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September 11, 2013, 4:40 AM

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Apple:
Apple Announces iPhone 5s—The Most Forward-Thinking Smartphone in the World  —  iPhone 5s Features 64-bit A7 chip, All-New 8 Megapixel iSight Camera with True Tone Flash & Introduces Touch ID Fingerprint Sensor  —  Apple® today announced iPhone® 5s, the most forward-thinking iPhone yet …
Marcus Wohlsen / Wired:
Investors unimpressed with incremental iPhone improvements as Apple's stock falls 2.28%  —  Apple's Reputation for Innovation Is Now Its Greatest Liability  —  A year ago, Apple seemed unstoppable.  Its share price topped $700.  Its cash horde eclipsed the GDP of many countries.
Brian Heater / Engadget:
iPhone 5s: 64-bit A7 processor, fingerprint authentication, improved camera, gold/silver/gray, from $199  —  Apple introduces the iPhone 5S, launching September 20th starting at $199  —  Ladies and gentleman, the moment you've all been waiting for.  As expected, this afternoon's day-brightening news …
Ina Fried / AllThingsD:
iPhone Developers Won't Get Fingerprint-Reader Authentication Option — For Now, Anyway  —  Perhaps the most surprising thing about the fingerprint reader on the iPhone 5s is the fact that it can only be used to do two things — unlock the phone and verify iTunes purchases.
John Gruber / Daring Fireball:
Thoughts and Observations on Today's iPhone 5C and 5S Introduction  —  I got this one wrong.  —  I fixed my thinking by this week, but as of a month ago, I had it wrong when I wrote “The Case for a New Lower-Cost iPhone”.  —  Here's the thing.  The iPhone 5C has nothing to do with price.
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Tom Warren / The Verge:
Violet Blue / ZDNet:
No warrant, no problem: US gov't uses travel alerts for warrantless electronics search  —  Summary: The ACLU has released documents showing how the US government uses border searches to take citizens' electronics and rifle through private data to its heart's content.  —  Violet Blue
Wall Street Journal:
Russell Brandom / The Verge:
Aaron Souppouris / The Verge:
iOS 7: what's changed since June?  —  What we're getting next week isn't exactly what we saw at WWDC  —  Apple's June preview of a huge redesign for iOS — its first since launching in 2007 — drew a fair amount of criticism.  Designers took to sites like Dribbble and Behance to show off their …
John Paczkowski / AllThingsD:
Alexei Oreskovic / Reuters:
Motorola now shipping 100,000 Moto X phones weekly from Texas  —  (Reuters) - Motorola is shipping 100,000 of its new Moto X phones weekly from a manufacturing facility near Dallas, a modest start for a made-in-the-USA phone that marks the most significant effort to revive the iconic company after Google Inc bought it last year.
Wall Street Journal:
China Licenses Apple's iPhone With China Mobile's Wireless Standard  —  BEIJING—A Chinese regulator has given the final license necessary for Apple Inc.'s iPhone to run on China Mobile Ltd.'s mobile network, another indication China's largest carrier will soon be releasing an iPhone for the first time.
Jonathan Stempel / Reuters:
Google loses appeal in Street View privacy case  —  (Reuters) - A federal appeals court rejected Google Inc's bid to dismiss a lawsuit accusing it of violating federal wiretap law when its accidentally collected emails and other personal data while building its popular Street View program.

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