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November 1, 2012, 6:10 PM

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BBC:

Apple ordered to re-write ‘inaccurate’ Samsung statement — Apple said it believed the message had been in compliance with the court order — Apple has 48 hours to re-write a statement on its website relating to its design rights dispute with Samsung, UK judges have ruled.

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Jeremy Hodges / Bloomberg:

Apple Leaves U.K. Judge at ‘Loss’ Over Samsung Web Posts — Apple Inc. (AAPL) was criticized by U.K. judges in a patent lawsuit with Samsung Electronics Co. (005930) for posting a notice on its website that was “untrue” and “incorrect.” — The U.K. Court of Appeal in London ordered Apple …

iFixit:

iPad Mini Teardown — Trick-or-Treat! While making our yearly October 31st rounds, we came across something interesting: a brand new iPad Mini! All hopped up on sugar, we eagerly tore into Apple's first small tablet. Smaller than an iPad, larger than an iPod, and able to leap tall buildings …

Eric Slivka / MacRumors:

iPad Mini Teardown Reveals Samsung Display Driver, A5 Chip, Stereo Speakers — iFixit is currently working on a teardown of the iPad mini, revealing the internal components of the device for the first time. — One interesting development is the discovery of a Samsung display driver chip.

More: iPhone Hacks

Noel Randewich / Reuters:

Apple's iPad mini has display from rival Samsung

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John Paczkowski / AllThingsD:

Behind Silicon Valley's Un-Retirement: Why Bob Mansfield Is Back at Apple — Bob Mansfield, Apple's former senior vice president of Hardware Engineering, is now back at the company after what may be one of Silicon Valley's briefest retirements. — The longtime company exec returned fully …

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New York Times:

Apple Shake-Up Could End Real-World Images — Whether they realize it or not, all of those who swipe a finger down from the top of the iPhone's screen to check for notifications are bearing witness to a big sore point within Apple. — There, behind a list of text messages …

More: Ubergizmo, iPhone in Canada Blog, iDownloadBlog.com, FierceMobileContent News, Tech Trader Daily and PhoneArena

Mike Isaac / AllThingsD:

LinkedIn's Banner Q3 Blows Past Street Consensus — LinkedIn's numbers are in, and they're far better than Wall Street expected. — Here's the first quick look at Q3 earnings: EPS of 22 cents per share on revenue of $252.0 million. That's significantly higher than the consensus …

More: CNET, VentureBeat, Barron's Online, Business Insider, Tech Trader Daily, TechCrunch and Mashable!

Ken Yeung / The Next Web:

Yelp exceeds estimates despite loss in Q3, $36.4 million in revenues and $0.03 earnings per share

More: VentureBeat, Forbes, Yelp Investor Relations, Tech Trader Daily and SocialTimes

Jordan Crook / TechCrunch:

Uber Reinstates Surge Pricing In NYC: Drivers Will Take Home The Entire Fare, No Fee To Uber — Uber has just sent out an update via email regarding the pricing options in New York after Hurricane Sandy. Surge Pricing is back. — Yesterday, the company implemented Surge Pricing …

More: Mashable!, Forbes, CNET, The Airbnb Blog, AllThingsD, VentureBeat, SocialTimes, Forbes, Business Insider and Betabeat

Anton Troianovski / Wall Street Journal:

A Look inside Verizon's Flooded Communications Hub

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Mike Beasley / 9to5Mac:

iTunes now accepting donations for the American Red Cross Sandy relief efforts

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Matthew Panzarino / The Next Web:

Apple releases iOS 6.0.1, bringing fix for iPhone 5 OTA updates, keyboard glitches, WiFi performance and more — Apple has released the iOS 6.0.1 update for its portable devices. The update is rolling out now on Apple's servers and over the air. — You should be able to get the update …

More: 9to5Mac, LAPTOP Magazine, BGR, AllThingsD, Ars Technica, Gotta Be Mobile, VentureBeat, The Verge, MacRumors and Mashable!. Tweets: @markgurman

Nathan Ingraham / The Verge:

Boxee TV now available for $99, includes three months of free ‘No Limits’ cloud-based DVR — Boxee already revealed many of the details behind its all-new Boxee TV, but we were still waiting for an official launch. That wait is now over — through the holiday season, the new cloud DVR …

More: Boxee, DailyFinance.com, VentureBeat, Business Insider, Engadget and SlashGear

Janko Roettgers / GigaOM:

Testing Boxee TV: First impressions, screenshots and unboxing video

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:

Amazon Launches Cloud Drive Photos For Android, A Photo-Sharing App For Android Phones & Tablets — Amazon announced this morning the launch of a new photo-management application for Android phones, which takes advantage of its consumer-facing service known as Cloud Drive, a competitor to Google Drive and Dropbox.

More: SlashGear, Amazon.com, BetaNews, PetaPixel and The Verge

Miguel Rios / Twitter Blog:

Visualizing the 2012 election — Throughout the 2012 election season, the biggest topics and emerging trends have played out on Twitter, offering an extensive dataset for our Analytics team to explore. Prominent issues in this year's campaign range from Pell Grants for students to Medicare for the elderly …

More: Digital Media Wire, The Verge, The Next Web, VentureBeat, Mashable! and CNET

David Ruddock / Android Police:

Introducing: The Physical Google Wallet Card - Coming Soon To Google Wallet, And More New Features — We just had a bomb dropped on us by an anonymous tipster, courtesy of a leaked version of the Google Wallet app - and it was hiding some pretty amazing secrets. Let's cut to the chase: physical Google Wallet card.

More: CNET, Engadget, The Verge, 9to5Google, Gotta Be Mobile, Android Task Force and Pocketnow

Tricia Duryee / AllThingsD:

Dollar Shave Club Carves Off Another $9.8M to Take Business International — The Dollar Shave Club aims to disrupt the Gillettes and Bics of the world by offering razors sent to your door for as low as $1 a month plus shipping. — The razor-blade model has come to mean something in business …

More: TechCrunch, PandoDaily, GigaOM and VentureBeat

Ken Yeung / The Next Web:

Path finally launches its long-awaited iPad app, brings tablet-friendly features to its 3 million users — Finally, Path, the personal social network, has come to the iPad. A day before the release of Apple's new iPad mini tablet, the company is releasing its long-awaited and highly-demanded app for the tablet.

More: CNET, GigaOM, PadGadget, AllThingsD and VentureBeat

David Talbot / MIT Technology Review:

Efficiency Breakthrough Promises Smartphones that Use Half the Power — A startup says it's cracked a decades-old efficiency problem dogging wireless communications. — Why It Matters — Thanks to inefficient power amplifiers, smartphones have short battery lives and cellular base stations waste much of the energy they consume.

More: Wired, BetaNews, CNET, PhoneArena, Gizmodo UK and TechEye

Paul Sawers / The Next Web:

Amazon Game Studios launches Air Patriots, its first ever mobile game, for Kindle Fire, iOS and Android — Amazon first threw its hat into the games ring back in August with the launch of Amazon Game Studios, kicking off with its first title called ‘Living Classics’, a Facebook game.

More: Engadget, Inside Social Games, AllThingsD, Amazon.com, CNET, iDownloadBlog.com, The Verge, WebProNews and Engadget

Josh Ong / The Next Web:

Kim Dotcom announces Me.ga, the new domain for the upcoming Megaupload reboot — Kim Dotcom has unveiled the new Me.ga domain for his upcoming download service, which will launch next January on the anniversary of the controversial police raid on his mansion. … Currently, Me.ga redirects to Kim.com/mega/.

Matt Brian / The Next Web:

AT&T launches its photo and video backup app Locker on iOS — US operator AT&T believes it can muscle in on the emergent photo and video sharing space, today launching its new Locker iOS app, allows users to quickly and securely host and share their images on Facebook, Twitter, MySpace and email.

More: MacRumors, AT&T Cell Phones …, DSLreports, CNET, TUAW, CloudAve, Engadget, iDownloadBlog.com, WebProNews, SlashGear, The Verge and 9to5Mac

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