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Chinese government blocks Google.com, Gmail, Google+, Maps, Docs, Analytics, Drive, more — The Chinese government has blocked access to Google.com, Gmail, Google Maps, Google Docs, Google Analytics, Google Drive, and many other Google services as the Communist Party of China holds the 18th Party Congress … | Jessica Guynn / Los Angeles Times: |
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Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, Times of India, GreatFire.org and WorldViews
| Sean Gallagher / Ars Technica: |
Inside Team Romney's whale of an IT meltdown — Orca, the Romney campaign's “killer” app, skips beta and pays the price. — Aurich Lawson / Thinkstock — It was supposed to be a “killer app,” but a system deployed to volunteers by Mitt Romney's presidential campaign may have done …
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Techdirt, Computerworld, The Verge, Wired, Twitchy, msnbc.com, InfoWorld, Politico, New York Magazine and Ace of Spades HQ
| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Surface users report Touch Cover splits and audio issues — Microsoft's Surface RT tablet has been available for just two weeks, but users are starting to notice some early issues with the device. We noted in our original Surface review that performance was a little hit or miss …
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The Register, CNET, Guardian, WindowsWave, T3 News, Microsoft News, Gotta Be Mobile, TechSpot, Neowin, Gizmodo UK, BGR, MacDailyNews and Datamation.com
| Samantha Murphy / Mashable!: |
Facebook Experiments With ‘Reply’ Button on Comments — Facebook isn't just testing a sound-alert function on the site — it's also experimenting with a reply option for comments posted to Timeline, a Facebook spokesperson has confirmed. — “We are testing a new way to add comments to a post on Facebook …
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Microsoft's Big Hidden Windows 8 Feature: Built-In Advertising — Despite the fact that I've been using Windows 8 for the past three weeks, I somehow managed to overlook a rather stark feature in the OS: ads. No, we're not talking about ads cluttering up the desktop or login screen …
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| Paul McNamara / Network World: |
Cisco VP to memo leaker: Finding you is now ‘my hobby’ — Cisco vice president of services Mike Quinn, a former CIA operations officer, believes that whoever recently leaked an internal company memo to a blogger committed corporate treason and violated a “family” trust.
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| Kara Swisher / AllThingsD: |
Touch-A, Touch-A, Touch Me: Yahoo's Latest New Homepage Redesign Tries Dramatic Interactive Tile Look — Another week and yet another new design for the Yahoo homepage is being tested out on users — this time, it appears to be one (which you can see below) that looks a lot …
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| Rene Ritchie / iMore: |
iPhone 5, iPod touch 5 touchscreens responding oddly to multiple, rapid diagonal swipes — The iPhone 5 appears to be exhibiting odd touch behavior when it comes to consistent detection of multiple swipe events over time. On an iPhone 4S, you can begin rapidly swiping back and forth and iOS …
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CNET, recombu, Examiner, SlashGear, 9to5Mac, Gotta Be Mobile, Macgasm, Pocketnow, Redmond Pie, BGR, MacRumors, IntoMobile, Softpedia News, iPhone Hacks, MobileSyrup.com, Pocketables, TechnoBuffalo, App Advice, Gizmodo UK, The Next Web and MacNN. Tweets: @cma_megacorp
| Seth Weintraub / 9to5Mac: |
Apple donates $2.5 million to Hurricane Sandy relief — We just got the following email via an Apple employee from Tim Cook showing that the Cupertino company is looking after those on the other coast of the US. Apple will donate $2.5M to the Red Cross to benefit Hurricane Sandy victims (myself included? still no power ConEd!)| Alex Wilhelm / The Next Web: |
Microsoft: “We've welcomed more than 15 million customers” to our stores thus far — Today in a piece of dry PR, Microsoft let slip an interesting fact: Some 15 million customers have passed through the doors of its 30 stores. The direct quote: “We've welcomed more than 15 million customers and counting so far.”
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Microsoft, WindowsWave, Mashable!, PandoDaily, Neowin, Microsoft News and Winsyde
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Spotify Nears Financing at Over $3B Valuation — Spotify Ltd. is in the midst of closing a round of financing that will value the Internet music service at slightly more than $3 billion, said people with knowledge of the matter. — The U.K.-based company is raising more than $100 million …
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Reuters and SocialTimes
| Robin Wauters / The Next Web: |
After $368.2m award in patent lawsuit, VirnetX files another complaint against Apple — VirnetX, the Internet security software company that was awarded $368.2 million after a jury decided that Apple had infringed several of its patents, has filed another complaint against the Cupertino, CA-based consumer electronics giant.
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PR Newswire, Guardian, MacRumors and SlashGear
| Zack Whittaker / ZDNet: |
Cray agrees to buy Appro for $25 million cash — Summary: On announcing the firm's third quarter results, in which the supercomputer maker recorded a net loss, Cray will acquire high-performance computing developer Appro for $25m. — Zack Whittaker — Supercomputer maker Cray has signed …
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Cray Inc. …, insideHPC, The Next Web, Forbes, bizjournals, GeekWire and silicontap.com
| Sam Byford / The Verge: |
Video game retail sales fall 25 percent year-on-year in 11th straight month of decline — The video game industry had a rough October — total sales across the board were $755.5 million, a drop of 25 percent year-on-year. Figures released by the NPD Group show that console sales falling 37 percent …
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BGR, Macgasm, PC Magazine and The Seattle Times
| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Microsoft's Wowzapp Hackathon Attracts 17,000 Student Developers Who Want To Build Windows Apps — Three weeks ago, Microsoft announced that it would hold a free global hackathon in over 100 cities around the globe. Today is the first day of this “Wowzapp 2012” event …
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The Next Web, GeekWire and Neowin
| Griffin McElroy / Polygon: |
November Software acquired by Zynga, working on ‘mid-core’ mobile game Battlestone — November Software, a team of independent developers who previously worked on AAA titles like Star Wars: The Force Unleashed, were quietly acquired by Zynga this past spring for an undisclosed sum …
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Business Insider, TechCrunch, VentureBeat, Inside Social Games and AllThingsD
| Ken Yeung / The Next Web: |
Facebook sets out to create better mobile apps by asking teams to own its product experience — We all know that Facebook is facing some challenges with mobile — its CEO, Mark Zuckerberg even admitted it earlier this year. It's not as if the social network isn't being used by anyone on mobile devices …
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Facebook, CNET, AllFacebook and 9to5Mac
| Paul Mozur / Wall Street Journal: |
China Telecom Prepares for iPhone 5 — BEIJING—China Telecom Corp. plans to begin offering the iPhone 5 in late November or early December, which would mark the entry of Apple Inc.'s latest smartphone into China. — State-controlled China Telecom, the country's third-largest mobile phone operator …
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iPhone Hacks, CNET, SlashGear, Fortune, GigaOM, MacRumors and TechCrunch
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