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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.

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Brian Heater / Engadget:

Amazon refreshes Kindle Fire HD with new body, $139 price tag — No surprise, of course, that the Kindle Fire HDX was the thing Amazon really wanted to shout about from the Seattle mountaintops today. But Jeff Bezos had another little surprise up his impeccably tailored sleeves …

More: ZDNet and The Verge

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.

Brad Stone / Businessweek:

Amazon's Jeff Bezos Talks New Kindles and What He's Doing Next

More: Mashable. Tweets: @inafried

Dan Seifert / The Verge:

Amazon launches Mayday, a virtual Genius Bar for the Kindle Fire HDX

More: Gizmodo and Amazon.com. Tweets: @backlon

Brian Heater / Engadget:

Amazon's Fire OS 3.0 ‘Mojito’ arrives just in time for those new tablets

More: Amazon.com

Tero Kuittinen / BGR:

Finnish media: Nokia pleads with Elop to accept smaller bonus - Elop claims he needs full $25M for his divorce — According to the early Wednesday morning edition of Finland's biggest newspaper Helsingin Sanomat, Nokia has pleaded with former CEO Stephen Elop to accept a smaller bonus in order …

More: VentureBeat. Tweets: @sameer_singh17

Brad Reed / BGR:

Elop's contract reportedly gave him a big incentive to tank Nokia's stock, sell company — Wild-eyed believers in the Grand Elop Conspiracy might feel a little less crazy this morning. Frequent BGR contributor Tero Kuittinen, writing over at Forbes, points us to some reports …

More: Forbes, The Verge, SlashGear, Windows Phone Central, My Nokia Blog, Ars Technica, TechnoBuffalo and GigaOM

Tweets: @om, @chartier and @mattrosoff

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 …

More: TechHive, SlashGear, TechCrunch, Engadget, Los Angeles Times, VentureBeat, ReadWrite, Android Community, BuzzFeed, The Verge, Marketing Land, The Next Web, Mashable, Electronista, iPhone in Canada Blog and AllThingsD

Tweets: @panzer and @owenthomas

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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.

More: AllThingsD, Forbes, TechCrunch, Wired, Pocket-lint, The Verge, iMore, Engadget, AppleInsider, MacRumors, TechnoBuffalo, Gizmodo, GigaOM and iPhone in Canada Blog

Tweets: @jessicalessin and @nitashatiku

Marc Rogers / The Official Lookout Blog:

Why I Hacked Apple's TouchID, And Still Think It Is Awesome. — By now, the news is out —TouchID was hacked. In truth, none of us really expected otherwise. Fingerprint biometrics use a security credential that gets left behind everywhere you go on everything you touch.

More: MacRumors, Daring Fireball, Gartner, iMore, iPhone in Canada Blog, TechnoBuffalo, iDownloadBlog.com, Macworld, Scientific American and Security Watch

Tweets: @amokranechentir, @cstross, @digiphile and @dujkan

Dan Goodin / Ars Technica:

Bypassing TouchID was “no challenge at all,” hacker tells Ars

More: ZDNet

Arik Hesseldahl / AllThingsD:

Teardown Shows iPhone 5S Costs at Least $199 to Build, $173 for the 5C — New iPhones always gladden the hearts of the analysts at the research firm IHS, because it means it's time to tear the phones apart. — This year's iPhone teardown project was twice as much fun …

More: iMore, Examiner, AppleInsider, Geek.com, Redmond Pie, IntoMobile, Yahoo! News, TechSpot, eWeek, TechnoBuffalo, Cult of Mac, MacRumors, App Advice, SlashGear, 9to5Mac, Inquirer, MacNN, iPhone in Canada Blog and TUAW

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.

More: The Verge, Gizmodo, CNET, The Next Web, Engadget, SlashGear and english.yonhapnews.co.kr

Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac:

Apple launches faster iMacs with 802.11ac WiFi, Pro graphics, improved Flash — Apple has launched an updated line of iMacs with faster processors, improved graphics, faster 802.11ac WiFi connectivity, and improved Flash storage. The new iMacs are now available from Apple's online store.

Kristin Burnham / InformationWeek:

Yahoo Recycled Emails: Users Find Security Surprises — When Tom Jenkins, an IT security professional, learned in June that Yahoo planned to free up abandoned account IDs, he jumped on the opportunity to request a nickname he's had since high school. He was thrilled when Yahoo emailed him in August to say the ID was available.

More: The Verge, WebProNews and Gotta Be Mobile

Tweets: @hannahkuchler and @colinsteele

Matthew Panzarino / TechCrunch:

Yahoo Will Offer ‘Not My Email’ Button To Report Mistaken Deliveries Due To Username Recycling

More: The Verge. Tweets: @panzer

Chris Kanaracus / InfoWorld:

Oracle takes the fight to Amazon, Salesforce.com with new cloud services — Ten new cloud services plus a marketplace are being added to Oracle's arsenal — Oracle is offering a series of new services that position it as a one-stop shop for all things cloud and directly target the likes of Amazon Web Services and Salesforce.com.

More: ZDNet, Reuters, AllThingsD, Oracle, VentureBeat, SiliconANGLE, Inquirer, CITEworld, eWeek, eWeek and The Register

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.

More: 9to5Mac, AppleInsider, MacRumors, SlashGear, App Advice, iPhone Hacks and Engadget

Kara Swisher / AllThingsD:

Ahead of July Filing, Twitter IPO Designed as “Less Anti-Facebook Than Anti-Old-Twitter” — Did you know Twitter actually filed its IPO documents in mid-July? — Or that an investment firm run by Suhail Rizvi will be one of the bigger shareholders listed when its regulatory documents go public?

Tweets: @peterlauria3

CNBC:

Twitter IPO home still in flux, no decision on NYSE: Sources

More: Reuters, ValueWalk, NBC Bay Area and Bloomberg

Janko Roettgers / GigaOM:

With its new cloud player, RealNetworks is trying the next big turnaround — “When I came back, I said: show me the iOS version of RealPlayer.” — RealNetworks founder Rob Glaser still vividly remembers talking to his team after he returned to the company as CEO last summer …

More: NYT Bits, TechCrunch, AllThingsD, Engadget, San Francisco Chronicle, CNET, LAPTOP Magazine, Gizmodo, VentureBeat, GeekWire, TechHive, TechCrunch, Reuters and bizjournals

Gregg Keizer / Computerworld:

Google yanks sketchy iMessage clone for Android from app store — People who probed the app's innards suspected it was harvesting Apple ID credentials — An app that purportedly spoofed a Mac so that Android smartphone and tablet owners could send and receive text-like messages through …

More: The Verge, Android Beat, TechCrunch, TechSpot, iPhone Hacks, CNET, iPhone in Canada Blog, Android and Me and AppleInsider

Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch:

YouTube Announces A New Commenting System, Powered By Google+, With Threaded, Ranked And Private Conversations — YouTube today announced a new commenting system that will be powered by Google+. The system, which is launching on channel discussion tabs this week before rolling out to all videos …

More: YouTube Blog, The Verge, ReadWrite, BetaNews, AllThingsD, Google Operating System, WebProNews, Gizmodo, 9to5Google, The Next Web, TechnoBuffalo, PC Magazine, Engadget, Google Plus Daily, VentureBeat, SlashGear and Marketing Land. See also Mediagazer

Bernd Leger / Localytics:

China Leads the Pack in Preference For iPhone 5s Over 5c — After some pretty extensive analysis of the iPhone 5s versus 5c within the first 48 hours after launch that we reported yesterday, we wanted to drill a bit further into the global distribution of the new iPhones looking at new data after 72 hours post launch.

More: Internet2Go, TUAW, App Advice, 9to5Mac, Quartz and iClarified

Anthony Ha / TechCrunch:

In Its First Acquisition, StumbleUpon Buys Video Recommendation Startup 5by — Content discovery service StumbleUpon is announcing that it has acquired 5by, a video startup based in Montreal. — The financial terms of the deal aren't being disclosed, but the companies say the entire six-person 5by team …

More: CNET, AllThingsD, BetaKit, Mashable and Inc.com

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