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October 22, 2014, 6:35 PM

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Mat Honan / Wired:
Twitter's new SDK Fabric represents an audacious plan to live inside every app  —  Twitter's Audacious Plan to Infiltrate All Your Apps  —  Twitter is releasing a new software development kit today at its developer's conference.  It's called Fabric.  It does lots of very pretty things …
Jeff Seibert / The Twitter Blog:
Twitter introduces Fabric, an SDK for mobile developers  —  Introducing Fabric  —  Today at Flight, we announced Fabric, a modular mobile platform that makes it easy for developers to build great apps.  —  The Fabric platform is made of three modular kits that address some of the most common …
Casey Newton / The Verge:
Twitter's Digits enables users of third-party apps to sign up using just their phone number  —  Inside Twitter's ambitious plan to kill the password  —  As he traveled the world last year as part of a user research project, Michael Ducker noticed a problem.
Dieter Bohn / The Verge:
Google aims to reinvent email with Inbox, a marriage of Gmail and Google Now, currently invite-only  —  Inbox is a total reinvention of email from Google  —  The new Gmail app from the Gmail team isn't technically just an email app, at least if you ask them.
Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch:
Hands On With Google Inbox: Useful Email Triage Tools For A Mobile Workflow  —  Google's Inbox email app is now available, and we have access to the limited release, which is being distributed via Google's tried-and-true invite system.  While many will have to wait to check it out for themselves …
Walt Mossberg / Re/code:
Maeve Duggan / Pew Internet:
Pew survey: 40% of US internet users have experienced online harassment, 18% in severe form  —  Online Harassment  —  Summary of Findings  —  Harassment—from garden-variety name calling to more threatening behavior— is a common part of online life that colors the experiences of many web users.
Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat:
New Microsoft Garage site invites public to test a wide range of app ideas  —  Microsoft today launched a new section on its website: The Microsoft Garage is designed to give the public early access to various projects the company is testing right now.  The team is kicking off with a total …
Alex Kipman / The Official Microsoft Blog:
Microsoft allows Kinect Apps in Windows Store for the first time, launches Kinect SDK 2.0  —  Microsoft releases Kinect SDK 2.0 and new adapter kit  —  Today, we have some exciting news to share about the next chapter for Kinect.  Our Windows SDK 2.0 is now available for the Kinect v2 sensors …
Molly Wood / New York Times:
Apple Pay: Seamless in Stores, but Quirky Online  —  AFTER I used Apple Pay for a day of shopping in stores, a few things became clear: The new payment system is convenient, problem-free and even fun.  —  The same can't be said for using Apple Pay to shop via apps on my phone or tablet.
Chris Kanaracus / PC World:
EMC buys controlling interest in VCE, its joint venture with Cisco  —  EMC has confirmed it will purchase the bulk of Cisco's stake in VCE, the companies' joint venture in converged infrastructure products.  —  News of the deal surfaced late Tuesday.  The move means that VCE will become an EMC business …
Tom Cheredar / VentureBeat:
Roku raises $25 million amid growing competition from Amazon and Google  —  Updated at 1:45 p.m. PST with a statement from Roku.  —  Set-top box company Roku has secured a fresh $25 million round of funding, according to a SEC form D filing released today.
More: GigaomThanks:@tched
Josh Lowensohn / The Verge:
Homeboy is a $149 rechargeable low-power Wi-Fi security camera with a three month battery, on sale today  —  Homeboy is what happens when tiny security cameras hook up with magnets  —  The new $149 camera sticks to walls to watch your home  —  After having his home burglarized for a third time …
More: TechSpot and PC WorldThanks:@jordan_tara
Romain Dillet / TechCrunch:
MicroBlink's PhotoMath app solves math problems scanned in through your phone's camera  —  MicroBlink Launches PhotoMath To Solve Math Equations With A Phone  —  Imagine you are a 14-year-old kid again.  You need to do this really difficult math exercise for tomorrow, but have no idea how to do it.
Jon Russell / TechCrunch:
Xiaomi Is Moving International Users' Data Out Of China Ahead Of Further Global Expansions  —  The past year has been an eventful one for Chinese phone-maker Xiaomi.  The company's devices are now sold in seven countries in Asia, that's a big step up from Xiaomi's inception …
Joan E. Solsman / CNET:
Rhapsody revives CEO position after four-year absence, appoints mobile vet David Hose as interim chief  —  Rhapsody revives CEO position, hires mobile vet as interim chief  —  The streaming-music forefather, often overshadowed by flashier rivals like Spotify or Apple's Beats Music …

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