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August 27, 2014, 9:55 PM

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John Paczkowski / Re/code:

Apple plans to announce a new wearable with HealthKit and HomeKit integration September 9 — Code/red: Apple Plans to Announce Wearable in September — Start the Countdown Timer on Whatever Old-Fashioned Piece of Junk You Have on Your Wrist Right Now Remember back in June when I said Apple hoped …

Greg Kumparak / TechCrunch:

How Many People See Your Tweets? Twitter Opens Its Nifty Analytics Dashboard To Everyone — Back in July, Twitter launched a really nifty analytics dashboard. A bit like Google Analytics for tweets, it allows you to gauge the performance of each and every tweet you sent. How many people saw it?

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Tweets: @chanian, @joannastern and @mathewi

Ryan Lawler / TechCrunch:

Dropbox Beefs Up Its Pro Feature Set, Now Offering 1TB Of Storage For $10/Month — In today's cloud storage wars, most companies are defined by the amount of space their users get for the least amount of money. With new pricing and updates to its Pro offering, Dropbox is hoping to show …

Joel Rosenblatt / Bloomberg:

Apple Fails Again in Bid for Samsung Smartphone Sales Ban — Apple Inc. (AAPL) failed again to win a sales ban on Samsung Electronics Co. (005930) products found to infringe its smartphone patents, even after requesting what it described as a more limited prohibition.

More: AppleInsider, Reuters, CNET, Fortune, 9to5Mac, PC World, MacRumors, Wall Street Journal, iDownloadBlog.com, TheStreet.com, FOSS Patents and TIME. Tweets: @daiwaka

Nicole Perlroth / New York Times:

JPMorgan, 4 other US banks hacked this month, gigabytes of data including account information stolen — JPMorgan and Other Banks Struck by Cyberattack — A number of United States banks, including JPMorgan Chase and at least four others, were struck by hackers in a series of coordinated attacks …

More: Bloomberg, Associated Press, USA Today, NBC News and Business Insider. Tweets: @briankrebs

Brad Sams / Neowin:

Microsoft updates certification process to avoid misleading apps in Windows store; removes 1.5K apps, offers refunds to anyone who purchased them — Microsoft removes 1500 apps from Windows Store, will refund anyone who purchased them — During the past couple of weeks …

More: Building Apps for Windows, TechCrunch, Re/code, The Verge and Windows Phone Central

Joshua Ho / AnandTech:

HTC Announces Desire 510: First 64-bit Android Phone — While normally one might expect high end phones to get the latest and greatest features first, this time we see a bit of a surprising reversal. The Desire 510 is HTC's first 64-bit phone, and the first announced device with Snapdragon 410.

Ron Amadeo / Ars Technica:

First 64-bit Android phone has no 64-bit software

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Eliot Brown / Wall Street Journal:

Google Eyes Giant Offices in Historic Los Angeles Airplane Hangar — A massive former airplane hangar just north of Los Angeles International Airport was home to construction of the world's largest airplane in the 1940s and then hosted filming for movies including “Independence Day” and “Transformers.”

More: SlashGear, SiliconBeat and Digital Trends

Lizette Chapman / Wall Street Journal:

Jessica Alba's The Honest Co. Raises $70M, Preps for IPO … In preparation for an IPO, Jessica Alba's The Honest Co., a maker of eco-friendly baby products, has raised $70 million at a valuation just shy of $1 billion and is beginning partnership talks to expand to China, Dow Jones VentureWire has learned.

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BBC:

Intel builds 'world's smallest' 3G modem — Intel has unveiled a 3G modem not much bigger than a UK penny or US one-cent coin, with the aim of embedding it in connected devices around the home. — The company says the XMM 6255, with an area of about 300 sq mm, is the world's smallest modem.

More: Technology@Intel, Gizmodo, AnandTech, eWeek, dailywireless.org, Wired.co.uk, Engadget, Computerworld, Neowin, TechSpot, PC Magazine, VentureBeat, Inquirer and Geek.com

Chris Welch / The Verge:

T-Mobile adds Songza, Rdio, others to Music Freedom; Google Play Music ‘later this year’ — Google's got the most votes, but it's not on the list yet — Apparently T-Mobile remains unfazed by net neutrality concerns over its Music Freedom initiative; today the carrier added several new music streaming services to the program.

More: T-Mobile Newsroom, 9to5Google, Android Community, CNET, Pocketables, Electronista, Phandroid, RAIN News, PhoneArena, Engadget, SlashGear, GeekWire, Gigaom, AndroidGuys, Windows Phone Central, TmoNews, Android Police and TechHive

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Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:

Amazon Opens Up Its Enterprise Cloud Storage Service Zocalo To All — Amazon today announced that it's making Zocalo, its secure document storage and sharing service designed for enterprise use, generally available. The news comes, not coincidentally, on a day when cloud storage competitor …

More: VentureBeat and GeekWire

Jordan Kahn / 9to5Mac:

Apple offering iPhones on AT&T Next installment plans through online store, but no Verizon or T-Mobile financing (yet) — Following our report in late July that Apple was about to start selling iPhones through carrier upgrade/installment plans like AT&T's Next, the company is now offering exactly that through its online store.

More: AppleInsider, Gigaom, SlashGear, iDownloadBlog.com, iMore and MacNN

Don Reisinger / CNET:

Time Warner Cable suffered a nationwide outage this morning due to “Internet backbone” issue — Time Warner Cable suffers massive outage nationwide — The cable giant's services are down in a number of areas across the US, but are slowly coming back online.

More: USA Today, Business Insider, Wall Street Journal, Status overview, Re/code, Vanity Fair, Deadline, Motherboard, Washington Post, PandoDaily, The Register, Associated Press, Mashable, Digital Trends, Fox News, Guardian, and DSLreports

Tweets: @twc_help and @twc_help

Agam Shah / PC World:

IDC: Global PC shipments will only fall 3.7% this year, driven by Chromebooks and XP upgrades — PC market in 2014 a bit less dire than previously thought — The PC market is still a bleak place to be, but not as bleak as expected, according to new figures released Wednesday.

More: IDC, Mercury News and ZDNet

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