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| John Paczkowski / AllThingsD: |
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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| Nick Bilton / New York Times: |
Adapted from “Hatching Twitter”: All is fair in love and Twitter — 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, ladders and firefighter poles …
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| Mike Isaac / AllThingsD: |
Bilton Twitter Book — Co-Founder Jack Dorsey Almost Went to Facebook (And More!) — What do you do after getting pushed out of the CEO seat of the Internet company you co-founded? — Maybe you take a trip to the beach and leave the worries of Silicon Valley behind for a time.| Sam Byford / The Verge: |
Samsung announces the Galaxy Round, a smartphone with a curved OLED display — Samsung has taken the wrapper off its rumored smartphone with a curved OLED display. The Galaxy Round, which will launch on SK Telecom in South Korea, has a 5.7-inch 1080p screen the same size as seen …
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| Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac: |
iPhone 5s and 5c rolling out to more than 25 new countries on Oct. 25, a dozen more Nov. 1 — Following the launch of the iPhone 5s and iPhone 5c in the United States on September 20th, Apple has announced that it will begin phase 2 and phase 3 of the new devices rollout in the coming weeks.
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| Ernesto / TorrentFreak: |
UK Police Orders Registrars to Suspend Domains of Major Torrent Sites — Earlier this year UK police began working with rightsholders on a campaign to shut down file-sharing sites. Many site operators received warnings that their activities were breaching copyright law as well as the UK's Serious Crime Act.
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| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
How the Bible and YouTube are fueling the next frontier of password cracking — Early last year, password security researcher Kevin Young was hitting a brick wall. Over the previous few weeks, he made steady progress decoding cryptographically protected password data leaked from the then-recent hack of intelligence firm Stratfor.| 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.| Sarah Lacy / PandoDaily: |
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| Rohan Relan / TouchMarks: |
iPad Mini and iPad 4 top TouchMarks' touchscreen test ranking for most responsive tablets — TouchMarks II: Touchscreen Latencies in Flagship Tablets — In our last TouchMarks report, we looked at the touchscreen latencies of the flagship smartphones from different manufacturers.
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AppleInsider, MacRumors, I4U News, VentureBeat, PhoneArena, The Next Web, Electronista, TUAW, iDownloadBlog.com and App Advice. Tweets: @panzer
| 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 … | Dann Berg / The Verge: |
Xbox Fitness: how Microsoft plans to use big names and big data to whip you into shape — Fitness has been a part of the Kinect experience since the sensor was first released, but Microsoft's upcoming Xbox One reinvents the experience from the ground up. In the past, users were stuck …
Tweets: @ryanlowdermilk
| Andrew Jessup / Cloud Platform Blog: |
Google App Engine PHP Runtime now available to everyone — At Google I/O earlier this year, we added PHP, the fourth language runtime on Google App Engine in Limited Preview. Today we're moving to Preview, making PHP on App Engine available for everyone immediately.
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GigaOM, The Register, eWeek, TechCrunch and ZDNet
| 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.
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AppleInsider, BetaNews, ZDNet, Engadget, Thincomputing.net, Electronista, GadgetGuide4U and iMore. Thanks:@mattrosoff
| Simon Owens / Daily Dot: |
The battle to destroy Wikipedia's biggest sockpuppet army — Wikipedia editor and self-professed “bird geek” DocTree spends most of his time on the world's largest encyclopedia editing the pages for long-dead ornithologists. So it was somewhat unusual when, in August 2012 …
Tweets: @jeffjohnroberts, @adriennelaf and @ethanz
| Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge: |
Turntable.fm begins streaming live, interactive concerts, but tickets will cost you — Turntable.fm has been struggling to stay afloat, and it's now looking to live, streaming performances to help it get back on track. Turntable Live is the company's new service, and it's officially debuting tonight … | Caitlin Dewey / The Switch: |
Disney invents touchscreen that lets you feel textures — The company that brought you the first animated feature film and the multiplane camera may be at work on its most game-changing invention yet: Flat touchscreens that let you feel the shape and texture of pictured objects, almost like they were actually there.
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Gizmodo, Technabob and PhoneArena
| 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].| Leena Rao / TechCrunch: |
AmEx And TripAdvisor Team Up To Allow Card Members To Get Credit For Travel Reviews And Access Spend Data — American Express has been steadily partnering with various consumer technology companies to allow cardmembers to integrate their accounts and access new ways to spend.
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AllThingsD, NYT Bits and Boston Globe
| Zack Whittaker / ZDNet: |
Time Warner Cable to acquire regional fiber firm DukeNet for $600M — Summary: The cable and television giant is buying the North Carolina-based regional fiber firm to expand its own growing fiber network across the eastern seaboard. — Zack Whittaker — Time Warner Cable has entered …
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| 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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| 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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| 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.Sponsor Posts
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