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October 18, 2013, 10:05 AM

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John Paczkowski / AllThingsD:

Apple: No, We Can't Read Your iMessages (And We Don't Want to, Either) — Touting its commitment to user privacy in the wake of the NSA surveillance scandal earlier this year, Apple said that the end-to-end encryption protecting its iMessage instant-messenger service is so secure that even the company itself cannot decrypt it.

More: Quarkslab's blog, MacRumors, AppleInsider, BGR, Telegraph, The Verge, Digits, Mashable, The Mac Observer and The Switch

Jeremy Kirk / Macworld:

Researchers challenge Apple's claim of unbreakable iMessage encryption — A close look at Apple's iMessage system shows the company could easily intercept communications on the service despite its assurances to the contrary, researchers claimed Thursday at a security conference.

More: Ars Technica, ZDNet, 9to5Mac, Phones Review, Daily Dot, iPhone Hacks, iDownloadBlog.com, Apple Bitch and MacRumors. Tweets: @techhive

Google:

Google Inc. Announces Third Quarter 2013 Results — Google today announced financial results for the quarter ended September 30, 2013. “Google had another strong quarter with $14.9 billion in revenue and great product progress,” said Larry Page, CEO of Google.

Josh Constine / TechCrunch:

40% Of YouTube Traffic Now Mobile, Up From 25% In 2012, 6% In 2011 — It's hard to get people to concentrate long on anything on their phones and tablets, yet YouTube seems to be the exception. The video service is quickly going mobile, with small screens making up 40% of its traffic …

More: AllThingsD, BGR, Softpedia News and IntoMobile. Tweets: @hunterwalk. See also Mediagazer

Chris Velazco / TechCrunch:

Google Beats The Street In Q3 With $14.89B In Revenue, Net Income Of $2.97B, And EPS Of $10.74

More: 9to5Google, Inquirer, BGR, Engadget, TechEye, Business Insider, Marketing Land, GigaOM, The Register, internetretailer.com, VentureBeat, WebProNews, Electronista and InfoWorld

Roger Cheng / CNET:

Moto X isn't helping Motorola yet as losses widen

More: San Francisco Chronicle and Guardian. Tweets: @cdhowe

Richard Lawler / Engadget:

Nexus 5 listing appears in the Play Store, teases 16GB for $349 — We still haven't heard anything official about Google's next Nexus phone, but tonight some people are already seeing it as an option in the Play Store. Just among our editors, some see the Nexus 4 while others get the result shown above …

Bertel King, Jr / Android Police:

Possible Press Images Of The TELUS Nexus 5 Have Appeared, Show New Camera Icon, Other Minor Tweaks

More: MobileSyrup.com, Gizmodo, The Verge, Redmond Pie, PhoneNews.com, Unwired View, Phandroid, Droid Life and Android Geeks

Ina Fried / AllThingsD:

AT&T Announces $5 Tablet Day Passes, Deal to Power Tesla's In-Car Wireless — While consumers are clearly buying tablets in droves, getting them to fork over to connect them to cellular networks has been another story. — Buyers have overwhelmingly chosen Wi-Fi-only models, and …

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Todd Bishop / GeekWire:

The streak is over: Xbox 360 dethroned by PS3 after 32 months atop U.S. market — Thirty-two months, or 2-and-a-half years: That's how long Microsoft's Xbox 360 held the top spot in the U.S. console market, based on unit sales. But the streak ended as of September, as Sony's PlayStation 3 took …

More: CNET, Digits, Softpedia News, SlashGear, Gearburn, Engadget and TIME. Thanks:@taylor_soper

David Pogue / New York Times:

Windows 8.1: An improvement for touch devices, but still feels jarring — Reconciling 2 Worlds With Windows 8.1 — Just about one year ago, Microsoft gave us two new operating systems. — One was a new version of Windows: the one for use with mouse and keyboard, the one whose desktop …

More: Business Insider, Digits and Daring Fireball

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Harry McCracken / TIME:

Windows 8.1 Is the First Rough Draft of ‘One Microsoft’

Thanks:@mariedomingo

Tom Warren / The Verge:

Microsoft's new iOS and Android Remote Desktop apps let you control a PC from a phone — Microsoft is providing a new way for iOS and Android users to access their Windows PCs today. A new Remote Desktop app is now available for both operating systems, letting you simply connect to a Windows PC and control it.

More: The Next Web, Inquirer, Telegraph, The Register, Softpedia News, ZDNet, MacRumors, Cult of Mac, iPhone Hacks, TUAW, pocketnow.com, Engadget, GigaOM, Channel 9, Redmond Pie, iPhone in Canada Blog and Electronista

Adrianne Jeffries / The Verge:

Black Market Reloaded, Silk Road's main competitor, shuts down due to security breach — Silk Road's main competitor shuts down indefinitely — Black Market Reloaded, the digital black market that was the largest competitor to the recently-busted Silk Road, just announced it's closing and refunding users' money.

More: Slate, Guardian, My Blog, Softpedia News, SlashGear and Business Insider

Brad Stone / Businessweek:

Jeff Bezos's League of Shadows — Amazon can be a uniquely challenging place to work, with its question-mark emergencies and the occasionally volcanic outburst from the visionary chief executive. It's a place where promotions are hard-fought and sometimes painfully public.

More: Business Insider. Tweets: @felixgillette, @eghosao, @jimaley and @counterparties

Dante D'Orazio / The Verge:

Samsung set-top box uses mediocre Smart TV software to compete with Roku, Apple TV — Samsung isn't known for its software, but that hasn't stopped the company from pushing its Smart TV interface, which offers access to video streaming apps like Netflix, Hulu Plus, HBO Go, and MLB.TV, as well as a selection of other utilities.

More: Zatz Not Funny!, Gizmodo and Wired

Shara Tibken / CNET:

Samsung $150 smart box packs in streaming apps, cable

More: Business Wire and Gearburn

Jordan Golson / MacRumors:

First Magazine Advertisement for iPhone 5s Appears, Highlights Touch ID Sensor — Apple has started a new print advertising campaign for the iPhone 5s. The first spot, running on the back of this week's issue of The New Yorker, showcases the Touch ID-equipped home button of the new gold iPhone 5s.

More: TechHive, TechEye, TechnoBuffalo, TUAW, Cult of Mac, iDownloadBlog.com and eWeek

Zach Miners / ITworld.com:

Programmers at Juniper — not Google or Facebook — rake in the most dough — Juniper's average base salary for coders is about $160,000 — What a lucrative profession coding can be — the best paid software engineers have an average base salary of nearly US$160,000, and they work at Juniper Networks, according to a recent survey.

More: Glassdoor Blog, GeekWire, VatorNews, I4U News, CNET, Tech Deals, Wired and VentureBeat

Dana Mattioli / Wall Street Journal:

China's Lenovo is considering buying Blackberry — Lenovo Group Ltd. is actively considering a bid for all of BlackBerry Ltd. , according to people familiar with the matter. — The Chinese personal-computer and smartphone maker has signed a “non-disclosure” agreement that enables it to look …

More: Guardian, SiliconANGLE, DSLreports, Reuters, Inquirer, TheStreet.com, TechCrunch, Muktware, Digits, T3 News, Mashable, Tech in Asia, The Register, GigaOM, n4bb.com, MoneyBeat, TechnoBuffalo, AllThingsD, Fortune, SlashGear, CNET, Electronista, The Next Web and Engadget. Tweets: @danprimack

Electronista:

USPTO confirms all claims in key ‘Steve Jobs’ iPhone patent — Re-establishes foothold for Apple lawsuits — The US Patent and Trademark Office has finished a re-examination of Apple's so-called “Steve Jobs patent” and upheld all 20 claims as patentable, reports note.

More: FOSS Patents, Engadget, iDownloadBlog.com, The Verge, CNET, Gizmodo UK, pocketnow.com, PhoneArena, AppleInsider, Muktware and iPhone in Canada Blog

Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:

AMD beats earnings targets as game console revenue kicks in — Nov. 12 - 13, 2013 — Advanced Micro Devices has the next generation of home video game consoles to thanks for the good news in its earning report. — AMD reported financial results today that slightly beat Wall Street's expectations …

More: PC World, Marketwired, The Register, eWeek, The Verge, GigaOM, ITworld.com and ZDNet

Electronista:

AMD posts $1.46 billion quarterly revenue, returns to profitability

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:

E-Loan Specialist Wonga Buys BillPay, The PayPal Of Germany, To Move Deeper Into Payments — Wonga is a UK-based startup best known for its online payday loan services, but today the company made a move that could see it not only extending across to other markets in Europe but also into other services …

More: GigaOM, Telegraph and VentureVillage. Tweets: @rocketberlin

Brian X. Chen / NYT Bits:

New York Lawmaker Pushes Bill to Thwart Phone Theft — Smartphone theft has been a rising problem in many parts of the country, partly because of the devices' high resale value. A top New York lawmaker thinks the solution is to go after the sellers who help make stealing phones so profitable.

More: GigaOM

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