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October 10, 2013, 1:45 AM

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Daniel P. Howley / LAPTOP Magazine:
T-Mobile International Data vs. the Competition: Rates Compared  —  Data Cost  —  Voice Calling Cost  —  AT&T  —  $30 per 120MB / $120 per 800MB (Global Add-on Package)  —  $30 / month for $2.00 per minute (Rest of World Plan)  —  Sprint  —  $40 per 40MB / $80 per 85MB (Multi-country Data Roaming)
Paul Thurrott / SuperSite for Windows:
Windows Phone 8.1: 7-10 inch screens, no hardware back button, 77% API unity with Windows RT  —  Windows Phone 8.1 Rumors Emerge  —  Yes, we'll get a third Windows Phone 8 update first.  Still....  While Windows Phone 8 GDR3 is right around the corner—and, yes, I'll be writing …
Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac:
Facebook prepares major updates to iPhone apps as top engineer returns to Apple  —  Screenshots of upcoming Facebook Graph Search for iPhone update  —  Facebook is preparing a pair of major updates for its most popular iPhone applications, according to a source familiar with the apps.
Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:
Twitter Gets Its Strongest TV Tie-Up So Far, With an Ambitious Comcast Deal  —  Twitter has been trying to buddy up with the TV industry for the past few years.  Now it has its biggest payoff yet: A far-reaching deal with Comcast that aims to turn the social network into a TV-watching service.
Emil Protalinski / The Next Web:
Gartner: PC shipments slip 8.6% to 80.3m units in Q3 2013, the lowest back-to-school quarter since 2008  —  The PC market continues to fall spectacularly, seeing the sixth consecutive quarter of declining worldwide shipments as well as the lowest back-to-school quarter since 2008.
Nick Bilton / New York Times:
“Hatching Twitter” excerpts depict a detached Jack Dorsey who later attempted to recast Twitter's history  —  All Is Fair in Love and Twitter  —  Right in the center of South Park, a large, grassy oval near San Francisco's financial district, there is a rinky-dink playground with slides …
Tiernan Ray / Tech Trader Daily:
HP: We've Been a Little Late to the Game, Admits Whitman; MSFT, INTC ‘Outright Competitors’  —  Hewlett-Packard (HPQ) CEO Meg Whitman took to the podium this morning to address analysts at the annual financial meeting.  —  HP shares surged 6%, or $1.32, at $22.05, after Whitman remarked that revenue would …
Stacey Higginbotham / GigaOM:
GE teams up with AT&T and Intel to conquer the industrial internet.  Here's its plan.  —  Two years ago GE made some big bets on the internet of things — what it calls the industrial internet.  It opened an office in San Ramone, Calif. and started articulating a vision of connected sensors sending data …
Bloomberg:
Microsoft Board Said to Work on Hiring New CEO This Year  —  Microsoft Corp.'s board is working toward having the successor to Chief Executive Officer Steve Ballmer in place by the end of this year and is winnowing a list of candidates, said people with knowledge of the discussions.
Kevin Michaluk / CrackBerry.com:
Apparently a lot of that TAT (The Astonishing Tribe) talent left BlackBerry Sweden to start a new company called TOPP...  When companies acquire other companies, it's usually for one or more of a few reasons, including: to grow market share (and take out a competitor a long the way), to acquire technology and/or to acquire talent.
Jennifer Van Grove / CNET:
Foursquare gives out unsolicited tips on iPhone  —  A new feature lets some members go about their lives, phone in pocket, and get alerts when the service finds something interesting for them to eat, see, or do nearby.  —  Foursquare is releasing a new version of its application for iPhone …
Kevin Bostic / AppleInsider:
Best Buy trade-in offer to take any working smartphone for at least $100 toward iPhone 5s, 5c  —  Electronics retailer Best Buy appears on the verge of kicking off another trade-in program aimed at getting iPhone 5s and 5c customers through its doors, this time offering a minimum of $100 toward …
More: TechnoBuffalo and MacNN
Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:
Synaptics moves into fingerprint ID with $255M purchase of startup Validity  —  Synaptics has entered the fast-growing fingerprint identification market with the acquisition of Validity, a maker of sensors used in biometric identification.  Synaptics will pay $255 million in cash and stock over a period of time.
More: bizjournals, SlashGear and DigitsTweets: @neiltwitz
John Paczkowski / AllThingsD:
Rogers Agrees to Carry BlackBerry's Newest Flagship Phone  —  Looks like Rogers Communications will sell the BlackBerry Z30 after all.  —  A week after announcing its decision to forgo BlackBerry's latest flagship phone, the Canadian wireless carrier has reversed course following outcry from its customers.
Lora Kolodny / Venture Capital Dispatch:
Smartling Raises $24 Million to Translate Everything Online … While most tech startups are sweating bullets over globalization-from thwarting overseas copycats to mastering pricing in multiple currencies-one company, Smartling Inc., has found a way to profit from it while helping others do so, too.
More: Marketwired and VentureBeatTweets: @asenkut
Tom Warren / The Verge:
Flickr iOS 7 app now automatically uploads photos to your 1TB of free storage  —  Yahoo is updating its iOS 7 Flickr application today to let iPhone users automatically upload photos to the service.  The latest version will save photos from an iPhone camera roll straight to Flickr in full resolution.

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