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| Farhad Manjoo / New York Times: |
Apple Watch review: a blissful link from the digital world to my brain, but has a steep learning curve, requires fine-tuning of notifications settings — Apple Watch Bliss, but Only After a Steep Learning Curve — It took three days — three long, often confusing and frustrating days — for me to fall for the Apple Watch.| Nilay Patel / The Verge: |
Apple Watch review: easily the best smartwatch, but costlier than rivals, and with performance issues in apps and locations services — Apple Watch: the definitive review — The Apple Watch is an extraordinarily small and personal device. It is designed to participate in nearly every moment … | Joanna Stern / Wall Street Journal: |
Apple Watch review: stylish and a great fitness tracker, but first-gen hardware and frustrating software make it difficult to recommend — What the Apple Watch Does Best: Make You Look Good — Apple isn't just selling some wrist-worn computer, it's selling good looks and coolness, too
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style.com, Wall Street Journal, New York Times, 9to5Mac, Business Insider, Patently Apple and SlashGear
Tweets: @jyarow, @johnlegere and @tayhatmaker
| John Gruber / Daring Fireball: |
Apple Watch review: falls short of conventional watches as a timepiece, but Taptic Engine is a breakthrough — The Apple Watch — Apple Watch is, in many ways, the Bizarro iPhone — in some ways parallel and similar, but in others, the inverse, the opposite. — Both were introduced as three things in one.
| Katherine Boehret / Re/code: |
| Casey Newton / The Verge: |
Sources: YouTube's ad-free subscription service coming in the next few months for around $10/month, will offer offline viewing, creators required to join — YouTube's paid subscription offering takes shape — and it's almost here — YouTube's forthcoming paid subscription offering …
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Bloomberg Business, TechCrunch, Android Authority, Ars Technica, Fortune, Marketing Land, VentureBeat, Engadget, Business Insider, 9to5Google, Reuters, Digital Trends, Android Police, CNNMoney, Seeking Alpha, Tubefilter, The Next Web, Pocket-lint, Android Central, Phandroid, Mashable and Pocket-lint
Tweets: @brianstelter, @caseynewton and @jessicalessin
| New York Times: |
Zynga founder and chairman Mark Pincus returns as CEO, replacing Don Mattrick — Mark Pincus, Zynga's Founder, Returns as C.E.O. — When Mark Pincus hired a new executive to run Zynga, the online games company he founded, he tweeted a message calling the executive, Don Mattrick, an “Internet treasure.”
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Tweets: @neilcybart and @jowens510
| Gabor Cselle / The Twitter Blog: |
Twitter retires Discover and Activity features for iOS and Android users, moves Trends tool to search page — Updating trends on mobile — Trends are a great way to find out what people are talking about on Twitter at a given moment and at a single glance.
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Re/code, TechCrunch, SlashGear, VentureBeat, PhoneDog.com, Marketing Land, App Advice, Android Central, The Next Web, AppleInsider, Wall Street Journal and The Verge. Tweets: @sarahfrier
| Kurt Wagner / Re/code: |
Facebook launches a standalone website for Messenger at Messenger.com for users who want a dedicated desktop messaging experience — Facebook Launches Messenger for Web Browsers — Facebook is bringing Messenger, its standalone messaging tool, to the Web.
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| Benjamin Mayo / 9to5Mac: |
Apple releases iOS 8.3, including new emojis with diversity, new Siri languages, more — Following the release of OS X 10.10.3 to the public, Apple has also released iOS 8.3 for iPhone, iPad and iPod touch. The update, which has been in beta for several months, brings over 300 new emojis …
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| Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac: |
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| Jeff Carlson / Macworld: |
Review: Photos for OS X is faster than iPhoto but less powerful than Aperture — AT A GLANCE — Last June, Apple announced the impending retirement of iPhoto and Aperture in favor of Photos for OS X, a new application it demonstrated briefly at the Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC).| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
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| Ronald Grover / TheStreet.com: |
Sources: Disney pressures Apple to carry more of its channels on rumored TV streaming service, Apple wants fewer channels to keep cost of service down — Disney Presses Apple to Carry More Channels on Internet TV Service — NEW YORK (TheStreet) — Apple (AAPL - Get Report) and Walt Disney …
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| Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
Microsoft to add virtualized containers, Nano Server mode to Windows Server 2016 — Summary:Microsoft confirms it will have a Nano Server mode in Windows Server 2016, along with new Hyper-V containerization technology. — Although the second test build of Windows Server 2016 isn't coming until May … | Xbox Wire: |
TV on Xbox Gets More Versatile with Over-the-Air Tuner for the U.S. and Canada — At Xbox, we're committed to delivering amazing new gaming and entertainment experiences, and part of that commitment includes giving you the best TV-viewing options, in one place, never more than one step away from your gaming.| Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
Microsoft's ‘Redstone’: An update to Windows 10 due in 2016 — Summary:Microsoft is working on two updates to the Windows 10 core, codenamed ‘Redstone,’ that are targeted to arrive in 2016, sources say. — There's a new Windows codename on the roadmap: “Redstone.”
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DailyTech, WindowsITPro, Geek.com and Digital Trends
| Matthew Lynley / TechCrunch: |
Apple Quietly Bought Dryft, A Keyboard App — Apple quietly bought Dryft, a startup that develops keyboard apps — an acquisition that appears to have occurred last year — TechCrunch has learned. — The acquisition seemed to be confirmed by Randy Marsden's LinkedIn profile, which lists him as joining Apple last September.
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Ubergizmo, Business Insider, iDownloadBlog.com, MacRumors, 9to5Mac and AppleInsider
| Dan Graziano / CNET: |
Dell introduces Venue 10 7000 Android tablet: 10.5" screen, starts at $499, $629 with keyboard dock, on sale in US and China later this month — Dell's new Android tablet is built for work and play (hands-on) — As the name implies, the main difference between the two slates is the Venue 10's display.
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Engadget, The Verge, Gizmodo, Mashable, Laptop Mag, Fortune, HotHardware.com News, Chip Chick, Electronista and Android Police
| Ryan Lawler / TechCrunch: |
Domo raises $200M Series D valuing company at $2B, launches real-time business intelligence platform after five years of development — With Another $200M In The Bank, Josh James Finally Takes The Wraps Off Business Analytics Startup Domo — It's rare that a company can hire 600 employees …
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Re/code, Business Insider, Forbes, New York Times and Reuters
| Rebecca R. Ruiz / New York Times: |
FCC fines AT&T $25M for failing to protect personal information, including SSNs, of customers — F.C.C. Fines AT&T $25 Million for Privacy Breach — The Federal Communications Commission announced on Wednesday a $25 million fine against AT&T for failing to protect the personal information …
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FCC.gov, BGR, CNBC, The Register, ExtremeTech, Fortune, TechCrunch, Ars Technica, Stop the Cap!, The Verge, Re/code and ZDNet
Tweets: @gigibsohnfcc and @digiphile
| Ina Fried / Re/code: |
Xiaomi beats its own flash sale record with 2M phones and thousands of accessories sold in 12 hours, generating $355M in revenue — Xiaomi Sells $335 Million Worth of Phones in 12 Hours — Fast-growing Chinese phone maker Xiaomi said Wednesday that it broke its own flash-sale record …
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Android Authority and Ubergizmo
| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Operator app from Uber co-founder Garret Camp will fulfill requests such as purchases and deliveries — Uber Co-Founder's Startup ‘Operator’ Will Get You What You Want — Send an instant message asking for something, and they'll do the grunt work of placing your order and getting it delivered to you.Thanks:@joshconstine
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