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T-Mobile US will no longer stock BlackBerry in stores — (Reuters) - T-Mobile US Inc, the No. 4 U.S. wireless service provider, plans to stop carrying BlackBerry Ltd smartphones in its stores and instead ship the devices directly, according to an executive for the company.| Sam Grobart / Businessweek: |
Apple's Jonathan Ive and Craig Federighi: The Complete Interview — Perhaps you've already read our cover story on Apple and its three wise men: Chief Executive Tim Cook, chief designer Jonathan Ive, and software head Craig Federighi. Perhaps you read the outtakes from those interviews …
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Nest Labs To Open Up Its Learning Thermostat To Developers — The Nest Learning Thermostat is about to get a little smarter (and perhaps the forthcoming Protect). Speaking at CEDIA Expo 2013, Tony Fadell, the company's co-founder and CEO, just detailed an API that's aimed at developers looking …
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NSA chief pleads for public's help amid push for spying restrictions — Keith Alexander, the director of the National Security Agency, called Wednesday on the public to help defend his agency's powers as Congress mulls restrictions aimed at protecting privacy. — “We need your help.
| Ian Austen / New York Times: |
BlackBerry Cancels Call to Discuss Its Results — OTTAWA — The management of the ailing smartphone maker BlackBerry canceled a conference call scheduled for Friday to discuss the company's quarterly financial results. — While BlackBerry said on Wednesday evening that those results …
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Apple Uses Bluetooth LE To Enable Apple TV ‘Touch To Set Up’ Via iOS 7 Devices — Apple is leveraging the Bluetooth LE technology that it has been building into every iPhone since the iPhone 4S to enable automatic setup of an Apple TV 3G. Just touch a device running iOS 7 to a newer Apple set-top box … | Greg Bensinger / Digits: |
Evernote and 3M to announce partnership to help you digitize Post-it notes — The Post-it Note Goes Digital on Evernote — Rather than fight the digital revolution, the time-tested Post-it note is joining it. — 3M Co., which makes about 50 billion of the sticky paper notepads each year … | Michael Lee / ZDNet: |
Google Hangouts/GTalk glitch sends chats to wrong recipients — Summary: [UPDATE] Be careful what you say over Google's instant messenger, as they may be sent to the wrong person. Google has acknowledged an issue and is looking into it. — Michael Lee — [UPDATE] Google's Hangouts …
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Pebble Selects AT&T as Exclusive Smartwatch Carrier — AT&T has inked a deal with Pebble to serve as the smartwatch's exclusive carrier. — After breaking Kickstarter records last year by earning $10 million, the watch this summer landed in Best Buy stores and became available online at getpebble.com.| Cade Metz / Wired: |
The Second Coming of Java: A Relic Returns to Rule Web — Biz Stone called it “one of the most special days in the history of Twitter.” And as it turned out, it was also a notable day for Java, a relic of the 1990s that is once again remaking the internet.
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| Lance Whitney / CNET: |
Apple wins right to use iPhone name in Brazil — Apple can now share the name in Brazil with IGB Electronica, which wanted to retain exclusive rights. — The iPhone can now legally be known as the iPhone in Brazil following a court ruling. — On Tuesday, Judge Eduardo de Brito Fernandes ruled … | Kevin Fitchard / GigaOM: |
Google tries to fuel innovation outside of Silicon Valley with new Tech Hub network — Google is looking to cultivate innovation in some of the more obscure tech markets in the North America. It announced on Wednesday a program that would expand Google's community ties and outreach …
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| Donald Melanson / Engadget: |
Amazon brings MP3 purchasing to its Cloud Player for PC app — The Mac version is still only promised to be coming soon, but Amazon has today delivered a fairly big update to its Cloud Player for PC application. It now boasts an integrated MP3 store, which will let you browse …
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| Erin Griffith / PandoDaily: |
SecondMarket goes all-in on Bitcoin, launching a private trust — Barry Silbert has been obsessed with Bitcoin. Obsessed. His priorities in life, he says, are ordered as such: his wife, his company, and Bitcoin. The crypo-currency is the first thing he has seen like it since the Internet.
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| Vlad Savov / The Verge: |
Nokia will announce six new devices at its October 22nd event — There'll be a range of new form factors as well — Nokia's Innovation Reinvented event in Abu Dhabi next month will host the launch of at least six new devices from the Finnish company, including at least two new Lumias.| Danny Hakim / New York Times: |
Tech Giants Fear Spread of Patent Wars to Europe — LONDON — The technology industry is expanding its fight against patent trolls to Europe. — In the United States, technology companies like Google, Apple and Microsoft have spent years and hundreds of millions of dollars …
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Sudan loses Internet access — and it looks like the government is behind it — Internet intelligence corporation Renesys confirmed reports Wednesday that Sudan has been cut off from the Internet. Al Arabiya reported earlier Wednesday morning that Internet access was cut and schools …
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| Matthew Panzarino / TechCrunch: |
Apple Launches iOS 7 Tech Talks For Developers In SF, NYC, Tokyo, Shanghai, Berlin And London — Apple has just announced a series of Tech Talks for developers building apps for iOS 7. This is a relatively common occurrence as Apple likes to get evangelists out to talk to developers and help …
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Phones Review, iPhone Hacks, iDownloadBlog.com, Macworld, TUAW, AppleInsider, iMore, MacRumors, MacStories and 9to5Mac
| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft left alone with Windows RT as Dell drops XPS 10 tablet — Microsoft appears to be the only company still selling a Windows RT-based tablet. Dell's XPS 10 is now listed as unavailable, following a price drop for the past few months. While the company won't comment … | Wall Street Journal: |
Twitter Adds J.P. Morgan and Morgan Stanley as Bankers on IPO — Twitter Inc. has tapped two more banks, J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. and Morgan Stanley, to help lead its coming initial public offering, said people familiar with the matter. — The banks will join Goldman Sachs Group Inc. …
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Who Are The 15 Percent Of Adults Who Don't Use The Internet? — According to new survey data from the Pew Research Center, 15 percent of US adults don't use the internet or email. If there are roughly 250 million adults in the US that would mean just under 38 million people are “non-internet users.”
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Pew Internet, TechCrunch, Betabeat, Softpedia News, BGR, WebProNews, The Switch and NBCNews. Tweets: @marketingland
| Christina Farr / VentureBeat: |
Egnyte rebrands to bring ‘PRISM proof’ file-sharing to the enterprise — Vineet Jain, the CEO of Egnyte, is prepping the company for a successful exit. — File-sharing startup Egnyte is operating in a crowded market, going against players like Box and Dropbox.
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Google Shopping Express Launches In San Francisco Peninsula, Debuts New Apps — After previously dogfooding and then beta testing its same-day Amazon Prime and eBay Now competitor Google Shopping Express, Google says that today the service is launching to all those in its initial target markets … Sponsor Posts
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