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November 12, 2013, 3:45 PM
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| Sam Byford / The Verge: |
iPad mini with Retina display on sale now starting at $399 — Three weeks after its announcement, the iPad mini with Retina display is now available for purchase in the online Apple Store. The release follows that of the larger iPad Air earlier in the month; both tablets feature …
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| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
Retina iPad Mini Has 1.3 GHz A7 Processor With 5X Better Performance Than Original Mini — Apple's new Retina iPad mini includes the same 64-bit A7 chip used in the iPad Air and the iPhone 5s, which offers significantly better performance than the A5 chip found in the original iPad mini.| Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac: |
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft axes its controversial employee-ranking system — Microsoft is killing off its controversial stack-ranking system today. While it could be viewed as an internal change that won't affect consumers directly, it will have a broad effect on current and future Microsoft employees that may just shape the future of the company.
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| Ben Sisario / New York Times: |
Google Glass Will Expand Its Features Into Music — To sell Glass, its augmented-reality form of eyewear, Google has already tried to make it a fashion accessory and a must-have video device for any parent or sky diver. Now it is also presenting this $1,500 piece of wearable technology as a way to interact with music.
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Google Glass, Android Developers Blog, Marketing Land, USA Today, 9to5Google, Marketing Land, VatorNews, Computerworld, Gizmodo, Gotta Be Mobile, The Droid Guy, The Next Web, 5by5 Master Audio Feed, TechCrunch, Android Central, PC Magazine, Rolling Stone, Gizmodo, ReadWrite, Wired.co.uk, TechnoBuffalo, SiliconANGLE, SlashGear, Glass Almanac, Electronista, Digital Trends, Yahoo! News, I4U News and Mashable. See also Mediagazer
| Quentyn Kennemer / Phandroid: |
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| Matthew Panzarino / TechCrunch: |
Twitter Announces Custom Timelines For Hashtags Or Topics On Tweetdeck, Launching API Too — Twitter will let you create custom timelines based on topics, hashtags and more from Tweetdeck, it announced today. Twitter is also providing an API to allow developers to build this functionality into their products.
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| Edvard Pettersson / Bloomberg: |
Apple Heads to Trial With Inventor Over Smartphone Patent — Apple Inc. (AAPL), the world's most valuable technology company, faces a trial over claims by a California inventor that a patent he holds covers key features of the iPhone. — Apple maintains the NetAirus Technologies LLC patent …
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| Digits: |
Motorola Plans Low-Cost Phone; Sales of Moto X Disappoint — Google's Motorola unit is set to introduce a relatively low-cost phone Wednesday, according to people familiar with the matter, amid weak sales and a price cut of its flagship high-end model. — Details of the new … | Ken Yeung / The Next Web: |
Now in 34k cities, Airbnb unveils redesigned iOS and Android apps that show how to be a better host — Airbnb today announced a series of new features for hosts in its iOS and Android mobile apps. As the company strives to become a better hospitality company, it is enabling hosts …
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Digits, VentureBeat, Gigaom, The Verge, AllThingsD, TechCrunch, TechCrunch and The Airbnb Blog. Tweets: @jguynn
| Liz Gannes / AllThingsD: |
With 120M Users, Google Drive Gets Tighter Integration With Gmail — Eighteen months after it first debuted, Google Drive has 120 million active users. Today, it is launching additional features that bring it closer to the heart of Gmail, Google's first and most-used productivity app.| Arik Hesseldahl / AllThingsD: |
Don't Get Too Excited About GlobalFoundries and Apple — At Least, Not Just Yet — Don't get too excited about an intriguing story from the Albany Times Union saying that chip-manufacturing company GlobalFoundries may soon start turning out chips for Apple's iPhones and iPads at a factory in upstate New York.| Alex Wilhelm / TechCrunch: |
Microsoft's Windows Store Averaged 1.7M Daily Downloads In October, Up Nearly 40% From June — According to information Microsoft provides to developers, the Windows Store marketplace for applications on Windows 8 and Windows 8.1 racked up roughly 1.7 million daily downloads, both free and paid … | Matt Brian / Engadget: |
Sony now lets you buy digital PlayStation games from Amazon and other retailers — Sony has decided its PlayStation Network (PSN) Store isn't going to be the only place you can purchase digital PlayStation games. Utilizing a model similar to Valve's PC game marketplace Steam …
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Kotaku, GeekWire, Gotta Be Mobile, CNET, The Verge, The Next Web, WebProNews, VG247, SlashGear, Inquirer and TechSpot
| Derrick Harris / Gigaom: |
Backblaze stores 75 petabytes on 25,000 drives, and most are still spinning — Cloud backup provider is fast becoming one of my favorite companies in IT, if only because it shares so much information about its operations. On Tuesday, the company — famous for its open source storage-pod designs …
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Backblaze Blog, ExtremeTech, Computerworld, TUAW, The Tech Report, CNET, ZDNet and The Register
| Kadhim Shubber / CoinDesk: |
$4.1m goes missing as Chinese bitcoin trading platform GBL vanishes — Bitcoin is surging in China, but the explosion in digital currency trading has been accompanied by possible fraud and theft. — GBL, a Chinese bitcoin trading platform that claimed to be based in Hong Kong …
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Help Net Security, Geek.com, The Tell, Softpedia News, Business Insider, SiliconANGLE, Tech in Asia, The Register and ZDNet. Tweets: @coindesk
| Russ Pitts / Polygon: |
The birth of Xbox Live … There was a dream that was a box. — Part sci-fi, part nostalgia, this box would unite people from around the world and provide a platform for entertainment that would drive the future. In young computer scientist J Allard's dream, this box would change the world.
Tweets: @scottfeed, @kezamacdonald, @robzacny and @tcarmody
| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Vine for Windows Phone arrives with Live Tile and camera integration — Twitter promised that it would launch an official Vine Windows Phone client, and after a brief demonstration at Nokia World it's finally arriving today. It looks largely the same as the existing iOS and Android versions … | Brian Klug / AnandTech: |
NVIDIA Tegra Note 7 Review: Good value prospect as low-cost note-taking device with tradeoffs — NVIDIA Tegra Note 7 Review — NVIDIA has been doing something interesting of late by making and releasing its own devices with Tegra SoCs inside. We first saw Shield, a handheld gaming console …
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TechnoBuffalo, Forbes, Engadget, Gotta Be Mobile, The Tech Report, SlashGear, Ubergizmo, Digital Spy, CNET and Android Community. Tweets: @benbajarin
| Zack Whittaker / CNET: |
MakerBot wants to put a 3D printer in every US public school — (Credit: Zack Whittaker/CBS Interactive) — NEW YORK — MakerBot wants to put a 3D printer in every school in the United States, and it's drumming up support from the industry and general public to make it happen.
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ReadWrite, PandoDaily, PC Magazine, Gigaom, TechCrunch, VentureBeat, AllThingsD, Engadget, Softpedia News and WebProNews
| Ina Fried / AllThingsD: |
Lytro Adds 3-D Viewing Capability to Its Living Images, Apple Online Store as Distributor — Lytro is unlocking another feature for images taken with its light-field cameras, enabling all photos ever taken with the devices to be displayed in 3-D. — Lytro| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
To-Do App Wunderlist Confirms $19M Series B And Expands To The US, While Sequoia Heads Into Germany — A couple of weeks ago when TechCrunch was in Berlin, we sniffed out and eventually published the details of an interesting investment for a local startup: 6Wunderkinder …
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Tech Europe, AllThingsD, Gigaom, NYT Bits and Forbes
| Sinead Carew / Reuters: |
T-Mobile US could raise almost $2 billion for spectrum purchases — (Reuters) - T-Mobile US Inc announced on Monday a stock offering that could bring it almost $2 billion for spectrum purchases. — T-Mobile, the No. 4 U.S. mobile service provider, said it would sell 66.15 million common shares …
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