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September 17, 2014, 1:50 AM

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Walt Mossberg / Re/code:

iPhone 6: a great upgrade for iPhone owners, and the best smartphone you can buy — iPhone 6 Review: It's a Winner — After stubbornly resisting for years, Apple has finally joined the big-screen smartphone movement with its two latest models, the iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus, which go on sale Friday.

More: The Verge, TechCrunch, MacRumors, Business Insider, Guardian, Telegraph, 9to5Mac, NEWS.com.au, Gizmodo, Quartz, Fast Company, MacDailyNews, T3, SlashGear, The Independent, Pocket-lint, Cult of Mac and iPhone in Canada Blog

Tweets: @dannysullivan, @stevesi, @dsilverman and @tjmanotoc

Thanks:@sidharthdassani

David Pogue / Yahoo Tech:

Reviewed: iPhone 6 is a Thin, Sexy Phone with a Killer Camera — When Apple unveiled the iPhone 6 last week, it made the front pages of newspapers. It dominated Google Search and Twitter. It triggered an avalanche of sniping and worshiping on the Web's comment boards. — About a phone?

More: Wall Street Journal, USA Today, New York Times, The Loop, MacRumors, CNET, Business Insider, Mashable, The Independent, TechHive, T3, DISPLAYBLOG, TIME and BGR. Tweets: @panzer

Jason Snell / Six Colors:

iPhone 6 & iPhone 6 Plus: A tale of scale — I've been using the iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus for the last week, since Apple's big event on Sept. 9. You can read my full review on Macworld—it's my final byline there. You can also listen to episode 1 of my new podcast, Upgrade …

Tweets: @counternotions, @nnnnnnnn and @reppep

Bonnie Cha / Re/code:

SwiftKey, Swype and QuickType keyboards on iPhone 6 make typing easier, faster — New Keyboards Bring Faster, Easier Typing to the iPhone 6 — Imagine a smartphone keyboard that was intelligent enough to predict what you were going to type next. One that could save you from pecking letter …

More: GeekWire, The Verge, The Next Web, iMore and TechCrunch

Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch:

iPhone 6 Plus Review: The First Truly Well-Designed Big Smartphone — Apple is launching not one, but two premium smartphones today, and the iPhone 6 Plus is the one many probably were skeptical even existed just a few short months ago. With a screen size measuring 5.5-inches across the diagonal …

More: Engadget, The Verge, PhoneArena, Businessweek, MacRumors, Re/code, Telegraph, Mashable and Business Insider

Joanna Stern / Wall Street Journal:

Apple iOS 8 Review: A New Phone Without Buying One — The Updated Operating System Might Not Look Very Different, but Will Give an Older iPhone a New Lease on Life — Forget the iPhone 6, Apple's newest software upgrade brings big changes as well. WSJ Personal Tech Columnist Joanna Stern dives …

More: Re/code, Los Angeles Times, The Next Web, Engadget and TechCrunch

John Gruber / Daring Fireball:

Initial Apple Watch thoughts: gold version to start at $5K, stainless $1K; unclear how Apple and the market will deal with its technology growing old fast — Apple Watch: Initial Thoughts and Observations — Consider Vertu, the company that sells $6,000 Android phones (and which, back in the day, sold $6,000 Symbian phones).

More: Benedict Evans, VentureBreak and Business Insider

Tweets: @adamludwin and @cdixon

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Microsoft Corporation:

Microsoft raises its dividend by 11%, adds Kraft and Visa execs to board as Dave Marquardt and Dina Dublon retire — Microsoft announces board changes and quarterly dividend increase — Teri List-Stoll of Kraft and Charles W. Scharf of Visa to join board; Dave Marquardt and Dina Dublon …

More: TechCrunch, Neowin, Bloomberg, WinBeta, Windows Phone Central, Business Insider and Tech Trader Daily

Juli Clover / MacRumors:

Apple Launches Guide for Android Users Switching to iPhone — Ahead of the launch of the large-screened iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus, Apple has released a detailed support document that walks Android users through moving data from their Android devices to the iPhone.

More: Official Apple Support, 9to5Mac, Guardian, TechCrunch, Softpedia News, iDownloadBlog.com, iLounge, The Verge, App Advice, Ubergizmo, Electronista, Business Insider and Redmond Pie. Tweets: @dannysullivan

Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet:

Round two of Microsoft layoffs coming September 18: Sources — Summary: Microsoft will continue with its planned layoffs of 18,000 with job cuts across nearly all divisions of the company with its second wave of cuts later this week. — Later this week, Microsoft will lay off another group …

More: The Register, WinBeta, Business Insider, Neowin and Windows Phone Central

Josh Constine / TechCrunch:

Codenamed “Moments”, Facebook Has Built An App For Super-Private Sharing — Facebook has failed repeatedly to get us to use complicated lists and privacy settings to share intimate moments with just our closest friends and family. It's clumsy and confusing doing that with the same composer for blasting News Feed updates to everyone.

More: The Daily Dot, AllFacebook, VentureBeat and Mashable

Tweets: @ryanlawler and @caseynewton

Ryan Lawler / TechCrunch:

With $7.9 Million In Funding, Workpop Launches As A Job Marketplace For Hourly Workers — There are plenty of tools out there for recruiting and hiring professionals, mainly led by industry stalwart LinkedIn. But what if you're looking for part-time or hourly workers?

More: PandoDaily, VentureBreak, Trinity Ventures, PE Hub Blog and socalTECH.com

Tweets: @davetisch and @chrisovitz

Buster Hein / Cult of Mac:

Apple confirms iPhone 6 NFC chip is only for Apple Pay at launch — Apple finally added NFC to the iPhone 6 and 6 Plus, but if you were hoping the company's new NFC chip will allow you to pair speakers or integrated NFC tags into your favorite apps, however you won't be able …

Arik Hesseldahl / Re/code:

Rackspace no longer exploring sale, names current president Taylor Rhodes CEO, falls 17% after hours — Rackspace No Longer for Sale, Names New CEO — Rackspace, the cloud computing player that has been for sale since May, ended that process today, saying it intends to remain independent.

More: VentureBeat, Marketwired, VatorNews, The Register, Data Center Knowledge, Gigaom and ZDNet

Ahmed Ghappour / Just Security:

Justice Department Proposal Would Massively Expand FBI Extraterritorial Surveillance — A Department of Justice proposal to amend Rule 41 of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure would make it easier for domestic law enforcement to hack into computers of people attempting to protect their anonymity on the Internet.

Tweets: @kashhill, @freebarrett_, @juliaharte1, @mala and @trevortimm

Josh Lowensohn / The Verge:

Smart thermostat maker Ecobee pokes Nest with a striking redesign — And the promise of lower heating and cooling bills — One of the first things Stuart Lombard will tell you is how much he spent on the solar panels that are on top of his house. It's not to brag so much as to explain …

More: Engadget, SlashGear, PC World, MobileSyrup.com, Gizmodo and Gigaom

Kevin Fitchard / Gigaom:

Automatic Labs partners with Ford, adding Siri and IFTTT to SYNC-enabled vehicles — Who needs CarPlay? Ford brings Siri to the car dashboard now with the help of Automatic Labs — Ford and Automatic have figured out a way of shoehorning Apple's Siri personal assistant into older model vehicles.

More: The Next Web, 9to5Mac, media.ford.com, Automatic Blog, SlashGear, Gizmodo and CNET

Abhirup Roy / Reuters:

Adobe profit fell 46% in Q3; paid subscribers for Creative Cloud rose by 500K — Adobe revenue forecast misses, shares slip — (Reuters) - Photoshop maker Adobe Systems Inc's (ADBE.O) forecast disappointing revenue for this quarter and reported lower quarterly sales at its digital media business …

More: ZDNet, Gizmodo, RTTNews, VentureBeat, Benzinga, Bloomberg, Wall Street Journal, AdExchanger, Tech Trader Daily, Forbes and Associated Press

Yang Jie / Wall Street Journal:

Chinese Worker Detained for Giving Customers a Sneak Peek at iPhone 6 — Apple's new iPhone 6 might not be available in mainland China any time soon. But, according to local authorities, plenty of people there have already wrapped their hands around its contours.

More: CNET, SlashGear, TechnoBuffalo, Softpedia News, MacRumors, BGR, iPhone in Canada Blog, Electronista, iDownloadBlog.com, Cult of Mac, Ubergizmo, Business Insider, 9to5Mac, App Advice and iMore

Eugene Kim / Business Insider:

YC's Sam Altman plus Paul Graham, Peter Thiel, Marissa Mayer, Marc Andreessen, and more to teach Stanford course on startups; lectures to appear online — Peter Thiel, Marc Andreessen, And Marissa Mayer Want To Teach You ‘How To Start A Startup’ — Some of the most prominent investors …

More: Wired, TechCrunch, Re/code, New York Times, GeekWire, Fast Company, bizjournals and Fortune

Tweets: @sama and @sama

Cherlynn Low / Laptop Mag:

ZTE ZMAX: 5.7" HD screen, 3,400-mAH battery, available Sept 24 at T-Mobile for $250 unlocked — ZTE ZMAX: Huge 3,400-mAH Battery, 5.7-inch Screen for $250 — NEW YORK - Apple wants you to pay an extra $100 for the 5.5-inch iPhone 6 Plus, but ZTE is giving you a bigger screen for less.

More: The Verge, CNET, Engadget and AndroidHeadlines.com. Thanks:@cherlynnlow

Jonathan Stempel / Reuters:

U.S. court throws out VirnetX $368 million patent award vs Apple — (Reuters) - A federal appeals court on Tuesday threw out a jury order requiring Apple Inc to pay VirnetX Holding Corp $368.2 million in damages for infringing four patents concerning technology for providing security over the Internet.

More: Wall Street Journal, iMore, The Register, PC World, Bloomberg, AppleInsider, MacRumors and Electronista

Emil Protalinski / The Next Web:

Microsoft launches OneNote for Android Wear and Share extension for iOS 8, updates Office Lens for Windows Phone — Microsoft today made three major OneNote announcements. The company launched OneNote for Android Wear and a Share extension for iOS 8, as well as updated Office Lens for Windows Phone.

More: Office Blogs, Office Blogs, The Verge, Engadget, TechnoBuffalo, CITEworld, PC World, SlashGear, Pocket-lint, Ubergizmo, 9to5Google, Android Police, The Fire Hose, Neowin, Android Central, VentureBeat and ZDNet

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