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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 … | 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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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 reform bill to trim back US surveillance unveiled in Congress — Ron Wyden says Snowden disclosures have ‘caused a sea change’ and announces most comprehensive package so far — Four senators at the vanguard of bipartisan efforts to rein in US government spying programs announced …
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Ars Technica, Reuters, The Verge, The Huffington Post, Associated Press, NPR and Softpedia News
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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 …
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The Verge, Android Community and Peter O'Kelly's Reality Check
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| Eric Chemi / Businessweek: |
Listen Up Apple Haters: iPhone Sales Eclipse Microsoft and Amazon — Apple CEO Tim Cook has taken plenty of flack for running a company that is supposedly well past its glory days—and the iPhone smartphone franchise is sometimes dismissed as a spent force, losing ground to other more innovative brands like Android and Samsung.| 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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BlackBerry Press Room, memeburn, TechCrunch, AllThingsD, The Next Web, SlashGear and VentureBeat. Tweets: @danprimack
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
JustFab Has Raised Another $40M Led By Hong Kong's Shining Capital To Take Its Fashion Subscription Commerce Model To Asia — Hot on the heels of its acquisition of rival ShoeDazzle (yes, pun intended), subscription-based fashion commerce site JustFab, now with 35 million users …
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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 … | Peter Kafka / AllThingsD: |
Hopster Promises Netflix for Kids, and No One Else — If you're a certain kind of parent, then you know that Netflix is a pretty excellent baby sitter. But Netflix, and rival services like Amazon's Instant Prime, have lots of movies and TV shows that aren't aimed at kids.
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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, The Verge, TechCrunch, Betabeat, Softpedia News, BGR, WebProNews, The Switch and NBCNews. Tweets: @marketingland
| 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.
Tweets: @sampullara
| 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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GigaOM, Google Europe Blog and FOSS Patents
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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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The Verge, Venture Capital Dispatch, ABC News, Quartz, DealBook, CoinDesk, Forbes, Fortune and TechCrunch
| 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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The Verge, VentureBeat, Ubergizmo, Forbes and hypebot
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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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The Next Web, ResearchBuzz, The Official Google Blog, Xconomy, Engadget, Mashable, Xconomy, Pulse 2.0, dailywireless.org, BetaKit and Computerworld. Tweets: @qthrul
| Stephanie Mlot / PC Magazine: |
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.| 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 … | 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 … | Andrea Peterson / The Switch: |
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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Renesys, SiliconANGLE, Alarabiya.net English, Mashable, Digits, Softpedia News, ITworld.com, Business Insider, Reuters, Computerworld, Guardian, Electronista and TIME. Tweets: @renesys
| 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.| 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, Wired.co.uk, iPhone Hacks, Macworld, TUAW, AppleInsider, iMore, MacRumors, MacStories and 9to5Mac
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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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