10 Things In Tech You Need To Know This Morning
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.