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Exclusive: Amazon Wants To Offer Its Smartphone for Free. Who Will Follow? — Which technology giant will be the first to offer a free smartphone? Amazon.com Inc. is making a play. — In a previously unreported move, the online retailer and Kindle maker is considering introducing …
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| Peter Kafka / AllThingsD: |
Apple Won't Introduce New Apple TV Box Next Week, Will Upgrade Software — There are very, very good odds you're going to hear about new iPhones at Apple's event next Tuesday. — But if you're looking for a new Apple TV, you're going to be disappointed. — Despite speculation …
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| Craig Timberg / Washington Post: |
Google tells Washington Post it's stepping up encryption rollout between data centers — Google encrypts data amid backlash against NSA spying — Google is racing to encrypt the torrents of information that flow among its data centers around the world, in a bid to thwart snooping by the NSA …
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| Gabe Rivera / Techmeme News: |
Techmeme is now writing its own headlines — Right now there's a headline on Techmeme written by our news editors. Our more familiar readers know why this is noteworthy: from the time we launched in 2005 until yesterday, our content consisted entirely of quotes.
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Mapping Silicon Valley's Gentrification Problem Through Corporate Shuttle Routes — Where's the densest place in the Bay Area, the place where the largest numbers of people can use the smallest numbers of buses? By this logic it's not the hipsters that have chosen to gentrify San Francisco …
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Apple Plans to Ship Less-Expensive iPhone to China Mobile — Move Signals a Long-Awaited Deal Is In Place — Apple Inc. is preparing to ship iPhones to China Mobile Ltd., people familiar with the matter say, an indication that a long-awaited deal between the two companies is in place.
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| Paul Thurrott / SuperSite for Windows: |
Microsoft Prepping a Surface Docking Station — Yes, we're finally getting the desktop dock we wanted — Another day, another report about next-generation Surface hardware from Neowin. And this time around we get news about one of the more eagerly-awaited Surface accessories.
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| Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac: |
Apple's OS X Mavericks release planned for end of October — Apple plans to release its next Mac operating system, OS X 10.9 Mavericks, at the end of October, according to sources with knowledge of the launch plans. — This comes despite claims and speculation that Apple will release OS X Mavericks … | Laura Hazard Owen / GigaOM: |
Judge lays down Apple's punishment in ebooks case. It's largely in line with what the feds wanted — After weeks of back-and-forth between the Department of Justice and Apple, the federal judge overseeing the ebooks antitrust case issued an injunction against Apple in a filing released Friday.
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Pinterest And Path To Battle Over Letter “P” Logo Trademark — Are the Path and Pinterest logos too similar? Path apparently thinks so. The mobile messaging startup is currently working to prevent Pinterest from acquiring the trademark to the letter “P” as a stylized design (like the one shown here, and below).| Cyrus Farivar / Ars Technica: |
California poised to implement first electronic license plates — Advocates say that electronic license plates can be used to display messages, like EXPIRED. — Compliance Innovations — This week, the California State Senate approved a bill that would create the nation's first electronic license plate.| Paul Graham / Y Combinator: |
YC Will Now Fund Nonprofits Too — We just opened applications for the winter 2014 Y Combinator batch, and we're happy to announce that there's something new this time: an application form for nonprofits. We're going to start including nonprofits in every YC batch. We'd been thinking about this for a while.
| Kevin Fitchard / GigaOM: |
Thanks to a new chip, the Galaxy Note 3′s huge screen won't kill its battery — The charge on the Galaxy Note 3 is going to last a lot longer than you think - and not just because of the slightly larger battery Samsung is shipping with the handset. Buried within the radio guts … | Aaron Souppouris / The Verge: |
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