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June 18, 2014, 6:20 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

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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 …

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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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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: Tech Trader Daily and NPR. Tweets: @fmanjoo, @panzer, @samfbiddle and @zpower

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: BBC, The Verge, Business Insider and Engadget

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

Dieter Bohn / The Verge:

Amazon Fire Phone: hands-on with the ultimate buying machine

More: ZDNet, ReadWrite and CNET

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:

Amazon releases Dynamic Perspective and Firefly SDKs, anticipates a new category of apps

More: TIME and Amazon

Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch:

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

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Bryan Bishop / The Verge:

Amazon offering unlimited photo storage for Fire Phone owners

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

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, App Advice, Re/code, The Next Web, Wired and GeekWire

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 and Richard Curtis's Blog

Mikey Campbell / AppleInsider:

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

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Blair Hanley Frank / GeekWire:

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

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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.

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Tweets: @zpower, @anthonyha, @scobleizer, @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: Digital Trends, iMore, MacRumors, iPhone in Canada Blog, App Advice, Ubergizmo, Pocketnow and Softpedia News

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, Redmond Pie, App Advice, iPhone Hacks, iPhone in Canada Blog and MacDailyNews

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: Michael Geist Blog, courts.gov.bc.ca, Gigaom, 9to5Google, Search Engine Land, The Verge, TorrentFreak, Barry Sookman, CBC News, Vancouver Sun, Inquirer and Softpedia News

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, Data Center Knowledge, TechCrunch, PC World, VentureBeat, ZDNet and Bloomberg

Twitter Support / @support:

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

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).

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, Business Insider, TechnoBuffalo, Gotta Be Mobile, 9to5Google, PC Magazine, iMore, SlashGear, Android Authority and Gas 2

Jon Russell / The Next Web:

Sharp's new ‘free-form’ display could bring non-rectangular screens to consumer tech devices — Sharp is showing off a ‘free-form’ display technology that it believes could break consumer tech devices out of the rigid convention of using rectangular and square shaped screens.

More: Sharp, Engadget, MacRumors, The Verge, Forbes, Ubergizmo, The Tech Report, Geek.com, SlashGear, Gizmodo and Geeky Gadgets

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 …

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.

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