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June 18, 2014, 4:10 PM

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Amazon.com:

Introducing Fire, the First Smartphone Designed by Amazon — New breakthrough innovations—Dynamic Perspective, Firefly button, and more — Seamless integration with Amazon's vast ecosystem—over 33 million songs, apps, games, movies, — Only smartphone with Mayday, ASAP, X-Ray, and Second Screen

More: The Verge, Daring Fireball, CITEworldNancy Gohring, BGR, Washington Post, Re/code, Gigaom, AdExchanger, Tech Trader Daily, 9to5Google, Mashable, TIME, WebProNews, Yahoo Tech and IntoMobile

Tweets: @jtemple, @benedictevans, @arrington, @levie, @hamburger, @fmanjoo and @benedictevans

CNET:

Fire Phone exclusively available July 25 on AT&T: $199 for 32GB, $299 for 64GB, $649 and $749 off-contract — Amazon Fire Phone to arrive July 25 at $199 for 32GB, $299 for 64GB on AT&T — A listing on AT&T's website has Amazon's Fire Phone priced competitively with the Apple iPhone 5S …

More: TechCrunch, Quartz, Daily Mail, AppleInsider, GeekWire, Guardian, Re/code, The Verge, TechCrunch, Ars Technica, Businessweek, Computerworld, The Verge, SiliconBeat and Mashable. Tweets: @joannastern

Nick Summers / The Next Web:

Fire Phone: 4.7" display with Gorilla Glass, rubberized frame, quad-core 2.2 GHz processor, 2GB RAM, 13MP camera with OIS, dedicated camera and Firefly buttons — Amazon's first smartphone is finally here: Meet the Fire Phone, priced at $199 (32GB) and $299 (64GB)

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Robert Sorokanich / Gizmodo:

FireFly: Amazon's Fire Phone Can Identify Almost Anything — Amazon's new Fire Phone had to be about getting people to buy stuff from Amazon, right? Of course. Enter Firefly, which turns the Fire Phone into a sort of universal object scanner that'll recognize books, DVDs, or jars of Nutella, and help you buy them—from Amazon.

More: The Verge, Engadget and Business Insider

Tweets: @lizzadwoskin, @kevinroose, @harrymccracken, @zpower, @markmilian and @panzer

Nathan Ingraham / The Verge:

Amazon's Fire Phone uses multiple front-facing cameras to offer dynamic 3D perspective — Just as expected, Amazon's just-announced Fire Phone features a unique interface that is quite a bit different than what you'll see on pretty much any other smartphone on the market.

More: NPR and Android Central. Tweets: @zpower, @samfbiddle, @panzer and @fmanjoo

Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch:

Amazon's Mayday Service On Fire Phone Means It Might Be Able To Sell Its Unique New Features

Bryan Bishop / The Verge:

Amazon offering unlimited photo storage for Fire Phone owners

More: Engadget and Gizmodo. Tweets: @dannysullivan, @caseynewton and @panzer

David Pogue / Yahoo Tech:

Adobe announces Ink and Slide, a $200 pen and ruler combo for new iPad apps Sketch and Line — Adobe Releases a Physical Ruler and Pen to Go with New iPad Apps — What's next — Adobe selling hardware? Exactly! Today, Adobe began selling an intriguing, good-looking …

More: Gizmodo, SiliconBeat, MacRumors, VentureBeat, The Verge, The Next Web, GeekWire, Re/code, Wired and App Advice

Sarah Buhr / TechCrunch:

Adobe Upgrades Creative Cloud, Adds New Mobile Apps And Creative Hardware — Adobe aims to establish itself as more of a service platform today with a focus on mobile first and the largest overhaul of Creative Cloud desktop applications to date. — All 14 desktop applications in Adobe's creative suite get an upgrade.

More: iMore, CNET, Engadget, Gizmodo and Richard Curtis's Blog

Mikey Campbell / AppleInsider:

Hands-on: Adobe's Lightroom for iPhone, ‘Photoshop Mix’ for iPad take powerful image editing mobile

More: TechCrunch, ZDNet, CNET, Macworld, The Verge, TechCrunch and Gizmodo

Blair Hanley Frank / GeekWire:

Adobe launches cheaper Creative Cloud subscription for photographers: $9.99/month for Photoshop and Lightroom

More: TechCrunch, LAPTOP Magazine, The Register, MacRumors and The Next Web

Harrison Weber / VentureBeat:

Adobe launches Creative Cloud 2014 — its first massive update since killing the Creative Suite

Judd Legum / ThinkProgress:

People Invested $1 Million In An App That Just Says ‘Yo’ — It only took 8 hours to build the app, and the only thing it does is allow you to send the word ‘Yo’ to your friends. To many, it seems like a joke. But its inventor, Or Arbel, is totally serious.

More: Financial Times, Daily Mail, The Technology Chronicles, USA Today, BGR, Vox, Business Insider, Medium, Ubergizmo, Salon, Laughing Squid, SlashGear and The Next Web

Tweets: @scobleizer, @zpower, @anthonyha, @samfbiddle and @alexia

Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac:

Apple TV likely to gain Continuity this fall, allowing tighter integration with Mac & iOS — Alongside the introduction of the current Apple TV design in fall 2010, Apple launched AirPlay. In short, AirPlay allows a user to watch a movie, listen to a song, or view a photo on an iPhone …

More: TechCrunch, Digital Trends, iMore, MacRumors, Ubergizmo, App Advice, Pocketnow, iPhone in Canada Blog, Softpedia News, MacNN and iLounge

Benjamin Mayo / 9to5Mac:

Apple releases new cheaper iMac with low-end processor, priced at $1099 — As rumored last week, Apple has today released a new model of iMac. These machines are considerably cheaper than their predecessors, priced at $1099. Previously, the cheapest iMac SKU was priced at $1299 (which is now the mid-range model).

Stacey Higginbotham / Gigaom:

Facebook has built its own switch. And it looks a lot like a server — Not content to remake the server, Facebook's engineers have taken on the humble switch, building their own version of the networking box and the software to go with it. The resulting switch, dubbed Wedge …

More: Facebook Code, TechCrunch, PC World, VentureBeat, ZDNet and Bloomberg

Ben Woods / The Next Web:

BlackBerry signs deal with Amazon App Store to bring 200,000 Android apps to BlackBerry 10.3 — BlackBerry has just announced a deal that will see more than 200,000 Android apps made available for BlackBerry devices via the Amazon App Store when the new version of BlackBerry's operating system arrives later in the year.

Twitter Support / @support:

Starting today, you can share and view animated GIFs on http://Twitter.com , Android and iPhone. http://twitter.com/...

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Tweets: @twitterfornews, @qoreilly, @nelson and @panzer

Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac:

iPhone 6 likely to sport barometer & air pressure sensors to measure altitude, weather — Besides a larger display and redesigned metal body, details regarding which features the next-generation iPhone models will pack have been light. However, it appears that the new models could include a new sensor: a barometer.

More: BGR, Business Insider, MacRumors, iPhone Hacks, MacDailyNews, App Advice, iPhone in Canada Blog, iLounge and ZDNet

Jeff Gray / Globe and Mail:

Canadian court orders Google to block a group of websites from its search engine worldwide — B.C. court ruling orders Google to block sites worldwide — In an unprecedented ruling, a B.C. court has ordered Google Inc. to block a group of websites from its worldwide search engine …

More: courts.gov.bc.ca, Michael Geist Blog, Gigaom, Inquirer, CBC News, TorrentFreak, Barry Sookman, Vancouver Sun, Softpedia News and Slate

Gabe Nelson / Automotive News:

Sources: Google revealing system to let in-car controls command Android devices at Google I/O — Google to reveal operating system that will rival Apple CarPlay — Gabe Nelson — WASHINGTON — Google Inc. will unveil its first in-car operating system at its annual software developer conference …

More: The Verge, 9to5Google, PC Magazine, iMore, Gotta Be Mobile, SlashGear, Gizmodo, Android Authority and Gas 2

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:

Fab Is Buying Helsinki's One Nordic Furniture To Score Original Products — Earlier this month Re/code reported that designer portal Fab was eyeing up a European furnishings site to move further into the area of building its own stock and away from reselling others', and today comes news …

More: Wall Street Journal, VatorNews, Mashable and Re/code. Thanks:@ingridlunden

Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security:

P.F. Chang's Breach Likely Began in Sept. 2013 — The recently-announced credit card breach at P.F. Chang's Chinese Bistro appears to have gone on for at least nine months: New information indicates that the breach at the nationwide restaurant chain began on or around Sept. 18, 2013 …

More: SC Magazine

Kellex / Droid Life:

Samsung Announces Galaxy S5 LTE-A for Korea - Features QHD Display, Snapdragon 805, and 3GB RAM — Samsung took the wraps off a brand new variant of the Galaxy S5 this evening in Korea, one that will surely disappoint and excite many of you at the same time.

More: Engadget, Digital Trends, Computerworld, 9to5Google, The Verge, ZDNet, MobileBurn.com, Electronista, TechnoBuffalo, Geek.com, Neowin, BGR, The Next Web, Business Insider and Softpedia News

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