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Apple Will Hold Fall iPad Event on October 22 — Apple has a couple more new products to announce before the year is out, and it plans to unveil them in a few weeks time. — People familiar with Apple's plans tell AllThingsD that the company will hold its next invitation-only event on Tuesday, October 22.
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Office for iPad will debut after Microsoft's touch-friendly Windows version — Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer has revealed that the company is planning to bring Office to the iPad with a touch user interface. Speaking at a Gartner event in Florida today, Ballmer said “iPad will be picked up when there's a touch first user interface.”| Bloomberg: |
Samsung Loses Bid for Presidential Veto of Apple-Won Import Ban — Samsung Electronics Co. must stop importing certain models of its smartphones and tablet computers after President Barack Obama's administration let stand a ban won by Apple Inc. in a patent-infringement dispute.
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| Steven Levy / Wired: |
Nest Gives the Lowly Smoke Detector a Brain — And a Voice — One day in June, about 20 engineers and managers at the startup company Nest went on a field trip. They didn't need to pack a lunch. Their destination: a storage closet near the bathrooms at their new headquarters in Palo Alto.
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| Nitasha Tiku / Valleywag: |
The Boards Are All White: Charting Diversity Among Tech Directors — Over the weekend, Twitter CEO Dick Costolo was pummeled after his company's public filing exposed the makeup of the board of directors seated atop his $20 billion real-time empire: All white and all male.| Luke Reimer / Inside BlackBerry for Business Blog: |
Coming Soon: A Simple, Easy to Use Cloud Service for Managing Users and Apps on iOS, Android, and BlackBerry Devices — Here at the Gartner Symposium ITxpo 2013, we are very excited to announce an upcoming BlackBerry cloud service that will bring trusted and simple enterprise mobility management to a new level of convenience.
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| Matthew Panzarino / TechCrunch: |
Amazon's ‘Login and Pay with Amazon’ Service Challenges PayPal For The Web's Payment Business — Amazon launched a service called Login and Pay with Amazon today at Money 2020 that lets partner sites enable a payments button that will compete with PayPal and credit cards for customer checkout.| Sarah Silbert / Engadget: |
Google announces HP Chromebook 11 for $279, we go hands-on — Today Google announced some new hardware: the HP Chromebook 11. Priced at $279, this 11-incher is available today, and we've already spent had a change to get our hands on several units. — The laptop is sleek and attractive … | Eduard Kovacs / Softpedia News: |
Avira Confirms Network Solutions Has Been Hacked — Palestinian hackers of KDSM Team have managed to deface several high-profile websites, including the ones of AVG, Avira and WhatsApp. Moments ago, Avira representatives have confirmed for Softpedia that this is a case of DNS hijacking.
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| Simon Bisson / CITEworld: |
Microsoft's new iOS and Android apps bring the Windows desktop to phones and tablets — If you're running a BYOD program, session-based virtual desktops are an ideal way of delivering apps to your users. There's no data on their machines, and no need to know what hardware they're running.| Arik Hesseldahl / AllThingsD: |
Yahoo Redux: HP Says “All Hands on Deck” Needed, Requiring Most Employees to Work at the Office (Memo) — Computing and technology services giant Hewlett-Packard, which appears to be taking a page from Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer, has quietly begun enacting a policy requiring employees to work from the office and not from home.
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Silk Road Dealers Are Getting Arrested All Around The World — Arresting the site's owner was just stage one. — Ross William Ulbricht, known online as Dread Pirate Roberts, is shown in this courtroom sketch appearing before Federal Judge Joseph Spero in U.S. Federal Court in San Francisco, California, on Oct. 4, 2013.
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| Rachel King / ZDNet: |
Intel's Internet of Things roadmap led by low-power chips — Summary: Intel has published a new roadmap for low-power processors embedded with software from McAfee and Wind River. — SAN FRANCISCO—Intel tapped into some of the bigger brands under its umbrella for a number …
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| Peter Kafka / AllThingsD: |
Web Video Players Alloy Digital and Break Media Get Bigger by Getting Together — People have been predicting a Web video consolidation wave for years. Here's another sign that it may actually be happening: Break Media, which specializes in clips aimed at young dudes, is merging with Alloy Digital … | Greg Sandoval / The Verge: |
Anonymous no more: Twitter engineer, UConn security analyst among 13 indicted for ‘Operation Payback’ — Not all the people named in the FBI indictment fit the hacker stereotype — Some of the men indicted last week for allegedly taking part in the scores of denial-of-service attacks launched … | Brian Overstreet / Xconomy: |
How We Overturned the Retroactive Tax on Startup Founders — The call came at 1:15 pm this past Friday, as I was driving home from a client meeting. “Mr. Overstreet?” questioned the voice on the other end of the line. “I'm calling from Governor Brown's office.
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| Matthew Panzarino / TechCrunch: |
Yahoo Mail Gets Cross-Platform Themes, 1TB of Storage, ‘Mail Plus’ Features For All And Better ‘Conversations’ — Yahoo is updating its Mail app across all platforms with a fresh design that includes syncing themes, a new compose experience, collapsible toolbar and better handling of threaded conversations.
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| Christina Warren / Mashable: |
Paid Apps Aren't Dead — but They Are on Life Support — For iOS app producer David Barnard, making money from paid applications in Apple's App Store is becoming more difficult. Barnard is the founder of Contrast (previously App Cubby), which makes apps such as Launch Center Pro [iTunes link] and Perfect Weather [iTunes link].| Anthony Ha / TechCrunch: |
Facebook Continues To Simplify Ad Buying With New ‘Objective-Based’ Interface — When Facebook announced in June that it planned to eliminate half its ad units, it also outlined a broader vision for simplification, where the company could guide advertisers through the ad-buying process based … | Mark Gurman / 9to5Google: |
First image of Samsung's upcoming Galaxy phone with curved display leaks out — Update: Evleaks has posted another image of the device, which appears to be similar to the new Galaxy Note III as previously rumored (above). — Prominent leaker @evleaks has published the first photo … | Emil Protalinski / The Next Web: |
Nexus 7 (2013) Case now available in the US with a microsuede cover, built-in stand, and four colors for $49.99 — Google today released the Nexus 7 Case (2013) in the US. You can grab it now for $49.99 on Google Play. — Google describes the case as custom-molded with a microsuede cover and built-in stand.
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| Joseph Volpe / Engadget: |
Google search starts listing TV episodes and air dates in results — Think of this as IMDb baked into your Google search. Today, everyone's favorite Search giant from Mountain View announced that users seeking information about their favorite shows, or those just curious about specific series …
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How Lavabit Melted Down — On August 8th, Lavabit, newly famous for being the secure e-mail service used by the National Security Agency whistleblower Edward Snowden, went dark. Its owner and operator, Ladar Levison, replaced its home page with a message: “I cannot share my experiences … | Artem Russakovskii / Android Police: |
All But Confirmed - Google Hangouts 1.3 Screenshots Suggest SMS/MMS Integration; Video Sharing Capabilities Coming Too — Several days ago, I started a series of rumor posts on my personal Google+ account discussing some Android rumors I felt were interesting enough to share … | Wall Street Journal: |
Samsung eyes software acquisitions, has evaluated several gaming and mapping startups — A Weak Spot for Samsung? — South Korean Giant Weighs Software Deals to Better Compete With Apple, Google — Samsung Electronics Co. is stepping up its hunt for acquisitions and building …
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