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The iPhone 5s Review — For much of the iPhone's life Apple has enjoyed a first-mover advantage. At the launch of the first iPhone, Steve Jobs expected the device and OS would give it a multi-year head start over the competition. Indeed that's how the market played out.| John Gruber / Daring Fireball: |
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iPhone 5s is “the best smartphone on the market” — A New Touch for iPhone — Apple brings out a new top-of-the-line iPhone model every year, but a redesign only every other year. In the intervening cycles, the company tends to keep the phone's exterior the same, but change the innards and the software.| David Pogue / New York Times: |
In Arrival of 2 iPhones, 3 Lessons — We can draw three lessons from the arrival of Apple's two new iPhone models, the 5C and 5S. — LESSON 1 Apple may have set its own bar for innovation too high. — Year after year, Steve Jobs used to blow our minds with products we didn't know we wanted.| Myriam Joire / Engadget: |
iPhone 5s review — Forward-thinking. It's ironic that Apple's marketing slogan for the iPhone 5s invites us to look ahead to the future when, from the outside, the device looks like a carbon copy of last year's model, the iPhone 5. But just like any other odd-year iPhone — the “S” … | Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac: |
Apple launches iTunes 11.1 with iTunes Radio, Genius Shuffle, Podcast Stations, iOS 7 support — In the hours before iOS 7 arrives for the iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch, Apple has released iTunes 11.1 with several major new features. The download is available from Apple's website.| Nick Heer / Pixel Envy: |
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Yahoo app for iOS 7: Now with breaking news, “My Saves,” and cinemagraphs — by Fernando Delgado, Senior Director of Product Management, Mobile and Emerging Products — The Yahoo app is one of our daily experiences — we present news that's personalized just for you.| Peter Kafka / AllThingsD: |
No Internet? No Problem: YouTube Getting Ready to Let You Watch Videos Offline, on Your Phone. — YouTube streams more than six billion hours of video a month. Soon it will let people watch some of those videos even if they're not connected to the Web. — Next month, Google's video site … | CNET: |
iPhone 5C review: A cheaper iPhone that doesn't cut corners — The iPhone 5C is kinda, sorta, technically a new product — colorful, cute, with a variety of interchangeable color cases much like the recently released Motorola Moto X — but under the hood it's really an iPhone 5 with a new paint job … | Anand Lal Shimpi / AnandTech: |
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Hulu signs content deal to add 144 titles from BBC — Hulu Lines Up New Video Content — After Months in Limbo, Streaming Site to Add 144 Titles From the BBC — Hulu LLC is once again making significant investments in content, after months in limbo on the auction block.| Joseph Volpe / Engadget: |
BlackBerry Z30 official: 5-inch Super AMOLED display, 1.7GHz Snapdragon S4 Pro, 2,880mAh battery and BB 10.2 — If you were paying attention to the late summer leaks, then the BlackBerry above won't strike you as a surprise. That's because it's the newly announced BlackBerry Z30 … | Richard Lawler / Engadget: |
Tesla's ‘autopilot’ car project targets 90 percent of miles driven, three years from now — Tesla CEO Elon Musk has discussed the company's ambitions to build a self-driving car on more than one occasion, and now he's revealed a bit more about its plans. After reports today about a job listing … | Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Groupon Buys SideTour To Add Local, Bespoke Activities To Its GrouponLive Events Business — A little over a week after Groupon announced the acquisition of hotel booking service Blink, today comes one more purchase that moves Groupon further yet out of the realm of daily deals.| Don Jeffrey / Bloomberg: |
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Morgan Stanley: Apple iPhone sales up 28% this quarter — AlphaWise survey data through Sept. 15 catches early interest in iPhones 5C and 5S. — FORTUNE — Apple (AAPL) had only just begun taking iPhone 5C pre-orders Sunday when Morgan Stanley's AlphaWise Smartphone Tracker closed the books on Q3 2013 … | Casey Newton / The Verge: |
Fork in the road: Cyanogen raises $7 million to build a better version of Android — The rebel ROM builder grows up — and starts making hardware plans — Cyanogen, makers of popular software based on Android that extends the abilities of smartphones, is making a bid for the mainstream.| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Google Expands Chrome Data Compression Feature On iOS — Google has begun expanding access to its Chrome data compression feature to more users, specifically those on iOS devices who have the company's mobile browser app installed. The feature's existence was announced some time ago … | Arik Hesseldahl / AllThingsD: |
Videoconferencing Startup Blue Jeans Network Raises $50 Million — Last summer, I did a videoconference that was notable for all the different ways that the people involved with it sought to connect. — I was at home in my apartment in New York, using Skype.| Hayley Tsukayama / Washington Post: |
White House petitions FCC to require all carriers to unlock all mobile devices — Obama administration urges FCC to require carriers to unlock mobile devices — Several months after calling for legislation to unlock cellphones, the White House filed a petition with the Federal Communications Commission … | Janko Roettgers / GigaOM: |
Pandora welcomes iTunes Radio with new iOS apps, tweaked branding — Sometimes timing is everything: Pandora is releasing new iOS apps as well as a new logo and tweaked branding on the same day that Apple is will release iOS 7 as well as its own internet radio product dubbed iTunes Radio.| Alex Colon / GigaOM: |
Virgin Mobile's YouTube channel uses ‘BlinkWashing’ to change the ad whenever you blink — Virgin Mobile's YouTube page has one of the coolest things I've seen online in some time. It is using a webcam technology it calls “BlinkWashing” to track your eye movements and change the ad whenever you blink.| Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac: |
Apple takes redesigned iCloud.com with iOS 7-like design out of beta — Ahead of tomorrow's launch of iOS 7, Apple has taken the wraps off of a brand-new iCloud website. The new website went into beta earlier this year, and it is completely redesigned to match the simpler … | Bloomberg: |
Microsoft to Develop More TV Programs as It Readies Xbox One — Microsoft Corp. (MSFT) said it will expand its TV programming beyond the show based on its best-selling “Halo” game as it tries to position the new Xbox One console as a portal for games, videos and music.| Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac: |
iPhone 5s to be constrained at launch as Apple preps app to check availability — While supply for Apple's iPhone 5c has been strong enough to deter complete sell-outs from carrier stores and Apple's own online store, sources say that supplies of the higher-end iPhone 5s will be constrained at launch (as we expected).| Jonathan S. Geller / BGR: |
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