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September 19, 2014, 5:45 PM

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iFixit:

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?

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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) …

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 …

More: Chipworks Blog, 9to5Mac, SlashGear and iPhone in Canada Blog. Tweets: @chipworks

Tiernan Ray / Tech Trader Daily:

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 …

More: Wall Street Journal, The Next Web, ZDNet, Wall Street Journal, New York Times, PC World, Forbes and Business Insider

Sarah Frier / Bloomberg:

Alibaba hits $228.5B 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 …

More: Bloomberg. See also Mediagazer

Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch:

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 …

Zac Hall / 9to5Mac:

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 …

More: Cult of Mac, Wall Street Journal, MacRumors and MacNN

Matt Brian / Engadget:

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 …

More: Blog Portal, Sony Global, 9to5Google, 9to5Google, Wearable World News, GSMArena Blog, Seeking Alpha, SlashGear, Electronista, The Wearable Stuff, Ubergizmo and The Verge

eMarketer:

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 …

More: Marketing Land and Marketing Pilgrim

Andrew Cunningham / Ars Technica:

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 …

More: GeekWire, CNET, Redmond Pie, Engadget, CIO.com, TechnoBuffalo, 9to5Mac, Inquirer, Gotta Be Mobile, The Verge, iMore, Gotta Be Mobile, MacNN and Wired.co.uk

Joe Mullin / Ars Technica:

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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Andrew Cunningham / Ars Technica:

iOS 8 on iPhone 4S: cramped screen and 50% more time to do the same tasks compared to iOS 7 — iOS 8 on the iPhone 4S: Performance isn't the (only) problem — The iPhone 4S. I remember when this was the one that made my old phone feel slow. — iPhones have about a year to be top-of-the-line.

More: Computerworld, Cult of Mac, InvestorPlace, TechnoBuffalo, Gotta Be Mobile, iJailbreak and Tech Times

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 …

More: Gigaom, LeapRate and CoinDesk

Dennis Fisher / Threatpost:

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 …

More: The Dropbox Blog, Google Open Source Blog, Simply Secure, Engadget, PC World, Guardian, Guardian, Inquirer, SecurityWeek, Help Net Security, BetaNews, AndroidHeadlines.com, 9to5Google, Tom's Hardware Guide, BetaNews and The Next Web

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 …

More: Bitcoin Magazine, SiliconANGLE, PandoDaily, Wall Street Journal, CoinDesk, International Business Times, Focus on Funds and Seeking Alpha

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 …

More: CNET, MacDailyNews, PC World, FierceWireless and Seeking Alpha. Tweets: @bridgetcarey

Matt Hamblen / Computerworld:

Samsung drops price of mobile security tool Knox Premium to $1/device, Knox Express now free — Samsung drops Knox prices and introduces Knox user portal — Employees using ActiveSync can install My Knox without an IT admin — Samsung on Thursday announced price reductions and updates …

More: Samsung KNOX, The Register, GSMArena Blog, AndroidGuys, FierceMobileIT News and Android Central

Reuters:

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.

Liam Boogar / Rude Baguette:

France's new anti-Uber law gives Taxis an unfair advantage — Yesterday evening, the France's National Assembly voted definitively in favor of the pro-taxi “Thévenoud law,” which imposed a certain number of restrictions and regulations on both Taxis and VTC (licensed professional drivers …

More: Engadget and PandoDaily. Tweets: @daveg

Catherine Mayer / TIME:

Bono says U2 and Apple working on new digital music format — Exclusive: U2 and Apple Have Another Surprise for You — The four members of the legendary Irish band tell TIME about another new album in the works—and its secret Apple project that might just save the music industry

More: Billboard, Marco.org, Telegraph, Gigaom Research, Gizmodo, TechnoBuffalo, Forbes, VentureBeat, AppleInsider, RAIN News, App Advice, Engadget, Mashable, iMore, hypebot, CNET, iDownloadBlog.com, MacDailyNews, Cult of Mac, PadGadget, iLounge, App Advice, 9to5Mac, The Next Web, Ubergizmo, iPhone in Canada Blog, Electronista, MacRumors, Business Insider, TUAW, Slate, Digital Trends and TechHive

Tweets: @tapbot_paul and @om

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 …

More: New York Times, Joel Stein, SiliconANGLE, Bloomberg, Fortune, Re/code, Bloomberg, DISPLAYBLOG and Associated Press

Tweets: @dkberman and @benioff

Oracle:

Oracle reports Q1 earnings of $2.2B, or 48 cents a share, on revenue of $8.6B

More: ZDNet, ValueWalk and AdExchanger

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