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HTC introduces Desire Eye, with highest resolution front-facing camera on a smartphone, 13MP front and back — HTC's Desire Eye wants to be the king of selfies — The Desire Eye has the most powerful front-facing camera ever put on a smartphone — It's no secret that taking selfies …
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| Joshua Goldman / CNET: |
HTC announces screenless RE action camera that uses smartphone as screen, priced at $199 — HTC Re camera pulls the focus away from smartphones — The vertical tube that bends down from the lens barrel gives you something easy and stable to hold onto unlike trying to shoot with your phone.
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| Sam Biddle / Valleywag: |
A sampler of Slack group names at major tech companies, obtained through the service's dubious usability “feature” — Slack Is Letting Anyone Peek at Their Competitors — Few pieces of corporate software have earned so many fans so quickly as Slack, which is basically a sophisticated chat room for businesses.
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| Neil Hughes / AppleInsider: |
Surging Mac sales put Apple among top five global PC vendors for first time, IDC says — The Macintosh may have posted its strongest worldwide market share yet last quarter, according to the latest estimates from IDC, which place Apple among the top five global PC vendors for the first time.
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| Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac: |
'It's been way too long': Apple sends out invites for Thursday, October 16th iPad & Mac event — It's happening: Apple has just announced a keynote address for Thursday, October 16th to take place at the Town Hall auditorium on its Infinite Loop Campus in Cupertino, California.
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| John Gruber / Daring Fireball: |
iOS 8 adoption rates stagnating is mainly about lack of space for 5GB OTA update, not trust — Note to Self: It's the Storage Space, Stupid — Last night I speculated that the slow uptake of iOS 8 was about people not trusting Apple with iOS software updates — too many bugs …
| Daisuke Wakabayashi / Wall Street Journal: |
Apple says it was surprised by the bankruptcy filing of sapphire supplier GT Advanced; sources say GT didn't meet Apple's technical milestones — Apple Surprised by Sapphire Partner GT Advanced's Bankruptcy Filing — iPhone Maker Says It Will Work With State and Local Officials to Consider Next Steps| Kara Swisher / Re/code: |
Twitter News Head Vivian Schiller Out in Media Unit Consolidation — Vivian Schiller, the high-profile NBC and NPR exec who Twitter hired to run its news unit, is leaving the company as part of a consolidation. — Adam Sharp will now be in charge of both news and government …
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See also Mediagazer| Chris Chavez / Phandroid: |
Chromecast update brings custom wallpapers, news, weather backdrops, and more — It's been awhile since we've seen a good Chromecast update, but today, one of the most long requested features is finally being addressed. New for Android and iOS are backdrops, custom backgrounds the user …
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| Liam Spradlin / Android Police: |
Droid Turbo details leak in 73-page guide: 5.2" display, 21MP camera, wireless charging, more — Motorola Droid Turbo Breaks Cover In Full Guide - 5.2" Display, 21MP Camera, Wireless Charging, And More — Thanks to MotoFirmware.com, Motorola's Droid Turbo has just broken cover …
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| Glenn Fleishman / The Magazine: |
Subscriber-supported magazine app The Magazine will produce its last issue Dec. 17 — Last Issue Is December 17, 2014 — Hello, readers, The Magazine will stop publishing its every-other-week issues on December 17, 2014, cancel all outstanding subscriptions, and automatically provide pro-rated refunds …
| Liam Spradlin / Android Police: |
Google experimented with split-screen feature for Android late last year — An Exclusive Look At Google's Early Multi-Window Explorations For Android — One of Samsung's claims to fame is a feature meant to improve productivity on mobile devices. One that users of stock Android …
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| Kyle Alspach / BostInno: |
Hubspot raises $125M in IPO, sells 5M shares at $25 ahead of trading Thursday on NYSE as HUBS — HubSpot IPO Raises $125M; Big Investor Demand, Big Symbolism for Boston Tech — The IPO by Cambridge's HubSpot found strong demand from investors Wednesday and raised $125 million to bankroll the company's expansion plans.
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Thanks:@kylealspach| Juan Carlos Perez / Computerworld: |
Microsoft tightens integration between Outlook Web App and OneDrive for Business — Microsoft wants to promote the use of OneDrive for Business among Office 365 customers, so it's building links between the work cloud storage service and Outlook Web App (OWA), the suite's browser-based email interface.
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| CoinDesk: |
State of Bitcoin Q3 2014: Ecosystem Maturing Amid Price Pressure — We are pleased to release our latest quarterly State of Bitcoin update. — This article will run through some of its key findings in the new report, which focuses on data and events in the third quarter of 2014 up to the present day.| Jordan Kahn / 9to5Mac: |
Apple opens the door for HomeKit accessory makers w/ finalized MFi specs — Apple has now finalized and published specifications for HomeKit through its Made-For-iPhone/iPad/iPod (MFi) licensing program. The finalized specifications, which allow accessory makers to start building products … | Caitlin Dewey / Washington Post: |
Piper Jaffray study finds Facebook use among teens down from 72% in spring to 45% in fall 2014 — Teens are officially over Facebook — Since children are the future, and no one over 21 really knows what they find “cool” (do the kids even say cool these days...?), researchers have devoted many … | Amy Schatz / Re/code: |
AT&T Pays $105 Million to Settle Mobile Cramming Charges — AT&T agreed to pay $105 million to settle claims that it allowed third-party companies to bill subscribers for millions of dollars in unauthorized charges, federal and state law enforcement officials announced Wednesday.
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