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August 13, 2013, 9:25 AM

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Tom Warren / The Verge:
Windows 8.1 to be made available in October  —  Microsoft is currently testing near-final versions of Windows 8.1, but the company won't release the final update publicly until October.  According to sources familiar with Microsoft's plans, the software maker will finalize, or Release to Manufacturing …
Zoe Kleinman / BBC:
Norway blocks Apple map flights  —  Oslo (left) is visible in 2D on Apple's map but Danish capital Copenhagen (right) is in 3D  —  Norway's government is refusing to let Apple take aerial photography of the capital city Oslo to create 3D images for its Maps app, reports local media.
Dan Auerbach / Electronic Frontier Foundation:
Google Fiber Continues Awful ISP Tradition of Banning “Servers”  —  In a Wired piece published recently, Ryan Singel assails Google's newfound hypocrisy when it comes to net neutrality.  And he's right.  Having spent many years fighting to stop Internet Service Providers (ISPs) …
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Gregg Keizer / Computerworld:
Microsoft's bet on touch PCs fails to pay off  —  Buyers reject touchscreen notebooks, spooked by higher prices and concerns about value of Windows 8's touch UI  —  Microsoft's bet that touch would propel Windows 8 has run into a major snag, an industry analyst said Friday …
Paul Stamatiou:
Android is better  —  It was just meant to be a quick experiment.  I started using a Nexus 4.  I was going to go right back to my iPhone after a week.  I was designing more and more Android interfaces at Twitter and realized I needed to more intimately grok Android UI paradigms.
Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols / Computerworld:
Microsoft Bing-bang-bungles local search  —  Talk about having things both ways!  A few months ago in its “Scroogled” ad campaign, Microsoft was complaining about how Google uses your search terms and Gmail contents to deliver targeted ads.  Now, Microsoft is touting how Windows 8.1 uses …
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Jathan Sadowski / Wired:
Stop Thinking That Tech Hacks Are the Solution to Our Surveillance Woes  —  That's it, I'm calling it early: this is officially the “summer of surveillance.”  Especially with the latest news that due to this surveillance, not one, but two, separate companies announced they were shutting …
Emil Protalinski / The Next Web:
Three years in, Google has paid researchers over $2 million in security rewards and fixed more than 2,000 bugs  —  Less than two weeks after Facebook announced its Bug Bounty program has paid out over $1 million in two years, Google has announced it has crossed the $2 million mark in three.
Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac:
Bloomberg: Thinner iPad 5, Retina iPad mini this year & Sept. 10 iPhone event  —  Bloomberg has corroborated multiple reports regarding Apple's next iPad and iPhone models.  — Thinner full-sized iPad planned.  We first reported that the next full-sized iPad would be thinner, lighter and similar in design to the iPad mini.
Josh Constine / TechCrunch:
Facebook Acquires “Mobile Technologies”, Developer Of Speech Translation App Jibbigo  —  Facebook's latest acquisition could help it connect users across language barriers.  It has just announced that it's acquired the team and technology of Pittsburgh's Mobile Technologies …
Jason Schreier / Kotaku:
Kinect No Longer Mandatory For Xbox One (But Will Still Come With It) [UPDATE]  —  Another backflip?  Back in May, Microsoft said that you'll need have the motion-sensing Kinect plugged in at all times in order for your Xbox One to function, but now they're reversing course once again.
Mike Masnick / Techdirt:
Confessed Liar To Congress, James Clapper, Gets To Set Up The ‘Independent’ Review Over NSA Surveillance  —  Well, this is rather incredible.  Remember on Friday how one of President Obama's efforts to get people to trust the government more concerning the NSA's surveillance efforts was to create an …
Martyn Williams / North Korea Tech:
Kim Jong Un visits ‘cell phone factory’  —  Kim Jong Un visited on Saturday the Pyongyang factory where North Korean cell phones are supposedly made, according to the state-run Korean Central News Agency.  —  Photos of the visit, released by KCNA, show Kim touring the May 11 Factory and talking to officials.

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