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October 8, 2012, 11:00 AM

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New York Times:

In Technology Wars, Using the Patent as a Sword — When Apple announced last year that all iPhones would come with a voice-activated assistant named Siri, capable of answering spoken questions, Michael Phillips's heart sank. — For three decades, Mr. Phillips had focused on writing software …

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Eric Slivka / MacRumors:

Apple's Lightning to 30-Pin Adapter Begins Shipping — Apple has just begun notifying the first wave of customers who ordered the company's new Lightning to 30-pin Adapter that their orders are now shipping. MacRumors has received word from several readers located in Australia that their orders …

John Paczkowski / AllThingsD:

iPad Mini Design “Could Outshine the New iPad” — More grist for the rumor mill ahead of the so-called iPad mini's expected debut later this month. — Chatter from Apple's overseas supply chain indicates that the company has not been cutting corners in its efforts to keep …

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Steven Musil / CNET:

Apple reportedly orders 10M iPad Minis for fourth quarter — Component makers in Asia say they have received orders for the unannounced tablet that eclipse Amazon's orders for the Kindle Fire, The Wall Street Journal reports. — Apple is apparently thinking big for its iPad Mini …

Ed Bott / ZDNet:

First Windows 8 PCs appear early, crapware included — Summary: Microsoft's official launch party for Windows 8 is still weeks away, but one well-known retailer has jumped the gun. Cable shopping giant HSN has five Windows 8 PCs for sale on the web. All are, unfortunately, fully loaded.

More: CNET, The Verge, blog.chron.com, Gizmodo, WinBeta, Windows 8 Beta, Everything Microsoft, Neowin, Mashable! and Softpedia News

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Ernesto / TorrentFreak:

Microsoft DMCA Notice ‘Mistakenly’ Targets BBC, Techcrunch, Wikipedia and U.S. Govt — In recent months the number of DMCA takedown requests sent out by copyright holders has increased dramatically, and it's starting to turn the Internet into a big mess. — One of the problems …

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Chris Matyszczyk / CNET:

So it looks like Samsung might not have tried to copy the iPhone — Previously redacted documents presented in the Apple-Samsung case seem not to offer actual evidence that Samsung told its designers to copy the iPhone. — You remember the recent court case in which a vast amount of money was awarded to Apple?

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Siobhan Gorman / Wall Street Journal:

U.S. Lawmakers Say Huawei Poses Security Threat — Congressional Probe Says Huawei Poses National-Security Threat to the U.S. — WASHINGTON—A Chinese telecommunications giant that has been attempting to expand in the U.S. poses a national-security threat and may have violated U.S. laws, according to a congressional investigation.

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:

BBC Builds Out Its iPlayer Empire With iPlayer Radio, New iOS And Web Apps For Radio Service — Another digital step forward for the UK's BBC today, this time involving the corporation's radio assets: the state-owned broadcaster today is launching iPlayer Radio a new, integrated mobile web and desktop app …

More: Inquirer, BBC, bbc.co.uk, Engadget, Pocket-lint, Softpedia News, Pocket-lint and The Next Web

Matt Brian / The Next Web:

HTC sees $2.397 billion revenue and 79% profit drop in Q3, only just meeting forecasts — Taiwanese mobile phone maker HTC this morning released (PDF) its final results for the third quarter of this year, reporting revenue of $2.397 billion (NT$70.2 billion) for the three month period.

More: BGR, CNET, Reuters, The Verge, VentureBeat, IntoMobile, Android and Me, AndroidGuys, Pocketnow, Electronista, Bloomberg and Engadget

Alec Liu / Motherboard:

What Happened to Diaspora, the ‘Facebook Killer’? It's Complicated — It's impossible to grasp the consequences or outcomes of new technology, especially when that technology is developed by a twenty-something hacker. — That much was already clear in January 2010 …

More: Gizmodo and The Verge

Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:

YouTube Adds 60 More Web Video “Channel” Deals In Europe, US — YouTube is ramping up its channel experiment. — Google is funding a new batch of video-makers to join the 100 it launched in the last year. And it's making an international push, by adding content for the UK, German and French versions of the site.

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