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iOS 7 now available for iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch — iOS 7, the latest version of Apple's mobile operating system, is now available for download. The update can be installed on any compatible iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch by visiting your device's settings menu, choosing “general,” …
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| Matthew Panzarino / TechCrunch: |
Apple Reinvents Its Wheel With iOS 7, Takes Developers Along For The Ride — Today brings the release of the most dramatic iOS update that Apple has ever made. More people will experience this change in a shorter period of time than at any point in computing history.| David Pierce / The Verge: |
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Google announces Calico, a new company focused on health and well-being — MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA - September 18, 2013 - Google today announced Calico, a new company that will focus on health and well-being, in particular the challenge of aging and associated diseases.
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| TIME: |
Google vs. Death — In person, it can be a little hard to hear Larry Page. That's because he has nerve damage in both vocal cords: one was paralyzed about 14 years ago, the other left with limited movement after a cold last summer. This rare condition doesn't slow him down, though it has made his voice raspy and faint.
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| Dann Berg / The Verge: |
HP's new gesture-control laptop is the first with Leap Motion — Touchscreens are now fairly standard in Windows 8 notebooks, but HP's new Envy 17 Leap Motion SE has integrated yet another type of input: touchless. The Envy has Leap Motion's gesture recognition technology built directly into the palmrest …
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| Dana Wollman / Engadget: |
HP fills out its tablet lineup with four Android models and two Windows hybrids — When HP announced its first Android tablet, the Slate 7, we were surprised (and a little disappointed) to see the company attacking the low end of the market. Where were the high-end tablets, we wondered?
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| Will Connors / Wall Street Journal: |
BlackBerry to Slash Its Workforce by Up to 40% — TORONTO—BlackBerry Ltd. is preparing to make deep staff cuts by the end of the year via layoffs that could cost up to 40% of its employees their jobs, people familiar with the matter said. — The layoffs will cut across all departments …
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| Donny Halliwell / Inside BlackBerry: |
BBM Available for Android on September 21 and iPhone on September 22 — That's right BBM fans — the iconic mobile social network will begin rolling out for Android and iPhone customers around the world from September 21. Soon, you'll be able to easily connect with friends on different platforms.
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| Matt McGee / Marketing Land: |
Google Glass Not Expected To Reach Europe For Years — Google's slow rollout of Google Glass, not to mention one big technical challenge, means it'll be years before the device is available publicly in Europe. — That's what two reports are saying after Google hosted a show-and-tell about Glass in Brussels on Monday.
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| Douglas MacMillan / Tech Deals: |
Decade-Old StumbleUpon Finds Profits in the Mobile Era — Since StumbleUpon debuted more than a decade ago, the online bookmarking service has never had its breakout Facebook or Pinterest moment. The startup quietly chugged along with a loyal fan base and steady sales trickle.
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| Mike Isaac / AllThingsD: |
Ex-Facebookers' Mobile App, Shadow Puppet, Brings Voice Narrative to Photo Sharing — A picture, it has been said, is worth a thousand words. — But what if sometimes that isn't enough? — This occasional deficiency of sorts is the proposition behind Shadow Puppet … | Adi Robertson / The Verge: |
Despite Google's protests, the MPAA still says Search is a pirate's paradise — The MPAA isn't buying Google's argument that search isn't keeping pirate sites in business, and now it says it has the data to prove it. Today, the organization published a report analyzing how people got to a series of infringing sites.| Casey Newton / The Verge: |
Killer app: why do anonymous Q&A networks keep leading to suicides? — Ask.fm could have learned from Formspring's mistakes — but didn't — Teens bullied through an anonymous question-and-answer site. A spate of suicides among the young people who used it.
Tweets: @krelnik
| Bloomberg: |
Staples, RadioShack Yank Amazon Lockers from Stores — Staples Inc. (SPLS) and RadioShack Corp. (RSH) have removed Amazon.com Inc. (AMZN) lockers from their stores after the partnership failed to meet expectations. — The retailers began testing a system last year in which Amazon shoppers … | Josh Lowensohn / CNET: |
Apple quietly doubles cellular app download limit to 100MB — Users can now download over-the-air iTunes and App Store content up to 100MB in size, up from the previous 50MB limit. — Alongside iOS 7's arrival today, Apple has quietly doubled the size of apps users can download while away from Wi-Fi.
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MacRumors, AppleInsider, 9to5Mac, The Verge, TechCrunch, iPhone in Canada Blog, TUAW, Engadget, PhoneArena, Touch Arcade, MacNN and Gizmodo. Tweets: @applespotlight
| Greg Sandoval / The Verge: |
Dish wins again: federal judge in New York refuses to ban Hopper — Judges aren't buying the broadcasters' argument that Hopper ad-skipping tech violates their copyright — Dish and the company's Hopper DVR won another important round against the top broadcasters today.| Peter Kafka / AllThingsD: |
Machinima, YouTube's Giant Gamer Network, Lays Off 10 Percent of Staff — Machinima, one of the biggest networks on YouTube, is laying off 10 percent of its staff. — The game-centric video company said it will let go of 22 of its 206 employees “in connection with Machinima's growth plan.”| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Feedly, Now Powering 50 RSS-Based Applications, Opens API To All Developers — Feedly, a service making claims to the RSS reader throne Google abandoned by shutting down Google Reader, announced today that it's now opening up its API to all interested developers building RSS-based applications.| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
App Annie Scores $15 Million Series C From Sequoia & Others For Further Global Expansion — Mobile app analytics and market intelligence service App Annie has long since established itself as a major player among app developers, publishers, enterprise customers, and even VCs digging …
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