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September 28, 2012, 5:15 PM

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Tim Cook / Apple:

A letter from Tim Cook on Maps — To our customers, At Apple, we strive to make world-class products that deliver the best experience possible to our customers. With the launch of our new Maps last week, we fell short on this commitment. We are extremely sorry for the frustration …

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Jordan Crook / TechCrunch:

Tim Cook Apologizes For Apple Maps, Points To Competitive Alternatives — Apple CEO Tim Cook has written an open letter on Apple's website, finally apologizing for the Maps drama that's been unfolding over the past few weeks with the introduction of iOS 6. — In the letter, Cook states that he is …

More: VentureBeat, Los Angeles Times, SiliconANGLE, CNET, Computerworld, iDownloadBlog.com, The Verge, Business Insider, Pocket-lint and TUAW. Thanks:@romaindillet

Drew Olanoff / TechCrunch:

Apple Is Heavily Promoting Alternative Map Apps In The App Store — Now that Apple has told the world that it didn't come with its best offering for Maps, the company is now featuring other map applications heavily within the App Store in case you didn't notice: — It's also showing up for the iPad:

More: AllThingsD, The Verge, CNET, 9to5Mac, Gizmodo, MacRumors and WebProNews. Thanks:@thatdrew

Claire Atkinson / New York Post:

Apple's plan to have music-streaming service built into iPhone 5 scuttled by royalty fight with Sony/ATV — Apple's plan to have its own music-streaming service built into the iPhone 5 was dramatically dashed when talks between the tech giant and Sony/ATV hit a last-minute snag, The Post has learned.

More: AppleInsider, BGR, Forbes, Pocketnow, CNET, MacRumors, TechCrunch, iLounge, iDownloadBlog.com and TechSpot. See also Mediagazer

Tim Kelly / Reuters:

Sharp says making adequate volumes of display used in iPhone5 — (Reuters) - A Sharp Corp executive said the company is making “adequate volumes” of displays it is known to supply for Apple Inc's new iPhone5, indicating that a bottleneck in supplies of screens may have eased.

More: PC Magazine, Inquirer, AllThingsD, Know Your Cell, Pulse2 Technology …, CNET, AppleInsider, Mashable! and iDownloadBlog.com. Thanks:@chadcat

AppleInsider:

Apple iPhone 5 to launch on regional U.S. carriers on Friday, some offering discounts

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TechCrunch:

Color CEO Bill Nguyen Checks Out Of Day-To-Day Operations, While A New Leadership Team Re-Tools — Sources tell us there is turmoil at the executive levels of Color Labs. As you may know, the startup launched with a focus on photo-sharing but quickly became the poster child of Silicon Valley hype …

More: GigaOM and VentureBeat. Tweets: @dcurtis and @peterpham

Brian Heater / Engadget:

Amazon breaks down its Kindle Paperwhite light technology (video) — Amazon's certainly not the first company to deliver an illuminated e-reader, but the mega-retailer's psyched about its new Kindle Paperwhite nonetheless, and after playing around with the device a bit, it's easy to see why.

More: Gotta Be Mobile, SlashGear and WebProNews

Matthew Panzarino / The Next Web:

Yes, the iPhone 5 does vibrate differently — If you're the proud owner of an iPhone 5, you may have noticed something different about the way that it vibrates. Well, you're not imagining it, because there is something different about it: the vibrating motor.

More: Know Your Cell, IntoMobile, Business Insider, Pulse2 Technology …, CNET and everythingiCafe. Tweets: @sohear

Marguerite Reardon / CNET:

FCC kicks off effort to reclaim TV spectrum for wireless — The FCC started the process for making rules for the upcoming incentive auction as it tries to free up more wireless spectrum from broadcast TV providers. The target date for the complicated auction, which has three distinct parts, is June 2014.

More: Hillicon Valley, The Next Web, Ars Technica, New York Times and GigaOM. Tweets: @digiphile. See also Mediagazer

Drew Olanoff / TechCrunch:

Twitter Announces New Improvements For Discover Tab, Adds Continuous Tweet Stream — Today, Twitter announced some updates to its Discover offering. Here's what the company had to say: … The name of this game is context. What Twitter has been working really hard at is providing top news stories …

More: Twitter Blog, VentureBeat, The Next Web, AllThingsD, CNET and WebProNews. Thanks:@mjburnsy

Nivedita Bhattacharjee / Reuters:

Exclusive: Groupon reshuffles execs, seeks to fix Europe business — (Reuters) - Groupon Inc (GRPN.O), the world's largest online daily deals provider, is reshuffling senior management roles in an attempt to fix its struggling European business — a shake-up that will also include the departure of its chief of international business.

More: TechCrunch

Matthew Panzarino / The Next Web:

Foursquare just launched a no-brainer partnership with OpenTable for reservations in its Explore tab — Foursquare announced an interesting partnership today with OpenTable. Tapping on any place in the Foursqare app that's an OpenTable partner and you'll be able to make reservations right in the app.

More: TechCrunch, Foursquare Blog, Mashable! and WebProNews

Ina Fried / AllThingsD:

T-Mobile Leases Its Towers for $2.4 Billion to Fund Its LTE Plans — T-Mobile said on Friday that it has reached a deal to unload its cellular towers for $2.4 billion, a move that will help fund the company's effort to modernize its network. — The buyer is Houston-based Crown Castle, a major owner of such towers.

More: CNET, Business Wire, Engadget, The Next Web, GeekWire, DSLreports, BGR, DealBook and Bloomberg. Tweets: @inafried

Jon Fingas / Engadget:

HP takes Open webOS 1.0 live, shows it supersized on a TouchSmart (video) — WebOS loyalists have been waiting a long, long time for HP's September launch of Open webOS, but the company has made good on its promise with not a moment to spare. Open webOS 1. is now available with core browser …

More: The Verge, TechCrunch, webOS Nation, MobileSyrup.com, SlashGear, MobileBurn.com, The Open webOS Project Blog and Liliputing

Roger Cheng / CNET:

Leaked: Check out photos of RIM's BlackBerry 10 phones — Renderings of its two upcoming phones — a full touchscreen device and one with a Qwerty keyboard — pop up on the Web. — Research in Motion may not be showing off its BlackBerry 10 phones any time soon, but that doesn't mean photos …

More: SlashGear, Neowin, ZDNet, digitaltrends.com, CrackBerry.com, The Verge, InformationWeek, Business Insider, PhoneArena and TechCrunch

Mike Masnick / Techdirt:

Google's Copyright Crackdown Punishes Author For Torrenting His Own Book — Over the years, we've pointed out repeatedly a massive Achilles Heel for Google: its often dreadful customer service. Trying to communicate with Google can often be like facing a giant white monolith, rather than any sort of human being.

More: Forbes, Geekosystem and Start Programming with Python. See also Mediagazer

Matt Burns / TechCrunch:

Google Maps, Now With More High-Res Satellite And 45° Aerial Imagery — Google Maps gets more awesome by the day. Earlier this week, the service started rolling out stunning underwater imagery- if you will, a seaview mode. Now Google took to the Google Maps blog to announces the inclusion …

More: Wired, Google LatLong, CNET, Engadget, Gizmodo, iDownloadBlog.com, Android Police, 9to5Google and ABCNEWS

Nathan Ingraham / The Verge:

Kodak planning to exit consumer printing business as bankruptcy restructuring continues — Kodak today announced it would cease the sale of consumer inkjet printers and cut a total of 1,200 jobs, up from the 1,000 previously announced, as the company works to restructure its business after filing for bankruptcy earlier this year.

More: Kodak Printers …, Engadget, Inquirer, Bloomberg, Wall Street Journal and Techland

Stephen Totilo / Kotaku:

Notch: “I'd rather have minecraft not run on win 8 at all than to play along.” — Markus “Notch” Persson, the creator of Minecraft, is in the rare position to be able to do just about whatever he wants and say whatever he feels. So the man whose game is tearing up the charts on Xbox Live Arcade …

More: SiliconANGLE, BBC and CNET. Tweets: @notch

Natasha Singer / New York Times:

F.T.C. Moves to Tighten Online Privacy Protections for Children — Federal regulators are about to take the biggest steps in more than a decade to protect children online. — The moves come at a time when major corporations, app developers and data miners appear to be collecting information …

More: Betabeat and Media Decoder

Enigmax / TorrentFreak:

Movie Pirates Handed Jail Sentences, Ordered To Pay 1.1 Million Euros — As far back as 2005, piracy release group CiNEFOX had been leaking the latest movies onto the Internet. By early 2007 they were seriously on the radars of the leading studios and anti-piracy group ALPA …

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Louis Goddard / The Verge:

Sony buys $644m share of Olympus in pursuit of 4K endoscopes and better camera technology — Sony has announced plans to invest ¥50 billion ($644 million) in struggling camera maker Olympus as part of a new joint venture in medical imaging. The partnership, which will see Sony …

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