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Microsoft unveils Surface 2, Surface Pro 2 and new accessories — Pre-order will begin at 8 a.m. EDT Sept. 24. — Microsoft Corp. on Monday announced that the Microsoft Surface family of tablets is growing. Two new Surface models — Surface 2 and Surface Pro 2 — along with an expanded portfolio …
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| Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge: |
Microsoft announces Surface Pro 2 with Haswell Core i5 processor, improved battery life, and two-position kickstand starting at $899 — Microsoft announces Surface Pro 2 with updated kickstand and Haswell processor — Microsoft has unveiled the Surface Pro 2, a new version of its flagship 10.6-inch Windows tablet.
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| Tim Stevens / CNET: |
Surface 2 declassified: How Microsoft made Surface into the tablet the world said it wanted — Microsoft's first Surface tablets left room for improvement. We sit down with Panos Panay and other members of the Surface team at Microsoft HQ to find out how the company's group of designers … | Dana Wollman / Engadget: |
Microsoft announces slightly thinner and lighter Surface 2 with Tegra 4 processor, improved battery life, and 1080p display starting at $449 — Microsoft announces the Surface 2, the follow-up to the original Surface RT; coming October 22nd for $449 — As promised, Microsoft has just revealed …
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BlackBerry Enters into Letter of Intent with Consortium led by Fairfax Financial — BlackBerry entitled to go-shop during due diligence period, subject to payment of a termination fee in the event alternative offer accepted — Waterloo, ON - BlackBerry Limited (NASDAQ:BBRY; TSX:BB) …
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| Bernd Leger / Localytics: |
iPhone 5s Outsells 5c by a Factor of 3.4x in the United States Opening Weekend — With Apple launching not just one but two new phones on Friday, there's been much speculation about which of the two phones would emerge as the early adopter favorite. After just a little more than 48 hours after launch … | Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch: |
Apple's iPhone 5s And iPhone 5c Sell 9M Units Over Opening Weekend, Topping 5M For iPhone 5 Last Year — Apple has just issued a press release revealing it sold 9M iPhones during the launch weekend of its iPhone 5c and iPhone 5s. As is typical for the company with new hardware …
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Exclusive: Flipboard Raises $50 Million More on $800 Million Valuation — According to sources close to the situation, Flipboard has raised $50 million in new funding, in a round led by Rizvi Traverse Management and Goldman Sachs. — The new funding puts the valuation of the Silicon Valley startup …
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| Sean Hollister / The Verge: |
Valve announces SteamOS, a living room operating system for games — Valve is done teasing. Today, Valve has revealed SteamOS, its own operating system based on Linux, designed for living room gaming PCs. It's the first step towards Valve's Steam Box, its vision for an open video game console.
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Tweets: @benkuchera, @stroughtonsmith, @notch, @botherer, @botherer, @comex and @vladsavov
| Anthony Ha / TechCrunch: |
Twitter Unveils ‘Comprehensive’ Partnership With CBS For Its In-Stream Video Program Amplify — Twitter and CBS just announced what Glenn Brown, who leads Twitter's Amplify program, called “probably one of the most comprehensive partnerships that you will see coming out of Amplify.”
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| Brian Klug / AnandTech: |
Moto X Update Dramatically Improves Camera Quality — In my Moto X review, I characterized camera performance and quality as very bimodal. In some scenes it could take great photos, in others it seemed to struggle and either produce images that looked somewhat washed out with weird white balance or aggressive noise reduction.
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| David Streitfeld / New York Times: |
New York's crackdown on fake online reviews leads to $350,000 in penalties for 19 companies — Give Yourself 5 Stars? Online, It Might Cost You — “I celebrate myself, and sing myself,” wrote Walt Whitman, America's great bard of self-promotion. As the world goes ever more digital …
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| Jonathan S. Geller / BGR: |
Exclusive: BlackBerry's newer low cost BlackBerry 10 smartphone slides in below Q5 on price, features — I don't think I have the words for this, but here we go... Thanks to a close source of ours, we have received pictures and information about one of BlackBerry's upcoming lower cost handsets, codenamed Kopi.
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| Kim-Mai Cutler / TechCrunch: |
AngelList Beefs Up Syndicates With New Backers Model, Lets Accelerators Raise Funding Too — With the loosening of the SEC's restrictions around general solicitation or public fundraising by startups, AngelList is launching a suite of products that could extend its influence (and its revenue model) in the tech ecosystem today.
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