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| Walt Mossberg / Re/code: |
iPad Air 2: best iPad ever, but only a modest evolutionary improvement over the Air — Apple iPad Air 2 Review: It's Better, but Is It Better Enough? — I am a tablet lover and, more specifically, an iPad lover. I use my iPad and iPad mini every day for a variety of things …
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| Nilay Patel / The Verge: |
iPad Air 2 review: great hardware, but lacks multiuser, multitasking support, tablet-specific features — Apple iPad Air 2 review — What is an iPad? — When Steve Jobs introduced Apple's tablet in January 2010, he delivered an unequivocal answer. “The iPad, if you were to sum it up …
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| John Gruber / Daring Fireball: |
iPad Air 2 is on equal footing with the MacBook Air for performance, forges ahead of iPhones — The iPad Air 2 (And a Few Cursory Words Regarding the iPad Mini 3) — The relationship between the iPad and the iPhone, performance-wise, has been hard to predict.
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| David Pogue / Yahoo Tech: |
The iPad Air 2: Thin, Gorgeous, Powerful — and That's Enough — Hey, kids! It's time to play Apple Announcement Mad Libs! … Yes, it's gotten to the point that we tech critics can pretty much recycle our iPad reviews from year to year. — This is it: The new iPad Air 2 (Deanne Fitzmaurice/Yahoo Tech)| Molly Wood / New York Times: |
Apple Pay: Seamless in Stores, but Quirky Online — AFTER I used Apple Pay for a day of shopping in stores, a few things became clear: The new payment system is convenient, problem-free and even fun. — The same can't be said for using Apple Pay to shop via apps on my phone or tablet.| Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
Nexus 6 hands-on: supersized, even by today's standards, with much improved camera — The Nexus 6: hands-on with Google's phablet — After watching Apple unapologetically release the gigantic iPhone 6 Plus and Samsung release the fourth iteration of its massive Galaxy Note …
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| Greg Sterling / Search Engine Land: |
Apple Launches “Maps Connect,” Self-Service Local Listings Portal — This afternoon Apple notified us of a new self-service portal to add or edit local business listings: Apple Maps Connect. It's intended for small business owners or their authorized representatives (though not agencies) …
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| Eric Slivka / MacRumors: |
iPad Air 2 Up to 55% Faster Than iPhone 6, Up to 68% Faster Than iPad Air — A short time ago, we highlighted a new benchmark appearing to show an iPad Air 2 device carrying an A8X chip with a triple-core 1.5 GHz processor and 2 GB of RAM. — While we mentioned that the enhanced specs …
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| Charlie Warzel / BuzzFeed: |
Sexist French Uber Promotion Pairs Riders With “Hot Chick” Drivers — “Who said women don't know how to drive?” the Uber blog post asks. The post was deleted after an inquiry from BuzzFeed News. — Yesterday, Uber's Lyon office unveiled a new promotion with an app called “Avions de Chasse.”
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Yahoo Beats In Q3 With Revenue Of $1.09B, EPS Of $0.52 — With all eyes on what Yahoo will do with its $5 billion+ in Alibaba cash, Yahoo today reported its Q3 earnings after the close of trading, with sales of $1.09 billion excluding traffic acquisition costs and non-GAAP earnings per share of $0.52.
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| Jonathan Vanian / Gigaom: |
Google exec: Chromecast V2 is coming; users have cast 650 million times — Google's Mario Queiroz said that 650 million people have now hit the cast button. An API for developers will let them build custom apps for Backdrop. — Three months ago, Google claimed that Chromecast users …
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| Tiernan Ray / Tech Trader Daily: |
GT Advanced To Sell Furnaces for Cash to Pay Back Apple, Says Fortune — Fortune columnist Philip Elmer-DeWitt a short while ago tweeted from the courtroom in Springfield, Massachusetts that one-time Apple (AAPL) supplier GT Advanced Technologies (GTAT) has agreed to pay off its debts to Apple …
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Wall Street Journal, StreetInsider.com, 9to5Mac, Reuters, Cult of Mac, CNET, AppleInsider, MacRumors, Electronista, Bloomberg, SlashGear, Seeking Alpha and iDownloadBlog.com. Tweets: @philiped
| Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: |
Raspberry Pi Founder Shows Off Incoming Touch Panel For Making DIY ‘Pi Pads’ — Eben Upton, the founder of the Raspberry Pi microcomputer, has shown off a new piece of hardware that's likely to expand the ecosystem around its single board computer — namely a touchscreen display.
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft Lumia to replace Nokia brand, starting in France, global rollout in the coming weeks — Microsoft Lumia will replace the Nokia brand — Microsoft started dropping hints about its plans to kill off the Nokia and Windows Phone brands last month, and now the company is ready to make it official.| Arik Hesseldahl / Re/code: |
HP to announce Sprout, a computing device combining a large display, touch surface, 3D scanner, and overhead projector — HP Will Unveil New Computing Product Called Sprout Next Week — When Hewlett-Packard announced it would split in two — one company devoted to PCs and printing …
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| Stephen Shankland / CNET: |
G.fast technology, which enables gigabit speeds on DSL, expected to arrive in homes by 2016 — Lowly DSL poised for gigabit speed boost — Internet service providers are getting a new option called G.fast that can extend the lifespan of existing copper phone lines yet again.| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft releases new Windows 10 preview with a Notification Center — Microsoft released its first Windows 10 Technical Preview just three weeks ago and the software maker is now ready to issue a fresh update. If you're already testing Windows 10 then a new preview build (9860) … Sponsor Posts
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