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November 1, 2012, 6:45 PM

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BBC:

Apple ordered to re-write ‘inaccurate’ Samsung statement — Apple said it believed the message had been in compliance with the court order — Apple has 48 hours to re-write a statement on its website relating to its design rights dispute with Samsung, UK judges have ruled.

More: Examiner, Los Angeles Times, Washington Post, Forbes, DSLreports, Daring Fireball, InvestorPlace and App Advice

Jeremy Hodges / Bloomberg:

Apple Leaves U.K. Judge at ‘Loss’ Over Samsung Web Posts — Apple Inc. (AAPL) was criticized by U.K. judges in a patent lawsuit with Samsung Electronics Co. (005930) for posting a notice on its website that was “untrue” and “incorrect.” — The U.K. Court of Appeal in London ordered Apple …

Eric Slivka / MacRumors:

iPad Mini Teardown Reveals Samsung Display Driver, A5 Chip, Stereo Speakers — iFixit is currently working on a teardown of the iPad mini, revealing the internal components of the device for the first time. — One interesting development is the discovery of a Samsung display driver chip.

More: The Verge and iPhone Hacks

iFixit:

iPad Mini Teardown — Trick-or-Treat! While making our yearly October 31st rounds, we came across something interesting: a brand new iPad Mini! All hopped up on sugar, we eagerly tore into Apple's first small tablet. Smaller than an iPad, larger than an iPod, and able to leap tall buildings …

Noel Randewich / Reuters:

Apple's iPad mini has display from rival Samsung

More: The Next Web, VentureBeat and PadGadget

John Paczkowski / AllThingsD:

Behind Silicon Valley's Un-Retirement: Why Bob Mansfield Is Back at Apple — Bob Mansfield, Apple's former senior vice president of Hardware Engineering, is now back at the company after what may be one of Silicon Valley's briefest retirements. — The longtime company exec returned fully …

More: Daring Fireball, Reuters, Mashable!, MacRumors, iPhone in Canada Blog, 9to5Mac, iDownloadBlog.com, iPhone Hacks, TUAW, Gizmodo UK, The Verge, Ars Technica, Business Insider and Techie Buzz

New York Times:

Apple Shake-Up Could End Real-World Images — Whether they realize it or not, all of those who swipe a finger down from the top of the iPhone's screen to check for notifications are bearing witness to a big sore point within Apple. — There, behind a list of text messages …

More: The Atlantic Online, Ubergizmo, iPhone in Canada Blog, FierceMobileContent News, iDownloadBlog.com and Tech Trader Daily

David Ruddock / Android Police:

Introducing: The Physical Google Wallet Card - Coming Soon To Google Wallet, And More New Features — We just had a bomb dropped on us by an anonymous tipster, courtesy of a leaked version of the Google Wallet app - and it was hiding some pretty amazing secrets. Let's cut to the chase: physical Google Wallet card.

More: CNET, Engadget, 9to5Google, The Verge, Gotta Be Mobile, Android Task Force and Pocketnow

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:

Google Wallet Expands To Mobile Web

More: Google Commerce, IntoMobile and MobilePaymentsToday.com News

Matthew Panzarino / The Next Web:

Apple releases iOS 6.0.1, bringing fix for iPhone 5 OTA updates, keyboard glitches, WiFi performance and more — Apple has released the iOS 6.0.1 update for its portable devices. The update is rolling out now on Apple's servers and over the air. — You should be able to get the update …

More: 9to5Mac, LAPTOP Magazine, BGR, AllThingsD, Gotta Be Mobile, Ars Technica, SlashGear, VentureBeat, Mashable! and MacRumors. Tweets: @markgurman

Mike Isaac / AllThingsD:

LinkedIn's Banner Q3 Blows Past Street Consensus — LinkedIn's numbers are in, and they're far better than Wall Street expected. — Here's the first quick look at Q3 earnings: EPS of 22 cents per share on revenue of $252.0 million. That's significantly higher than the consensus …

More: CNET, Marketing Land, VentureBeat, Barron's Online, Business Insider, Tech Trader Daily, TechCrunch and Mashable!

Jordan Crook / TechCrunch:

Uber Reinstates Surge Pricing In NYC: Drivers Will Take Home The Entire Fare, No Fee To Uber — Uber has just sent out an update via email regarding the pricing options in New York after Hurricane Sandy. Surge Pricing is back. — Yesterday, the company implemented Surge Pricing …

More: Mashable!, The Airbnb Blog, Forbes, CNET, SocialTimes, VentureBeat, Forbes, Business Insider, AllThingsD, Betabeat and Media Decoder

Anton Troianovski / Wall Street Journal:

A Look inside Verizon's Flooded Communications Hub

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Nathan Ingraham / The Verge:

Boxee TV now available for $99, includes three months of free ‘No Limits’ cloud-based DVR — Boxee already revealed many of the details behind its all-new Boxee TV, but we were still waiting for an official launch. That wait is now over — through the holiday season, the new cloud DVR …

More: Boxee, DailyFinance.com, VentureBeat, Business Insider, Engadget and SlashGear

Janko Roettgers / GigaOM:

Testing Boxee TV: First impressions, screenshots and unboxing video

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:

Amazon Launches Cloud Drive Photos For Android, A Photo-Sharing App For Android Phones & Tablets — Amazon announced this morning the launch of a new photo-management application for Android phones, which takes advantage of its consumer-facing service known as Cloud Drive, a competitor to Google Drive and Dropbox.

More: SlashGear, Amazon.com, BetaNews, PetaPixel and The Verge

Ken Yeung / The Next Web:

Yelp exceeds estimates despite loss in Q3, $36.4 million in revenues and $0.03 earnings per share — Yelp released its Q3 2012 earnings today and saw that its revenues increased 63% compared to a year ago. It also saw its earnings per share go to $0.24 for the quarter.

More: Forbes, Yelp Investor Relations, Tech Trader Daily, Tech Trader Daily, SocialTimes and VentureBeat

Jeff Atwood / Coding Horror:

Do You Wanna Touch — Traditional laptops may have reached an evolutionary dead-end (or, more charitably, a plateau), but it is an amazing time for things that ... aren't quite traditional laptops. — The Nexus 7 is excellent, the Nexus 10 looks fantastic, I can't wait to get my hands …

More: TechCrunch and Mashable!. Tweets: @theromit

Mat Honan / Wired:

Twitter Launches Election Map to Track Candidates' State-by-State Messaging — Twitter's new election map measures voter engagement on a state by state basis. — Twitter launched a new interactive map on Thursday that measures the effectiveness of President Barack Obama and Governor Mitt Romney's tweets on a state-by-state basis.

More: Twitter Blog, Digital Media Wire, The Verge, VentureBeat, The Next Web, Mashable! and CNET

Tricia Duryee / AllThingsD:

Dollar Shave Club Carves Off Another $9.8M to Take Business International — The Dollar Shave Club aims to disrupt the Gillettes and Bics of the world by offering razors sent to your door for as low as $1 a month plus shipping. — The razor-blade model has come to mean something in business …

More: PandoDaily, TechCrunch, VentureBeat and GigaOM

Ken Yeung / The Next Web:

Path finally launches its long-awaited iPad app, brings tablet-friendly features to its 3 million users — Finally, Path, the personal social network, has come to the iPad. A day before the release of Apple's new iPad mini tablet, the company is releasing its long-awaited and highly-demanded app for the tablet.

More: CNET, GigaOM, PadGadget, AllThingsD, VentureBeat and WebProNews

David Talbot / MIT Technology Review:

Efficiency Breakthrough Promises Smartphones that Use Half the Power — A startup says it's cracked a decades-old efficiency problem dogging wireless communications. — Why It Matters — Thanks to inefficient power amplifiers, smartphones have short battery lives and cellular base stations waste much of the energy they consume.

More: Wired, BetaNews, CNET, PhoneArena, Gizmodo UK and TechEye

Dieter Bohn / The Verge:

Nokia Lumia 920 review — Will Nokia's third attempt at launching a premiere Windows Phone finally be the home run it needs? The Nokia Lumia 920 is the company's third attempt at launching the definitive Windows Phone. In April, Nokia and Microsoft tried to convince the world that the Lumia 900 …

More: Mashable!

Sara Forden / Bloomberg:

FTC Staff Said to Formally Recommend Google Patent Suit — Google Inc. (GOOG) should be sued by the Federal Trade Commission for trying to block competitors' access to key smartphone-technology patents in violation of antitrust law, the agency's staff told commissioners in a formal recommendation …

More: The Verge and Wired

Paul Sawers / The Next Web:

Amazon Game Studios launches Air Patriots, its first ever mobile game, for Kindle Fire, iOS and Android — Amazon first threw its hat into the games ring back in August with the launch of Amazon Game Studios, kicking off with its first title called ‘Living Classics’, a Facebook game.

More: Engadget, Inside Mobile Apps, Amazon.com, CNET, AllThingsD, iDownloadBlog.com, The Verge, WebProNews and Engadget

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