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Pirate Bay Moves to The Cloud, Becomes Raid-Proof — The Pirate Bay is loved by millions of file-sharers but is also a thorn in the side of the entertainment industries. — The latter group continues to push authorities to take action against the site. The Pirate Bay was raided back in 2006 … | Josh Lowensohn / CNET: |
Apple snaps up celebrity-backed Web app firm Particle — Apple has bought a San Francisco-based HTML5 Web and Web app design firm backed by Justin Timberlake. — Call it an “acqui-hire.” — Apple has snapped up Particle, a San Francisco-based creative consulting company that specializes … | Bonnie Cha / AllThingsD: |
How Much Tablet Does $500 Get You? Microsoft Surface vs. iPad vs. Galaxy Note 10.1. — Today, Microsoft finally revealed pricing for its upcoming Surface tablet, with the 32 gigabyte model of the Windows RT slate set to go for $499 ($599 with touch keyboard) and the 64GB model priced at $699 with the keyboard cover.
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| Walter S. Mossberg / AllThingsD: |
Windows 8 Review — Microsoft is giving Windows its most radical overhaul since 1995 and even its most devoted users won't recognize the venerable computer operating system in this new incarnation, called Windows 8, when it appears Oct. 26. — [ See post to watch video ]
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| Colleen Taylor / TechCrunch: |
Color: We Are Not Shutting Down — Color, the photo-sharing website which became well-known for securing $40 million in venture capital but has since had a bumpy road with lagging user numbers and turmoil at the executive levels, is not winding down operations, contrary to an anonymously-sourced report …
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| Ricardo Bilton / VentureBeat: |
More trouble for Color: shareholders and board vote to wind down company — Is the Color horror story reaching its conclusion? — A source within the company tells us that the Color's shareholders and board last week voted to shut the business down. — Here's an excerpt from the email sent last night:
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| Steven Levy / Wired: |
Google Throws Open Doors to Its Top-Secret Data Center — If you're looking for the beating heart of the digital age — a physical location where the scope, grandeur, and geekiness of the kingdom of bits become manifest—you could do a lot worse than Lenoir, North Carolina.| Sam Byford / The Verge: |
HTC J Butterfly preview: a stunning 5-inch 1080p phone for Japan (video) — 440ppi Super LCD 3 sets the new standard in smartphone displays — The rumors were true: HTC has been working on a new flagship phone with a 5-inch 1080p display, and we got to see it in Tokyo today.| David Talbot / Technology Review: |
Computer Viruses Are “Rampant” on Medical Devices in Hospitals — A meeting of government officials reveals that medical equipment is becoming riddled with malware. — Computerized hospital equipment is increasingly vulnerable to malware infections, according to participants in a recent government panel.
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| Arik Hesseldahl / AllThingsD: |
How Obama or Romney Should Have Answered the iPad Question — Toward the end of last night's presidential debate between President Barack Obama and Gov. Mitt Romney, the moderator, CNN's Candy Crowley, asked a perfectly legitimate question, one that Obama himself is once reported to have asked …
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| Marcus Wohlsen / Wired: |
MasterCard Is Selling Your Data Just in Time for the Holidays — Credit card companies make money by taking a cut every time you swipe your plastic at the checkout counter. Now MasterCard has found a way to make those swipes pay over and over again. — As the Financial Times first reported …
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| Élyse Betters / 9to5Mac: |
Foxconn official says iPhone 5 supply shortages caused by complicated design, productivity improving — The Wall Street Journal spoke with an unnamed Hon Hai executive today about why the iPhone 5 is experiencing supply shortages, and the Taiwanese manufacturer, also known as Foxconn … | Nathan Ingraham / The Verge: |
Samsung confirms US Galaxy S III handsets will get Android 4.1 ‘in the coming months’ — Galaxy S III owners, your wait for Jelly Bean might be nearing and end. Samsung just confirmed that all US variants of its flagship Android phone will receive an update to Android 4.1 Jelly Bean … | Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch: |
Klout Updates iPhone App With Passbook Integration, Wants You To “Show Off” With Klout Card — Online social influence is something that can really rub people the wrong way. Klout obviously believes in it wholeheartedly; others, not so much. Now, in a move that's sure to generate … | Liz Gannes / AllThingsD: |
Larry Page Speaks (Yes, He Speaks!) on Regulation and Other Topics (Video) — Larry Page is back from his vocal-cord-recovery hiatus, and he answered questions on Tuesday at the company's Zeitgeist Americas partner and customer conference in Arizona. — Page, whose rested voice seemed much improved …
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| Eric Slivka / MacRumors: |
Rumors and Speculation of November 2 ‘iPad Mini’ Launch Building — Earlier today, Geeky Gadgets reported that it has received word from a retailer in the United Kingdom indicating that the “iPad mini” will be launching on November 2 in at least the United States and UK …
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CITEworld, Pocketnow, WebProNews, Geeky-Gadgets, Gotta Be Mobile, everythingiCafe, Macgasm, Business Insider, PadGadget, App Advice, onliner.by, SlashGear and iDownloadBlog.com. Tweets: @9to5mac
| Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch: |
Source: Apple Accessory Partner Seminar Coming November 7-8, Will Cover Lightning Guidelines — We're now hearing from a source close to Apple's accessory manufacturing partner that the company plans to hold a conference in Shenzen, China for its Made for iPod/iPhone/iPad (MFI) …
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MacRumors, App Advice, Macgasm, Gotta Be Mobile, iDownloadBlog.com and ITProPortal. Thanks:@chrisvelazco
| Ari Levy / Bloomberg: |
Violin Memory Said to File IPO With $2 Billion Valuation — Violin Memory Inc., a maker of flash memory for data centers, filed to go public last month under the Jumpstart Our Business Startups Act, said two people familiar with the matter. — The deal is being led by JPMorgan Chase & Co. …
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| Adrian Chen / Gawker: |
Reddit CEO Speaks Out On Violentacrez In Leaked Memo: ‘We Stand for Free Speech’ — Reddit has been rocked by our expose of its most powerful creep, Texas programmer Michael Brutsch aka Violentacrez. Brutsch has been defending himself on Reddit, and is even going to be interviewed by CNN.
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| Marcus Wohlsen / Wired: |
Retail: Amazon's Next Big Business Is Selling You — Facebook knows who your friends are. Google knows what you're interested in finding on the internet. Amazon knows what you've bought, and has a pretty good idea of what you might want to buy next. — If you were an advertiser, which company's data sounds most valuable to you?| Marguerite Reardon / CNET: |
4G spectrum spat settled: Sirius and AT&T can coexist after all — The Federal Communications Commission gives its blessing to a plan that paves the way for AT&T to use the WCS spectrum band to add capacity to its 4G LTE network. — The Federal Communications Commission has paved …
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Hillicon Valley, Computerworld, GigaOM, AllThingsD and AT&T Public Policy Blog
| John Letzing / Digits: |
Google Stays Ahead of Silicon Valley Pack on Engineer Salaries — Google Inc. is staying well armed in at least one aspect of the ongoing battle for Silicon Valley talent. — The Mountain View, Calif., Internet company has faced a wave of competition in hiring in recent years thanks …
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Business Insider and Los Angeles Times
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Mobile Milestone: The Number Of Smartphones In Use Passed 1 Billion In Q3, Says Strategy Analytics — We are just getting into reporting season, where some (but not all) handset makers tell us how many handsets they've sold in the last three months, but Strategy Analytics has taken a punt …
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Bloomberg, ReadWriteWeb, The Next Web, ZDNet, FierceWireless, Android Authority and Techie Buzz
| Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
Motorola calls stock Android ‘the right thing,’ but bows to Verizon customization — Despite being owned by Google, Motorola still has to answer to Verizon — One of the biggest questions surrounding the “New Motorola” after the Google acquisition is a simple one: if it's owned by Google … | Leena Rao / TechCrunch: |
Payments Platform Braintree Raises $35M From NEA, Accel To Take On PayPal And Square — Braintree, an online payments gateway provider for online and mobile platforms, has raised $35 million in Series funding led by New Enterprise Associates (NEA) with participation from existing investors …
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ZDNet, AllThingsD, VentureBeat, PandoDaily, The Verge, GigaOM and Techie Buzz
| Jack Purcher / Patently Apple: |
Apple Wins Patents for Camera & NFC Alternative Technologies — The US Patent and Trademark Office officially published a series of thirty-two newly granted patents for Apple Inc. today. In our final granted patent report of the day we focus on Apple's new NFC Alternative technology …
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CNET and iDownloadBlog.com
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Amazon's Quidsi Targets Kids With New Sites Bookworm.com & AfterSchool.com — Amazon subsidiary Quidsi, which currently operates sites like Soap.com, Diapers.com and the newly launched eco site Vine.com to name a few, will launched two more sites this week, AfterSchool.com and Bookworm.com.
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