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| Walter S. Mossberg / AllThingsD: |
The iPhone Takes to the Big Screen — The world's most popular smartphone becomes significantly faster, thinner and lighter this week, while gaining a larger, 4-inch screen—all without giving up battery life, comfort in the hand and high-quality construction. — [ See post to watch video ]
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| Arnold Kim / MacRumors: |
First iPhone 5 Reviews: Thinner, Lighter, LTE “Stunningly Fast” — The embargo has just lifted on the first iPhone 5 reviews. Apple has provided some publications with an early review unit of the iPhone 5. We are collecting some of the more interesting points from each review, but you can click each title to read the full writeup.
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| John Gruber / Daring Fireball: |
The iPhone 5 — The iPhone 5 is really nice. It feels great, looks great, has the best display I've seen at any size, runs noticeably faster, networks noticeably faster, is way thinner and lighter than any of its predecessors, takes better photos, and, in my six days of testing, gets totally decent iPhone-4S-level battery life.
| AnandTech: |
iPhone 5/A6 SunSpider Performance: Faster than Intel's Atom Z2460 — The first iPhone 5 reviews have lifted, confirming the leaked Geekbench data we saw in our earlier post. Apple's A6 appears to feature two custom ARM cores running at up to 1GHz. A new datapoint comes courtesy … | David Pogue / New York Times: |
IPhone 5 Scores Well, With a Quibble — If you were taking a college course called iPhone 101, your professor might identify three factors that have made Apple's smartphone a mega-success. — First, design. A single company, known for its obsession over details, produces both the hardware and the software.| Andrew Rassweiler / iSuppli: |
iPhone 5 Carries $199 BOM, Virtual Teardown Reveals — This is an IHS iSuppli News Flash from information and analytics provider IHS (NYSE: IHS) covering the IHS iSuppli Teardown Analysis Service's virtual teardown of the iPhone 5. This virtual teardown information is based on an analysis …
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| Gideon Spanier / London News: |
Sir Jonathan Ive and entire Apple design team fly to London to collect prestigious D&AD awards — Apple has been named the best brand and the best design studio of the last 50 years at the D&AD Awards, one of the world's most prestigious prizes for advertising and design.| Dan DeSilva / 9to5Mac: |
Apple Marketing SVP Phil Schiller confirms: Apple has no iPhone 5 dock in the works — We were recently forwarded an email where a reader reached out to Philip Schiller, Apple's Senior VP of Marketing, to ask if Apple was planning to release a dock for the new iPhone 5.| Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Fortune: |
Apple's iOS 6 due for release at 1 p.m. Eastern, 10 a.m. Pacific — The company is hoping to avoid a logjam on Friday, when the iPhone 5 goes on sale — FORTUNE — iOS 6, the newest version of Apple (AAPL) iPhone/iPad software platform, is scheduled to arrive today, Wednesday Sept. 19.
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| T-Mobile Newsroom: |
John Legere Named as Chief Executive Officer of T-Mobile USA — Deutsche Telekom (OTCQX: DTEGY), one of Europe's leading telecommunications and information technology service companies and the parent company of T-Mobile USA, today announced that John Legere, a 32-year veteran of the U.S …
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| Spencer E. Ante / Digits: |
Former TechCrunch Editor Erick Schonfeld To Run DEMO — The technology conference wars just got a bit more dramatic. Former TechCrunch editor Erick Schonfeld is taking over the management of DEMO from VentureBeat editor in chief Matt Marshall, who is returning to the tech blog exclusively … | Robert McMillan / Wired: |
No-Name Company Sues Internet, Misunderstands GitHub — A virtually unknown company called PersonalWeb Technologies has launched a series of patent infringement suits against some of the internet's most important companies, including Facebook, Apple, Yahoo, Microsoft, and IBM.
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| Mike Isaac / AllThingsD: |
Here Come The Tweets: Gnip Offers Access to Full Twitter Archive (For a Price) — Twitter is largely credited with the rise of the “interest graph,” the name for the network of various and sundry things we as humans like to do, and the ways in which those interests connect us to one another.
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| Jordan Kahn / 9to5Mac: |
Mainstream apps optimized for iPhone 5, Passbook, & iOS 6 — I f you want to take full advantage of iOS 6 and the new iPhone 5′s extra screen real estate, you will want to pick up some of the apps and updates below, which are specifically optimized for the device's bigger screen size and latest OS.
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| Matthew Panzarino / The Next Web: |
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| Lee Chyen Yee / Reuters: |
ZTE, Mozilla aim to roll out mobile operating system in coming months — (Reuters) - China's ZTE Corp, the world's fourth largest mobile phone handset vendor, is cooperating with Mozilla, maker of web browser Firefox, to introduce a new mobile operating system later this year or early next year, a ZTE spokesman said on Wednesday.| Brooke Crothers / CNET: |
Intel sets Windows 8 tablet event with HP, Samsung, others — Chip giant will host a coming-out party for Windows 8 tablets using its latest system-on-a-chip. — Intel is going to kick off the season of the Windows 8 tablet by hosting an event next week attended by virtually all of the major PC players.
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| Barb Darrow / GigaOM: |
OpenStack gets real — After a sometimes contentious incubation period, the OpenStack Foundation is now official, with a new 24-member board chaired by SUSE exec and Linux Foundation director Alan Clark; 5,600 members; and $10 million in backer's funding. Rackspace's Jonathan Bryce …
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| Jon Russell / The Next Web: |
‘Slim’ Sony PlayStation 3 to debut in North America September 25, worldwide October — Sony has taken the wraps off its new ‘slim’ PlayStation 3 at the Toyko Games Show. The new version of the console will debut in North America on September 25 before hitting Japan, Europe and the rest …
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PlayStation Blog, Ars Technica, PC Magazine, The Verge, IntoMobile, Guardian, Technabob, WebProNews, Inquirer, Softpedia News, Kotaku, Joystiq, VentureBeat, Engadget and Mashable!
| Tricia Duryee / AllThingsD: |
Groupon Promising Merchants “Lowest Cost” Payments Service (And It's Using an iPhone) — Groupon is rolling out a new payments service today, which it hopes will create new reasons for merchants to continue using the Chicago daily deal provider. — In an interview, Mihir Shah …
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| Jack Clark / ZDNet: |
Google reveals Spanner, the database tech that can span the planet — Summary: The Spanner technology sees Google craft a globally distributed database to underpin its massive software platforms with the help of atomic clocks, GPS systems and some of its most lauded computer scientists. — Jack Clark| Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica: |
Samsung, Intel prepare wireless devices for AirPlay-like streaming — WiFi Alliance certifies network equipment and consumer devices for Miracast. — The WiFi Alliance today unveiled its certification program for Miracast, a new wireless technology for streaming video from phones, laptops, and tablets to television sets.
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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Facebook Beta Launches New Mobile Ad Network Using Your Data To Target You With Banner Ads In Other Apps — Facebook today begins testing its own mobile ad network. Advertisers can pay to target you with ads for app stores or websites based on your Facebook data that appears while you're on other apps and mobile sites.
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| Eric Slivka / MacRumors: |
Shipping Estimates for New iPhone 5 Pre-Orders Through Apple Slip to 3-4 Weeks — The iPhone 5 does not officially launch until Friday, but pre-orders are clearly continuing to roll in through Apple's online store as the company has now bumped shipping estimates for new pre-orders to 3-4 weeks.| iFixit: |
Apple EarPods Teardown — After three years of research and development, Apple has released the newest version of their popular headphones, now dubbed “EarPods.” Join us as we crack these pods open and take a look at what three years of R & D can accomplish. Love all of these gadget teardowns?| Robin Wauters / The Next Web: |
U.S. Internet giants, including Google, Facebook, Amazon and Yahoo, form new lobbying association — A group of 14 Internet juggernauts such as Facebook, Google, eBay, Amazon.com, Zynga, Yahoo and others have formed a brand new lobbying group in the United States called The Internet Association … Sponsor Posts
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