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October 22, 2012, 9:30 AM

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Matt Brian / The Next Web:
Revealed: Everything that Google will unveil at its Android event on October 29  —  Diverting some of the attention away from Apple's ‘iPad mini’ unveiling on October 23 and Microsoft's Windows Phone 8 event on October 29, Google is to unveil a number new devices and software improvements …
Jay Greene / CNET:
Steven Sinofsky: Microsoft's controversial Mr. Windows 8  —  The software giant asked the exec to deliver a new, quality operating system and do it on time.  This week, we'll find out if his sharp elbows and turf fighting were worth it.  —  Two years ago, Microsoft Chief Software Architect Ray Ozzie …
Dan Goodin / Ars Technica:
Android apps used by millions vulnerable to password, e-mail theft  —  By exploiting inadequate SSL protections in an anti-virus app, researchers were able to force it to download a malicious virus signature.  —  Fahl et al.  —  Android applications downloaded by as many as 185 million users …
Jean-Louis Gassée / Monday Note:
Apple, ARM, and Intel  —  Apple and Samsung are engaged in a knives-out smartphone war, most infamously in the courts but, more importantly, in the marketplace.  In its latest ad campaign, Samsung has cleverly “borrowed” a page from Apple's own marketing playbook, posturing the iPhone …
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Guardian:
Amazon ebooks: publishers pay 20% VAT  —  Luxembourg-based company profits from European tax anomaly, itself paying only 3% VAT on digital books sold to UK readers  —  Amazon is forcing British publishers to cover the cost of a 20% VAT charge on ebook sales - even though the true VAT cost …
Danny Sullivan / Marketing Land:
Dark Google: One Year Since Search Terms Went “Not Provided”  —  A year ago, Google began going dark.  Dark in terms of no longer sharing with publishers, in some cases, how people searched for and found those publishers through Google's search engine.  The “single digit” …
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Nick Bilton / NYT Bits:
GoPro Camera Records Sky Divers and Surfers  —  There have been two major milestones in narcissistic photography in the last century.  The first was the invention of the self-timer, which Kodak began selling during World War I. The second came a few years ago, as teenagers stood …
Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:
Motorola Solutions shows off its hands-free mobile computer  —  Motorola Solutions is showing off today a gee-whiz mobile computer that you can attach to your head and operate with voice commands.  —  The HC1 headset computer looks bulky and cumbersome now, but it's just a demonstration …

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