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September 10, 2014, 8:05 PM

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John Paczkowski / Re/code:

Source: Apple Watch battery life is “about a day right now”, Apple trying to improve ahead of launch — Code/Red: Apple Watch Battery Life — “Charge Nightly” — // HAPPENING TODAY — Internet Slowdown Day. — Silicon Valley vanity searches of Vanity Fair's New Establishment list — congrats, bosses.

David Pogue / Yahoo Tech:

Apple Watch tidbits: water resistance, microphone for calls, apps can be loaded from iPhone, Edition box doubles as charger, more — Apple Watch Update: More Details and Hands-On Impressions — Today, it seemed as if every tech journalist in America was crammed into Apple's auditorium.

More: Ars Technica, Medium, Cult of Mac, Salon, Pocketnow, TechnoBuffalo, iDownloadBlog.com, iPhone in Canada Blog, Geeky Gadgets, 9to5Mac and iLounge. Tweets: @inafried

Benjamin Clymer / HODINKEE:

A Watch Guy's Thoughts On The Apple Watch After Seeing It In The Metal (Tons Of Live Photos) — I'm not even sure we can call it a watch. Okay, it goes on the wrist, and it happens to tell the time, but that's about where the similarities between Apple's just announced watch and the hand-assembled …

More: Engadget, MacStories, MacRumors, Daring Fireball, MacDailyNews, InStyle, Vogue, Tubefilter, Business Insider, DailyTech, HBR.org, Android Authority, iDownloadBlog.com, Gotta Be Mobile, PadGadget, The Wirecutter and MediaNama

Tweets: @pmarca, @andykhouri, @kurtstadelman, @_maxdshaw, @dcurtis, @codinghorror and @cdixon

Ben Thompson / stratechery:

Apple seems unclear whether Watch is an iPhone accessory or valuable in its own — Apple Watch: Asking Why and Saying No — Dan Frommer wrote in Quartz about The Hidden Structure of the Apple Keynote. His analysis covered 27 events since 2007, and included things like average length …

More: BGR and DisplayBlog. Tweets: @jyarow, @whatthebit, @caseynewton, @dens, @dhh and @carnage4life

Christina Farr / Reuters:

Fashion world divided on first look at Apple Watch — (Reuters) - Apple Inc's newly unveiled smartwatch on Tuesday split fashion arbiters who may prove pivotal to its broad acceptance. — Many praised the “Apple Watch”, priced from $349 when it debuts next year, for its clean aesthetic …

More: New York Magazine, DisplayBlog, BGR and Wearables Arena. Thanks:@chrissyfarr

Leander Kahney / Cult of Mac:

Apple Watch locks when skin contact is broken as security precaution for mobile payments

More: Business Insider, iDownloadBlog.com, Re/code and MacDailyNews. Tweets: @reneritchie

Walt Mossberg / Re/code:

Tim Cook era emerges as Apple enters two new categories (wearables and mobile payments) in one day

More: New York Times, Marketing Land, ABC News, BGR, Softpedia News, Businessweek, CNET and SiliconBeat

Ali Al-Qudsi / Geek on Gadgets:

Exclusive: Nokia, Windows Phone Brands to be Replaced By Microsoft, Windows — A confidential internal document we received has shed some light on the future of devices produced by Microsoft Mobile, formerly Nokia's devices and services division. It's no secret that Microsoft are trying …

More: The Verge, BGR, CNET, Engadget, The Techolic, Business Insider, Pocketnow, Gigaom, Gizmodo UK, Ubergizmo, WinBeta, Electronista, WMPoweruser, SlashGear, Neowin and Technology Personalized

Emil Protalinski / The Next Web:

4.93 million Gmail usernames and passwords published, Google says ‘no evidence’ its systems were compromised — Approximately 4.93 million Gmail usernames and passwords were published to a Russian Bitcoin forum on Tuesday, as first reported by Russian website CNews. That's the bad news.

Seth Weintraub / 9to5Mac:

IDG closing Macworld magazine; Macworld.com website to continue; most editorial staff let go; IDG editorial director Jason Snell resigns — IDG shutters Macworld Magazine, much of the editorial staff let go … International Data Group (IDG) is shutting down Macworld Magazine …

More: Jason Snell, Valleywag, Cult of Mac, Daring Fireball, MacNN, Poynter, MacDailyNews and inessential.com

Tweets: @danfrakes, @drm510, @jsnell, @pogue, @dangillmor, @stevenlevy and @glennf

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Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch:

Google Hangouts Gets Google Voice Integration And Free VoIP Calls — For the last few years, it has always felt like Google Voice, the company's VoIP calling solution, was on its way out. Instead, the video-centric Hangouts was getting all of the attention.

More: The Official Google Blog, Android Police, Android Central, iMore, PC World, IntoMobile, TechSpot, ZDNet, Phandroid, iMore, Gigaom, Business Insider, Droid Life, Android Authority, Android Central, VentureBeat, The Next Web and InvestorPlace. Tweets: @robpegoraro

Kif Leswing / Gigaom:

T-Mobile will start offering personalized router for Wi-Fi calling; all new phones will have ability to make Wi-Fi calls and texts out of the box — T-Mobile will give you a customized router for better Wi-Fi calling — After Apple announced Wi-Fi calling support in iOS 8 …

More: Laptop Mag, GeekWire, Bloomberg, Android Police, The Next Web, BGR, TechCrunch, The Verge, MacRumors, Re/code, Engadget, Gizmodo, CNET, iMore, IntoMobile, Liliputing, SlashGear and Electronista

David Ruddock / Android Police:

2-Hour Refund Window For Paid Apps And Games On The Play Store Is Officially Official — Around a month ago, we reported that Google had seemingly changed the refund window for paid apps and games on the Play Store to two hours. We tested our theory extensively, and 2 hours was the figure we landed on repeatedly.

More: The Verge, 9to5Google, Gigaom, Liliputing and Pocketnow

Paul Sawers / The Next Web:

Facebook is testing a feature that lets you schedule the deletion of your posts in advance — Facebook is trialing a new feature that lets you schedule the deletion of your posts in advance. — A handful of users noticed the feature in the Facebook iOS app earlier this week, and we reached out to Facebook to seek clarification.

More: The Verge, VatorNews, Engadget, Gigaom, Mashable, Yahoo Tech, Ubergizmo, Gizmodo, Telegraph and Business Insider

Ian Kar / Bank Innovation:

Visa, MasterCard in talks with mobile wallet providers for “Cardholder Present” rate if they integrate biometric authentication — Visa, MasterCard in Talks with Mobile Wallets for ‘Cardholder Present’ Rate — With the arrival of Apple Pay yesterday, the mobile wallet industry has been reinvigorated.

Ryan Lawler / TechCrunch:

Tinder in talks with Benchmark to raise funding at valuation of over $750 Million — Tinder Is Raising From Benchmark At A Valuation North Of $750 Million — Mobile dating app Tinder is in talks to raise a big round of funding from Benchmark, according to sources.

More: ReadWrite and Forbes

Brad Sams / Neowin:

Microsoft is testing playing Xbox games in your browser — Mockup of Xbox 360 dashboard in your browser — Microsoft is a technology company and when they see a problem that they think they can solve, they put their best and brightest minds to a solution.

More: PC World, BGR and Windows Phone Central

Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch:

Here's Apple Pay In Action — Apple has revealed its mobile payments play, and it features NFC and Touch ID, as many expected. The system works as fast as they joked it did on stage - which is why in our demo we ran through a number of different payment scenarios.

More: BGR, Gigaom Research, Marketing Pilgrim, Fortune, 9to5Mac and Business Wire

Mike Snider / USA Today:

Apple hopes to jump-start mobile payments with Apple Pay

More: Wired, ABC News and Associated Press

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