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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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| Hiroshi Lockheimer / Official Google Blog: |
Google announces Nexus 6P, Nexus 5X, Pixel C, new Chromecast and Chromecast Audio, updates to Google Play Music and Google Photos — S'more to love across all your screens — From your watch to your phone to your TV, we want to help you stay connected, entertained and informed across all your screens.| Kevin Fitchard / OpenSignal Blog: |
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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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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 … | Apple: |
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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| 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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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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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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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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| Nick Statt / The Verge: |
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 … | David Porter / The Official Microsoft Blog: |
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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| 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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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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| 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 … | Chris O'Neill / Evernote Blog: |
New Evernote CEO Chris O'Neill lets 47 people go, closes three offices, aims for “smaller, more focused team” — A Note from Chris O'Neill — I joined Evernote as CEO two months ago because I saw the rare opportunity to help transform a product I rely on into a world class business.
| Jon Swartz / USA Today: |
Tim Cook says Apple's enterprise revenue reached $25B in 12 months ending June, about 14% of company revenue — Apple CEO Cook makes another enterprise play — SAN FRANCISCO — iPhone sales broke records this weekend, but Apple CEO Tim Cook made a play for enterprise on Tuesday.
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