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November 18, 2012, 11:15 AM

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David Streitfeld / New York Times:

As Boom Lures App Creators, Tough Part Is Making a Living — ROSEDALE, Md. — Shawn and Stephanie Grimes spent much of the last two years pursuing their dream of doing research and development for Apple, the world's most successful corporation. — But they did not actually have jobs at Apple.

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Ben Gilbert / Engadget:

Nintendo Wii U review — Nintendo's new console is an anomaly in the game console ecosystem, but not for Nintendo. The company that — in just the last decade — popularized stylus-powered gaming, microphone-powered gaming and motion-based gaming, is once again pushing game control inputs forward.

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Wall Street Journal:

Nintendo's Wii U Puts Hardware Strategy to the Test — Like its famous videogame character Super Mario in his latest game, Nintendo Co. is trying to outrun its enemies. — The company, coming off of its first annual loss in more than three decades, will start selling the Wii U in U.S. stores Sunday …

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Alexis Madrigal / The Atlantic Online:

When the Nerds Go Marching In — How a dream team of engineers from Facebook, Twitter, and Google built the software that drove Barack Obama's reelection — Three members of Obama's tech team, from left to right: Harper Reed, Dylan Richard, and Mark Trammell (Photo by Daniel X. O'Neil).

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Mat Honan / Wired:

Kill the Password: Why a String of Characters Can't Protect Us Anymore — You have a secret that can ruin your life. — It's not a well-kept secret, either. Just a simple string of characters—maybe six of them if you're careless, 16 if you're cautious—that can reveal everything about you.

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Kara Swisher / AllThingsD:

New York Techie Chris Dixon in Talks to Be Next Partner at Andreessen Horowitz — According to sources, well-known New York techie Chris Dixon is in the final stages of discussions to become a partner at the high-profile Silicon Valley venture firm Andreessen Horowitz.

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Larry Downes / CNET:

Russia demands broad UN role in Net governance, leak reveals — commentary Leaked document from upcoming treaty negotiations reveals Russia wants transfer of authority over Net to national governments. UN's increasingly shrill denials that treaty has anything to do with taking over Net are ringing ever more hollow.

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Rochelle Sharpe / Washington Post:

Many health apps are based on flimsy science at best, and they often do not work — When the iTunes store began offering apps that used cellphone light to cure acne, federal investigators knew that hucksters had found a new spot in cyberspace. — “We realized this could be a medium for mischief …

Mike Masnick / Techdirt:

That Was Fast: Hollywood Already Browbeat The Republicans Into Retracting Report On Copyright Reform — So, late Friday, we reported on how the Republican Study Committee (the conservative caucus of House Republicans) had put out a surprisingly awesome report about copyright reform.

More: Techdirt, TorrentFreak, The Volokh Conspiracy and Joho the Blog. Tweets: @digiphile. See also Mediagazer

New York Post:

JFK worker busted in $1.9M iPad mini heist — He could star in “Dumbfellas.” — An airport worker has been accused of being the less-than-master-mind behind the theft of $1.9 million in iPad minis from JFK Airport, court papers revealed yesterday. — Federal agents were able …

More: Fortune, PC Magazine, AllThingsD, Examiner, PhoneArena, CNET, 9to5Mac, iClarified and Gothamist

Brendan Sinclair / GamesIndustry International:

Xbox Live Turns 10: Reflecting On An Online Revolution — We chat with members of the original Xbox team and Bungie in this special look back at the origins of a service that forever changed console gaming — Ten years ago today, Microsoft officially launched Xbox Live.

More: Xbox Live's Major Nelson, The Next Web, The Escapist, Bungie.net, Kotaku, MCV: Home Stream, TechSpot, WebProNews, Polygon, Softpedia News, Gizmodo and Engadget

Matthew Panzarino / The Next Web:

Twitter and developers, a love story — To say that Twitter and third-party developers have had an ambivalent relationship over the last couple of years is a massive understatement. Twitter has been undergoing a deep transformation of its business to one that makes sustainable sense as a public company.

More: Signal vs. Noise, Daring Fireball, Forbes, Marco.org, VentureBeat and BuzzFeed. See also Mediagazer

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