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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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| Joshua Ho / AnandTech: |
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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| Kelly Hodgkins / MacRumors: |
iPhone 6 and 6 Plus Capable of Faster Charging Using iPad 2.1A Adapter — Apple's iPhone 6 and 6 Plus ship with higher capacity batteries that deliver exceptional battery life, but as pointed out by iLounge and MacRumors forum members, the two new iPhone models can also charge significantly faster …
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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.| 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 … | 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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| 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 … | 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 … | 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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| 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 … | 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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| Todd Bishop / GeekWire: |
Ray Ozzie's new startup Talko wants to reinvent the phone call, starting with an iPhone app — Say hello to Talko: Ray Ozzie's startup aims to reinvent the phone call — What has Ray Ozzie been focusing on since leaving his position as Microsoft's chief software architect? Here's the answer.
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| Carolyn Said / San Francisco Chronicle: |
Lyft scales back its Lyft Plus service, offering concessions to drivers who bought customized $34K SUVs to participate — Lyft Plus changes upset some drivers — Some early drivers for Lyft Plus, which Lyft started in May as a premium and larger-capacity ride service …
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| Brandon Hill / DailyTech: |
A Year After It Was First Announced, PlayStation TV Headed to U.S. for $99 — PlayStaton TV will be available October 14 — Sony first announced the PlayStation Vita TV settop box over a year ago in Japan. The tiny device is roughly comparable in concept and scope to the Roku 3 and Amazon Fire TV.
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| 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 … | Jon Russell / The Next Web: |
Yahoo buys its first startup from India, cloud docs specialist Bookpad in an undisclosed deal — India looks like it has netted its third notable startup exit this year, after Yahoo swooped to purchase Bookpad, a one-year-old company that hosts cloud-based documents, according to local media.
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| 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 … | Jack Marshall / Wall Street Journal: |
WPP invests $25M in ad tech company AppNexus, now owns nearly 15% of the company — WPP Increases Investment in AppNexus — WPP has agreed to invest $25 million in AppNexus in a deal that will raise its stake in the ad technology company to nearly 15%, WPP CEO Martin Sorrell said.
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