Techmeme: Apple's Game Center Seems to be Malfunctioning Today. Blame Letterpress? (Tina Amini/Kotaku)

October 27, 2012, 3:25 PM

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Hurricane Sandy Causes Google To Cancel Its Android Event — Google's big Android event on Monday in New York City was supposed to be the rain on the parade of Microsoft's Windows Phone 8 event happening on the same day in San Francisco. But Google's event is literally being washed out …

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Drinking Establishment (Check). Highly Anticipated Mobile Phone Release (Check). Lost Phone (Check) — Jamin Barton is a soft-spoken musician with a quick laugh and a winning smile who tends bar under the nickname “Sudsy” at the 500 Club in San Francisco's Mission District.

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Bryan Bishop / The Verge:

Déjà vu: Google employee loses prototype Nexus 4 at San Francisco bar — In 2010 a prototype of Apple's iPhone 4 was left at a San Francisco bar, which led to it leaking across the internet months before its official debut — and it appears the same almost happened with the much-anticipated new Nexus device from LG.

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An alternate universe — On the way to the Apple Store today to buy AppleCare+ for my wife's new iPhone 5, we passed the new Microsoft Store, coincidentally in the middle of their Surface with Windows RT launch. (That is actually the product's name. “Surface with Windows RT”.)

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Windows 8 Day One: Steady, Not Spectacular, Store Traffic — Microsoft and its allies need to generate excitement for the Surface tablets and other computers running the company's dramatically revamped Windows 8 operating system. Nothing builds buzz like long lines, of course, and on that score …

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Facebook Investigating How Bulgarian Man Bought 1.1 Million Users' Email Addresses For Five Dollars — Bulgarian blogger and digital rights activist Bogomil Shopov — Updated with a more recent comment from Facebook below. — It's no secret that Facebook treats your personal data as a commodity.

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Tina Amini / Kotaku:

Apple's Game Center Seems to be Malfunctioning Today. Blame Letterpress? — Game Center is really acting up today. — iOS players have been taking to Twitter to voice concerns about Game Center breaking when attempting to play games, specifically Letterpress. — Letterpress is a fairly new word game for iOS devices.

More: Daring Fireball, rant-dom and Laughing Squid. Tweets: @lorenb

Alex Williams / TechCrunch:

Amazon Web Services Outage Caused By Memory Leak And Failure In Monitoring Alarm — A memory leak and a failed monitoring system caused the Amazon Web Services outage on Monday that took out Reddit and other major services. — According to a post Friday night, AWS explained that the problem arose …

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Claire Cain Miller / NYT Bits:

Google Is Testing Same-Day Delivery for Shoppers — Google is now in the same-day delivery business. In San Francisco, some people affiliated with Google can buy a product, using their phones or computers, and have it delivered to their homes in a matter of hours, using a new service operated by Google.

More: GigaOM, CNET, Engadget, Business Insider, The Verge, The Next Web, 9to5Google and SeekingAlpha.com

9to5Mac:

iPad minis with LTE start arriving on Black Friday (Nov. 23) for standard, Nov. 21 for expedited — It appears those who ordered the LTE iPad minis late last night in the U.S. will start receiving theirs about Nov. 23, according to what we heard from a number of early buyers.

More: iPhone in Canada Blog, CNET, iLounge, LAPTOP Magazine, MacRumors and TechCrunch. Tweets: @marcoarment

Chris Welch / The Verge:

3.6 million social security numbers exposed in unprecedented South Carolina cyber attack — “This is not a good day for South Carolina.” That was Governor Nikki Haley's public reaction to news that a foreign hacker had infiltrated South Carolina's Department of Revenue and made off …

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