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November 11, 2013, 10:10 AM

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Tim Culpan / Bloomberg:

Apple said to develop 4.7 and 5.5 inch curved iPhones for late 2014 release, pressure-sensitive screens for later models — Apple Said Developing Curved IPhone Screens, Enhanced Sensors — Apple Inc. (AAPL) is developing new iPhone designs including bigger screens with curved glass …

Greg Bensinger / Wall Street Journal:

Amazon to Begin Sunday Deliveries, With Post Office's Help — Experiment Is Web Retailer's Latest Speed Initiative … Amazon.com Inc. will begin delivering packages on Sundays in the nation's two largest cities later this month with an unlikely partner—the United States Postal Service.

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Cam Simpson / Businessweek:

An iPhone Tester Caught in Apple's Supply Chain — Beneath the spotlight in a San Francisco performing arts theater, Apple (AAPL) marketing chief Phil Schiller was about to stage-manage one of the most anticipated product unveilings of the year. It was the first post-Steve Jobs reveal of a new iPhone.

More: stratechery and Business Insider. Tweets: @stevekovach, @tomwarren and @rurikbradbury

Peter Bright / Ars Technica:

Microsoft shouldn't hire any CEO who wants to kill Bing and Xbox — According to “people with knowledge of his thinking,” Bloomberg is reporting that, should Stephen Elop become Microsoft's next CEO, he would consider shutting down or selling parts of the company to “sharpen its focus.”

More: InfoWorld, SiliconANGLE, Computerworld, I4U News, Softpedia News, T3 News, eWeek, The Tech Report and PhoneArena

Tweets: @navalang, @tcarmody and @alex

Benedict Evans:

Facebook's acquisition of Instagram is looking strategically irrelevant — Instagram and Youtube — Instagram is looking like a great acquisition. It had 30m users when Facebook bought it in April 2012, and has now passed 150m, just 18m later. — (The change in colour signifies the acquisition.)

More: Guardian, Digits, Business Insider and I4U News

Tweets: @mathewi, @benedictevans, @dougw, @monkbent, @rianvdm, @davemcclure and @paul_framp

Natasha Singer / New York Times:

They Loved Your G.P.A. Then They Saw Your Tweets. — At Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Me., admissions officers are still talking about the high school senior who attended a campus information session last year for prospective students. Throughout the presentation, she apparently posted disparaging comments …

Tweets: @scissortongue, @emilybell and @whatthebit

Jean-Louis Gassée / Monday Note:

New iWork: Another Missed Opportunity To Set Expectations — With the 5.0 iWork suite we revisit Apple's propensity to make lofty claims that fall short of reality. The repetition of such easily avoidable mistakes is puzzling and leads us to question what causes Apple executives to squander the company's well-deserved goodwill.

More: Guardian and ZDNet. Tweets: @marypcbuk, @gassee and @roddrury

Cyrus Farivar / Ars Technica:

UK spies continue “quantum insert” attack via LinkedIn, Slashdot pages — According to a new report (German) by Der Spiegel, the British signals intelligence spy agency has again employed a “quantum insert” technique as a way to target employees (Google Translate) of two companies that are GRX (Global Roaming Exchange) providers.

More: Spiegel Online, Techdirt, SiliconANGLE, The Verge, SocialTimes, Daily Dot, Gigaom, TechEye, RT, I4U News, The Independent and SlashGear

Tweets: @headhntr, @ggreenwald and @cmdrtaco

Richard Lai / Engadget:

Unlike the PS4, the Xbox One won't support 3D Blu-ray playback at launch — Now that Microsoft has adopted Blu-ray for its upcoming Xbox One, some of you might have been wondering if this next-gen console will support 3D Blu-ray movies. Well, the answer is no, or at least not yet.

More: TechHive, Softpedia News, Ars Technica, WinBeta, Ubergizmo, T3 News, I4U News, CNET, Engadget and SlashGear

Leslie Kaufman / New York Times:

Vox Media buying Curbed Network (including Curbed, Eater, and Racked) for $20-$30 Million — Vox Media Buying Curbed.com Network of Sites — Vox Media, a company with three strong digital brands, including the technology site The Verge, is adding to its portfolio.

Dan Goodin / Ars Technica:

Internet Explorer users face drive-by attacks targeting new 0-day bug (Updated) — Researchers have uncovered new, currently unpatched vulnerabilities in multiple versions of Internet Explorer that criminals are actively exploiting to surreptitiously install unusually advanced malware on computers that visit booby-trapped websites.

More: FireEye Blog, FireEye Blog, ZDNet, The Register, Network World, Softpedia News, Softpedia News, CNET, Graham Cluley and ZDNet

Wall Street Journal:

Amazon and J&J Clash Over Third-Party Sales — J&J Complained Damaged or Expired Products Were Sold on Site — Johnson & Johnson and Amazon.com Inc. are clashing over complaints that Amazon isn't doing enough to prevent people from selling damaged or expired J&J products …

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