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October 22, 2012, 9:30 PM

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The Korea Times:

Samsung Display to terminate Apple deal — Samsung Display said Monday that it will terminate its contract with Apple and no longer supply liquid crystal display (LCD) panels to its long time partner. — The news comes as speculation is mounting over a rift between the two firms …

Shara Tibken / CNET:

Samsung says it's still supplying LCD panels to Apple

Colleen Taylor / TechCrunch:

Yahoo Q3 Beats Expectations In Mayer's First Full Quarter As CEO: $1.2B Revenue, Non-GAAP EPS $0.35 — Yahoo today reported its financial results for the third quarter of 2012, its first full quarter with new CEO Marissa Mayer at the helm. Mayer is back at work full-time after taking …

More: paidContent, Search Engine Land, The Next Web, Forbes, Guardian, Computerworld, Tech Trader Daily, Marketing Land, DailyFinance.com, CNET, Business Insider, The Register, VentureBeat, Mercury News, paidContent, Yahoo! Inc., Reuters and SocialTimes

Tweets: @lexnfx and @hblodget

Thanks:@mjburnsy. See also Mediagazer

Kara Swisher / AllThingsD:

The Debut of Yahoo CEO Mayer: “Tailor-Made” for Marissa — Yahoo turned in a meh third quarter, which came as no surprise to anyone. But none of it matters, since all eyes were on what new Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer would say on the investor call today. — Here we go! It is Mayer's first outing as a public company CEO.

More: Marketing Land and TechCrunch

Amir Efrati / Digits:

Yahoo's Mayer Embraces Mobile, Content, Yahoo Answers

More: Wall Street Journal

Dan Lyons / ReadWrite:

Editor's Note: Welcome To The New ReadWrite — Welcome to the new ReadWrite. Today we are relaunching this legendary tech site with a new name, a new design and a new approach. I'm thrilled to be joining ReadWrite as the site's new editor-in-chief, and to be teaming up with Fredric Paul …

Tweets: @marshallk, @thefreditor, @iammattthomas and @efeng

Drew Olanoff / TechCrunch:

SAY Media Rebrands ReadWriteWeb As “ReadWrite”, Redesigns, Hires Dan “Fake Steve Jobs” Lyons As Editor In Chief — I'm a fan of ReadWriteWeb, always have been, but other than not being able to pronounce the blog's name, I've always appreciated the technical and detailed analysis coming out of the brand.

More: paidContent, The Next Web, Coyote Tracks and Adweek. See also Mediagazer

Jacqui Cheng / Ars Technica:

Apple's secret garden: the struggle over leaks and security — Apple engineers love the “big reveal.” When a surprising new product they have been toiling over in secrecy finally bursts into public view during an Apple keynote, they enjoy seeing the public reaction.

More: TechSpot, iDownloadBlog.com, The Verge, Betabeat, MacRumors and Business Insider

Reuters:

Federal agency to switch to iPhone, drop BlackBerry — (Reuters) - The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency (ICE) said will end its contract with BlackBerry maker Research In Motion in favor of Apple's iPhone, dealing a fresh blow to RIM just months ahead of its launch of a vital new device.

More: ZDNet, NYT Bits, AllThingsD, TechCrunch, Examiner, Ars Technica, Hillicon Valley, Pocketables, The Verge, Macgasm, iDownloadBlog.com and MobileBurn.com

Owen Thomas / Business Insider:

A New Version Of Google Wallet Is ‘Coming Soon’ — Google has quietly updated the website for Google Wallet, its mobile-payments service, to advertise “the next version of Google Wallet, coming soon.” — Visitors can request an invite. We did, and Google asked us what kind of device we used …

More: Engadget, The Verge, 9to5Google, Gizmodo, CNET, 9to5Mac, Droid Life, AndroidGuys, Gotta Be Mobile, Macgasm, Pocketnow and MobileBurn.com. Thanks:@owenthomas

Steve Clayton / TechNet Blogs:

Exclusive video: Bill Gates on Windows 8, Windows Phone 8 and Surface — I often tell people I've got one of the best jobs at Microsoft; I get the opportunity to meet and talk with the people here who brew the special sauce that is Microsoft. Last week I got to meet and talk with the guy who first created the sauce.

More: CNET, LockerGnome, Business Insider, Engadget, Softpedia News, MSDN Blogs, SlashGear, VentureBeat, Mashable! and GeekWire. Thanks:@stevecla

Brad McCarty / The Next Web:

Amazon's EC2 sees partial outage, taking Reddit, Minecraft, Coursera, Flipboard and others down in tow — It's another bad day for customers of Amazon's AWS and EC2 hosting. The company is presently reporting an outage in its Service Health dashboard which seems to be affecting a number of Internet favorites.

More: VentureBeat, InfoWorld, Wired, Computerworld, ZDNet, BGR, The Register, Business Insider, Data Center Knowledge, TechCrunch, NYT Bits, Betabeat, GigaOM, The Verge and GeekWire. Tweets: @redditstatus

Jonathan S. Geller / BGR:

Apple starts testing iOS 6.0.1 for release in coming weeks, iOS 6.1 to come after holidays — One of our reliable Apple (AAPL) sources has let us know Apple has begun testing iOS 6..1 with different carrier partners in the U.S. and we have a general list of what the first iOS 6 update …

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Ryan Tate / Wired:

Apple's My New Boss, Color Engineer Says on Twitter — A Color iOS engineer updated his Twitter profile to say he works for Apple, buttressing reports that Apple is acquiring staff from the spectacularly unsuccessful app maker. — Eric Cheng graduated from the University of Pennsylvania earlier …

More: CNET

Dan Goodin / Ars Technica:

Android apps used by millions vulnerable to password, e-mail theft — By exploiting inadequate SSL protections in an anti-virus app, researchers were able to force it to download a malicious virus signature. — Fahl et al. — Android applications downloaded by as many as 185 million users …

More: Computerworld, Softpedia News, TechSpot, InfoWorld, CNET, Android Community and BBC

Tom Warren / The Verge:

Skype for Windows 8 launches on October 26th (hands-on preview) — Backend changes prepare Microsoft's communications service for the future — After months of teasing a Windows 8 style version of Skype, Microsoft is finally delivering it on October 26th.

Matthew Panzarino / The Next Web:

Google News gets click-to-expand clusters, sidebars of photos and videos and an updated Techmeme-like layout — Google has updated its Google News product with a few nice new features today, including expandable news clusters, video and photo sidebars and a layout tweak to improve readability.

More: CNET, TechCrunch and Google News Blog. Thanks:@panzer

Leena Rao / TechCrunch:

Square Signs Lease For New Office In San Francisco to Accommodate 1000+ Employees, Will Move In Mid-2013 — Square has just announced plans for a new office in San Francisco. The mobile payments company, which is currently located in the Chronicle Building in downtown San Francisco …

More: Square, Business Insider, GigaOM, Mashable!, VentureBeat and AllThingsD. Tweets: @jack

Adam Satariano / Bloomberg:

Apple Sees Schools Buoying Tablet Lead With IPad in Class — Julie Garcia handed Apple Inc. (AAPL) iPads to students in her seventh-grade pre-algebra class on a recent morning before showing the pupils how to use the tablet to graph data, hunt for correlations and record how-to videos.

More: 9to5Mac, 9to5Mac, Mashable!, SlashGear, CNET, Redmond Pie, Ars Technica, Business Insider, iDownloadBlog.com, MacRumors, PadGadget and WebProNews

Laura Hazard Owen / paidContent:

Amazon apparently discontinues Kindle Touch in favor of Paperwhite — It appears that Amazon is no longer selling the Kindle Touch, the touchscreen e-reader that preceded the front-lit Kindle Paperwhite. Amazon also seems to have discontinued the large-screen Kindle DX last week.

More: The Register, The Verge, Me and My Kindle, GeekWire, CITEworld and VentureBeat. See also Mediagazer

Jon Fingas / Engadget:

LG exec claims Nexus due at October 29th event, ships to India one month later — It's either a premature confirmation or one of the larger executive gaffes we've seen in recent memory, but it's hard to ignore. LG's Mobile Product Planning lead for India, Amit Gujral …

More: PhoneArena, ibnlive.in.com, MobileSyrup.com, Droid Life, Android News, Rumours …, Pocketnow, Gotta Be Mobile, The Verge, Android and Me and Android Community

Matthew Panzarino / The Next Web:

Mosaic for iPhone lets you build beautiful printed photo books in minutes for the life in-between — Digitally ordered photo books are a notoriously hard nut to crack. Too many options or not enough options, layout hassles and concerns about finish end up confusing potential customers and turning them off to the process.

More: CNET, ReadWrite, The Verge, MacRumors, TechCrunch and 9to5Mac

Matthew Panzarino / The Next Web:

Amazon updates Kindle Fire HD with kid-friendly FreeTime feature, says HD is ‘#1 selling product’ on its site — Amazon has just informed us via email that it is updating its Kindle Fire HD lineup with the kid-friendly FreeTime feature it promised at launch.

More: VentureBeat

Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security:

Service Sells Access to Fortune 500 Firms — An increasing number of services offered in the cybercrime underground allow miscreants to purchase access to hacked computers at specific organizations. For just a few dollars, these services offer the ability to buy your way inside of Fortune 500 company networks.

More: Business Insider, Ars Technica, GamePolitics blogs and The Hacker News [ THN ]

Ernesto / TorrentFreak:

Six-Strikes “Independent Expert” Is RIAA's Former Lobbying Firm — In an effort to curb online piracy, the MPAA and RIAA teamed up with five major Internet providers in the United States to launch the Center for Copyright Information (CCI). — The parties agreed on a system through …

More: DSLreports and GamePolitics blogs

Leo Kelion / BBC:

Phone call translator app to be offered by NTT Docomo — Richard Taylor reports on the phone app claiming to translate calls in real time — An app offering real-time translations is to allow people in Japan to speak to foreigners over the phone with both parties using their native tongue.

More: cnngo.com and Geek.com

Jonathan Tirone / Bloomberg:

Facebook Gains for Terrorists Seeking Friends, UN Reports — Facebook Inc. (FB), the world's biggest online social network, is increasingly being used by terrorists to recruit sympathizers, spread propaganda and plan potential attacks, according to the United Nations.

More: VatorNews, CNET and AllThingsD. Tweets: @joshconstine

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