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October 15, 2014, 5:00 PM

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Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac:

'iPad Air 2′ and 'iPad mini 3′ with Touch ID & Burst Mode confirmed, show up early in iTunes — Apple's iTunes Store has just made a little bit of a slip-up (and with perfect uncanny timing): screenshots for the iOS 8.1 iPad user guide have just appeared within iBooks and include Apple's upcoming iPad Air 2 and iPad mini 3.

Husain Sumra / MacRumors:

Initial iPad Air 2 Supplies May Be Limited, 27-Inch Retina Display iMac Launching by End of 2014 — Just about a day before Apple's October 16 media event, KGI Securities analyst Ming-Chi Kuo has issued a new report, saying that he expects supplies of iPad Air 2s to be constrained.

More: The Verge, 9to5Mac, 9to5Mac, InfoWorld, Ars Technica, AppleInsider, Gotta Be Mobile, Business Insider, iPhone in Canada Blog, Geeky Gadgets, AppleTell and Gotta Be Mobile

Peter Kafka / Re/code:

HBO will offer a stand-alone streaming service in 2015 — HBO Says Web Subscriptions Coming in 2015 — HBO says it's finally ready: Sometime in the next year the pay TV service will be selling a Web-only offering. — HBO CEO Richard Plepler, speaking at an investor presentation hosted …

More: timewarner.com, Bloomberg, The Verge, CNNMoney.com, TechCrunch, SlashGear, Android Police, The Information, Fortune, VideoNuze Analysis, ReadWrite, LIVEdigitally, GeekWire, The Verge, Gizmodo, CNET, Business Insider, iMore, The Technology Chronicles, TheStreet.com, Ars Technica, BetaNews, Tech Trader Daily, Gigaom Research, DSLreports, Techvibes Global News, PC World, TechSpot, Gotta Be Mobile, Gizmodo, Associated Press, Engadget, Gigaom, AppleInsider, TIME, Business Insider, Forbes, Business Insider, Wall Street Journal, AdAge, The Slanted, BestTechie, IntoMobile, CNET, Tubefilter, Consumerist, Mashable, Electronista, iDownloadBlog.com, WebProNews, Yahoo Tech, Liliputing, Hypable and SocialTimes See also Mediagazer

Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge:

Nexus 6: 6" Quad HD display, Snapdragon 805 CPU, 13 megapixel rear camera, 15-min turbo charging, preorders start Oct. 29, from $649 — Google's Nexus 6 is a giant phablet designed for Android Lollipop — Google is today introducing the Nexus 6, the latest in its line of smartphones designed …

Chris Welch / The Verge:

Nexus 9: 8.9" display, first 64-bit CPU in a Nexus, 9 hour battery life, preorders start Oct. 17, from $399, keyboard case sold separately — Google announces HTC-made Nexus 9 tablet, coming November 3rd — Google has just announced the Nexus 9, an Android 5.0 tablet that the company designed in collaboration with HTC.

More: TechHive, Android Police, PhoneArena, BGR, Laptop Mag, GeekWire, Computerworld, Marketing Land, BetaNews, AppleInsider, Inquirer, Ars Technica, Daring Fireball, Gotta Be Mobile and IntoMobile

Dan Seifert / The Verge:

Android 5.0 Lollipop available on new Nexus 6, 9 and Player devices; for Nexus 4, 5, 7, 10, Google Play Edition devices in coming weeks — Google announces Android 5.0 Lollipop — Android's latest is coming to devices as soon as this month — After an extended testing and preview period …

More: Re/code, 9to5Google, Wall Street Journal, Official Android Blog, TechCrunch, Engadget, BetaNews, BGR and FierceWireless

Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge:

Nexus Player: first Android TV device, on sale Nov. 3 for $99, gaming controller for $39 — Nexus Player is Google's first Android TV device — Google tries to take over your living room, again — The first device running Google's new Android TV platform with be the Nexus Player, a set-top streaming box made by Google and Asus.

More: Wall Street Journal, TechCrunch, Guardian, Associated Press, Android Police, Gigaom, SlashGear and Phandroid. See also Mediagazer

Lauren Goode / Re/code:

Apple Plans to Stop Selling Fitbit Devices in Stores — Apple may soon stop selling the popular Fitbit devices, as it clears the way for its own wearable technology product set to launch sometime next year, according to sources. — It's unclear exactly why Apple will no longer sell the devices …

More: Engadget, iMore, 9to5Mac, The Verge, AppleInsider, Gizmodo, MacRumors, SlashGear, Cult of Mac, Pocket-lint, Ubergizmo, Mashable, iPhone in Canada Blog, bizjournals, App Advice and MacDailyNews. Tweets: @kenli729

Ben Woods / The Next Web:

Google Play downloads now exceed Apple's App Store by 60 percent, but iOS apps still make more money — According to the latest figures from App Annie's quarterly market reports, app downloads from the Google Play store outstripped downloads from the iOS App Store by around 60 percent in comparison to the same time last year.

More: MacRumors, iMore, CNET, VentureBeat and App Annie Blog

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:

EBay Beats The Street On Sales EPS Of $0.68, Misses On Sales Of $4.35B — E-commerce giant EBay, soon to be split into two businesses, today reported its third-quarter earnings. The company reported revenues of $4.4 billion, growing 12% on a year ago, on non-GAAP EPS of $0.68.

More: VentureBeat and Tech Trader Daily

Adam Langley / ImperialViolet:

POODLE detailed; how to disable SSL 3.0 in Chrome, Firefox; disabling it on servers may break IE6 — POODLE attacks on SSLv3 — My colleague, Bodo Möller, in collaboration with Thai Duong and Krzysztof Kotowicz (also Googlers), just posted details about a padding oracle attack against CBC-mode ciphers in SSLv3.

More: dfranke.us, The Register, Netcraft, Financial Times, Graham Cluley, BBC, Ars Technica, PC Magazine, SecurityWeek and PandoDaily

Bodo Möller / Google Online Security Blog:

Google discloses SSL 3.0 vulnerability POODLE, recommends clients and servers support TLS_FALLBACK_SCSV to prevent protocol downgrade attacks, says Chrome does

More: Wired, SiliconANGLE, ReadWrite, Computerworld, VentureBeat, New York Times, ExtremeTech, PCMag Australia Feed, Forbes, The Verge, Inquirer, TechSpot, Geek.com, Tech Times, Washington Post and The Daily Dot. Tweets: @jjarmoc

Richard Barnes / Mozilla Security Blog:

Firefox will disable SSL 3.0 in version 34, to be released Nov. 25

More: The Register, Computerworld, MARC, eWeek, addons.mozilla.org, Engadget, Fedora Magazine and Gizmodo

Brad Molen / Engadget:

Samsung Galaxy Note 4 review: the best big-screen phone you can buy right now — What began in 2011 as a brand-new phone category has flourished into one of the most popular in the world. Smartphones with big screens (phablets, to some) are now ubiquitous, but it all started with an odd device called the Samsung Galaxy Note.

More: New York Times, BGR, Business Insider, The Verge, AnandTech, Re/code, Gizmodo, VentureBeat, CNNMoney.com, Laptop Mag, DailyTech, SlashGear, The Next Web, Android Police, Ars Technica, Wall Street Journal, Gigaom and ZDNet. Tweets: @joannastern

Brian Barrett / Gizmodo:

Leaked: Fitbit Charge, like Force but without nickel, and Charge HD with heart rate monitoring — Exclusive: Fitbit Charge and Charge HR Images and Full Features List — After earlier reports that Fitbit may be working on two new activity trackers, a tipster has sent us what appears …

More: Macworld, Wearable World News, mobihealthnews, ITworld.com and Wearable Tech Insider

Anthony Ha / TechCrunch:

Thismoment Raises $17.6M To Help Big Brands Tap Into User-Generated Content — Thismoment, a company that helps businesses collect user-generated content for their own marketing efforts, is announcing that it has raised $17.6 million in Series D funding. — The company says it can …

More: Re/code. Tweets: @joshconstine

Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet:

Docker container support coming to Microsoft's next Windows Server release — Summary: Microsoft is building new container technologies into the next Windows Server release, enabling Dockerized applications to run on Windows Server on-premises or on Azure. — Docker container support …

More: Microsoft Azure Blog, Docker Blog, TechCrunch, InfoWorld, VentureBeat, MS Open Tech, Data Center Knowledge, Wall Street Journal, virtualization.info, eWeek, GeekWire and Gigaom. Thanks:@seanludwig

Kyle Wagner / Deadspin:

The Future Of The Culture Wars Is Here, And It's Gamergate — Over the weekend, a game developer in Boston named Brianna Wu fled her home after an online stalker vowed to rape and kill her. She isn't the first woman who's been forced into hiding by aggrieved video game fans associated with Gamergate …

More: Utah State Today, Business Insider, Kotaku, InvestorPlace, Ars Technica, BBC, USA Today, Raw Story and Mashable

Todd Spangler / Variety:

Netflix Misses Sub-Growth Targets, Adding 980,000 U.S. Streaming Customers — Netflix added 3.02 million overall streaming customers for the third quarter of 2014 — below its previous projections of 3.69 million for the period, as both U.S. and international growth failed to meet its forecasts.

More: Gigaom, Re/code, Engadget, VentureBeat and Agence France-Presse. See also Mediagazer

Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:

Qualcomm buys Bluetooth and GPS chip maker CSR for $2.5B — Qualcomm announced that it has agreed to acquire chip maker CSR for $2.5 billion in cash as part of its continuing strategy to dominate the electronics in mobile devices. — San Diego, Calif.-based Qualcomm will add a wide variety …

More: Gigaom, PR Newswire, Reuters, Bloomberg and CNET

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