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September 10, 2013, 1:15 PM

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The Verge:
Live from Apple's new iPhone event!  —  Apple has promised that this event “should brighten everybody's day.”  With the anticipated release of the iPhone 5S, various colors on an iPhone C, and iOS 7 all expected, the company is probably right.  What else does Tim Cook have in store?
Matthew Panzarino / TechCrunch:
Apple Will Ship Its 700 Millionth iOS Device Next Month  —  Today at its iPhone event in Cupertino, Apple announced that it will ship its 700 millionth iOs device next month.  —  The last numbers for Apple's device sales came in June, when it had announced 600M devices total.
More: The Verge
Nadia Damouni / Reuters:
Some Microsoft investors want Ford's Mulally, CSC's Lawrie considered for CEO choice  —  Exclusive: Microsoft urged to put Mulally, Lawrie on CEO shortlist  —  (Reuters) - At least three of the top 20 investors in Microsoft Corp want a turnaround expert to succeed Steve Ballmer as chief executive …
Joanna Stern / ABC News:
On Apple's Heels, Walmart Launches In-Store Smartphone Trade-In Program … Best Buy has one.  Apple has one too.  And now so does Walmart.  A smartphone trade-in program, that is.  —  Just a few hours before Apple is set to announce its new iPhone 5S and 5C, Walmart has announced …
Max Chafkin / Fast Company:
An Oral History Of Apple Design: 2013  —  Most efforts to explain design at Apple end up reducing a complex 37-year history to bromides about simplicity, quality, and perfection—as if those were ambitions unique to Apple alone.  So Fast Company set out to remedy that deficiency through …
Stacey Higginbotham / GigaOM:
Look out Netflix and Google!  An analyst thinks the court may allow ISPs to charge you  —  The FCC's open internet rules that prevent ISPs from blocking content or otherwise discriminating against the packets that are flowing across their broadband networks are on trial today.
More: The Switch and Techdirt
Kevin Weil / Twitter Blog:
Driving mobile advertising forward: welcoming MoPub to the Flock  —  We're excited to announce that we've agreed to acquire MoPub, a mobile-focused advertising exchange.  MoPub's technology lets mobile application publishers manage their inventory and optimize multiple sources of advertising …
Josh Constine / TechCrunch:
The Data Factory - How Your Free Labor Lets Tech Giants Grow The Wealth Gap  —  You're the product, but when you're sold, it's only a lucky few who get rich.  Technology lets big companies distribute tools that turn us into volunteers who contribute our time and data while they profit.
More: VentureBeatTweets: @joshconstine
Larry Dignan / ZDNet:
Cisco buys Whiptail for $415 million amid solid-state storage run  —  Summary: Cisco's acquisition highlights the run on solid-state storage companies as data center players aim to speed up applications.  —  Cisco on Tuesday said it will acquire Whiptail, a solid state memory system company, for $415 million.
Danny Yadron / AllThingsD:
Apple's Latest iPhone Puts Focus Back on Fingerprint Security  —  Apple's latest product launch could breathe new life into a technology that failed to take hold the first time: fingerprint scanners.  —  Placing a finger on a computer or smartphone has long been proposed as a way to avoid …
Chris Davies / SlashGear:
Nokia and Mercedes self-driving car project taps HERE research  —  Nokia and Mercedes Benz will work together on self-driving cars, the companies have confirmed, with Nokia's HERE developing metadata-rich navigation and mapping data with extra information for robot drivers.
Wall Street Journal:
Verizon Plans $20 Billion Debt Sale  —  Proceeds From Deal, Expected to Raise $20 Billion, Would Fund Venture Buyout  —  In a development that is sending ripples throughout the corporate-bond market, Verizon Communications Inc. is expected to raise $20 billion or more Wednesday in what would be the largest-ever debt sale by a company.
Quentin Hardy / NYT Bits:
The Cloud Era Begins for Enterprise Tech  —  Let's say it: Last summer was the beginning of the end for the old guard in what is still the biggest part of technology - business spending on everything from servers to software.  This fall begins a new competition for the hearts and minds of corporate customers.
Tweets: @afrihost and @benioff
Nate Anderson / Ars Technica:
Crypto prof asked to remove NSA-related blog post  —  Matthew Green is a well-known cryptography professor, currently teaching in the computer science department of Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore.  Last week, Green authored a long and interesting blog post about the recent revelations …
Brendan Sasso / Hillicon Valley:
Agency denies helping NSA undermine privacy standards  —  A Commerce Department agency that sets technical standards is denying that it helped the National Security Agency “deliberately weaken” a security tool.  —  “We want to assure the [information technology] cybersecurity community that the transparent …
More: nist.gov and WebProNewsTweets: @csoghoian
asymco:
Illustrated: Game console growth slows as mobile devices take over the living room  —  Game over  —  In the “Race to a Billion” there is a graph showing Android reported activations and iOS cumulative unit sales along cumulative console sales.  The contrast between mobile phone platforms …

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