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| Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac: |
Apple to start selling SIM-free iPhone 6 & 6 Plus in the U.S. tomorrow — Apple will start selling fully unlocked, SIM-free iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus models in the United States beginning tomorrow, January 6th, according to several sources. The unlocked iPhones will be available … | Bloomberg: |
Sources: Verizon approached AOL about possible acquisition or joint venture to strengthen mobile-video offerings — Verizon Said to Approach AOL About Possible Takeover or Venture — Verizon Communications Inc. has approached AOL Inc. (AOL) about a potential acquisition or joint venture …
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VatorNews, Bloomberg, Benzinga, Telegraph, Business Insider, CNET, Quartz, iDownloadBlog.com, Reuters, Consumerist and The Verge
Tweets: @om, @howardlindzon, @tim_stevens, @pkafka, @jyarow, @mattzeitlin, @puiwingtam, @ow, @zackwhittaker, @caseynewton and @rafat
See also Mediagazer| Ev Williams / Medium: |
Values of companies are too complex to be measured accurately by any single metric, like MAUs — 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.
Tweets: @mattcutts, @ia, @nilofer, @sippey, @fmanjoo, @ow, @joshelman, @cpen, @hunterwalk, @mikeisaac and @om. See also Mediagazer
| Peter Kafka / Re/code: |
Dish announces Sling TV: stream channels like ESPN, CNN, and TNT over the internet for $20 per month without a cable subscription — You Can Finally Get ESPN on the Web, for $20 a Month — Lots of people say they want to ditch cable TV for the Web, but can't because they want to watch sports …
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Dish, Xbox Wire, CNET, Gigaom, DailyFinance.com, BGR, blog.chron.com, Android Police, SiliconANGLE, eWeek, VatorNews, Polygon, Android Authority, Neowin, Gotta Be Mobile, Ars Technica, UPROXX, Windows Phone Central, VentureBeat, TechCrunch, Phandroid, Gizmodo, Dan Rayburn, PC World, Lifehacker, Droid Life, AppleInsider, GamePolitics blogs and The Next Web
Tweets: @chriswelch and @justmadhu
See also Mediagazer| 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 …
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Wall Street Journal, GeekWire, ABC News, Engadget, PC World, Wall Street Journal, The Verge, Business Wire, CNET, SlashGear, CNET, BGR, BBC, VentureBeat, ZDNet and Financial Review
| Austin Carr / Fast Company: |
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 … | Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
Gogo issues fake HTTPS certificates to block in-flight YouTube streaming, says no user info collected — Gogo issues fake HTTPS certificate to users visiting YouTube — Gogo has been caught issuing a fake digital certificate for YouTube, a practice that in theory could allow …
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| Daniel Jalkut / Bitsplitting.org: |
Historical perspective on the notion that Apple has reached a peak of bugginess or that its marketing is prevailing — The Functional High Ground — Marco Arment laments his perception that Apple's software quality is in such a rapid decline that the company has “completely lost the functional high ground.”
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Marco.org, And now it's all this, Daring Fireball, Valleywag, Wall Street Journal, The Huffington Post, MacStories, TUAW and Business Insider. Tweets: @jimyoull
| Zack Whittaker / ZDNet: |
Bitstamp confirms exchange hacked, has lost less than 19K bitcoins worth about $5M — Bitstamp exchange hacked, $5M worth of bitcoin stolen — The European bitcoin exchange suspends its service after it was hacked, ZDNet can confirm. Less than 19,000 bitcoins were stolen from an operational wallet.| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Facebook Acquires Wit.ai To Help Its Developers With Speech Recognition And Voice Interfaces — Facebook today acquired Wit.ai, a Y Combinator startup founded 18 months ago to create an API for building voice-activated interfaces. Wit.ai already has 6,000 developers on its platform who have built hundreds of apps.
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Wit.ai, Re/code, The Register, memeburn, Wired, Business Insider, Benzinga, AllFacebook, PC World, GeekWire, ZDNet, Forbes, Mashable, Gigaom, VentureBeat, Inside Facebook, The Next Web and Engadget. Tweets: @joshconstine. Thanks:@ryanlawler
| 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 …
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Volkswagen Media Centre, iMore, MacRumors, Android Central, Engadget, Connectedly, CNET, 9to5Google, Consumerist, 9to5Mac and AppleInsider
| 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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| Mitchel Broussard / MacRumors: |
TapSense announces platform for contextual ads on Apple Watch as developers scramble to deliver ads through Watch SDK — TapSense Announces Platform to Bring Contextual Ads to Apple Watch — Amidst the new and upcoming product launches at this year's Consumer Electronics Show … | Janko Roettgers / Gigaom: |
Samsung is adding Slingbox-like features to its new smart TVs — Janko Roettgers — Credit: Kobby Dagan / Shutterstock.com — Credit: Kobby Dagan / Shutterstock.com — This is interesting: Samsung is adding what amounts to a kind of Slingbox to all of its new smart TVs …
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| Stacey Higginbotham / Gigaom: |
Qualcomm and LIFX partner up for smart lighting reference design — To make it even easier to build a connected light bulb, Qualcomm Atheros and startup LIFX have teamed up to create a Wi-Fi module and software that lets lighting manufacturers get a connected product on the shelves in no time.
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CNET, The Next Web, CIO.com, Gizmodo UK, eWeek, Reuters, Digital Trends, VentureBeat and Pocket-lint
| Caleb Pershan / SFist: |
Mark Zuckerberg's New Book Club Sold Out Its First Title On Amazon — Mark Zuckerberg is not like us. For example, when it comes to New Year's resolutions, the Facebook CEO actually achieves things. And in the five short days of 2015 so far, he's already become Oprah Winfrey.
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Mark Zuckerberg, TechCrunch, Telegraph, Bloomberg, ABC News, New York Times, CBS News, MadameNoire, Business Insider Australia, Headlines & Global News, NY Daily News, TODAY, Telegraph, Forbes, Newsweek, The Independent, San Francisco Chronicle, CNNMoney.com, Business Insider, POPSUGAR, TIME, CBS San Francisco, Quartz, Associated Press, Wall Street Journal and AllFacebook
| Michael Kan / Computerworld: |
ZTE Grand Max X Plus prepaid smartphone with 6-inch display, 4G LTE, 5 megapixel front facing camera coming to Cricket this week for $200 off-contract — ZTE attacks US prepaid handset market with 6-inch smartphone — ZTE sees big promise in the U.S. prepaid handset market … | Mike Masnick / Techdirt: |
Intel Turns Off Russian Forums, Blogs & Comments In Response To Russian Blogging Law — Back in April of last year, we were among the first to report on a very dangerous new law in Russia targeting bloggers, requiring any blogger or social media user with more than 3,000 “visitors” a day to register their real name with the government.
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Intel Developer Zone and ZDNet
| Scott Stein / CNET: |
Lenovo enters the smart fitness band game with e-ink, water-resistant Vibe Band VB10 — LAS VEGAS — Fitness band meets smartwatch: yeah, it's a well-trodden formula. Lenovo, however, hasn't made a splash into wearables before. The Vibe Band VB10, debuted at the 2015 International CES in Las Vegas … | Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica: |
FCC launches new complaints site after old site crumbled under load of net neutrality comments — FCC makes it easier to complain about cable, Internet, and phone providers — The Federal Communications Commission is still plagued by an ancient IT infrastructure despite being the government agency … | Ruth Reader / VentureBeat: |
Yahoo Mail mobile app now tracks packages on iOS — Yahoo Mail just issued an update to its iOS app that will help you keep an eye on your goods while they're still in transit. — In the Yahoo Today section of the mobile app users can track packages from Amazon, eBay, Zappos, Target, Best Buy, Macy's and others.| Andrew Cunningham / Ars Technica: |
Broadwell U arrives: Faster laptop CPUs and GPUs from Core i7 to Celeron — Intel's staggered Broadwell rollout continues with 17 new laptop chips. — Intel promised us more chips based on the new Broadwell architecture in early 2015, and today it's delivering on that promise.
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Intel Newsroom, Inquirer, The Verge, AnandTech, The Register, Computerworld, ZDNet, Ars Technica, PC Magazine and TechRadar.com
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