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September 4, 2012, 10:25 AM

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Josh Ong / The Next Web:

AntiSec hackers leak 1,000,001 Apple device IDs allegedly obtained from FBI breach — The AntiSec hacking group claims to have released a set of more than 1 million Apple Unique Device Identifiers (UDIDs) obtained from breaching the FBI. The group claims to have over 12 million IDs …

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Andrew Ross Sorkin / DealBook:

David Ebersman, the Man Behind Facebook's I.P.O. Debacle — It is David Ebersman's fault. There is just no way around it. — Mr. Ebersman is Facebook's well-liked, boyish-looking 41-year-old chief financial officer. He's not as well known as Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook's founder and chief executive …

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Lucas Atkins / N4BB:

Exclusive: BlackBerry 10 L-Series Smartphone Photo — Hot off the N4BB tip line, we just got sent this image of the first BlackBerry 10 smartphone. This device is what we outed as the BlackBerry 10 L-Series, which will launch first then followed by the N-Series.

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Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:

Play It Again, Sam? Nokia Launches Free Music Streaming Service In U.S. — Nokia didn't fare so well with its mobile music service called Ovi Music, later rebranded to Nokia Music. Now it's remixing that track and launching a free music streaming service in the U.S. as part of its redoubled strategy to go for more users in America.

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Annalee Newitz / io9:

How copyright enforcement robots killed the Hugo Awards — Last night, robots shut down the live broadcast of one of science fiction's most prestigious award ceremonies. No, you're not reading a science fiction story. In the middle of the annual Hugo Awards event, which thousands …

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Anthony Ha / TechCrunch:

Ustream Apologizes For Shutting Down The Hugo Awards Livestream, Says It Will ‘Recalibrate’

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Matthew Panzarino / The Next Web:

How much does an artist make from a single stream of a song on iTunes Match and Spotify? — Streaming, subscription-based music is the future. We've been hearing that claim for years now although it always seems to be right on the cusp of happening. It's a dream for consumers, really …

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Josh Halliday / Guardian:

BBC allows mobile iPlayer downloads — Development means viewers will be able to watch on-demand programmes on iPads and iPhones while abroad — Viewers will now be able to watch the latest series of Doctor Who and other BBC favourites while travelling and on holiday abroad …

Jon Fingas / Engadget:

Firefox OS Marketplace leaks in current form, shows shopping Gecko-style — Mozilla has been seeding Firefox OS to eager developers for some time. However, we've largely been denied a peek at how the developer's own take on a mobile app store will play out on an actual device.

More: CNET, Macgasm, Softpedia News, PhoneArena, SlashGear, The Verge, Mobile Entertainment and iClarified

Dan Seifert / The Verge:

Verizon makes the LG Intuition official, launches September 6th for $199.99 — Thanks to a number of leaks, we have known for some time that the LG Intuition — a 4G LTE version of the Optimus Vu— would be coming to Verizon Wireless, and this morning the carrier has made it official.

More: AllThingsD, LAPTOP Magazine, BGR, 9to5Google, GigaOM, ZDNet, Engadget and IntoMobile

Aarti Shahani / NPR:

When A Kickstarter Campaign Fails, Does Anyone Get Their Money Back? — Crowd funding began as a way to support the arts on the Internet. Artists could go online to pitch a new album, for example, in the hope that thousands would give small amounts. But now it's expanded to entrepreneurs, and the rules aren't quite as clear.

More: The Next Web and Kotaku

Roger Yu / USA Today:

Voice mail in decline with rise of text, loss of patience — Technology's ceaseless pursuit of efficiency appear to be claiming another victim: voice mail. — With the rise of texting, instant chat and transcription apps, more people are ditching the venerable tool that once revolutionized …

Romain Dillet / TechCrunch:

How The Telecom Company Free Disrupted The Mobile Landscape In France — Imagine a mobile phone plan, such as the one from Free in France, with unlimited talk, unlimited SMS and MMS messages, tethering and, even more important, unlimited data with a speed reduction after 3 GB.

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