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The iPhone 5's A6 SoC: Not A15 or A9, a Custom Apple Core Instead — When Apple announced the iPhone 5, Phil Schiller officially announced what had leaked several days earlier: the phone is powered by Apple's new A6 SoC. — As always, Apple didn't announce clock speeds, CPU microarchitecture, memory bandwidth or GPU details.
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iPhone 5 Memory Size and Speed Revealed: 1GB LPDDR2-1066 — Quick analysis of the A6 SoC photos from the iPhone 5 launch event tells us all we need to know about the memory interface, speed and bandwidth of the new platform. As always, the A6 features a PoP stack combining the SoC itself and its DRAM.| Arnold Kim / MacRumors: |
iPhone 5 Benchmarks Appear in Geekbench Showing a Dual Core, 1GHz A6 CPU — John Poole of PrimateLabs let us know that the first iPhone 5 benchmark has hit Geekbench. — The results show an iPhone5,2 device running iOS 6 with a Dual-Core 1.02GHz ARMv7 processor and 1GB of RAM.
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| Janet I. Tu / The Seattle Times: |
Ballmer trumpets Microsoft's ‘epic year’ — Q and A: Microsoft Chief Executive Officer Steve Ballmer discusses new products and services, the state of the company and its future. — This fall, Microsoft is embarking on one of its biggest series of launches ever, with new versions or updates …
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Ballmer discusses Surface pricing and Microsoft as a devices-and-services company — Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer has discussed Windows 8 a number of times this year, once describing it as “the rebirth of Microsoft Windows,” but the outspoken chief of Microsoft has switched gears to talk … | Nicholas Carlson / Business Insider: |
Marissa Mayer Just Gave Every Yahoo Employee An iPhone 5 — New Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer just sent an email to all of Yahoo's full time and part time employees in the US, promising them a new Apple, Samsung, Nokia, or HTC smartphone. — “People are happy,” says a source at the company.
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| Nick Bilton / NYT Bits: |
Disruptions: Let Silicon Valley Eat ... Ramen Noodles? — Mark Zuckerberg spoke at a conference organized by TechCrunch in San Francisco on Sept. 11. He appears, very publicly and honestly, to focus on building a company, not on toys. — You don't have to spend much time in Silicon Valley …
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Johnnie Manzari and eWeek. Tweets: @timoreilly, @wadhwa, @karaswisher, @eghosao, @pkedrosky, @tristanwalker, @msuster and @dangillmor
| Will Oremus / Slate: |
Why Twitter Caved and Handed an “Occupy” Protester's Data to the Government — A judge forced Twitter to hand over deleted tweets from one of the hundreds of protesters arrested on the Brooklyn Bridge during a demonstration in October 2011. — Twitter surprised and impressed civil liberties groups …
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| Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Fortune: |
iPhone 5: Customers in the Big Apple camp out 8 days early — By Sunday there were 7 in the queue — each of them for commercial purposes — FORTUNE — In the popular imagination — and in Samsung TV ads — the people willing to wait in line for days to buy the newest Apple (AAPL) …
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| Liz Gannes / AllThingsD: |
Google and Alibaba Continue Warring Over Acer Phone — Google and Alibaba are none too happy with each other this weekend after last week's launch event in Shanghai for a new smartphone with Acer hardware and Alibaba software was postponed. — Google says that Alibaba's Aliyun operating system …
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| Amir Efrati / Wall Street Journal: |
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| Liz Gannes / AllThingsD: |
In New Ad Campaign, Samsung Tries to Win on the Merits — For many, the iPhone 5 is the talk of the weekend — and that includes Samsung. — The Korean phone maker will tomorrow start running a print ad campaign in national and regional papers that compares the features of its Galaxy S III with those of Apple's iPhone 5.
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Tweets: @macrumors and @reneritchie
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Tech Figures Raised At Least $27 Million For Obama Campaign — Leaked fundraising documents show Silicon Valley emerging as a key source of Democratic money and power. Valley money bests Hollywood. — President Obama with Google chairman (and occasional advisor) Eric Schmidt
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