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Apple's smartwatch to launch as early as October with 2.5" screen, wireless charging, pulse sensor, sources say — Taiwan's Quanta to start mass production of Apple's smartwatch in July: source — (Reuters) - Taiwan's Quanta Computer Inc will start mass production of Apple Inc's first smartwatch in July …
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Apple's smartwatch likely to come in multiple sizes and designs, contain over ten sensors, including ones for health and fitness — Apple Plans Multiple Designs for Smartwatch — Wrist Device Will Include More Than 10 Sensors Including Ones to Track Fitness
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MacRumors, Engadget, 9to5Mac, Gizmodo, The Verge, The Next Web, PhoneArena, Cult of Mac and Pocketnow
| Kara Swisher / Re/code: |
Adam Bain taking over business development at Twitter; Gabriel Stricker to head its media unit — Bain Officially Gets Biz Dev, While Media Unit Moves to Stricker at Twitter (Plus TV Memo!) — As Re/code reported last week, Twitter sales leader Adam Bain will take over business development at Twitter …
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| Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac: |
Significant enhancements coming to AppleCare+, Apple IDs, iOS support — Apple's vice president of AppleCare and technical support initiatives, Tara Bunch, held a Town Hall meeting for for AppleCare employees earlier this week, according to several employees in attendance who asked to remain anonymous.
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| Mat Smith / Engadget: |
House passes amendment to cut NSA's ‘backdoor search’ funding — Following a push from Representatives Justin Amash and Thomas Massie, the House of Representatives has passed an amendment to stop at least some of the surveillance programs at the National Security Agency.
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| John Cook / GeekWire: |
Google buys Alpental, a startup focused on 5G technologies and led by former Clearwire researchers — Google just quietly bought this stealthy Seattle startup led by ex-Clearwire researchers — Sometimes startups attract corporate attention after releasing cutting-edge products, or nailing down key customers.
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Wall Street Journal, AndroidHeadlines.com, San Francisco Chronicle, 9to5Google and BGR. Tweets: @monicapaolini. Thanks:@toddbishop
| Farhad Manjoo / New York Times: |
Why Did Amazon Make a Phone? A Conversation With Jeff Bezos — Shortly after he introduced the new Fire phone on Wednesday, I spoke with Jeffrey P. Bezos, Amazon's founder and chief executive, about the device and Amazon's goals in the smartphone business. — Here is an edited transcript of our discussion.| Christopher Mims / Wall Street Journal: |
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| Alyson Shontell / Business Insider: |
Product Hunt, used by some VCs to spot new tech products, grows to 26K subscribers in 7 months — Here's What Every Major Silicon Valley Investor Is Using To Find The Next Big Thing — Recently, tech blogs went crazy over a simple app called “Yo” that reportedly raised $1 million from Mobli CEO Moshe Hogeg.| Benjamin Mayo / 9to5Mac: |
Maps ‘City Tours’ feature hidden in iOS 8 betas, works like a guided Flyover video — Although deeper changes to Maps are in the works, Apple did announce a new City Tours feature for iOS 8 discreetly on one of the keynote slides. This feature is not normally available in the current iOS 8 betas …
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MacRumors, TechCrunch, Gizmodo, PadGadget, Redmond Pie, TechnoBuffalo, AppleInsider, Gotta Be Mobile, TUAW, iPhone in Canada Blog, iPhone Hacks, App Advice, Business Insider, Geeky Gadgets and MacNN. Tweets: @markgurman
| Josh Lowensohn / The Verge: |
The Nokia team Microsoft didn't buy has made an Android launcher — But is it better than what's out there? — Nokia's involvement with Google's Android can only be described as one big “what if.” Ahead of Microsoft's deal to buy it, Nokia was testing Android phones … | Neil McAllister / The Register: |
Android to drop Dalvik VM for high-performance ART in next version — Code changes proclaim death of OS's original code runtime — The next version of Google's Android smartphone OS may ship with a new code execution engine that improves performance and battery life, if a new report is to be believed.| Anthony Ha / TechCrunch: |
Google Acquires mDialog To Improve DoubleClick's Video Advertising — Google today announced that it has acquired video advertising company mDialog. — In a post on Google+, the company said that it will “work with the mDialog team to incorporate their technology and expertise … | Leslie Kaufman / New York Times: |
Mozilla to Develop Comments Platform for New York Times and Washington Post — The New York Times and The Washington Post announced on Thursday that they had teamed up with Mozilla to develop a new platform that will allow them to better manage their readers' online comments and contributions.
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Gigaom, BetaNews, VentureBeat, The Verge, OStatic blogs, Poynter and Knight Foundation. See also Mediagazer
| Brad Sams / Neowin: |
Microsoft provides roadmap for Office 365 and a new ‘First Release’ program — Microsoft's move to turn Office into a subscription-based service is working out well for the company. With millions of consumers and businesses now using the platform, Microsoft has to be clear …
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Office Blogs, SiliconANGLE, ZDNet, The Register, PC World, InfoWorld and WinBeta
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
LinkedIn Launches Its First Standalone Job Search App, Privacy Guaranteed — LinkedIn says that today 40% of its 300 million users access the site on mobile devices, so its bid to tap into the wave of users accessing the site via smartphones and tablets continues apace … | Joshua Ho / AnandTech: |
iOS 8 exposes almost every manual camera control possible, allows third-party apps access to all — Manual Camera Controls in iOS 8 — For the longest time, iOS had almost no camera controls at all. There would be a toggle for HDR, a toggle to switch to the front-facing camera, and a toggle to switch to video recording mode.
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CNET, BGR, iPhone in Canada Blog, Pocketnow, MacRumors, Daring Fireball, TechnoBuffalo, MacNN and Gigaom
| Simon Khalaf / Flurry: |
Fitness app usage up 62% in past six months from 49% in 2013, 87% faster than total app market growth — Health and Fitness Apps Finally Take Off, Fueled by Fitness Fanatics — Over the past six years, we have seen mobile and its apps disrupt and transform many industries.| Baljeet Singh / The Twitter Blog: |
Twitter acquires SnappyTV, the service for clipping, editing, and sharing video clips from live broadcasts — SnappyTV is joining the flock — One of the best ways to follow events as they unfold is through real-time videos on Twitter. As we continue to invest in video …
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