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November 27, 2014, 12:55 AM

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Kurt Wagner / Re/code:

Twitter to Start Tracking Which Apps Its Users Have Downloaded — Twitter will soon be peeking in on your smartphone. Literally. — The social network says it will start collecting data on which apps its users have downloaded onto their phones. The update is opt-out …

Pocket Blog:

Apple's new phones taking screen time from iPads; iPhone 6+ owners open 65% more articles and videos than those with smaller phones — The Screen-Size Debate: How the iPhone 6 Plus Impacts Where We Read & Watch — Every day, millions of articles, videos and web pages are saved and viewed …

More: TechCrunch, Quartz, Gigaom, MacRumors, BetaNews, PandoDaily, SlashGear, MobileSyrup.com, GeekWire, The Next Web, iPhone in Canada Blog, 9to5Mac and MacStories

Tweets: @lukew, @cgpgrey, @lowresolution and @ropiku

Alex Wilhelm / TechCrunch:

Microsoft Appears To Pre-Announce Its Purchase Of Email Startup Acompli — Whoops. Welcome to literal fait accompli. — A short, unfinished blog listed as written by Microsoft corporate vice president Rajesh Jha hit the RSS wires earlier today. Here's what it looked like:

More: BetaNews, The Verge and App Advice

Tweets: @chrisfralic, @raju and @katie_roof

Jeff Baumgartner / Multichannel News:

Google Fiber Austin pricing: basic internet free, Gigabit $70/month, Gigabit+TV $130/month — Google Fiber Posts Austin Pricing — 1-Gig/Pay-TV Bundle To Start At $10 More Than In K.C. & Provo — Google Fiber has posted details on the three residential service plans it will offer …

More: 9to5Google, Google Fiber, KXAN-TV, PC World, PC Magazine, Android Authority and DSLreports

Jack Nicas / Wall Street Journal:

GoPro to sell multirotor consumer drones with high definition cameras late next year for $500-$1000 — GoPro Developing Line of Consumer Drones — Company Plans to Start Selling Multirotor Helicopters With High-Definition Cameras Late Next Year — The wearable video camera maker …

More: The Register, BGR, The Verge, Engadget, Electronista, The Verge, Photography Bay, TechnoBuffalo, CNET, PC Magazine, Quartz, TechSpot, Gizmodo and WebProNews

Danny Yadron / Wall Street Journal:

DOJ used 225-year-old law to get federal court to order manufacturer to bypass phone password — Case Suggests How Government May Get Around Phone Encryption — The Justice Department is turning to a 225-year-old law to tackle a very modern problem: password-protected cellphones.

More: Electronista, Cult of Mac and Patently Apple

Tweets: @dangillmor, @dannyyadron, @scottthurm, @nikkipjah, @kevinmitnick and @csoghoian

Ian Paul / PC World:

Chromecast snags Nickelodeon, Sesame Street, Comedy Central, and more — Google is adding some big names to the Chromecast roster just in time for Thanksgiving. On Tuesday, seven new apps embraced Google's $35 streaming media stick, and almost all of them are from big name media companies.

More: TechCrunch, Google Chrome Blog, 9to5Google, Hollywood Reporter, Multichannel News, Ubergizmo, Android Authority, SlashGear, Gigaom, Liliputing, Variety, The Next Web, The Verge, Engadget, TIME, Droid Life and Android Police

Andrew Cunningham / Ars Technica:

Preview of Office for Android tablets similar to the iPad version, but integrates better with other apps and services — Preview: Office for Android tablets is like Office for iPad, but on Android — Google's Docs, Sheets, and Slides apps are a lot of things—they're fast, they're convenient …

Sarah Jeong / The Verge:

Elonis v. US Supreme Court case dealing with threatening Facebook posts begins Dec. 1, will decide what constitutes a “true threat” online — The Supreme Court is about to tackle online threats for the first time — A case about violent Facebook posts could change how internet speech is prosecuted

More: Washington Post, AllGov, Wall Street Journal, TIME, Brandeis University News and Business Insider. Tweets: @glennf

Kia Kokalitcheva / VentureBeat:

Lyft says it had record usage last week in wake of Uber controversy — Uber had a rough week following its PR meltdown involving a journalist, an Uber executive, possible threats against that journalist, calls to ban Uber, and the specter of possible privacy violations by Uber execs.

More: Gigaom, BuzzFeed and Business Insider. Thanks:@dylan20

Josh Lowensohn / The Verge:

Obama signs E-Label Act, allowing manufacturers to put labels such as FCC symbols in software menus instead of on hardware — The US bill to phase out wonky symbols on the back of gadgets is now a law — The legislation designed to do away with printing various symbols and regulatory compliance numbers …

More: The Hill, The Next Web, iMore and PhoneDog.com

Greg Kumparak / TechCrunch:

Unity Finally Releases Its Long Promised User Interface Creator — Good news, everyone! — Once upon a time, Unity promised to overhaul the way developers would build user interfaces in their Unity-powered games. This was roughly around the time man discovered fire*.

Thanks:@grg

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