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iOS 8 review: Apple empowers developers with Continuity, iCloud Drive, HealthKit, HomeKit, Pay — iOS 8, thoroughly reviewed — A big, developer-centric update completes the overhaul started in iOS 7. — “Huge for developers. Massive for everyone else.”
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| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
Apple Releases iOS 8 With Continuity, Third Party Access to Keyboards/Touch ID, Family Sharing, and ‘Health’ App — Apple today released iOS 8 to the public, making the download available to all users who have an iPhone 4s or later, iPad 2 or later, 5th-generation iPod touch, or iPad mini.
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| Jordan Kahn / 9to5Mac: |
Developers warn iOS 8 users not to upgrade to iCloud Drive before OS X Yosemite release — With the public release of iOS 8 landing today ahead of the new iPhone models shipping on September 19, developers are warning users not to upgrade to Apple's new iCloud Drive feature just yet.
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| John Gruber / Daring Fireball: |
iPhone 6 better in every way: display, performance, photos, videos, battery life, and network speed — The iPhones 6 — The Big Picture — A few days into testing the new iPhone 6 and 6 Plus, I accidentally left my personal iPhone 5S on a desk next to the iPhone 6 Plus.
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| Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch: |
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| Walt Mossberg / Re/code: |
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TechCrunch, Guardian, TechCrunch, The Daily Dot, Laptop Mag, ZDNet, Gizmodo, Fast Company, BGR, MacDailyNews, FierceWireless, TechRadar.com, Reuters, Business Insider, Pocket-lint, MobileSyrup.com, AppleTell, 9to5Mac, WebProNews, Gearburn, iPhone, iPhone Hacks, TODAY, MacRumors, Computerworld, Gigaom, blogs.ft.com, The Independent, bgr.in, Wall Street Journal and T3. Tweets: @waltmossberg. Thanks:@sidharthdassani
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Tim Cook Interview: The iPhone 6, the Apple Watch, and Remaking a Company's Culture — Steve Jobs's office remains Steve Jobs's office. After his death in 2011, Tim Cook, his friend and successor as Apple (AAPL) chief executive officer, decided to leave the sparsely decorated room on the fourth floor of 1 Infinite Loop untouched.
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| Lorraine Luk / Wall Street Journal: |
Foxconn struggles with iPhone 6 demand despite 200K workers making 540K phones/day — Foxconn Struggles to Meet New iPhone Demand — Apple fans may have to wait for weeks to get the new iPhones as Apple's major assembler Foxconn appears to be struggling to boost its production to meet strong demand.
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9to5Mac, PC Magazine, BGR, TUAW, SlashGear, MacRumors, Cult of Mac, CNET, AppleInsider, MacDailyNews, iPhone in Canada Blog, TechnoBuffalo, iDownloadBlog.com, Business Insider and iMore. Tweets: @cdhowe
| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Amazon leaks smaller, lighter, 300 DPI high-res Voyage Kindle, launching Nov 4th — Kindle Voyage leaks on Amazon with a new way to turn pages — Amazon appears to be preparing to launch new Kindles. Several listings spotted on the German version of Amazon show a new “Kindle Voyage” …
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Engadget, The eBook Reader Blog, TechSpot, InvestorPlace, PC World, GeekWire, Digital Book World, Ubergizmo, Electronista, Gizmodo, Geek.com, SlashGear, Pocket-lint, The Next Web, The Digital Reader, Liliputing, The Digital Reader, Softpedia News, TechnoBuffalo, TechCrunch and The Tech Report. Tweets: @craigmod
| Matthew J. Belvedere / CNBC: |
Peter Thiel: Twitter execs probably smoke pot, Uber most ethically challenged company — Peter Thiel on Twitter and pot, Google, Uber and gay CEOs — Peter Thiel, PayPal co-founder, provides his play on social media company Twitter. — Silicon Valley venture capitalist Peter Thiel …
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| John Gruber / Daring Fireball: |
Initial Apple Watch thoughts: gold version could 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).
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| Liam Spradlin / Android Police: |
Material design screenshots leaked for Google Play Store 5.0 update — An Exclusive Early Look At The Google Play Store's 5.0 Update — A couple of months ago, we shared an early look at an impending Play Store update that saw more “materialized” content listings, but the rest of the interface remained largely unchanged.
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Gizmodo, PC World, Gotta Be Mobile, AndroidOS.in and Engadget
| Rolfe Winkler / Wall Street Journal: |
Former Qualcomm executive Dennis Kish replaces Milo Medin as head of Google Fiber — Former Qualcomm Exec Named Head of Google Fiber — Google Fiber has a new boss, the latest sign that the search giant is serious about delivering high-speed Internet service.
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Engadget, DSLreports, ZDNet, 9to5Google, Light Reading, Softpedia News and Gigaom
| Jon Russell / The Next Web: |
Dropbox suspends auto-upload feature in its iOS apps due to an iOS 8 ‘compatibility’ issue — Dropbox has “temporarily suspended” the auto-upload feature that syncs photos and videos in its primary iOS app, and the iOS version of its Carousel photo sharing app, following an issue with iOS 8.
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| Phil Goldstein / FierceWireless: |
Verizon Wireless plans to launch Wi-Fi calling in mid-2015 — Verizon Wireless (NYSE: VZ) plans to introduce Wi-Fi calling in the middle of next year but does not see an urgent need for it, according to Verizon Communications CFO Fran Shammo. — Speaking at the Bank of America Merrill Lynch Media …
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iMore, Ubergizmo, Droid Life and Android and Me
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Sling's TV place-shifting gains Chromecast support — Good news for Chromecast dongle users! Sling Media has upgraded its iPhone, iPad, and Android phone Slingplayer smartphone apps to stream Sling-connected content to any TV fitted with a Chromecast dongle. (An Android tablet app is in the works and coming soon.)| Ravi Grover / Facebook Developers: |
Facebook adds label cohorts and retention charts to app analytics for developers — Introducing improved analytics tools for app developers — Today we're excited to announce that we're launching new tools within App Insights to let you better measure the performance of your app among specific groups …
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Marketing Land, The Next Web, ReadWrite, WebProNews and Inside Facebook
| Greg Kumparak / TechCrunch: |
Easel To Shut Down Nine Months After Being Acquired By GitHub — Back when GitHub acquired Easel, a collaborative, What-You-See-Is-What-You-Get HTML web design tool, Easel's blog post on the matter implied that it would be sticking around. “Easel continues to run as it has,” it read.
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Easel, VentureBeat and The Next Web
| Ryan Lawler / TechCrunch: |
Retail Software Startup LightSpeed Raises $35 Million From iNovia — While e-commerce is huge and growing, about 90 percent of all purchases still happen offline. LightSpeed wants to provide the software and services that help brick-and-mortar retailers increase sales and improve the general customer experience.
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