's Tencent is giving away 10TB worth of free cloud storage — Yesterday we reported that Chinese tech giants Baidu and Qihoo 360 are currently courting users with 1TB of free space, putting the free space given by Dropbox, Box and Microsoft to shame.| Kevin Fitchard / GigaOM: |
Nokia unveils its connected car platform: Here Auto — After years of being the auto industry's mapmaker, Nokia on Friday announced its intention to become a much bigger technological force in the vehicle. Nokia took the wraps off of Here Auto, an embedded infotainment and connected car system …
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| Bloomberg: |
Carl Icahn Increases Nuance Stake, May Seek Board Seat — Billionaire investor Carl Icahn boosted his stake in Nuance Communications Inc. (NUAN) and may seek to put a representative on the board of the speech-recognition software maker. — Funds controlled by Icahn, including Icahn Partners LP …
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New faces of Android: the inside story of Google's management shuffle — With Andy Rubin and Hugo Barra out, who's next up to lead Google's biggest platform? — One big loss at the world's most popular smartphone platform has been followed by another. Five months after Android founder Andy Rubin left … | Kevin C. Tofel / GigaOM: |
More Galaxy Gear details leak: 10 hour battery life, two storage options — We've already heard most of the details on Samsung's smartwatch, the Galaxy Gear, but there's still room (and time) for some more information. The latest leaks from AmongTech confirm what our sources have told us but with the addition of a few more tidibts.
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