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October 16, 2013, 8:10 PM

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Reuters:

NSA security chief Keith Alexander and his deputy John Inglis expected to depart within the next few months — U.S. eavesdropping agency chief, top deputy expected to depart soon — (Reuters) - The director of the U.S. National Security Agency and his deputy are expected to depart in the coming months …

More: The Switch, The Verge, Hillicon Valley, Ars Technica, Federal Computer Week, Forbes, Techdirt and Nextgov. Tweets: @dannysullivan

Patrick May / Mercury News:

Cupertino council clears huge Apple ‘spaceship’ campus for liftoff — CUPERTINO — Apple's (AAPL) proposed new spaceship-shaped headquarters got a super-charged blast-off Tuesday night when the Cupertino City Council voted unanimously to approve the 2.8-million-square-foot behemoth beside Interstate 280 …

Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet:

What comes next after Windows 8.1? — Summary: Microsoft's Windows 8.1 will be commercially available starting this week. What will Microsoft do for an encore on the Windows front? — Microsoft is making Windows 8.1 commercially available over the next day-plus (depending on your time zone).

More: LAPTOP Magazine, TechCrunch, GeekWire, BGR, Softpedia News, WinBeta, BetaNews, PC World and WMPoweruser

Lorraine Luk / Wall Street Journal:

Apple Cuts iPhone 5C Orders — Move Raises Concerns About Demand, Pricing Strategy for Low-Cost Device — A customer looks at an Apple iPhone 5c at a store in Palo Alto, Calif., on Sept. 20. Bloomberg News — HONG KONG— Apple Inc. has notified its two assemblers for the low-cost iPhone 5C …

Tad Hirsch / Public Practice Studio:

Early status-sharing service TXTmob inspired Twitter; Jack Dorsey's contribution overstated — TXTmob and Twitter: A Reply to Nick Bilton — 2004 Ruckus Society SMS Summit, Oakland California. That's me on the couch in the black T-shirt with white lettering. Evan is in the foreground, with pony tail.

More: The Next Web. Tweets: @rabble, @noii, @chanders, @mattrosoff and @pkafka

Blair Hanley Frank / GeekWire:

Watch out, Nike: Adidas announces smartwatch for runners, starting at $399 — SAN FRANCISCO - Another big shoe brand just joined Nike in the wearable technology race: Adidas. — At today's GigaOM Mobilize conference in San Francisco, Paul Gaudio, the Vice President in charge …

More: SlashGear, TechHive, GigaOM, Engadget, iPhone in Canada Blog, Gizmodo, Mashable and CNET

Mike Isaac / AllThingsD:

Facebook Aims to Court Teens With More Public Posting Options — The adage should be familiar by now: Teens may have a Facebook profile, but they sure don't think it's cool anymore. — In a move on Wednesday afternoon, however, Facebook is starting to become a bit like its younger, hipper competitors.

More: Facebook, CNET, New York Times, Inside Facebook, The Verge, Mercury News, Digits, The Next Web and TechCrunch

Larry Dignan / ZDNet:

IBM's Q3 mixed, hardware business thumped — Summary: IBM's earnings were better than expected for the third quarter, but sales fell short. The systems and technology division saw sales fall 19 percent from a year ago. — IBM delivered mixed third quarter results with earnings …

More: IBM, AllThingsD, VentureBeat, TechCrunch, Reuters, Tech Trader Daily and Business Insider

Alex Wilhelm / TechCrunch:

eBay Barely Beats Investor Expectations With Revenue Of $3.9B, Stock Falls 5% In After-Hours Trading — eBay reported its third-quarter financial performance today, including revenue of $3.9 billion and non-GAAP earnings per share of $0.64. The company's revenue was up 14 percent …

More: Business Wire, CNET, VentureBeat, ZDNet, Tech Trader Daily, Business Insider, internetretailer.com, WebProNews and AllThingsD

Sarah Kessler / Fast Company:

Think You Can Live Offline Without Being Tracked? Here's What It Takes — Nico Sell, the cofounder of a secure communication app called Wickr, has appeared on television twice. Both times, she wore sunglasses to prevent viewers from getting a full picture of what she looks like.

More: GigaOM. Thanks:@_trendspotter

Tom Cheredar / VentureBeat:

Slick mobile e-mail app Boxer closes $3M — Nov. 12 - 13, 2013 — Boxer, a mobile e-mail client for iOS, just finalized a $3 million round of funding, the startup revealed to VentureBeat today. — Boxer's app is built for people who have high volume inboxes.

More: TechCrunch and PandoDaily

Mario Aguilar / Gizmodo:

iPhone 5s accelerometer issues may be linked to change in supplier — Here's Why the iPhone 5S Accelerometer Is So Screwed Up — A few weeks ago we confirmed reports that the iPhone 5S motion sensors were embarrassingly off. Some enterprising devs have investigated the problem …

More: RealityCap, BGR, Macworld, MacRumors, GigaOM, iPhone in Canada Blog, iMore, iLounge, iDownloadBlog.com, App Advice and Electronista

Dana Wollman / Engadget:

Lenovo intros the Miix2, its first 8-inch Windows 8.1 tablet; coming soon for $299 — Remember when we reviewed Acer's (sorta crappy) W3 tablet, and assured you it wouldn't be long before we saw more 8-inch Windows 8.1 tablets? Well, with that latest Windows update due out tomorrow …

More: Lenovo Newsroom, ZDNet, GigaOM, PC World, PC Magazine, Gotta Be Mobile, LAPTOP Magazine and BetaNews

Brad Chacos / PC World:

Microsoft reveals Windows 8.1's mysterious Movie Maker app, other app improvements — Movie Moments, the proverbial white whale of Windows 8 apps, has finally been hauled into the light on the eve of Windows 8.1's release, courtesy of a Microsoft blog post that introduces the new app …

More: The Windows Blog, Windows Phone Central, The Verge, Pocket-lint, LiveSide.net, BetaNews, WinBeta and Softpedia News. Tweets: @gaborfari

Josh Lowensohn / CNET:

Judge appoints monitor to keep an eye on Apple's e-books biz — A US judge on Wednesday appointed an external monitor to keep Apple in compliance with antitrust laws, following the tech giant's loss in court earlier this year. — Judge Denise Cote named former Assistant US Attorney …

More: Fortune and AppleInsider

Ken Yeung / The Next Web:

LinkedIn brings its Work With Us job tool to mobile, launches iOS app to help recruiters manage candidates — LinkedIn today unveiled two new mobile products designed to help recruiters and job candidates better connect with one another and “increase productivity”.

More: Talent Blog, Official LinkedIn Blog, ZDNet and AllThingsD

Taylor Soper / GeekWire:

Usermind raises $7.6M from Andreessen Horowitz to build software for enterprise business operations — Andreessen Horowitz Partner Scott Weiss was recently quoted in a Wall Street Journal article talking about his firm's interest in enterprise software-related companies.

More: VatorNews, VentureBeat and Seattle Times blogs

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:

Akamai: Half Of All Internet Connections Now At 4Mbps+, Safari Remains Most Used Mobile Browser Globally — The ITU has recently published figures noting 2.7 billion internet connections globally, and today Akamai has released some numbers pointing to how fast those connections actually are.

More: Akamai, Softpedia News, GigaOM, CNET, Inquirer and WebProNews

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