10 Things In Tech You Need To Know This Morning
Business Insider / Jillian D'Onfro
1. Amazon revealed its first ever smartphone, the Fire phone.
2. The thing that's shocking about the Fire phone is the price - it's more expensive than the average iPhone. Why is Amazon doing this? Our theory: it wants to limit early sales while it tests out what works with the phone.
3. The most disruptive feature of the Amazon phone: Free, unlimited storage of all the photos you take with the phone. This should be standard from all phone makers.
4. T-Mobile announced a new program that will let people test drive an iPhone 5S for a week. The idea is to let people try out T-Mobile's network to see that it's not as bad as they think.
5. T-Mobile also announced that it would let people stream music from Rhapsody and not have it count against their data caps. Great, right? Not really. It's a bad precedent for anyone that cares about net neutrality.
6. The latest interesting mobile app is called, "Yo." All it does is send a notification to people that says "Yo." Yet, it got $1 million in funding.
7. Facebook is taking a big shot at Cisco: Facebook announced a new computer networking switch. It will make it open source by the end of the year, and it has implications for the enterprise software industry.
8. The iPhone 6 is likely to have a barometer.
9. Adobe released a new pen and ruler kit designed for the iPad.
10. Facebook went down for a few hours overnight (NYC time), but it's back up now.
Disclosure: Jeff Bezos is an investor in Business Insider through his personal investment company Bezos Expeditions.
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