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September 5, 2014, 3:00 PM

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Nicole Lee / Engadget:

New Moto X available later this month starting at $499 unlocked, with bigger 5.2" 1080p display, aluminum frame, and leather back option — The Moto X returns: high-end specs, aluminum frame and leather back — As a half dozen of my colleagues toil away in Berlin bringing you the latest news …

David Pierce / The Verge:

Motorola Hint is a $149 Bluetooth earbud with smartphone voice control features, coming this fall — The Moto Hint is the future of the Bluetooth headset — Are we all about to start talking to our phones again? — Don't call the Motorola Hint a Bluetooth headset. It makes everyone at Motorola wince.

More: VentureBeat, Android Police, The Next Web, AnandTech, Gotta Be Mobile, SlashGear, TechCrunch, Engadget and Laptop Mag

Tweets: @piercedavid and @longzheng

Chris Chavez / Phandroid:

Motorola's Turbo Charger adds 8 hours of battery life to your Moto X (2nd Gen) in 15 minutes — It was back in February we told you guys about Qualcomm's Quick Charge 2.0 technology, a new feature that was said to be soon arriving on Snapdragon powered devices allowing them to charge up to 75% faster than the other guys.

More: Android Police, Gigaom, 9to5Google, Observation Deck, AndroidHeadlines.com, Wall Street Journal, Ubergizmo, Ubergizmo and GSMArena Blog

Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch:

The New Moto G Offers A Bigger Screen And Removable Storage At $179.99 Unlocked

More: Android Police, The Verge, CNET, BGR, Electronista, TechSpot, TmoNews, AnandTech, Engadget, VentureBeat, Android and Me, Phandroid, SlashGear, The Next Web, Engadget, BGR, The Next Web and Guardian

Ben Woods / The Next Web:

Motorola brings its Moto Maker custom smartphone designs to the UK

More: Gotta Be Mobile and Android Police

David Pierce / The Verge:

Moto 360 review: understated elegance, first “real” smartwatch, but battery lasts less than a day — Moto 360 review — Motorola's long-awaited smartwatch is finally ready for your wrist — I lost my phone this morning. — Normally that's impossible.

More: Business Insider, Wall Street Journal, BGR, VatorNews, USA Today, VentureBeat, Android Police, MacDailyNews, Gotta Be Mobile, AppleInsider, Business Insider, 9to5Google, Wearable Tech Insider, Engadget, 9to5Google and Guardian. Tweets: @piercedavid

Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge:

Android Wear updates will bring custom faces and offline music playback to all watches — Google is planning a pair of Android Wear updates between now and the end of the year that will enable watch owners to start using custom faces, to track how far and fast they run …

More: The Official Google Blog, TechCrunch, Android Central and WebProNews

Eric Bangeman / Ars Technica:

Moto 360 hands-on: 1.6" Gorilla Glass display, water resistant, 4GB storage, 512MB RAM, leather strap feels natural

More: The Next Web, The Verge, BGR, Re/code, AnandTech, Gotta Be Mobile and ZDNet

Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch:

The Moto 360 Smartwatch Is Finally Here, Available Today For $249.99

More: Android Police, MacRumors, Electronista, SlashGear and The Next Web

Brian X. Chen / New York Times:

New, larger iPhones to offer one-handed mode for easier typing; iWatch circuit board is “tiny” — Apple Plans Smartwatch and Larger iPhones — SAN FRANCISCO — When Apple wants to make a big splash, it returns to its history. — Thirty years ago at the Flint Center for the Performing Arts …

Neil Hughes / AppleInsider:

Next-gen iPad Air with Touch ID, new gold color option may also debut at Apple's Sept. 9 event — At a media event already expected to be packed with the unveiling of two new iPhone models and a so-called “iWatch,” the company may also showcase its next full-size iPad Air with Touch ID fingerprint sensor …

More: Guardian, Associated Press, 9to5Mac, 9to5Mac, BetaNews, TUAW, Business Insider, Laptop Mag, Softpedia News, App Advice, Pocketnow and CNET

Daisuke Wakabayashi / Wall Street Journal:

Tim Cook says Apple will send alerts when users add devices or change passwords, and broaden its use of two-factor authentication — Tim Cook Says Apple to Add Security Alerts for iCloud Users — Apple Will Alert Users Via Email and Push Notifications — Apple Inc. said it plans additional steps …

More: The Daily Dot, Forbes, SiliconBeat, The Verge, PC Magazine, BGR, Washington Post, Engadget, 9to5Mac, New York Times, Wired, ABC News, TheStreet.com, Gotta Be Mobile, Consumerist, FierceCIO News, TechSpot, Bloomberg, Re/code, MacRumors and Cult of Mac. Tweets: @caseynewton

Christina Warren / Mashable:

How I Hacked My Own iCloud Account, for Just $200

More: iMore, The Register, Fox News, Naked Security and Gizmodo. Tweets: @kashhill

Ian Cutress / AnandTech:

Dell Previews 27-inch ‘5K’ UltraSharp Monitor: 5120x2880 — UHD is dead. Not really, but it would seem that displays bigger than UHD/4K will soon be coming to market. The ability of being able to stitch two regular sized outputs into the same panel via MST is now being exploited …

More: Maximum PC, 9to5Mac, MacRumors, Geek.com, DisplayBlog, PC World, MacDailyNews and Gizmodo

Liam Spradlin / Android Police:

Google Glass Explorer Edition Now Live In The US Play Store With All Accessories — You may remember Google's launch of the Glass explorer program in the UK, which saw the device listed in the Play Store just before I/O. This seemed a little odd at the time, given that the Glass shopping experience …

More: Gigaom, 9to5Google, Gizmodo, SlashGear and Seeking Alpha

Jonathan / Web Policy:

Coursera privacy vulnerabilities found by Stanford law prof; database of 9M users downloadable, all class enrollments visible to all teachers — A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Coursera — I'm excited to be teaching Stanford Law's first Coursera offering this fall, on government surveillance.

More: Slate, Coursera Blog, The Next Web and Help Net Security

Tweets: @ashk4n, @audreywatters, @rcalo, @nicoleperlroth, @csoghoian, @jonathanmayer, @kashhill and @trevortimm

Emil Protalinski / The Next Web:

Google makes site-specific search more prominent, adds Autocomplete and support for your site's own search pages — Google today updated its sitelinks search box, used for searching within websites directly from Google's search results. The company has made the search box more prominent …

More: Google Webmaster Central Blog, Google Operating System, 9to5Google, Softpedia News, Search Engine Roundtable, Search Engine Land and WebProNews

Stewart Rogers / VentureBeat:

Study: In social advertising, YouTube converts more customers than anyone else — When it comes to paid advertising on social platforms, YouTube is the clear winner in introducing new products and helping consumers make their purchasing decisions, according to a new study Aol Platforms released today.

More: hypebot, AdExchanger, MediaPost, Beyond Search, Tubefilter and ReelSEO Video Marketing

Derek Walter / TechHive:

Hands-on: Tempo brings its super-smart calendaring to iPad — Tempo, a powerful calendar app for the iPhone, goes beyond just displaying events and dates, instead pulling together multiple calendars and contextual data to serve as a digital assistant. It's a productivity powerhouse on the iPhone …

More: The Next Web, iClarified, App Advice and iMore

Brandon Butler / Network World:

Microsoft rolls out migration tool for porting apps into Azure cloud — Cloud migration services are an upcoming battlefield in IaaS — One of the big problems with IaaS cloud computing is how to get apps up into the cloud. There are a variety of emerging technologies for solving this problem …

More: Microsoft Azure Blog, VentureBeat and CloudWedge

Dan Levine / Reuters:

Apple, Google, Intel, Adobe appeal $324.5M anti-poaching lawsuit settlement rejection — Apple, Google appeal rejection of $325 million hiring settlement — (Reuters) - Four technology companies including Apple and Google blasted a U.S. judge for rejecting a proposed $324.5 million settlement …

More: 9to5Mac, AppleInsider, Inquirer, Gigaom, Electronista, MacDailyNews and ZDNet

Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch:

DigitalOcean Partners With CoreOS To Bring Large-Scale Cluster Deployments To Its Platform — Since its launch just a few years ago, DigitalOcean quickly made a name for itself as a hosting platform for affordable virtual servers. The company's ambition goes far beyond hosting your WordPress blog …

More: eWeek, PC World, InfoWorld, OStatic blogs, Forbes and Gigaom

James Kanter / New York Times:

Microsoft and German publishers say their experiments show the proposed EU antitrust settlement with Google would be ineffective — Opposition Grows in Europe to Google Antitrust Proposal — BRUSSELS — Microsoft and the German publishing industry on Thursday stepped up pressure …

More: Search Engine Land and Softpedia News

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:

Paypal introduces an SDK for its credit card reader, PayPal Here — PayPal Expands Further Into Offline Retail And Mobile Payments With New PayPal Here SDK — PayPal this morning is rolling out a new product designed to help its business move further into offline retail.

More: PayPal Forward, theWHIR.com, bizjournals, The Next Web and TheDomains.com. Tweets: @mdudas

Ian Cutress / AnandTech:

Intel's Core M Strategy: CPU Specifications for 9mm Fanless Tablets and 2-in-1 Devices — Continuing our coverage of Intel's 14nm Technology, another series of press events held by Intel filled out some of the missing details behind the strategy of their Core M platform.

More: ZDNet, Intel Newsroom, Engadget, PC World, Gizmodo, Business Insider, Ars Technica and Seeking Alpha

Jon Southurst / CoinDesk:

Former BitInstant CEO Charlie Shrem pleads guilty to operating unlicensed money transmitting business — Charlie Shrem to Forfeit $950K to US Government in Plea Bargain — Further details have emerged of former BitInstant CEO Charlie Shrem's plea bargain with US authorities …

More: Wall Street Journal, Reuters, New York Times, International Business Times, Bloomberg, USA Today, The Independent, NBC News and PC World

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:

Former Twitter Chief Scientist Launches Steven, An Emoji-Based Social App — I can't quite put my finger on why I keep using this new app called Steven - yes, Steven, like a boy's name - but I do. The app itself is sort of silly - it offers you a way to log your activities and location using emoji …

More: Engadget, Marketing Land and Steven

Josh Lowensohn / The Verge:

Beats co-founder Steven Lamar introduces Roam's first product, Ropes, $299 wireless earbuds — Disgruntled Beats co-founder starts new audio company with $299 earbuds — Roam's Ropes are Bluetooth headphones that sit on your neck — About a week before Apple agreed to buy Beats for $3 billion …

More: Fortune, Engadget and PandoDaily

Mike Beasley / 9to5Mac:

Apple officially launches revamped iTunes Connect demoed during WWDC — Ahead of next week's iPhone 6 announcement, Apple has finally debuted the new design for its iTunes Connect web app that was initially shown off during the WWDC Platforms State of the Union.

More: MacRumors, MacNN, AppleInsider, MacStories and App Advice

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