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September 17, 2013, 5:15 AM

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Bloomberg:
China Unicom Reservations for New IPhones Pass 100,000 Units  —  China Unicom (Hong Kong) Ltd. (762), the nation's second-largest wireless carrier, said online reservations for Apple Inc.'s new iPhone 5C and 5S have passed 100,000 units since the devices were unveiled last week.
Chris Welch / The Verge:
Apple quiet on iPhone 5c pre-orders as stock price slides  —  Apple is clearly positioning the upcoming iPhone 5c as its next smartphone for the masses.  The colored, plastic device is the first thing you see when visiting Apple.com or the company's iPhone page.
Liz Gannes / AllThingsD:
Mike Isaac / AllThingsD:
Twitter iOS Redesign Focuses on Streams, Media, TV and Photos  —  Twitter has lots of users.  It wants a lot more.  —  That is, in part, why it is planning a massive overhaul of its mobile apps, designed to make the service more appealing to mainstream users.
Tom Warren / The Verge:
Bing gets a new logo and modern design to take on Google  —  Microsoft's Bing search engine is getting a new look.  A year in the making, Bing is dropping its curly blue logo for a modern design that closely matches the rest of Microsoft's recently redesigned product branding.
Don Clark / Digits:
IBM Again Pledges $1 Billion to a Linux Effort  —  Linux continues to dominate data centers.  IBM wants more of that action to take place on its hardware.  —  The computer giant on Tuesday plans to pledge that it will spend $1 billion over four or five years on Linux and related open-source technologies …
Brian Roemmele / Quora:
What is Apple's new Secure Enclave and why is it important?  —  ·clave noun \en-klv, än-klv\ : A group that is set off from a larger population by its characteristic or behavior.  A Seven Year Apple Odyssey That Ended At The Enclave With the September 10th, 2013 announcement [1] …
More: Daring Fireball.  Tweets: @anildash
Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica:
Google and Samsung soar into list of top 10 Linux contributors  —  And Microsoft's days of major Linux contributions have come to a halt.  Google and Samsung have become increasingly frequent contributors to Linux, and each is now among the top 10 companies sponsoring the open source kernel …
Gregg Keizer / Computerworld:
Mozilla postpones Metro Firefox release to late January  —  Slower development pace leads to new launch forecast for touch-ready Windows 8 browser  —  Mozilla last week said that slower-than-expected progress on Firefox for Microsoft's Windows 8 “Modern” user interface (UI) …
More: ZDNet and WinBeta
Cade Metz / Wired:
Box.com Melds Google and Microsoft Into Document Engine of the Future  —  Aaron Levie, the 28-year-old CEO of Silicon Valley startup Box, happened to notice that ex-Microsoft kingpin Steven Sinofsky was returning to the States after a trip to Africa, so he tracked him down on Facebook.
More: Wired.  Thanks:@randall1976
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