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November 9, 2013, 1:30 PM

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Richard Lawler / Engadget:

Early Xbox One delivery reveals 500MB initial update, 17 second startup — then banned (update 3) — Now that there are Xbox Ones in the wild — thanks to Target's apparently leaky pre-order system — we're finding out more and more about the system. Moonlight Swami has been busy messing around …

More: PC Magazine, The Verge, TechnoBuffalo, Forbes, SlashGear, Windows Phone Central, Polygon, VG247, GamingBolt.com and Kotaku

Tweets: @majornelson, @tomwarren and @supermtw

Ben Gilbert / Engadget:

Your new Xbox One won't do much without the day one patch

John McDermott / Digiday:

Google tracking location on Android and iOS to find when searches lead to retail store visits — Google Takes Its Tracking Into The Real World — Tech companies large and small have long been trying to use smartphones to connect consumers' online activity to what they do in “real” life.

More: The Drum and Telegraph. Thanks:@mcdermott

Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Fortune:

Apple v. Samsung: The patent retrial of the century starts Tuesday — An Apple victory could result in the second largest patent infringement award in history. — FORTUNE — If you thought that the one billion dollars a jury awarded Apple (AAPL) last year had been cut nearly in half, you may be forgiven.

More: AppleInsider, iPhone in Canada Blog and FOSS Patents

Mike Isaac / AllThingsD:

Can Twitter Fix Its Product Problem? — A handful of times a year, clusters of Twitter engineers will line the walls of the company's cavernous main hall, gathering around smartphones, monitors or poster board setups. The large, open-air room buzzes with excitement as employees show off …

Tweets: @mikeisaac, @pkafka and @fmanjoo

Reuters:

Exclusive: BlackBerry board rejected proposals to break up company - sources — (Reuters) - BlackBerry Ltd's board does not believe a break-up of the Canadian smartphone maker is currently in its best interests, even though Microsoft Corp, Apple Inc and Lenovo Group Ltd, among others …

More: T3 News, TechnoBuffalo, The Register, iDownloadBlog.com, Electronista, Engadget, SlashGear, iPhone in Canada Blog, AppleInsider, iClarified, MacRumors, CrackBerry.com, The Verge, BGR, MobileSyrup.com and Reuters

Joe Mullin / Ars Technica:

Senator wants end to demand letters from “bottom feeder” patent trolls — An anti-patent-troll bill was introduced in Congress two weeks ago and debated at the House Judiciary Committee last week. Yesterday, a Senate committee convened to talk about one of the nastier sides of the patent wars …

More: Politico and GamePolitics blogs

TechCrunch:

Intel Has Acquired Kno, Will Push Further Into The Education Content Market With Interactive Textbooks — We had a tip about, and have now confirmed, Intel's latest acquisition: Kno, the education startup that started life as a hardware business and later pivoted into software …

More: CSR@Intel, AllThingsD, Digits, Engadget, SlashGear, VentureBeat and Intel Newsroom. Thanks:@mjburnsy

Kara Swisher / AllThingsD:

“Because Marissa Said So” — Yahoos Bristle at Mayer's QPR Ranking System and “Silent Layoffs” — According to a multitude of top-ranking posts on an anonymous internal message board used by Yahoo to vent their frustrations to top staff, employees there are becoming increasingly upset …

Tweets: @fmanjoo, @sai, @carnage4life and @fmanjoo

Matthew Panzarino / TechCrunch:

Why Apple Bought $578M Worth Of Sapphire In Advance — Apple is building a manufacturing plant in Arizona that will be used by GT Advanced Technologies to make sapphire crystals for use in its products. Apple currently uses sapphire in its home buttons and camera lens covers …

More: iPhone Hacks. Tweets: @joshconstine

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:

An App “Middle Class” Continues To Grow: Independently Owned Apps With A Million-Plus Users Up 121% Over Past 18 Months — It may be getting harder for mobile developers to break into the top charts in the various app stores, but there is a healthy and growing “middle class” app economy …

More: The Flurry Blog, Electronista and PandoDaily

Nick Summers / The Next Web:

YouTube co-founder Jawed Karim asks: ‘Why the f*** do I need a Google+ account to comment on a video?’ — YouTube co-founder Jawed Karim has shared his thoughts on the new Google+ commenting system that was introduced to the video-sharing site earlier this week. In short, he's not very impressed.

More: Guardian, Ars Technica, The Verge, 9to5Google, Softpedia News, Valleywag, Boing Boing, Daily Dot, WebProNews, Business Insider, VentureBeat and Techdirt. Tweets: @dannysullivan

Richard Lawler / Engadget:

Panasonic's 20-inch 4K ‘tablet’ comes to the US in January for $6,000 — We got our first peek at Panasonic's 4K Toughpad tablet last January at CES, and now the company says it will go on sale in the US about a year later, for $5,999. Panasonic announced two devices for Europe …

More: HotHardware.com News, Yahoo! News, Gizmodo, The Verge, CNET and Electronista

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