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Apple pulls iOS 8.0.1 after users report major problems with update — The new update is reportedly killing cell reception and Touch ID — One week after the launch of iOS 8, Apple released its first update for the new OS — iOS 8.0.1 — on Wednesday afternoon.
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Amazon to invest $55M in Silicon Valley-based hardware unit Lab126 to test smart home gadgets and wearables — Exclusive: Amazon tests smart home gadgets, expands hardware lab — (Reuters) - Amazon.com Inc will boost staffing at its secretive Silicon Valley-based hardware unit … | Dan Seifert / The Verge: |
BlackBerry Passport review: good display and battery life, but inefficient keyboard with clumsy software — BlackBerry Passport review — Getting stuff done or getting in the way? — “BlackBerry is still around?” — I've heard that question quite often the past few weeks, as I've been using the BlackBerry Passport.| Bonnie Cha / Re/code: |
Blackberry Passport: 4.5 inch square display, touch physical keyboard, available today for $599 unlocked — Blackberry Passport: 4.5in square display, touch-enabled physical keyboard, $599 unlocked on AT&T — To say that BlackBerry has had a rough go of it over the past few years would be an understatement.
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| Joshua Brustein / Businessweek: |
Online survey company Qualtrics raises $150M at valuation exceeding $1B from Insight Venture Partners, Sequoia, and Accel — How an Online Survey Company Joined the $1 Billion Club — The business of making software for online surveys is pretty easy to understand: You find people …
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Convicted black hat hacker Kevin Mitnick now selling zero-day exploits, starting at $100K — Kevin Mitnick, Once the World's Most Wanted Hacker, Is Now Selling Zero-Day Exploits — As a young man, Kevin Mitnick became the world's most notorious black hat hacker, breaking into the networks … | Amy Schatz / Re/code: |
Comcast accuses Time Warner merger opponents Netflix, Discovery, and others of “extortion” — Comcast Accuses Time Warner Cable Deal Opponents of “Extortion” — Netflix, Discovery Communications and other companies opposing Comcast's $45 billion deal to acquire Time Warner Cable …
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Adobe to shutter China R&D by December due to hostile government, layoffs of 300 expected — Adobe to shut China R&D as sour business climate bites — (Reuters) - Computer software maker Adobe Systems Inc will shut its Chinese research and development arm, as U.S. technology firms face …
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ARM unveils feature-rich Cortex-M7 processor for embedded, internet of things, and wearables — Cortex-M7 Launches: Embedded, IoT and Wearables — Introduction — Last week, I had the distinct pleasure of visiting ARM's Austin Texas campus for a meeting with Vice President of CPU Product Marketing Nandan Nayampally.
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Startup incubator Science Inc buys mobile ad network PlayHaven from Upsight for more than $20M — Science Inc. Buys Mobile Ad Network PlayHaven — Science, the Los Angeles-based startup incubator and investment company, has made its biggest deal to date, by acquiring PlayHaven, a mobile ad network.
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The Next Web, Inside Mobile Apps, VentureBeat, tech.co, MarketWatch, TechCrunch and socalTECH.com. Thanks:@leesadalto
| Nick Summers / The Next Web: |
Circa reworks its bite-sized news app around Daily Brief catchups and a custom ‘Wire’ news feed — Circa, a news reader app for Android and iOS that breaks important stories down into bite-sized chunks, has undergone a massive overhaul in terms of its design and user experience.| Jonathan Shieber / TechCrunch: |
Its Audacity Undiminished, Udacity Raises $35 Million To Train A New Generation of Developers — As its push to transform education through technology begins to show results, massively open online course provider Udacity is announcing a fresh $35 million financing from a global group of investors to take its vision worldwide.
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Karma Rolls Out An LTE Version Of Its Pay-As-You-Go Mobile Hotspot, Pre-Order For $99 — Karma, makers of the small, portable Wi-Fi hotspot that lets you pay-as-you-go, contract free, for the data you use ($14/1 GB), is now accepting pre-orders for its latest device, the Karma Go portable LTE Wi-Fi hotspot.
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Amazon launches #AmazonWishList, now you can add products to your Wish List by tweeting — Twitter has long been evolving as a vital cog in the global e-commerce wheel, and now Amazon is turning to the social network to make it easier to add items to your Amazon Wish List.
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| John Callaham / Android Central: |
Samsung Gear S coming to AT&T, Verizon, Sprint and T-Mobile for fall launch — Following up on its reveal in late August, Samsung has now announced that its upcoming Tizen-based smartwatch, the Gear S, will go on sale later this fall at the top four US wireless carriers.| Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols / ZDNet: |
Unix/Linux Bash: Critical security hole uncovered — Summary: The popular Linux and Unix shell has a serious security problem that means real trouble for many web servers. Fortunately, a patch — as source code — is available. — Bash, aka the Bourne-Again Shell, has a newly discovered security hole.
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| Kif Leswing / Gigaom: |
Manual for iOS gives photographers DSLR-style control in a well-designed app — Looking for an iPhone camera app with a wealth of manual settings? Check out Manual, which takes advantage of new iOS 8 camera capabilities to give photographers a surprising amount of control.
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Engadget, App Advice, Lifehacker, William Wilkinson, Cult of Mac, Business Insider and The Next Web
| Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch: |
Bionym Raises $14M Series A For Its Heartbeat Authentication Wristband — Toronto-based startup Bionym has raised a $14 million Series A round of funding, including investment from Ignition Partners, Relay Ventures, MasterCard and Salesforce Ventures. The round includes a lot of strategic investment …
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VentureBeat, PE Hub Blog, Forbes, Wearable Tech Insider, Globe and Mail, CNBC and Reuters
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Comparing photos taken with Camera+ using all iPhone versions, from the original to iPhone 6 — How does the iPhone 6 camera compare to previous iPhone cameras? — In the past seven years, each new advancement in iPhone camera technology has made dramatic improvements to image quality.
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ABC News, Business Insider, Forbes, Boing Boing, BGR, Laughing Squid, Gotta Be Mobile, AppleTell, TUAW, SlashGear, Gizmodo, iPhone in Canada Blog and iDownloadBlog.com. Tweets: @bill_gross
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Business Goals Platform BetterWorks Leaves Stealth With $15.5M Led By KPCB — BetterWorks, a new, cloud-based platform designed to help employees set and reach business goals — and the newest project from gamification pioneer Kris Duggan of Badgeville — is coming out of stealth today …
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Forbes, bizjournals, PE Hub Blog, VentureBeat, BetterWorks, Wall Street Journal, PandoDaily and CITEworld
| Jackie Dove / The Next Web: |
Hands on: Adobe Photoshop Elements and Premiere Elements hit version 13 with deep upgrades — Every year — like clockwork — Adobe delivers updates to its consumer photo and video apps, Photoshop Elements and Premiere Elements, and that time has arrived. While the new Elements version 13 seems modest … Sponsor Posts
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Zoho:
Beyond productivity: Why live captions belong in every meeting — You join a meeting, someone starts talking, and within a minute, there are names, numbers, ideas, and unfamiliar terms flying around. You could ask them to repeat it.
Beyond productivity: Why live captions belong in every meeting — You join a meeting, someone starts talking, and within a minute, there are names, numbers, ideas, and unfamiliar terms flying around. You could ask them to repeat it.
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