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Behind the evolution of Nexus hardware and why Google chose to roll out two Nexus handsets — How Google Changed The Smart Phone: A Deep History Of The Nexus Phone — Google's vice president of Android walks us through how Nexus hardware and Android software influence each other and how they always have.
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
TiVo unveils 4K-ready BOLT DVR with ad skipping and speed watching, available this week from $300, with $15/month subscription waived for first year — TiVo Unveils BOLT, A Modern, 4K-Ready DVR Designed For The Streaming Era — DVR maker TiVo today is announcing the latest addition … | Walt Mossberg / The Verge: |
TiVo Bolt review: great $300 solution for cable subscribers, but ad skip only works for recorded shows on select channels — TiVo Bolt review: watching TV faster — Back in 1999, when I first reviewed the original TiVo DVR, I griped that “TiVo has no commercial-skipping button” …
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Apple Music, iTunes Movies, and iBooks now available in China, music free for three months then 10 RMB/month, movies start at 5 RMB, iBooks from 0.5 RMB — Apple Brings Apple Music, iTunes Movies & iBooks to Customers in China Starting Today — Apple today announced that Apple Music …
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| John Mueller / Google Webmaster Central Blog: |
Google modifies First Click Free policy, lowers access from five to three free articles per day from Google Search and Google News — First Click Free update — Around ten years ago when we introduced a policy called “First Click Free,” it was hard to imagine that the always-on …
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Twitter Expands ‘Buy’ Buttons To Bigcommerce, Demandware, Shopify... And Best Buy — A year after Twitter launched its first commerce product in the form of “buy now” buttons in Tweets, get ready to start seeing a whole lot more of them in your feed. — The social media company today … | Adrian Kingsley-Hughes / ZDNet: |
Cellular usage through the roof since installing iOS 9? Wi-Fi Assist may be to blame — If you've noticed that your data usage has skyrocketed since installing iOS 9 then this may be a feature rather than a bug. A lesser-known feature of the update called Wi-Fi Assist may be to blame.
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Microsoft flagship stores in New York City and Sydney to open on October 26 and November 12 respectively — Grand opening dates set for Microsoft flagship stores in New York City and Sydney — Renderings of Microsoft's first flagship stores - Fifth Ave. in NYC (top), Pitt Street Mall in Sydney (bottom).
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| Ruth Reader / VentureBeat: |
Samsung's Gear S2 launches on October 2 in the U.S. starting at $299 — Samsung has announced its making the Gear S2 watch available for purchase in the U.S. starting on Friday. The watch will cost $299 for the original version and $349 for the higher end S2 Classic.| Danny Sullivan / Marketing Land: |
iOS Ad Blockers Begin Dropping In Popularity — For the first time since iOS 9 launched, no ad blocker is number one on the paid apps chart for iPhone. — Just short of two weeks since ad blockers skyrocketed to the top of the iPhone paid app chart, only one remains in the top five … | Dawn Chmielewski / Re/code: |
IHS estimates iPhone 6s Plus costs about $236 to build, one-third its $749 retail price — Apple's iPhone 6s Plus Costs an Estimated $236 to Make — $749 to Purchase — It costs Apple an estimated $236 to make and assemble its new iPhone 6s Plus, roughly one-third the $749 retail price of the smartphone …
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Adyen Adds New Funding From Iconiq, Values Dutch Payment Group At $2.3B — Adyen, a payment startup based in Amsterdam that provides services for companies like Facebook, Uber and Netflix, made waves last year when it announced a $250 million Series B that valued it at $1.5 billion.
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Chromecast is Google's hugely successful Trojan Horse into your home — Google's secret weapon for getting inside our homes and deeper within the fabric of our daily lives is not smart appliance maker Nest or even its ubiquitous Android operating system. It's a $35 HDMI stick …
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IAB is forming Ad Blocking Working Group and plans to distribute code that detects ad blockers — Ad Blocking - Unlike Fraud - Comes At The User's Behest — If ad blocking is war, long-tail publishers will likely be its earliest casualties. — “Ad blocking is a threat to the whole industry … | Natt Garun / The Next Web: |
Foursquare now lets you make OpenTable reservations without leaving the app — Foursquare has partnered with OpenTable since 2012 to make restaurant reservation times available for viewing, but today a small update will allow users to book tables straight within the app.
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XOR botnet infecting Linux computers launches 150 Gpbs DDoS attacks on up to 20 targets per day — Botnet preying on Linux computers delivers potent DDoS attacks — XOR DDoS bombards as many as 20 targets per day, sometimes with 150 GBpS of traffic. — Security researchers have uncovered …
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Sources: Twitter building new product to let users share tweets longer than 140 characters — Twitter Plans to Go Beyond Its 140-Character Limit — Twitter is building a new product that will allow users to share tweets that are longer than the company's 140-character limit …
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SyFy pulls startup reality TV series Bazillion Dollar Club starring Dave McClure and Brady Forrest after first episode — Exclusive: Syfy pulls Dave McClure's ‘Bazillion Dollar Club’ from schedule — The Syfy channel has pulled “Bazillion Dollar Club” from its schedule one week after it premiered …
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| Michael J. de la Merced / New York Times: |
Warburg Pincus to invest up to $60M in Civitas Learning, a cloud-based data analytics provider for education — Warburg Pincus to Invest Up to $60 Million in Civitas Learning — With sophisticated data analysis seeping into nearly every industry, a start-up focused on higher education …
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