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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 …
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| 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.
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| 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.| Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch: |
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| 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.| Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch: |
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| 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 …
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| Christina Warren / Mashable: |
How I Hacked My Own iCloud Account, for Just $200 — Over the course of the last few days, I've written a number of articles related to the celebrity photo thefts that surfaced Sunday. Many of those posts have focused on how safe — or unsafe — various cloud service providers are.| 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 …
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| Brian X. Chen / New York Times: |
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| 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 …
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Maximum PC, 9to5Mac, MacRumors, PC World, Geek.com, DisplayBlog, MacDailyNews and Gizmodo
| 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.
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| 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 …
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The Next Web, App Advice, iClarified and iMore
| 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 …
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| 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 …
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| 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.
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| 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.| 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.
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| 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 … | 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 …
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9to5Google and SlashGear
| 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 … | 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 … | 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 …
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Engadget, Marketing Land and Steven
| 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.
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