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Apple asks manufacturers to supply between 70M-80M 4.7-inch and 5.5-inch iPhones by December 30 — Next iPhone Will Offer Bigger Screens — Apple Tells Suppliers to Gear Up for 4.7-inch and 5.5-Inch Screen Sizes — Apple Inc. is preparing for its largest initial production run of iPhones …
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Xiaomi's latest phone gets a steel frame, IR blaster and top specs for just $320 — Having sold 26.11 million phones in the first half of this year, the beast from the East that is Xiaomi is back again with a new flagship Android phone: the MI4. For the first time ever …
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Xiaomi announces its first wearable device, a $13 fitness band — Popular Chinese smartphone manufacturer Xiaomi has joined the wearables fray as it unveiled today its very first wearable device, a fitness band for only CNY79 ($13). — The Mi Band features sensors for tracking various health metrics …
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Amazon Quietly Launches Its Consumer-Facing Mobile Wallet App, Amazon Wallet — Amazon's first attempt at its own mobile wallet application, designed for use at the point-of-sale, has made a quiet debut on the Amazon Appstore and on Google Play. However, the current implementation of the new …
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Yahoo to Acquire Flurry to Strengthen Mobile Products — Over the past couple of years, Yahoo has been focused on re-imagining our users' daily habits, and mobile is at the center of everything we do. Today, I'm excited to announce the next step in our vision, that we have reached …
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Nvidia's Shield Tablet And Shield Controller Look To Offer No-Compromise Mobile Gaming — The Nvidia Shield was a first attempt by graphics chip- and card-maker Nvidia, but it gave the company a taste for building gadgets that wouldn't go away, so now they're back with the Shield Tablet …
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AddThis tests canvas fingerprinting, a powerful cookie alternative for online tracking, on thousands of sites — Meet the Online Tracking Device That is Virtually Impossible to Block — This story was co-published with Mashable. — A new, extremely persistent type of online tracking …
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| Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Fortune: |
Analysts' estimates for Apple's Q3: revenues up 8.5% year over year, earnings up 18% — Spreadsheet of the day: Final estimates for Apple's fiscal Q3 — With the world's most valuable company — and the hedge funds' favorite — set to report earnings after the markets close today, the eyes of Wall Street are once again on Apple.
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Leaked ‘Windows 9’ screenshots offer a closer look at the new Start Menu — An early look at Microsoft's next version of Windows — Microsoft provided an early look at its new Start Menu for a future version of Windows earlier this year, but freshly leaked screenshots are offering … | Roger Cheng / CNET: |
Verizon tops Q2 expectations as tablet demand drives growth — The company added 1.15 million new tablets in the period, offsetting a slowdown in smartphone growth. — Verizon CEO Lowell McAdam. — Verizon's customer growth bounced back in the second quarter, thanks to a pickup in tablet and smartphone demand in the period.
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| Andrew Cunningham / Ars Technica: |
Explaining Continuity: The tech tying iOS 8 and OS X Yosemite together — Continuity changes how your iPhones, iPads, and Macs interact with one another. Let's look at the technology underneath all these features. — Apple — Apple wants you to buy Apple devices.| Tom Brewster / Guardian: |
Researchers: Lawyers blocked our Black hat demo on de-anonymising Tor — Shelved Black Hat presentation would have explained why you don't have to be the NSA to break Tor — The Tor network promises online privacy by routing users' internet traffic through a number of servers - or layers - while encrypting data.
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One of the most-viewed YouTube channels worldwide is a woman unboxing toys for toddlers — YouTube's Biggest Star Is An Unknown Toy-Reviewing Toddler Whisperer — Is it possible an unknown, one-woman toy-reviewing YouTuber called “Disney Collector” is making more money than most CEOs?| Nick Wingfield / New York Times: |
Profile of Brad Smith, Microsoft's general counsel and chief official on public policy matters — Microsoft's Top Lawyer Is the Tech World's Envoy — REDMOND, Wash. — Bradford L. Smith, Microsoft's general counsel, was in Berlin meeting with government officials this spring when a case kept popping up unexpectedly.
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$700 Sony Walkman with 128GB of storage for “high-resolution audio” finds niche in Japan — Sony's Walkman Makes Comeback — New $700 Device Is Aimed at Upscale Users — TOKYO—Thirty five years after its debut, Sony Corp.'s Walkman is enjoying a little comeback.Sponsor Posts
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