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September 25, 2012, 12:00 PM

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Kevin Krolicki / Reuters:

Google says Maps not waiting in wings for iPhone 5 — (Reuters) - Google Inc has made no move to provide Google Maps for the iPhone 5 after Apple Inc dropped the application in favor of a home-grown but controversial alternative, Google's Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt said.

Teo Chian Wei / Bloomberg:

Google's Schmidt Says Up to Apple to Decide on Maps App — Google Inc. (GOOG) Chairman Eric Schmidt said it would be up to Apple Inc. (AAPL) to approve the company's map application for Apple's operating system after the iPhone maker's own app was criticized by reviewers.

More: PC Magazine, CNET, Search Engine Land, 9to5Mac, MacRumors, iPhone Savior, Redmond Pie, SeekingAlpha.com, ITProPortal, MobileSyrup.com, Gizmodo, The Next Web, iClarified and iLounge

Spandas Lui / ZDNet:

Woz: Apple Maps disappointing, but flaws ‘not that severe’ — Summary: Apple co-founder downplayed problems with the new Apple Maps application, which replaced Google Maps on iPhones that have iOS 6. — Spandas Lui — Reviews of Apple's Maps have been mixed at best …

More: CNET, Business Insider, iPhone in Canada Blog, WebProNews, Mashable!, Macgasm, MacNN, Gizmodo and iPhone Hacks

Anthony Drendel:

iOS Maps and China

More: Ogle Earth and Pocket-lint. Tweets: @ryanrenaldy and @geointer

Bloomberg:

Apple Use of Thin Display Seen Driving IPhone 5 Supply Shortfall — Apple Inc. (AAPL)'s decision to create a smartphone that boasts a thinner, lighter touch screen contributed to the component shortfall that caused demand to outstrip supply of the iPhone on its debut weekend.

Bloomberg:

Apple IPhone 5 Misses Estimates Even as 5 Million Units Are Sold

More: Daring Fireball and Wall Street Journal

Matt Brian / The Next Web:

Possible flaw in Samsung's TouchWiz UI leaves smartphones open to data-wiping, SIM locks and more — A bug in the way Samsung's TouchWiz UI interacts with USSD codes on Android smartphones may allow an attacker to perform a factory reset on susceptible devices, simply by embedding a link on a website or sending an SMS.

More: The Register, TechCrunch, Forbes, ZDNet, InformationWeek, 9to5Google, iThinkDifferent, Softpedia News, Engadget, GigaOM, Sammy Hub, MobileSyrup.com, SlashGear, Pocket-lint, Neowin, BGR and 9to5Mac

Vlad Savov / The Verge:

Samsung TouchWiz vulnerability will wipe some phones after just clicking a link

More: LAPTOP Magazine, The H Security, DailyTech, Droid Life and MCV: Home Stream

AllThingsD:

Exclusive: Twitter Eyeing Media Bigs, Including Hollywood Mogul Peter Chernin, for Board Seats — Twitter is now interviewing a series of well-known media players for its board, as the San Francisco online social communications service seeks to increase its ties to the entertainment industry …

More: CNET, Betabeat, Deadline.com and Hillicon Valley. Tweets: @mathewi. See also Mediagazer

Seth Weintraub / 9to5Mac:

Apple Marketing SVP comments on iPhone 5 scratches and chips: ‘That is normal’ for aluminum products — We just received (and verified headers of) an email exchange from a 9to5Mac reader to Senior Vice President of Marketing Phil Schiller, where the Apple executive gave his take on the small amount …

More: TechCrunch, MacRumors, Business Insider, BGR, Macgasm, iDownloadBlog.com, GSMArena Blog, Softpedia News, MacNN and iLounge

iFixit:

Apple A6 Teardown — Geeks rejoice! We have partnered with Chipworks for a double-the-geeks, double-the-fun teardown of Apple's new A6 Processor. The A6 is rumored to make use of two custom 1 GHz CPUs running the ARMv7s instruction set. Along our journey into the A6 …

More: The Verge, MacRumors, Engadget and AppleInsider. Tweets: @panzer

Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch:

IHS: iPhone 5 Costs Between $207 and $238 To Make, Depending On Storage

More: Market Intelligence, GigaOM, CNET, PandoDaily and SeekingAlpha.com

John Herrman / BuzzFeed:

Twitter Cofounder Suggests A Replacement For The Follower Count — “The dream metric is how many people saw your tweet,” says Ev Williams. Twitter's own Klout? — Via: @jonsteinberg — Twitter cofounder Ev Williams — who remains on the company's board — hinted Monday that follower counts …

More: Betabeat, Poynter, VentureBeat, AllTwitter and Gizmodo

Tweets: @cbuckser and @buzzfeedben

Raymond M. Soneira / DisplayMate:

iPhone 5 Galaxy S III Display Technology Shoot-Out — The iPhone 5 has been the most anticipated mobile device of 2012 together with its cousin the iPad Mini, which we expect to be seeing shortly. Apple has made displays their most prominent marketing feature because it determines the quality …

More: Computerworld, MacRumors, iDownloadBlog.com, AYTM, Redmond Pie, Communications …, ExtremeTech, ITProPortal, App Advice, Pocketnow and iClarified

Ari Levy / Bloomberg:

Xbox Challenged as Cable Plots to Make Consoles Obsolete — AT&T Inc. (T), Verizon Communications Inc. (VZ) and Time Warner Cable Inc. (TWC) are gearing up for a push to deliver video games directly to televisions, said people with knowledge of the matter, a strategy shift that poses a threat …

More: DSLreports, GamesIndustry International, MCV: Home Stream, The Verge and VG247

Harrison Weber / The Next Web:

StumbleUpon releases new site redesign in beta, featuring Pinterest-like stumbles and lists — Following a traffic nose-dive from last December's site redesign, the loss of its CEO and the recent release of a redesigned iOS app, StumbleUpon is today revealing a site redesign in beta.

More: VentureBeat

Amar Toor / The Verge:

Google Play Books update adds definitions, translations, and Maps integration — Google has updated its Books app for Android with a slew of new features, including in-text definitions, translations, and Google Maps integration. The updated Google Play Books app also makes it easier …

More: 9to5Google, CNET, Softpedia News, Android News, Rumours …, Mashable!, MobileBurn.com, Droid Life, The Next Web, Engadget, Official Android Blog and paidContent

Stephen Shankland / CNET:

Life beyond JavaScript: Google releases new RoboHornet test — In an attempt to test and therefore improve more than just a browser's JavaScript program speed, Google released a new browser benchmark. It wants others to help improve the benchmark, too. — Google last night unveiled …

More: Paul Irish, 9to5Google, Tom's Hardware Guide and gHacks Technology News

Lauren Goode / AllThingsD:

Going Beyond E-Books, Barnes & Noble Nook Launches Digital Video Service — Barnes & Noble, looking to capitalize on its fast-growing digital business, is launching a Nook-branded video streaming service that, at first glance, looks a lot like Amazon's and Google's online video services.

More: Computerworld, VentureBeat, 9to5Google, Barnes & Noble, Inc., SiliconANGLE, CNET, paidContent, Engadget, LAPTOP Magazine, The Verge, Reuters, WebProNews, MobileBurn.com and TechCrunch

Janet I. Tu / Seattle Times:

Survey: Developers say Facebook could face mobile disruption; Windows 8 holds promise but far from sure thing — A majority of mobile developers believe Facebook is at risk of being disrupted by a mobile-first social media startup. — Developers believe Windows 8 “holds significant promise …

More: SiliconBeat, Forbes, The Next Web and GigaOM

Edgar Alvarez / Engadget:

Google updates Chrome app for iOS 6, makes it friendly with the iPhone 5 — Over the next few weeks, we can surely expect iOS developers from all over the globe to start pushing out updates to make their applications better interact with Apple's iOS 6 and that all-new screen found on the iPhone 5.

More: Google Chrome Releases, WebProNews, GadgeTell, Search Engine Roundtable, SlashGear, 9to5Mac and Phone Scoop

Dana Wollman / Engadget:

Adobe announces Photoshop and Premiere Elements 11 with new filters, more beginner-friendly UI — Earlier this year Adobe announced Photoshop CS6 with a new user interface, and now Elements, its line of beginner-level products, are getting a facelift too. The company just introduced Photoshop …

More: BetaNews, Inquirer, GSMArena Blog, 9to5Mac, ZDNet, Pocket-lint, Macworld and Softpedia News

Ina Fried / AllThingsD:

Live: RIM Urges Developers to Hang on For BlackBerry 10 — Once again, Research In Motion is promising its developers that great things are in store if they will just have a little more faith and patience. — For going on a couple years now, the BlackBerry maker has been pitching coders …

More: Engadget

Bryan Gardiner / Wired:

Glass Works: How Corning Created the Ultrathin, Ultrastrong Material of the Future — Don Stookey knew he had botched the experiment. One day in 1952, the Corning Glass Works chemist placed a sample of photosensitive glass inside a furnace and set the temperature to 600 degrees Celsius.

More: VoIP & Gadgets Blog

Neil McAllister / The Register:

Oracle woos open sourcers with free Java web framework — ADF Essentials gives away the basics — Battling against an increasingly crowded field of Java web development frameworks, Oracle - ordinarily never one to turn away a buck - has decided to bite the bullet and offer a version …

Tricia Duryee / AllThingsD:

eBay's Mobile Momentum: 100M App Downloads, 100M Items Listed — EBay is not the only e-commerce company seeing a significant shift to mobile, but it may be the only publicly held company that talks about it. Today, it has even more to say, and since the subject is big numbers, it threw in a nifty infographic (see below).

More: Street Fight and CNET

Shara Tibken / CNET:

Apple to meet Swiss railway over clock-design flap — report — An Agence France-Presse wire report notes that the Swiss railway SBB, which has accused Apple of ripping off a decades-old clock design used in its stations, doesn't intend to ‘upset’ Apple by asking for money.

More: digitaltrends.com, AppleInsider and SlashGear

Zusha Elinson / The Bay Citizen:

Google car zooms toward legal status — Mountain View company uses its clout to win legislative support for self-driving vehicles — When veteran legislative staffer Howard Posner began working on a bill that would allow driverless, computer-controlled cars to roam California's highways …

More: SiliconBeat, WebProNews and Marketing Land

Declan McCullagh / CNET:

Samsung raises jury misconduct in bid for new Apple trial — Samsung lists cases in which juror misconduct — introducing outside material to deliberations — led to a new trial. That's after jury foreman revealed he discussed his patents with other jurors.

More: InfoWorld, BGR, Android Authority, Groklaw, The Register, Softpedia News, Computerworld, Digital Spy and Mercury News

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