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Updating to iOS 9 and El Capitan partially mitigates AirDrop exploit on iOS and OS X; otherwise disable AirDrop until patch issued — One Great Reason To Update To iOS 9 - A Nasty Silent AirDrop Attack Is In Town — It's another big Apple AAPL -0.04% launch week with iOS 9 landing today …
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| Andrew Cunningham / Ars Technica: |
iOS 9 review: great multitasking support for newer iPads, searchable Settings, proactive Siri not as useful as Google Now — iOS 9, thoroughly reviewed — Apple gives the iPad a lot of love as iOS goes back into spit-and-polish mode. — iOS 8 wasn't the smoothest operating system rollout in Apple's history.
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Sources: Apple acquires mapping analytics and visualization startup Mapsense for $25M-$30M — Apple Acquires Mapsense, a Mapping Visualization Startup — Apple's steady stealth campaign to rival Google in maps continues apace. This month, the company acquired Mapsense … | Matthew Panzarino / TechCrunch: |
Apple Delays Release Of watchOS 2 Due To Bug — Apple has delayed the release of watchOS 2, which was expected to be available today to owners of the Apple Watch. — “We have discovered a bug in development of watchOS 2 that is taking a bit longer to fix than we expected,” an Apple spokesperson told TechCrunch.
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Didi Kuaidi and Lyft in discussions with India's Ola and Singapore's GrabTaxi to expand ride share alliance internationally — Uber Rivals Form International Alliance — San Francisco's Lyft, China's Didi agree to allow their apps to work in respective countries| Sarah Buhr / TechCrunch: |
| Chris Welch / The Verge: |
Apple's first Android app ‘Move to iOS’ is now available in Google Play store — Apple's ‘Move to iOS’ app is now available on Android — The first Android app credited to “Apple Inc.” has arrived. Apple's still working on Apple Music for Google's mobile OS …
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| Stephen Schenck / Pocketnow: |
Leak of Amazon 10-inch Fire tablet shows repositioned front-facing cam, new button placement, lightweight UI, more — Amazon ten-inch Fire tablet leak hints at lightweight new UI — It's been about a year now since Amazon's last big refresh of its Fire tablet lineup …
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| Jillian D'Onfro / Business Insider: |
Google hiring engineers, including three from Amazon's Lab126, for Project Aura, a new wearable tech initiative that builds on Glass — Google has hired a bunch of engineers from Amazon's Lab126 for a new wearable tech initiative called ‘Project Aura’ — Google is working … | Marco Arment / Marco.org: |
Marco Arment launches Peace, a $2.99 privacy-focused content blocker for iOS 9 that uses Ghostery's robust tracker database — Introducing Peace, my privacy-focused iOS 9 ad blocker — Running the Ghostery browser add-on in my Mac browsers has been illuminating:| Kurt Wagner / Re/code: |
Facebook will likely launch a freemium version of its workplace product Facebook at Work by the end of the year in attempt to compete with Slack, Yammer — Facebook Is About to Take the Training Wheels off Facebook at Work — Facebook is preparing to push its new workplace product into a lot more cubicles.
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| Paul Mozur / New York Times: |
China asks US tech firms to pledge compliance for questionable practices including sharing user data and intellectual property — China Tries to Extract Pledge of Compliance From U.S. Tech Firms — HONG KONG — The Chinese government, which has long used its country's vast market as leverage …
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| Kashmir Hill / Fusion: |
How to create a fake business with 19K Twitter followers, great Facebook and Yelp reviews, and an impressive online reputation in a few hours for less than $100 — I created a fake business and bought it an amazing online reputation — If you live in the Bay Area and have looked …
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| Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
Microsoft makes Send hybrid texting-email app available for Android, expands availability for iPhone users to UK, Brazil, and Denmark, adds features for iPhone — Microsoft brings its Send hybrid texting-email app to Android — Microsoft is extending availability of its Send hybrid texting-email app …
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