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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
| 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.
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| 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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| 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, Engadget, Gizmodo, Gotta Be Mobile and VentureBeat
| 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 … | 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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| 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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| 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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| 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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CNET, TechCrunch, Fitbit Blog, MacRumors, Gigaom, Gizmodo, Forbes, Connectedly, App Advice and Yahoo Tech. Tweets: @dujkan
| 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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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
| Adi Robertson / The Verge: |
Misfit Bolt, a $50 smart bulb with sleep tracker integration, now available for pre-order — Misfit introduces a smart bulb to go with its sleep tracker — There's no shortage of smart light bulbs on the market, but wearables company Misfit has decided that its influence shouldn't stop with collecting health data.
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| Stacey Higginbotham / Gigaom: |
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| 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, GeekWire, Android Authority, CNET, ZDNet, AndroidGuys, The Verge, Wall Street Journal, Engadget and Android Central
| 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| 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
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Kickstarter Drops Amazon Payments For Stripe — Crowdfunding platform Kickstarter announced today that it's partnering with payments service Stripe, which will now collect and process all payments for projects hosted on Kickstarter's site. Since its founding, Kickstarter used Amazon Payments for this …
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The Kickstarter Blog, Gigaom, Tech.eu and The Next Web
| 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 … | 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
| 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 … Sponsor Posts
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