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Apple Launches iPhone 4S, iOS 5 & iCloud — iPhone 4S Features Dual-Core A5 Chip, All New Camera, Full 1080p HD Video Recording & Introduces Siri — Apple® today announced iPhone® 4S, the most amazing iPhone yet, packed with incredible new features including Apple's dual-core A5 chip …
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Peter Cohen / The Loop:
iPhone 4S, with dual-core processor and Siri, coming Oct. 14 — Apple on Tuesday introduced the iPhone 4S. The new phone comes out on Friday, October 14, 2011 and will be available in 16GB, 32GB and 64GB models. Carrier-subsidized prices in the US are $199, $299 and $399 respectively.
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Matthew Panzarino / The Next Web:
Apple announces iPhone 4S: Same design, GSM/CDMA, A5 chip, 7x faster graphics, 8MP, 1080p Video — Apple has today introduced the iPhone 4S, a new iPhone with completely retooled innards, featuring Apple's A5 processor. — The announcement was made at Apple's “Let's Talk iPhone” event held at the company's Cupertino headquarters.
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Dan Frommer / SplatF:
If you're disappointed by the iPhone 4S, you're nuts — Cue the whiners. Apple didn't announce an iPhone 5 today, just an updated version of the iPhone 4, called the iPhone 4S. Apple stock is down a bit in a flat market. Many are claiming to be disappointed. But here's the thing: You shouldn't be.
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Matthew Panzarino / The Next Web:
Apple announces voice activated Siri assistant feature for iOS 5, integrates Wolfram Alpha and Wikipedia — BREAK THE NEWS! — Apple has today announced its long-rumored Siri assistant feature for iOS 5, a voice-activated tool that will allow you to control many aspects of your iPhone and can perform tasks automatically.
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Jonathan S. Geller / BGR:
Apple iOS 5 hitting on October 12th — Apple's iOS 5 will be released on October 12th for all iPhone 4, iPhone 3GS, iPad, iPad 2, and last two iPod touch generation customers. We're expecting the Gold Master to be released for developers later today. Apple's free iOS 5 software update brings …
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Christian Zibreg / 9to5Mac:
Apple refreshes iPod touch: Now in white, 8GB model dropped to $199, available October 12 — Apple's marketing honcho Phil Schiller took it upon himself to unveil a refreshed iPod touch lineup, which now includes both black and white models (remember, we called both), plus a new breakthrough price of just $199.
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Christian Zibreg / 9to5Mac:
iCloud launches October 12, iTunes Match end of October in the U.S., Find My Friends announced — Eddy Cue, Apple's new iTunes/iCloud chief, has just one through a series of iCloud features at the company's Cupertino, California campus. He covered the stuff Steve Jobs already explained during …
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Kyle Wagner / Gizmodo:
Siri Personal Assistant Only Works on the iPhone 4S — is crazy. Being able to talk to your phone like a real person is the stuff of Sci-Fi. Here's the catch: You won't be able to use it unless you've got an iPhone 4S. — Siri's built into a bunch of apps already, and the software runs on both the 4S and in Apple's data centers.
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John Biggs / TechCrunch:
Six Million Copies Of OS X Lion Sold, Outpaces Snow Leopard
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Ina Fried / AllThingsD:
Apple Updates iPods With Cheaper iPod Touch and Nano
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Leanna Lofte / TiPb:
Apple announces card printing app, Cards for iPhone
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MG Siegler / parislemon:
On The Next Venture — I've been thinking about how I was going to write this post for a while now. Of course, I didn't anticipate that I would be writing at 2 AM local time in London, where I'm currently visiting to speak at FOWA in a couple of days (that talk also just potentially got more interesting).
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Reuters:
Apple rejects Samsung offer to help end Australia dispute — (Reuters) - Apple Inc has rejected an offer from South Korea's Samsung Electronics Co to help settle their tablet-computer dispute in Australia, hoping for an important court victory there in its global campaign of patent litigation.
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Joe Schneider / Bloomberg:
Samsung Says It May Scrap Australia Tablet Plans If Ban Persists
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John Brownlee / Cult of Android:
Leaked Sales Numbers Suggest Amazon Kindle Fire On Track To Outsell iPad [Exclusive] — Six weeks before it officially goes on sale, Amazon's $199 Kindle Fire is shaping up to be the biggest tablet launch ever... and Cult of Android has the numbers to prove it.
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Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:
“Access Denied”: Apple.com Goes Down Post-iPhone 4S Event — In case you were nowhere near Twitter for the past twenty-five minutes or so — where “access denied” is trending — Apple.com has been going down and then back up, down and then back up for gasp almost a half hour, showing the above error message.
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Jesus Diaz / Gizmodo:
Apple Was NOT Hacked — Hey people, don't trust the idiots and noobs.
Thanks:gizmodo
Tom Warren / WinRumors:
Microsoft confirms Zune HD death, “we will no longer be producing Zune players” — Microsoft has officially confirmed the death of its Zune player devices. — The software giant removed references to the Zune HD from its Zune site on Monday and later claimed that the removal was “a mistake.”
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Sean Buckley / Engadget:
HTC confirms security hole, says patch is incoming — HTC held true to its promise to look into the security vulnerability that surfaced over the weekend, an apparent glitch that allows any app requesting internet access to take a peek at a user account information, GPS location, system logs, and other potentially private data.
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Mike Masnick / Techdirt:
Patent Troll Says Anyone Using WiFi Infringes; Won't Sue Individuals ‘At This Stage’ — Just as some in the copyright trolling business are lowering their settlement fees, but making it up in volume, it appears there's a similar effort under way on the patent trolling side of the world.
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Nik Cubrilovic:
Facebook Re-Enables Controversial Tracking Cookie — In May of this year the Wall Street Journal reported that Facebook like buttons and other website widgets were setting cookies on visiting browsers. This cookie could then be read later and used to track the user across different web properties and back to the Facebook site.
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Clark Fredricksen / eMarketer:
US Mobile Ad Spending to Top $1 Billion for First Time in 2011 — Smartphone, mobile internet adoption make mobile audience increasingly attractive to advertisers — Spending on mobile advertising—long a bit player in the digital media mix—will top $1 billion in the US for the first time this year …
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Elizabeth Woyke / Mobilized:
iPhone Trade-Ins Seen Increasing Five-Fold With Launch Of Long Awaited iPhone 5 — Trade-ins of old iPhones are at unprecedented levels in anticipation of Apple's iPhone 5 announcement — How excited are people for the new iPhone that Apple is expected to announce later today?
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Steven Sinofsky / MSDN Blogs:
Evolving the Start menu … We'd like to share a series of blog posts on the how and why of reimagining Start. This first post talks about the history and evolution of the Start menu, and several of the problems and trends we've learned from you. We think it's always important to understand …
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David / TmoNews:
T-Mobile Preparing For Super November With Multiple Smartphone And Tablet Launches — If you've been eagerly waiting to hear just what exactly T-Mobile has in store for their November 2nd super-mega-launch day since we first brought you word 48 hours ago then the above image should be exactly what the doctor ordered.
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