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Apple Watch launches in Australia, Canada, China, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Japan, the UK and the US April 24, pre-orders begin April 10 — Apple Watch Available in Nine Countries on April 24 — Apple® today announced that Apple Watch™, its most personal device yet …
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| Roberto Baldwin / The Next Web: |
Apple Watch prices for 38mm and 42mm sizes: Sport starts at $349 and $399, stainless steel Watch at $549 and $599, and Edition at $10,000 — Apple Watch available on April 24 starting at $349 with 18 hour battery life — After introducing the Apple Watch at the iPhone event in September …
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The Apple Watch Isn't A Watch, It's An iPhone Sales Engine — The biggest news about Apple's Watch today may be how many iPhones it's going to sell. — Apple CEO Tim Cook talks about the new Apple Watch during an Apple event on Monday, March 9, 2015, in San Francisco. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg)
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| Jeremy Horwitz / 9to5Mac: |
Apple Watch lasts 18 hours with 90 time checks, 90 notifications, 45 minutes of app use, and a 30-minute workout with music playback via Bluetooth — Apple releases Apple Watch battery results: 42mm model runs longer, 3h phone, 6.5h music, 7h workout — In addition to making a general claim …
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| Nilay Patel / The Verge: |
Apple Watch hands-on: looks and feels great but complicated to use and not immediately intuitive — Hands-on with a (working) Apple Watch — After months of anticipation, we've finally gotten to play with a working Apple Watch. The hardware is virtually the same as we saw back in September …
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| Jeremy Horwitz / 9to5Mac: |
Apple announces all new ultra-thin 12" MacBook with Retina display, single USB-C port, and Force Touch trackpad; ships on April 10 starting at $1299 — Apple debuts all-new 12″ MacBook with ultra-thin chassis, new Retina screen, Force Touch — During its Spring Forward event …
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| Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch: |
Hands On With The All-New Ultra Thin MacBook With Retina Display — Apple's newest MacBook is clearly designed to set the stage for all Apple notebooks to come - it has a dramatically thin body, which measures only 13.1 mm deep at its thickest point, and a 12-inch display with a very small surrounding bezel.
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| Peter Kafka / Re/code: |
HBO's $14.99 streaming service HBO Now will launch before April 12, exclusively on Apple devices for three months — HBO on the Web Is Coming in April, Exclusively From Apple — Here's a surprise: HBO's streaming service will only be available via Apple when it launches next month.
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| Kurt Wagner / Re/code: |
Facebook to shut down FriendFeed on April 9, five years after acquiring the service — Facebook Officially Shuts the Door on FriendFeed — RIP, FriendFeed. — Facebook is shutting down the News Feed-like social network it acquired back in 2009, according to a blog post.
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| Alyson Shontell / Business Insider: |
Source: Twitter closes deal to acquire live streaming startup Periscope, which is still in closed beta — Twitter quietly bought a video startup that hasn't launched yet, Periscope — Last month, Twitter acquired a startup that hasn't launched yet, Periscope, which is building an app for streaming video from your phone.
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| Liam Tung / CSO Online: |
Apple nixes FREAK SSL bug in iOS 8.2, OS X and Apple TV — Apple released a new iOS update that prepares iPhones for the Apple Watch but also fixes serious security bugs, including the recently discovered flaw known as FREAK. — Even if iPhone owners aren't interested in Apple's new wearable …
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| Andrew Cunningham / Ars Technica: |
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| Glenn Peoples / Billboard: |
Sources: Apple backs down in effort to offer $7.99/month rate for its upcoming subscription music service as labels reject pricing below $9.99/month — Fight Between Apple and Spotify Could Change Digital Music; Labels Said to Reject Pricing Below $9.99 — A renewed focus on the value …
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iMore, AppleInsider, Business Insider, The Verge, MacRumors, iPhone in Canada Blog and App Advice. Tweets: @sterlewine
| Owen Williams / The Next Web: |
Apple announces ResearchKit to help medical researchers collect data — At Apple's March event today, the company announced ResearchKit, a software framework that allows medical researchers to get data directly from iPhone users. — The company said that users can sign up to participate …
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Tweets: @laurengoode, @marcoarment, @thenextweb, @bajarin and @joshuatopolsky
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| Andrew Chung / Reuters: |
Former Google exec Lee confirmed to lead U.S. patent office — (Reuters) - The U.S. Senate on Monday confirmed former Google Inc executive Michelle Lee to head the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, a position that has been vacant for more than two years. — President Barack Obama's choice …
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