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September 25, 2013, 10:00 AM
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John Biggs / TechCrunch:
Amazon Announces The Kindle HDX 7- And 8.9-Inch Tablets With High-Res Screens, 2GHz Processors  —  Amazon has upped the Fire tablet ante with two new HDX models in 7- and 8.9-inch sizes with brand-new, high-resolution screens and running an updated Snapdragon 800 quad-core processor at 2GHz.
Brad Stone / Businessweek:
Amazon's Jeff Bezos Talks New Kindles and What He's Doing Next  —  For the last two years, Amazon.com (AMZN) has scraped and clawed its way to a relatively minor position in the exploding tablet market.  Its Kindle Fire tablets, which plug directly into Amazon's own media and e-commerce services …
More: ABC News, CNBC and Mashable
Tweets: @bw and @inafried
Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:
Amazon Tries Breaking From the Streaming-Video Pack With Offline Viewing for New Kindles  —  Amazon has been spending a lot of time and money trying to catch up to Netflix in the subscription-video race.  So far, not much luck: Many more people seem to be watching video via Reed Hastings's service.
Miyoung Kim / Reuters:
Samsung Electronics to launch smartphone with curved display in October  —  (Reuters) - Samsung Electronics Co Ltd said it will introduce a smartphone with a curved display in October, as the world's top handset maker seeks to set the pace of hardware innovation and maintain its supremacy in a fiercely competitive business.
Brad Reed / BGR:
Elop's contract reportedly gave him a big incentive to tank Nokia's stock, sell company
Dan Goodin / Ars Technica:
Bypassing TouchID was “no challenge at all,” hacker tells Ars  —  Ars expressed surprise on Monday that a hacker was able to bypass fingerprint protection less than 48 hours after its debut in Apple's newest iPhone, but not everyone felt the same way.  The hack, carried out by well-known …
Marc Rogers / The Official Lookout Blog:
Why I Hacked Apple's TouchID, And Still Think It Is Awesome.
Venu Satuluri / Twitter:
Twitter recommends accounts and tweets in notifications based on @MagicRecs algorithms  —  Stay in the know  —  We've started rolling out a new notification that recommends interesting accounts and Tweets for you.  —  If you're like me, you occasionally feel like you're missing …
Vlad Savov / The Verge:
Samsung counters iPhone 5S with a golden Galaxy S4  —  Two weeks after Apple's September 10th reveal of a champagne-colored iPhone, Samsung is launching its own golden phone in the shape of a new Gold Edition Galaxy S4.  There are two options, Gold Pink or Gold Brown, which Samsung …
Harry McCracken / TIME:
The Myth of Steve Jobs' Constant Breakthroughs  —  Last Friday, Apple's iPhone 5s and iPhone 5c went on sale.  The company sold nine million of them in the first weekend, breaking the five-million-phone record it set last year with the iPhone 5.  I sort of thought that was clearly good news for Apple and the iPhone.
More: ParisLemon.  Tweets: @scottdanthony, @groucho and @time
Jason Del Rey / AllThingsD:
Google Is Going to Pay You Back for Your Unused Google Offers  —  Google has started sending out emails this week notifying its customers that it will soon start refunding their unused Google Offers.  —  The refunds signal a shift in how the Google Offers local deals platform works, as outlined in a July blog post.
More: Engadget
jessica lessin:
Exclusive: Next for Nest: A Smoke Detector  —  Smart thermostat-maker Nest Labs has been developing a smoke detector that could go on sale as soon as later this year, we have learned from people close to the startup.  —  Why are we telling you about a potential new smoke detector?  Good question.
Ben Woods / The Next Web:
Roku launches new TV streaming boxes and brings Roku 3 to the UK and Ireland  —  Roku, makers of the streaming TV, film, music and gaming boxes, has today launched a new family of Roku devices and is bringing its top-of-the-line Roku 3 unit which has been available in the US since earlier in the year to the UK and Ireland.
Alex Wilhelm / TechCrunch:
Senators Demand Answers On NSA Snooping - By The End Of 2014  —  This week nine members of the Senate Judiciary Committee sent a letter to the inspector general of the Intelligence Community, I. Charles McCullough III, asking him to conduct a full review of U.S. intelligence operations, and to “make public the findings.”
Arik Hesseldahl / AllThingsD:
Many Questions for Michael Dell on Going Private, and What's Next  —  Michael Dell is feeling aggressive.  Fresh off the vote by which shareholders approved his plan to take the company that bears his name private in a $25 billion transaction, Dell the man is ready to get down to the business …
Matthew Panzarino / TechCrunch:
AppleCare+ Now Covers Travelers' iPhones, iPads, iPods In Any Country Where It's Offered  —  Apple made a change to its AppleCare+ plans recently, around the time that the new iPhones were announced.  It now allows you to get your iPhone, iPad, or iPods serviced in any country that offers AppleCare+, not just your home locale.

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Matthew Keys / TheDesk.net:
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