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November 8, 2012, 2:10 PM

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Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch:
You Might Have Gotten An Email From Twitter About Your Account Being Compromised, It's Real  —  Keep your eyes peeled, Twitter users: Twitter is sending out emails to some of its users telling them it has reset their password and asking them to create a new one.  If you can't log into your account that may be why.
Andrew Sinkov / Evernote Blogcast:
The New Evernote 5 for iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch  —  Our apps never stop evolving.  Every few weeks, we release an update that adds something new or improves an existing feature.  It's not often that we launch a complete redesign.  In fact, it happens only once every few years.
Martin Bryant / The Next Web:
Samsung's Galaxy S III overtakes the iPhone 4S as the world's best-selling smartphone in Q3 2012  —  Samsung's flagship Galaxy S III handset usurped the Apple iPhone 4S as the world's best-selling smartphone in the third quarter of 2012, according to a new report released by market research and consulting firm Strategy Analytics.
Zack Whittaker / CNET:
Apple quietly pulls apology-hiding code from U.K. site  —  Visitors to Apple's U.K. Web site are no longer forced to scroll down to view a court-ordered apology to Samsung, after Apple tried to bury it using hidden code.  —  Less than a week after Apple was rumbled by Reddit users …
Michael Kan / Computerworld:
Apple out of China's top five smartphone list in Q3  —  Coolpad smartphones took third place in market share for China, according to Canalys  —  Apple dropped out of the top five list in China's smartphone market for the third quarter, as local handset vendors saw their shipments surge …
Emma Turpin / Google Chrome Blog:
JAM with Chrome: Play music live with your friends online  —  If you ever dreamed of playing in a band, now's your chance to be a rock star.  JAM with Chrome is an interactive web application that enables friends in different locations to play music together in the Chrome browser on their computers.
Richard Lawler / Engadget:
Lenovo Q2 earnings reveal record high sales of $8.7 billion, highest-ever PC market share  —  PC maker Lenovo has reported its earnings for Q2, and there was plenty of good news: $8.7 billion in sales, a record high, a PC market share of 15.6 percent, it's largest ever and operating profit of $206 million …
Tricia Duryee / AllThingsD:
7,000 Starbucks Locations Added to the Square Wallet  —  Starbucks is now accepting Square's mobile payment application at about 7,000 of its stores, as part of a wide-ranging agreement between the two companies.  —  The rollout is right on schedule, coming just three months after the partnership was announced in August.
Alexis Santos / Engadget:
Baseline Modbook Pro gets its RAM, storage and touchscreen sensitivity doubled, stays at $3,500  —  The first batch of Modbook Pros have yet to make their way to owners, but the base model is already getting a spec bump.  The Macbook come tablet will have its RAM boosted from 4GB to 8GB …
Ernesto / TorrentFreak:
RapidShare Limits Public Download Traffic to Drive Away Pirates  —  In the aftermath of the Megaupload shutdown, people have been keeping a close eye on other file-hosting services, RapidShare included.  —  As a company, RapidShare sees itself operating in the “cloud hosting” business …
Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac:
Apple puts delivery dates back on LTE iPad mini orders, customers seeing November 21st date  —  After the LTE iPad mini went on sale alongside the WiFi version, we noted that customers were seeing various delivery dates for the product.  However, most readers reported delivery dates of either November 21st or November 23.
Greg Sandoval / CNET:
Web radio growing faster than on-demand services (study)  —  Webcasters, such as Pandora, saw following increase by 27 percent while on-demand players, such as Spotify and Rhapsody grew by 18 percent.  —  Music listening patterns continue to evolve and not just from analog to digital …
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Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch:
Automattic Launches Jetpack 2.0 For Self-Hosted WordPress Sites, Includes Free WP.com Image Offloading, Infinite Scroll & More  —  Automattic, the company behind the popular WordPress content management and blogging platform, just launched Jetpack 2.0, which brings a number of WordPress.com features to self-hosted WordPress installs.
Dan Goodin / Ars Technica:
Patent suits target Google, Intel, hundreds more for encrypting web traffic  —  Enlarge / A figure from the patent that has been asserted against Intel, Google, and hundreds of other companies providing SSL and TLS on their websites.  —  Google  —  An unknown company's four-year campaign …
Emil Protalinski / The Next Web:
BlackBerry 10 gets US government certification, first time RIM products approved ahead of launch  —  Research In Motion today announced that the BlackBerry 10 platform has received Federal Information Processing Standard Publication 140-2 (FIPS PUB 140-2) certification.
Emil Protalinski / The Next Web:
Pinterest launches secret boards on Web, Android and iOS, apps get board editing and user blocking  —  Pinterest today launched secret boards: the company is gradually rolling out a test that enables anyone to create three of them.  Pinterest suggests you use secret boards to keep track of holiday gifts …
Paul Sawers / The Next Web:
After a 5-year beta period, Wikipedia finally moves into the video era with an HTML5 player  —  With more than half-a-billion monthly visitors, Wikipedia needs little introduction.  —  But while the not-for-profit is renowned for its crowdsourced, text and image-based online encyclopedia …

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