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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.
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digitaltrends.com, The Technology Chronicles, VentureBeat, PC Magazine, BGR, Network World, BuzzFeed, Mashable!, Washington Post, Gizmodo, The Next Web, CNET, Ubergizmo, The Verge, Tweet Smarter, AllTwitter, Inquirer, Softpedia News, TechnoBuffalo, Daily Dot and WebProNews. Thanks:@cashortr4people
| 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.| James Murray / Hitwise UK: |
Google dips below 90% market share of UK Search — October proved to be scary month not just for Halloween but also for Google's share of the UK search market. — The latest search stats show that 89.33% of all UK Internet searches were conducted on Google Sites.
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| 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 …
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| Sarah McBride / Reuters: |
Exclusive: Google Ventures beefs up fund size to $300 million a year — (Reuters) - Google will increase the cash it allocates to its venture-capital arm to up to $300 million a year from $200 million, catapulting Google Ventures into the top echelon of corporate venture-capital funds.
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| 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.
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Foxconn reportedly plans to set up plants in US — Foxconn Electronics (Hon Hai Precision Industry) reportedly plans to establish manufacturing plants in the US and is currently conducting evaluations in cities such as Detroit and Los Angeles, according to market watchers.
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| 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.
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| 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.
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| 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 …
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| 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 … | Eva Galperin / Electronic Frontier Foundation: |
Egyptian Prosecutor Orders a Ban on Internet Porn — Censorship circumvention software is about to become very popular in Egypt. On Wednesday, the country's Prosecutor General, Abdel Maguid Mahmoud, ordered government ministries to enforce a ban on pornographic websites …
| 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.
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| 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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| 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 …
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| Drew Olanoff / TechCrunch: |
Tumblr Updates Its iOS App To Be “Completely Native,” Features Redesigned Dashboard, Notifications And Gestures — Tumblr, the micro-blogging service that allows everyone to be a creative publisher, has updated its iOS app to become faster and more engaging. Tumblr says it's “completely native.”
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VentureBeat, Mashable!, BetaNews, BuzzFeed, Tumblr Staff, Bijan Sabet, iPhone Hacks, WebProNews, The Next Web and The Verge. Thanks:@mwjackso
| 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 …
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| Aaron Souppouris / The Verge: |
Google experimenting with free mobile access to its web services in developing markets — Google is testing out a new way to bring its services to mobile users free of charge. Dubbed Google Free Zone, the service will facilitate the use of Gmail, Google+, and Google Search via a special domain, g.co/freezone.
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| Daniel Cooper / Engadget: |
Verizon to offer Nokia Lumia 822 for $100 and HTC Windows Phone 8X for $200, both to go on sale by Thanksgiving — Verizon's had a few days to mull over its response to AT&T's Windows Phone 8 pricing, and it's now ready to make its intentions known: the Nokia Lumia 822 and HTC Windows Phone 8X …
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CNET, The Verge, Pocketnow, IntoMobile and The Windows Blog
| 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 … | 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 …
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| 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 …
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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.
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| Dara Kerr / CNET: |
Verizon won't charge Sandy victims for voice and text usage — As New York and New Jersey residents struggle to get back on their feet after last week's superstorm, the carrier announces it will waive voice and text charges for a two-week period. — As Hurricane Sandy bore down on the East Coast …
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