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As Fire Phone product manager, Jeff Bezos insisted Lab126 build a premium phone and include useless Dynamic Perspective feature in attempt to compete with Apple — The Real Story Behind Jeff Bezos's Fire Phone Debacle And What It Means For Amazon's Future — “What the hell happened?”
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Amazon executes sweeping reorganization of hardware group Lab126 following Fire Phone flop — Following Fire Phone Flop, Big Changes At Amazon's Lab126 — In recent months, a string of departures and managerial changes has hit Amazon's Lab126, the company's Silicon Valley-based R&D group …
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The Digital Reader, Beyond Search, PC World, Beyond Devices, Forbes, Patently Apple and GeekWire. Thanks:@shlivy
| Benjamin Mayo / 9to5Mac: |
Apple now selling SIM-free unlocked iPhone 6 and 6 Plus in the US, from $649 — As we reported yesterday, Apple is now selling contract-free iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus in retail stores and online. Following historic pattern, the 16 GB base model iPhone 6 costs $649 with higher tiers costing $100 extra.
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| Ross Miller / The Verge: |
Sony announces new high fidelity Walkman NW-ZX2 with 128GB onboard storage running Android 4.2, coming spring for $1.2K — This is the new Sony Walkman — All signs pointed to a new Sony Walkman (literally) at CES 2015, and the signs didn't lie. The new Walkman ZX2 is real …
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| David Kravets / Ars Technica: |
FBI says search warrants not needed to use “stingrays” in public places — The Federal Bureau of Investigation is taking the position that court warrants are not required when deploying cell-site simulators in public places. Nicknamed “stingrays,” the devices are decoy cell towers … | James Kendrick / ZDNet: |
CES 2015: Lenovo unveils Yoga tablets, laptops, and new pen technology — Summary:Lenovo intends to continue riding its Yoga line of tablets and laptops, and launched a Yoga Tablet 2 with a strange feature, along with the Yoga 3 and ThinkPad Yoga laptops. — The Yoga line of tablets …
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Laptop Mag, Lenovo Newsroom, Engadget, Re/code, CNET, Blogging Windows, Gigaom, PC World, The Verge, Wired, Liliputing, Business Insider and AnandTech
| Vlad Savov / The Verge: |
Razer OSVR: an Android-based open source VR platform with a $199 dev kit headset — Razer introduces OSVR, the ‘Android of virtual reality’ — OSVR takes a shot at unifying the world of virtual reality — For a year or more after the Oculus Rift got people talking about virtual reality, the two were nearly synonymous.
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Re/code, TechCrunch, Backchannel, Razer, PC World, Gizmodo, VentureBeat, Engadget and Gotta Be Mobile
| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Glassdoor Closes $70M Funding Round Led By Google Capital And Tiger Global — Glassdoor, the site that lets employees rate their companies' work environment and anonymously disclose their salary information, today announced that it has raised a $70 million funding round led by Google Capital …
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| Alexandra Sifferlin / TIME: |
Fitbit's $150 Charge HR and $250 Surge fitness trackers with heart rate tracking are now shipping — Fitbit Launches Two New Fitness Trackers — Fitbit officially launched the sale of two new fitness and activity trackers, Charge HR and Surge, on Tuesday.
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Fitbit Blog, CNET, TechCrunch, MacRumors, Gigaom, Gizmodo, Connectedly, Forbes, App Advice and Yahoo Tech. Tweets: @dujkan
| Ina Fried / Re/code: |
Verizon CEO Says Video Effort to Debut in Second Half, AOL Acquisition Report Inaccurate — Verizon CEO Lowell McAdam threw cold water on the idea his company was in talks to acquire AOL, but reiterated the company's interest in offering a video service, saying it could debut in the second half of this year.| Ev Williams / Medium: |
Metrics based on a single number, like MAU, are a poor proxy for value for Internet companies — A mile wide, an inch deep — I was recently quoted as saying, “I don't give a s**t” if Instagram has more users than Twitter. If you read the article you'll note there's a big “if” before my not giving of said s**t.
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See also Mediagazer| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Razer Unveils Its $100 Android-Powered Gaming Console, Razer Forge TV — Earlier this year, high-end gaming tech company Razer announced at Google I/O that it would be soon be making its first foray into Android-based gaming consoles. Today at CES, that device made its public debut.
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Razer, The Verge, Engadget, Gizmodo, Gizmodo, VentureBeat, Re/code, Gotta Be Mobile, The Tech Report, SlashGear and Connectedly. Tweets: @ingridlunden. Thanks:@ingridlunden
| Mathew Ingram / Gigaom: |
Radiohead's Thom Yorke, most legally-downloaded BitTorrent artist in 2014, may have made up to $20M with BitTorrent Bundles — Thom Yorke made as much as $20M from his BitTorrent experiment — Credit: Nikola Spasenoski / Shutterstock.com — Credit: Nikola Spasenoski / Shutterstock.com| Gordon Mah Ung / PC World: |
Toshiba embraces pen-based computing with new Windows tablets, Portege hybrid — Toshiba embraces pen-based computing with new Windows tablets, Portege hybrid — Pen-based computing died a cold hard death once consumers embraced touch, but following on the moderate success of Microsoft's Surface Pro line … | Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: |
HP delivers workstations on the go with thin-and-light Zbook laptops — What will be hot in consumer electronics and computing in 2015? Read VB's full coverage of International CES 2015 to find out. — The 2015 International CES is all about consumers.
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ZDNet, Electronista and Virtual-Strategy Magazine
| Valentina Palladino / Tom's Guide: |
Razer announces Nabux X, a $49 fitness tracker without the OLED display of its $99 sibling — Razer Nabux X: Social Fitness Tracker Costs Just $49 — LAS VEGAS - The $49 Nabu X is part fitness tracker, part smartwatch and part social connector, offering more features than other budget wearables …
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razerzone.com, PC World, TechRadar.com and The Verge
| Tim Culpan / Bloomberg: |
HTC Q4 beats analyst estimates, posts first sales growth in three years — HTC Posts First Sales Growth in 3 Years on New Models — HTC Corp. (2498) posted its first quarterly revenue growth in more than three years as new mid-range handsets helped offset competition from high-end models such as Apple Inc.'s iPhone.
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Gigaom, TechCrunch, Android Authority, GeekWire, CNET, ZDNet, The Verge, Wall Street Journal, Engadget and Android Central
| Florence Ion / PC World: |
Hands-on: Alcatel's Watch is a cross-platform smartwatch for the budget conscious — LAS VEGAS—It seems like smartwatches are all you hear about anymore, but it's really a young product category, and not terribly popular in the larger scheme of things. One of the reasons you don't see smartwatches …
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Gizmodo, Engadget, Telegraph, The Verge, PC Magazine, Pocket-lint, Android and Me, TechnoBuffalo and Android Authority
| Chris Ziegler / The Verge: |
CarPlay and Android Auto will be in Volkswagen cars this year — At CES this week, Volkswagen finally announced its plans for Apple's CarPlay and Google's Android Auto: both will be available later this year. The technologies will work on VW's MIB II dash electronics … | Jon Fingas / Engadget: |
Samsung updates SmartThings Hub, unveils subscription home monitoring service, coming April 2015 — Samsung unveils next-gen smart home hub and monitoring service — Looks like you didn't have to wait long to see what Samsung would do in the smart home world after acquiring SmartThings … | Roger Cheng / CNET: |
Key wireless charging groups A4WP, PMA agree to merge — The alliance should help bring a little bit of clarity to the fragmented world of wireless charging technologies. — Powermat technology, pushed by the PMA, is already available at select Starbucks. — LAS VEGAS—Two down, one to go.
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