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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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MacNN, @claytonmorris, iPhone in Canada Blog, Engadget, Gizmodo, Tech Trader Daily, BGR, LAPTOP Magazine, Ars Technica, PetaPixel and TiPb
CNET News:
Live demo: Siri on Sprint iPhone 4S — An Apple employee shows off the various functions of Siri, a new intelligent voice-recognition app that turns the iPhone 4S into a personal assistant.
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Apple, Engadget, Business Insider, SlashGear, MacStories, iPhone in Canada Blog, 9to5Mac, TechCrunch and Macworld
Kyle Wagner / Gizmodo:
Siri Personal Assistant Only Works on the iPhone 4S — Siri 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 …
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TUAW, Bits, PC World, mocoNews, @markmilian, Macworld, CNET News, VentureBeat, Computerworld, Inquirer, Delimiter, Kotaku, MacStories, GottaBeMobile and O'Grady's PowerPage
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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CNET News, AppleInsider, Engadget, AllThingsD, MacRumors, BetaNews, This is my next, Engadget, BGR, Computerworld, PC World, VentureBeat, Macworld, GottaBeMobile, TechCrunch, AppleInsider, Between the Lines Blog, SiliconANGLE, Technologizer, 9to5Mac, VatorNews, Shiny Objects, TUAW, This is my next, LAPTOP Magazine, TUAW, Gizmodo, Ars Technica, eWeek, Mobile Technology News and AppleInsider
Darrell Etherington / GigaOM:
New AppleCare+ extended warranty covers accidents — Apple has introduced a new level of AppleCare for iPhone shoppers, called AppleCare+. This version of Apple's extended warranty coverage is available beginning Oct. 14 — the same day as the iPhone 4S — and covers accidental damage, unlike the previous variety.
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TUAW, Macgasm, iDownloadBlog.com, Gizmodo and everythingiCafe
Peter Cohen / The Loop:
Apple posts 'Let's Talk iPhone' keynote stream — Apple posts 'Let's Talk iPhone' keynote stream — By now you've probably read coverage of Tuesday's “Let's Talk iPhone” event at Apple's Cupertino campus, where Tim Cook and company took the wraps off of the new iPhone 4S …
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Computerworld, Fortune, events.apple.com.edgesuite.net, PadGadget, 9to5Mac, Engadget, iDownloadBlog.com, AppleInsider, MacStories, RazorianFly and everythingiCafe
Dieter Bohn / This is my next:
Sprint iPhone 4S announced, available October 14th
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GottaBeMobile, Android and Me and Techland
Jonathan S. Geller / BGR:
Apple iOS 5 hitting on October 12th
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9to5Mac, TechCrunch, Computerworld, VentureBeat, This is my next, Technologizer, Technologizer, Computerworld, Gizmodo, @mhelft, LAPTOP Magazine, TUAW and The Next Web
Jesus Diaz / Gizmodo:
AT&T iPhone 4S Will Be Faster Than Verizon and Sprint's
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DSLreports, Mobilized and CNET News, Thanks:heysingletary
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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L.A. Times Tech Blog, AllThingsD, TechCrunch, Digits, Bloomberg, AppleInsider, VentureBeat, 1001 Noisy Cameras, CNET News, Technology Review, @mattrosoff and PE Hub Blog
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MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Where Was Facebook At The Apple Event Today? Not There. Stay Tuned. — One of the things noticeably absent from Apple's iPhone event today was Facebook. After all, other outlets were reporting that they would for sure be a part of the event. Late last week, we reported hearing that could be the case …
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Computerworld, The Loop, AllThingsD, Truthful Tech, TUAW, Gizmodo, PaulColligan.com, Electronista and App Advice
Ryan Tate / Gawker:
The iPhone 5 Failboard: How Everyone Got It Wrong — A great many Apple fans are hot and bothered that no iPhone 5 emerged today to fill the void in their souls. But you know who should really feel dejected? All the tech bloggers who wasted time typing bold proclamations about new features, designs and phones that never came.
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Gizmodo, Computerworld, Business Insider, ReadWriteWeb, The Loop, TechCrunch, Helloform and Cult of Mac, more at Mediagazer »
Joshua Topolsky / This is my next:
iPhone 4S hands-on impressions — We just got finished with the Apple live event and I had some brief hands-on time with the new iPhone 4S, so I thought I would share my thoughts. This isn't a review or really even a preview, because there wasn't much time to really get a good impression of the phone as a whole.
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LAPTOP Magazine and LAPTOP Magazine
Marguerite Reardon / CNET News:
What the iPhone 4S means for the carriers — Apple's much-anticipated new iPhone was unveiled today at the company's headquarters in California. And for the first time in iPhone history, three of the four major U.S. operators will be offering the latest version of the device.
Liz Gannes / AllThingsD:
Apple's “Find My Friends” Location Feature Is More Like Glympse Than Foursquare
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TechCrunch, CNET News, ReadWriteWeb, GigaOM and The Register
Paul Miller / This is my next:
Why Siri just might work
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ReadWriteWeb, msnbc.com and RazorianFly
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.
Michael Degusta / the understatement:
Google's Management Doesn't Use Google+ — Management caring deeply about their company's products and using them every day is almost always a prerequisite of making great products. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg really does use Facebook all day. Twitter CEO Dick Costolo tweeted at least 30 times just yesterday.
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Mashable! and @dannysullivan
Damon Poeter / PCMag:
Anonymous Threatens to ‘Erase NYSE from the Internet’ — Anonymous declared “war” on the New York Stock Exchange this weekend and vowed to “erase” the NYSE from the Internet on Oct. 10 as the Occupy Wall Street protest entered its third week in New York City after a weekend that saw hundreds …
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Pastebin and PC Magazine
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Janko Roettgers / GigaOM:
Napster's Undoing: Company-wide layoffs coming Dec. 16 — Rhapsody's purchase of Napster from Best Buy looks more and more like a glorified funeral. Sure, Rhapsody gains a few hundred thousand new subscribers — even though it's unclear how many will actually stay around …
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Computerworld, Billboard.Biz and Electronista, Thanks:loyalelectron
Kara Swisher / AllThingsD:
“Perplexed” by U.S. Ownership Rules, Alibaba's Ma Yellow Lights Yahoo Buying Parade — After his unusually enthusiastic declaration at a Silicon Valley event last week that “we are very, very interested” in buying the “whole” of Yahoo, you might imagine Alibaba Group co-founder and CEO Jack Ma running …
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Nadia Damouni / Reuters:
Yahoo readies books for potential buyers: sources
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Wall Street Journal and Electronista
Lisa Richwine / Reuters:
Whitman aims for October decision on HP's PC unit — (Reuters) - Hewlett-Packard Co's new chief executive, Meg Whitman, is aiming to make a decision on the future of the company's PC business by the end of this month. — Former CEO Leo Apotheker in August said the company was weighing whether …
Discussion:
Electronista
Tarmo Virki / Reuters:
Nokia to unveil first Windows phones this quarter — (Reuters) - Nokia will unveil its first Windows-based smartphones this quarter, targeting a “clear opportunity” for an alternative to the products of big-hitters Apple and Google, the Finnish firm's chief executive said on Tuesday.
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PhoneArena, This is my next, WMPoweruser, Neowin.net, paidContent, WPCentral.com, MediaFile, VentureBeat, eWeek, Business Insider, Phone Scoop, AnandTech and Seattle Times
Eric Knorr / InfoWorld:
Oracle releases JavaFX 2.0, shares plans for Java 9 — Company unveils the latest Java client and server technologies at JavaOne conference — Follow @pjkrill — Oracle kicked off the JavaOne conference yesterday by shedding light on upcoming editions of Java and unveiling JavaFX 2.0 …
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Computerworld and SiliconANGLE
Gregg Keizer / Computerworld:
Mozilla aims to add silent updating to Firefox 10 — Cites ‘update fatigue’ caused by rapid release schedule — A year after it pulled the plug on silent updates in Firefox 4, Mozilla said it will debut most of the behind-the-scenes feature by early next year.
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Brian R. Bondy, Mitchell's Blog, Computerworld, Future Releases and Web Browser
Jason Del Rey / AdAge:
Who Needs Netflix? Paramount Streams Latest ‘Transformers’ Directly to Consumers — ‘A Little Toe-Dip’ in New Distribution Method for Paramount and Viacom — Paramount Pictures has quietly introduced an online streaming option for “Transformers: Dark of the Moon,” taking home viewing straight …
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PC Magazine, VentureBeat, AllThingsD and VatorNews, more at Mediagazer »
