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iPhone 6/6 Plus beat competition in browser and GPU benchmarks, web browsing battery life test — iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus: Preliminary Results — While we're still working on the full review, I want to get out some preliminary results for the iPhone 6.
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| Raymond M. Soneira / DisplayMate: |
iPhone 6 Plus display is “best performing smartphone LCD we ever tested”, iPhone 6 “very good” — iPhone 6 Display Technology Shoot-Out — Introduction A key element for a great Smartphone has always been a truly innovative and top performing display …
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| Peter Kafka / Re/code: |
Apple won't shut down the Beats Music streaming service, but the Beats Music brand may change — Apple's Beats Music Brand May Go Away. Apple's Beats Music Service Is Sticking Around. — Earlier this year, Apple bought Beats Music and Beats Electronics for $3 billion.
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See also Mediagazer| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Beats Music brand will be shut down, product could be rolled into iTunes — Apple Plans To Shut Down Beats Music — Apple will discontinue the streaming music service Beats Music it acquired in May, according to five sources, including several prominent employees at Apple and Beats.
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See also Mediagazer| Apple: |
Apple sells over 10M iPhone 6 and 6 Plus units in three days after launch, beating 9M iPhones sold in the same period last year — First Weekend iPhone Sales Top 10 Million, Set New Record — Apple® today announced it has sold over 10 million new iPhone® 6 and iPhone 6 Plus models …
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| Eva Dou / Wall Street Journal: |
Google selects HTC to make its upcoming 9-inch Nexus tablet — HTC Returns to Tablets with Google Nexus Partnership — After disappointing sales of the Flyer tablet in 2011, HTC's executives said they'd swear off making tablets until they found a compelling reason to try again. — They have one now.| Jackgmarch Com / Jack March: |
Source: 12″ Macbook Air has thinner fanless design, reversible USB Type C, no MagSafe — Exclusive: 12″ Macbook Air Design Details — You may remember a report from last week claiming that the MacBook Air was going to arrive in Space Grey, Gold, & Silver colours and launch in Mid 2015 …
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| Peter Kafka / Re/code: |
HBO, Amazon Prime and Broadband for $40 a Month at AT&T — It's still nearly impossible to get HBO, or any other pay-TV channel, without subscribing to a pay-TV package that gives you a bundle of channels, whether you want them or not. — But the people who sell you TV are starting to tinker with the model, at least at the margins.
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| Anthony Ha / TechCrunch: |
Adobe Acquires Photo-Editing Platform Aviary — Aviary just announced that it has been acquired by Adobe. — Aviary offers a software development kit to developers who want to add photo-editing capabilities to their apps. Aviary has also created apps of its own, which it says have been … | Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica: |
Eric Schmidt says Google will cut ties with ALEC because group is lying about climate change — Google will stop supporting climate change science deniers, calls them liars — Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt. — JD Lasica — Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt today said it was a … | Kim Zetter / Wired: |
MIT students behind Bitcoin mining tool Tidbit fight New Jersey subpoena demanding source code — MIT Students Battle State's Demand for Their Bitcoin Miner's Source Code — Four MIT students behind an award-winning Bitcoin mining tool will face off against New Jersey state authorities …
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| John Battelle / John Battelle's Search Blog: |
Buying into murky Alibaba is buying into a corrupt government that's excluded US companies — Thoughts On Alibaba — The post Thoughts On Alibaba appeared first on John Battelle's Search Blog. — A caveat before I think out loud, quite possibly getting myself into a running battle I know I can't win …
Tweets: @jjhikes, @pennockd, @mhelft, @mattrosoff, @arrington and @bryce
| Wall Street Journal: |
Merger talks between EMC and Hewlett-Packard recently broke down; EMC also talked with Dell — EMC Weighs Merger, Other Options — Pressed by Activist and With CEO Expected to Retire, Data-Storage Giant Reaches Crossroad — Data-storage giant EMC Corp. , under pressure from a shareholder activist … | Peter Kafka / Re/code: |
AT&T, Chernin buy majority stake in Fullscreen YouTube network, valuing it between $200-300M — AT&T & Chernin Buy Fullscreen, the Big YouTube Video Network — Otter Media, the Web video joint venture between AT&T and the Chernin Group, is confirming its deal to buy a controlling stake in Fullscreen … | Melissa Eddy / New York Times: |
2,000 Amazon workers from 4 distribution centers in Germany walk off the job in wage dispute — Amazon Workers Walk Off the Job in Germany Over Wage Dispute — BERLIN — Amazon employees in Germany, frustrated by the company's refusal to hold wage talks, walked off their jobs Monday …
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| Steven Millward / Tech in Asia: |
DuckDuckGo joins Google in being blocked in China — Privacy-oriented search engine DuckDuckGo is now blocked in China. We noticed this over the weekend, and on Sunday DuckDuckGo founder and CEO Gabriel Weinberg confirmed to Tech in Asia that the team has noticed the blockage in China:
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| Ryan Lawler / TechCrunch: |
Lyft Acquires Shared Ride Startup Hitch To Bolster Its Lyft Line Service — Shared rides are becoming all the rage, with new transportation companies all offering their users a way to lower fares while splitting their commute with a stranger. One of the first services to focus on that capability … | Newley Purnell / Wall Street Journal: |
BlackBerry Passport to go on sale Wednesday in the US, will cost $599 without contract — BlackBerry CEO: New Smartphone Will Cost $599 — Passport Smartphone Is Company's First Device Launch Since BlackBerry 10 — SINGAPORE— BlackBerry Ltd. plans to sell its new square-screen smartphone …
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