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iPad Air Teardown — It's All Hallows' Eve, the ghosts are out, and there's a spooky chill in the—nope, that's just Apple's latest ghoul, the iPad Air. Time to gut our new toy and carve it into a bone-chilling Apple-lantern. While our cobbers down under don't celebrate Halloween quite like we do …
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| Jordan Kahn / 9to5Mac: |
Confirmed: Apple & Best Buy will price match Walmart's $479 iPad Air deal in stores (Staples too) — As it has been known to do for recent Apple product launches, Walmart announced last week that it would be offering a $20 discount on Apple's new entry-level 16GB iPad Air starting as soon as the device launches tomorrow on November 1.
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| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
iPad Air Online Orders Go Live in the United States, Canada, and Europe — Apple began taking orders for its redesigned thin-and-light iPad Air in the United States, Canada, and Europe at midnight Pacific Time, after the tablet launched earlier today in several Asia Pacific countries.
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| CBS San Francisco: |
Google's Secret Revealed: Barge To Offer High-End Showrooms, Party Deck — SAN FRANCISCO (KPIX 5) - Google's mysterious floating barge on San Francisco Bay will feature luxury showrooms and a party deck for the tech giant to market Google Glass and other gadgets to invitation-only clients, multiple sources told KPIX 5.
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| Joe Mullin / Ars Technica: |
Patent war goes nuclear: Microsoft, Apple-owned “Rockstar” sues Google — Rockstar's reverse-engineering lab in Ottawa, Canada. — Rockstar Consortium — Canada-based telecom Nortel went bankrupt in 2009 and sold its biggest asset—a portfolio of more than 6,000 patents covering 4G wireless innovations …
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| Claire Cain Miller / New York Times: |
Angry Over U.S. Surveillance, Tech Giants Bolster Defenses — SAN FRANCISCO — Google has spent months and millions of dollars encrypting email, search queries and other information flowing among its data centers worldwide. Facebook's chief executive said at a conference this fall that the government “blew it.”
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| Craig Timberg / Washington Post: |
| Brad Molen / Engadget: |
HTC: Android 4.4 KitKat coming to the One within 90 days, Google Play edition in 15 days — Now that we know which of Google's Nexus devices will be eligible for an update to Android 4.4 KitKat, other manufacturers are starting to speak up about their rollout plans as well.| Kellex / Droid Life: |
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| Brad Molen / Engadget: |
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| Felix Salmon: |
Apple should continue focus on its product design and resist Icahn advice on stock buyback — Apple should be like Bloomberg — I'm very glad that the WSJ has published today's debate between Farhad Manjoo and Dennis Berman on the subject of Apple. Manjoo has been writing …
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| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
Meet “badBIOS,” the mysterious Mac and PC malware that jumps airgaps — Three years ago, security consultant Dragos Ruiu was in his lab when he noticed something highly unusual: his MacBook Air, on which he had just installed a fresh copy of OS X, spontaneously updated the firmware that helps it boot.
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| Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac: |
Apple testing Mail update for OS X Mavericks to fix Gmail, stability, and smart mailbox issues — Since the launch of OS X Mavericks last week, many users have been reporting widespread, various, consistent issues within Apple's bundled Mail application. — Many of the issues …
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| Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Fortune: |
J.D. Power's fuzzy math: Samsung's 18 stars beat Apple's 22 — How exactly did Samsung overtake Apple in “overall satisfaction”? — FORTUNE — You can hardly blame the reporters and editors who wrote all those headlines proclaiming Samsung's victory over Apple (AAPL) …
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| Olivia Solon / Wired.co.uk: |
Monotype partners with Google to release typographic experimentation tool — Typeface provider Monotype has partnered with Google to launch a free public version of Monotypes's typographic experimentation app Typecast, which can now be accessed through Google Fonts.
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| Philip Oltermann / Guardian: |
Germany may ask Snowden to be witness in NSA inquiry — Green politician meets US whistleblower in Moscow to discuss possibility of helping parliamentary investigation into US spying — Edward Snowden may be invited to Germany as a witness against the US National Security Agency.
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
6Wunderkinder, Maker Of To-Do App Wunderlist, Has Raised A $30M Series B, In Sequoia's First Step Into Germany — Wunderlist, a popular task management app from Berlin-based 6Wunderkinder, has built up a loyal following of some six million users, with about one-third of them in the U.S. and nearly 241 million “to-do"s logged to date.Sponsor Posts
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