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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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BGR, MobileSyrup.com, IntoMobile, SlashGear, MacRumors, 9to5Mac, App Advice, Macgasm, Pocketnow, Softpedia News, iPhone Hacks, MacNN and Gizmodo UK. Tweets: @cma_megacorp
| Matthew Panzarino / The Next Web: |
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| Emil Protalinski / The Next Web: |
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.
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PC Magazine, ZDNet, CNET, TechCrunch, Computerworld, Search Engine Land, NYT Bits, Reuters, Foreign Policy, Tech in Asia and WebProNews
| Jessica Guynn / Los Angeles Times: |
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| Greg Sandoval / CNET: |
Judge to review whether foreman in Apple v. Samsung hid info — A federal court will look into whether the jury foreman in Apple v. Samsung “concealed information” during jury selection. — Federal District Judge Lucy Koh will “consider the questions” of whether the jury foreman in Apple v. Samsung … | 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!)| 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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| 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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| 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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| Rob Williams / HotHardware.com News: |
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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| 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, PC Magazine and The Seattle Times
| 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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Guardian, CNET, Microsoft News, T3 News, Gizmodo UK, Gotta Be Mobile, BGR and Datamation.com
| Bruce Upbin / Forbes: |
The Niantic Project: What Is Google Up To? — A “leaked” image from the Niantic Project, with a code written in Caesar cipher that translates into: “Every operation reaches a risk-assessment stage. At this point, my determination is that Niantic is causing more trouble than it is worth.”
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| Erin Griffith / PandoDaily: |
How many startups will Facebook Gifts kill? — Each of the many, many gifting startups out there should have spent the summer reconsidering the future of their companies. Since buying Karma in May, Facebook has begun to testing out its social gifting functionality.
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The Next Web and Venture Capital Dispatch
| 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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| Mike Masnick / Techdirt: |
Obama's Tech Team Was Firing On All Cylinders While Romney's Was Still In Beta — Obviously some of the following may be biased by the hindsight view of who won and who lost — but it's fascinating to see two very, very different stories emerge about the technology/data teams involved in the two major party presidential campaigns.
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Ars Technica, Wired, Ace of Spades HQ, Computerworld, Politico and New York Magazine
| 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. …, The Next Web, bizjournals, insideHPC, Forbes, GeekWire and silicontap.com
| Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: |
Facebook Lobbying Europe On “Unreasonable And Unrealistic” Privacy Law Reform — But EC Commissioner Doesn't Sound Like She's For Turning — Facebook hasn't exactly had smooth relations with Europe. In September it had to turn off facial recognition in the EU, and then there's … | Ryan Tate / Wired: |
Family Feud: Tense Thanksgiving for Facebook and George Takei — Facebook's increasingly fraught relationship with small businesses just got more complicated thanks to celebrity user George Takei: The former Star Trek star will publish a book with a chapter taking on Facebook's controversial handling … | Sarah N. Lynch / Reuters: |
Exclusive: SEC left computers vulnerable to cyber attacks - sources — (Reuters) - Staffers at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission failed to encrypt some of their computers containing highly sensitive information from stock exchanges, leaving the data vulnerable to cyber attacks, according to people familiar with the matter.
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The Register, CNET, DailyTech, Inquirer, The Verge and Softpedia News
| 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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CNET, AllFacebook, TechCrunch and 9to5Mac
| Sean Ludwig / VentureBeat: |
Facebook testing new notification sounds — we hate it already — Facebook has started testing a new sound for whenever a user receives a notification, the social networking titan confirmed today to VentureBeat. — Facebook often tests new features and designs for a small amount of users …
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Mashable!, BGR, Gizmodo, The Blog Herald, Techie Buzz, Gizmodo UK, Business Insider, Softpedia News and WebProNews
| David Martin / CBS News: |
7 Navy SEALs disciplined for role with video game — (CBS News) The U.S. Navy SEALs are part of an elite force that operates in the shadows, best known for killing Osama bin Laden. However, CBS News has learned a group of SEALs has been disciplined for revealing secrets.
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digitaltrends.com, Wired, Forbes, Examiner, TechSpot, VentureBeat, PC Magazine, Inquirer, PC Gamer, The Register, CNET, MTV Multiplayer, Reuters, The Verge, Guardian, VG247, GameSpot, SlashGear, Polygon, gameinformer.com, Kotaku, BBC, Edge Online, BuzzFeed, Joystiq and Slashdot
| Chris Ziegler / The Verge: |
AT&T's flip-flop on FaceTime over cellular should scare you — A ‘cautious approach’ exposes the FCC's greatest shortcoming — Weeks after taking enormous heat from consumers, public interest groups, and the media (like us), AT&T is doing an about-face on its controversial decision … | Edward Wyatt / NYT Bits: |
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