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iPhone 6 Teardown — Double the iPhone, double the teardown! With the iPhone 6 Plus laid out for inspection, we turn our attention to the smaller iPhone 6—though at 4.7", it's still a giant among iPhones. What was so big that Apple couldn't fit it into the familiar form factor?| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
iPhone 6 and 6 Plus Use 20-Nanometer A8 Processor From TSMC — Apple's 20-nanometer A8 processor in the new iPhone 6 and 6 Plus was fabricated by Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC), according to Chipworks (via iFixit). Chipworks has been analyzing the various parts in the iPhone 6 … | iFixit: |
iPhone 6 Plus teardown: 1GB RAM confirmed, has nearly double the battery capacity of the 5s — iPhone 6 Plus Teardown — Over the years, we've seen the iPhone evolve—and grow. It began as just the iPhone. Soon it learned how to 3G, it gained an S (it would lose and gain this every other year) …
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Alibaba closes first day of trading on NYSE at $93.89 per share, up 38% from IPO price of $68 — Alibaba Closes Up 38% at $93.89, Volume Falls Off — Alibab Group Holdings (BABA), after opening at $92.70, up 36% from its offer price of $68, slipped in afternoon trading then steadily worked … | Sarah Frier / Bloomberg: |
Alibaba hits $231.44B market cap, passing Facebook, and trailing only Apple, Google, and Microsoft among public US tech companies — Alibaba Passes Facebook in Market Value on First Trade — Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. surpassed Facebook Inc. (FB) by market capitalization on its first trade … | Douglas MacMillan / Wall Street Journal: |
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Tim Cook visits Palo Alto Apple Store for iPhone 6 launch as Angela Ahrendts welcomes Sydney — Apple's leadership is out in full force today for the iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus launch across the globe. — Apple CEO Tim Cook has been spotted at the company's local Apple Store in Palo Alto …
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Apple's iPhone 6 And 6 Plus Go On Sale To Long Lines Of Fans — Apple started selling its iPhone 6 and 6 Plus today, with sales in-store kicking off at Apple Store retail locations beginning at 8 AM local time. The lines this year are longer than they have been in recent memory …
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Patent troll gives up, can't defend “matchmaking” patent under new law — A patent troll called Lumen View Technology got stopped in its tracks last year after it sued Santa Barbara-based startup FindTheBest, then asked the company for a quick $50,000 settlement.
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iCloud for Windows update means PCs can use iCloud Drive before Macs can — iCloud Drive is now available on Windows, but not OS X. — Apple officially released iCloud Drive yesterday as part of the iOS 8 update, but it came with a caveat: turning it on disables the “old” way of iCloud syncing …
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Facebook's US Ad Revenues Outpace Users' Average Daily Time Spent on the Site — Facebook bucks trend of digital ad dollars lagging time spent with digital media — US adults will spend an average of 21 minutes each day on Facebook in 2014, according to new figures from eMarketer …
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Sony's SmartEyeglass prototype makes Google Glass look chic — As Sony's smartphone division continues to struggle, the company is working out what it needs to return to profitability. Does it concentrate on the high-end market dominated by Apple and Samsung, or does it try to appeal … | Bloomberg: |
Gold IPhones at $3,600 as China Delay Fuels Black Market — Liu Min stands a few feet from an Apple Inc. (AAPL) store in Beijing hawking something that can't be bought inside: the new iPhone 6. — While the device debuted today in the U.S., Hong Kong, Japan and Australia … | Andrea Peterson / Washington Post: |
Online court archive PACER says it will restore access to missing records — The Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts (or AO) has a plan to restore online access to documents that were controversially removed in August from PACER, the online system for accessing public court records, a spokesperson said.
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Exclusive: France's Iliad sets mid-Oct deadline for T-Mobile US bid - sources — (Reuters) - French low-cost telecom operator Iliad has set a mid-October deadline to decide whether to improve its bid for T-Mobile US or walk away as it faces resistance from seller Deutsche Telekom, several people familiar with the situation said.
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Google, Dropbox, and others launch open source security organization Simply Secure — New Initiative Simply Secure Aims to Make Security Tools Easier to Use — The dramatic revelations of large-scale government surveillance and deep penetration of the Internet by intelligence services … | Jonathan Stempel / Reuters: |
U.S. judge awards $40.7 million in SEC case over bitcoin Ponzi scheme — (Reuters) - A U.S. federal judge in Texas ordered Bitcoin Savings and Trust and its owner to pay a combined $40.7 million after the Securities and Exchange Commission established that the company, which sold investments using … | Everett Rosenfeld / CNBC: |
Bitcoin drops as much as 11% in the past day to below $382, lowest since April — Bitcoin tanks, is Alibaba to blame? — The price of bitcoin has plummeted in the past few days, and some are blaming the Alibaba IPO for the virtual currency's fall. — Touching as low as $381.17 earlier Friday … | Carolyn Said / San Francisco Chronicle: |
Some say Larry Ellison's new role is merely a title change, a point that Oracle's statement partially confirms — Larry Ellison steps down as CEO of Oracle but remains in charge — Larry Ellison, a Silicon Valley pioneer known as one of its most flamboyant and aggressive leaders …
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