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September 19, 2014, 3:20 PM

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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) …

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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Leslie Picker / Bloomberg:

Alibaba begins trading on NYSE for $92.70 per share, up over 36% from IPO price of $68 — Alibaba Group Said to Raise $21.8 Billion in Record U.S. IPO — Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. (BABA), the e-commerce company started in 1999 with $60,000 cobbled together by Jack Ma …

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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 …

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

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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 …

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

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 …

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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 …

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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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Craig Timberg / Washington Post:

Android L, due for release next month, will encrypt data by default for the first time — Newest Androids will join iPhones in offering default encryption, blocking police — The next generation of Google's Android operating system, due for release next month, will encrypt data by default …

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 …

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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 …

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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: PandoDaily and Engadget. Tweets: @daveg

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, PandoDaily, CoinDesk, Seeking Alpha and Gigaom

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

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John Ribeiro / Network World:

New US Senate bill aims to limit access to emails stored abroad — Legislation introduced in the U.S. Senate on Thursday aims to place limits on access by U.S. law enforcement agencies to emails and other communications stored abroad. — The proposed legislation comes against the backdrop …

More: Microsoft on the Issues, Center for Democracy …, Washington Post and The Hill. Tweets: @bradsmi

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: Joel Stein, SiliconANGLE, Bloomberg, Fortune, DISPLAYBLOG and Re/code

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Oracle:

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

More: ZDNet and ValueWalk

Sean Buckley / Engadget:

Nvidia unveils new flagship GeForce GTX 980 and 970 desktop GPUs based on Maxwell architecture — NVIDIA's latest GPU crams 4K images on 1080p displays — Back in February, NVIDIA trotted out the very first desktop GPUs to feature its new Maxwell architecture: the GeForce GTX 750 and 750i.

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Amy Gesenhues / Search Engine Land:

Bing Image Search Updates Include Touch Friendly Result Pages That Adapt To Screen Size & Resolution — Over the next few weeks, Bing is rolling out new updates to its image search experience that include touch-friendly search result pages that have been designed to adapt to a user's screen size and resolution.

More: Search Blog, The Fire Hose, Ubergizmo and WinBeta

Dave Lee / BBC:

eBay flaw exposing visitors to malicious websites has affected site since at least February — eBay security flaw has existed for months — Listings clicked on eBay automatically directed users to malicious websites — A flaw that has exposed eBay customers to malicious websites …

Signe Brewster / Gigaom:

Finally: Meta begins shipping its augmented reality glasses to developers — The developer kit edition of Meta's glasses has come a long way since last December. But it's clear that augmented reality is still in its infancy. — It's a common story: Post your product on Kickstarter …

More: TechCrunch and Business Insider

Drew FitzGerald / Wall Street Journal:

iOS 8 roll-out was the first time Apple used its own content-delivery network at such a large scale — Apple Relied on Its Own Network for Part of the iOS 8 Upgrade — The roll-out of Apple 's new mobile-operating system Wednesday was the first time the company used its proprietary data …

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