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September 8, 2012, 11:20 PM

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John Biggs / TechCrunch:

Amazon Kindle HD Will Allow Users To Opt-Out Of “Special Offers” For $15 — If you've been put off by the (arguably obtrusive) Special Offers on the Kindle Fire HD, Amazon has just announced that they will allow users to pay $15 to opt-out of the ads for the life of the device. — An Amazon spokesperson wrote:

More: CNET, Gizmodo, The Verge, Engadget, Business Insider, Ars Technica and PC Magazine

Matthew Panzarino / The Next Web:

Amazon's Kindle Fire won't be a threat to the iPad until it remembers the rest of the world — Amazon is doing a fantastic job of positioning itself as a serious contender in the tablet category after just a year in the biz. It has one of the most charismatic and focused CEOs in Jeff Bezos …

More: Kindle Review, 9to5Google and TechPinions

Josh Constine / TechCrunch:

Spotify Will Launch A Browser-Based Version — If you're wondering why the Spotify desktop software has hardly been updated in a year, it's because the company is preparing to launch a completely overhauled browser-based version of its streaming music service, multiple sources confirm.

More: digitaltrends.com, CNET, VentureBeat, Gizmodo, The Verge, PC World and Cult of Mac. See also Mediagazer

Dieter Bohn / The Verge:

Exclusive photos: We put Nokia's controversial Lumia 920 PureView camera to the test — After faking a video and images to promote the PureView camera, Nokia goes into full-on damage control mode. — This week, Nokia grandly unveiled its latest Windows Phone 8 flagship, the Lumia 920.

More: SlashGear, AllThingsD, PandoDaily, PetaPixel, 1001 Noisy Cameras, Softpedia News, WMPoweruser, My Nokia Blog and NYT Bits. Tweets: @benedictevans

Nick Wingfield / New York Times:

Valve, a Video Game Maker With Few Rules — THIS is no Xbox 360 or PlayStation 3. — Every way I look, the scene shifts, the battle unfolds. I have a crazy contraption strapped to my head: a boxy set of goggles that looks like a 22nd-century version of a View-Master. It immerses me in a virtual world.

More: The Verge, Joystiq and Kotaku

Lisa Jucca / Reuters:

EU says Microsoft pledged to meet antitrust requests on browsers — (Reuters) - Software giant Microsoft is ready to introduce measures that would address the European Union's antitrust concerns about users' ability to chose between different browsers, European Commissioner Joaquin Almunia said on Saturday.

More: CNET

Tricia Duryee / AllThingsD:

PayPal's New President Faces the Music: “If We Suck ... We Now Face It” — PayPal President David Marcus responded to mounting criticism from customers by promising that things are changing at the online payments company. — “There's a massive culture change happening at PayPal right now,” Marcus said.

More: The Next Web, Storify and PandoDaily

Élyse Betters / 9to5Mac:

New images of Apple's Campus 2 building show amazing detail [Gallery] — A reliable source provided us with the official Apple Campus 2 blueprints yesterday, and these are just a few of the confidential images, which illustrate the mammoth building currently in development.

More: SiliconBeat, CNET, AppleInsider, VentureBeat, iDownloadBlog.com and Gizmodo

Enigmax / TorrentFreak:

Anti-Piracy Outfits Think Megaupload, Demonoid & BTjunkie Are Still Alive — During the past few years the world's largest entertainment companies have regularly complained that Google isn't doing enough to reduce accessibility of infringing content via its search service.

More: Softpedia News, Gizmodo, Techdirt and Lucas Gonze's blog

Susan Decker / Bloomberg:

HTC Patents Challenged by Apple Probably Valid, Judge Say — Apple Inc. (AAPL) may face a difficult task invalidating two HTC Corp. (2498) patents for data transmission in wireless devices, a U.S. trade judge said at a trial that could lead to import bans on the newest iPad and next version of the iPhone.

More: Android Phone Fans, Android News, Rumours …, PhoneArena, WebProNews and FOSS Patents

Michael Arrington / Uncrunched:

Turning The Drama Down On Y Combinator V. Google Ventures — I have a few thoughts on this Y Combinator/Google Ventures mess. — Background: — The original post is at Business Insider and includes a leaked email from Y Combinator founder Paul Graham. The email:

More: Both Sides of the Table, TechCrunch, A VC and VentureBeat

Tweets: @davemcclure, @mikeisaac and @cdixon

Kim Zetter / Wired:

Sleuths Trace New Zero-Day Attacks to Hackers Who Hit Google — It's been more than two years since Google broke corporate protocol by revealing that it had been the victim of a persistent and sophisticated hack, traced to intruders in China that the company all but said were working for the government.

More: Ars Technica, Talking Points Memo, Softpedia News, CNET, Dennis Fisher, The Verge, Computerworld, eWeek, The Next Web, Reuters, Help Net Security, Gizmodo, Symantec and Slashdot

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