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November 10, 2012, 8:55 PM

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Agence France Presse:

Apple pays Swiss rail $21mn over clock dispute: report — GENEVA — US tech giant Apple has dished out 20 million Swiss francs ($21 million, 17 million euros) to compensate Swiss national rail operator SBB for using its famous clock without permission, a Swiss daily reported Saturday.

More: 9to5Mac, AppleInsider, AllThingsD, CNET, iPhone Hacks, iDownloadBlog.com and iClarified

Adi Robertson / The Verge:

Killer fail: how Romney's broken Orca app cost him thousands of votes — An attempt to harness big data turns into a nightmare of crashes and confusion — A few days before the presidential election, Mitt Romney's campaign announced what it hoped would be its secret weapon at the polls.

More: Twitchy

Natalie Jennings / Washington Post:

Romney digital director: Orca wasn't a loss — The digital director for the Romney campaign responded to criticism in the blogosphere of the campaign's Election-Day “Orca” vote monitoring platform, saying the program had issues but for the most part performed its mission.

More: VentureBeat. Tweets: @jayrosen_nyu

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 …

More: NYT Bits, Washington Post, GigaOM, Computerworld, CNET, Wired, InfoWorld, Techdirt, msnbc.com, BREITBART.COM, Politico and New York Magazine

Tweets: @karaswisher, @lazerow, @jayrosen_nyu, @kvox, @timoreilly, @zedshaw, @joshbloch and @mikeindustries

John Gruber / Daring Fireball:

Seriously, Apple Is Doomed — Dan Crow, another former Apple employee from the 1990s, also says Apple has shown itself to be doomed without Steve Jobs, in a piece for The Guardian headlined “We've Passed Peak Apple”: … On the contrary, for better or for worse, iOS 6 Maps is exactly …

More: ReadWrite, Guardian, Business Insider, Yahoo! Finance and Forbes. Tweets: @mattbuchanan

Megan Garber / The Atlantic Online:

David Petraeus Was Brought Down by ... Gmail — The CIA director's path to resignation began with some email messages. — Reuters/Joshua Roberts — While David Petraeus was serving as a four-star general in the U.S. Army, he began exchanging emails with the woman who would eventually write his biography.

More: PC Magazine, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Washington Post, Boing Boing, Softpedia News, Mediaite, Gawker, New York Magazine and U.S. News. Tweets: @xeni

Declan McCullagh / CNET:

Apple loses bid to nix patent troll's ‘screen rotation’ suit — Court rules that patent lawsuit against Apple can go to a jury. At issue: whether the iPhone's screen rotation and call rejection features violate patents originally held by Sony and Nokia. — You might think it's obvious …

More: AppleInsider and iDownloadBlog.com

Christopher Mims / Quartz:

How much would you pay to never see an online ad again? — The little white box that companies who charge for content rather than advertising against it should probably give away for free. AdTrap — Imagine a $120 box that sits between your cable modem (the box that brings the internet into your house) …

More: Cult of Mac, SlashGear, Kickstarter and Technabob

Chris Velazco / TechCrunch:

RIM Plans To Woo Would-Be BlackBerry 10 Game Developers With Money And Hardware — As work on BlackBerry 10 continues behind closed doors, Waterloo-based RIM is gearing up to make yet another attempt to woo would-be BlackBerry 10 developers to its cause. — This time though the company …

More: Engadget, Gizmodo, MobileSyrup.com and BlackBerry Developer Blog

Alex Wilhelm / The Next Web:

Shellacked: Groupon fell 30% today in regular trading as investors unloaded the firm following its weak Q3 — Yesterday after the bell, Groupon reported its quarterly earnings. The company, losing a mere $3 million during the quarter, had earnings per share of $0.00, and revenue of $568.6 million.

More: Statspotting!, New York Post and CNNMoney.com

Matt Brian / The Next Web:

HootSuite privacy fail sees hundreds of emails sent to users, complete with other people's details [updated] — There appears to be something wrong with the internal systems over at social management company HootSuite, after it started sending out email reminders to users warning …

More: The Verge and Mashable!

David Kravets / Wired:

U.S. WikiLeaks Criminal Probe ‘Ongoing,’ Judge Reveals — WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange gestures in August after his statement to the media and supporters on a balcony of the Ecuadorian Embassy in central London. Photo: AP — A 2-year-old federal grand jury probe …

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