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November 7, 2012, 4:15 PM

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Tom Warren / The Verge:

Exclusive: Microsoft Office for iPhone, iPad, and Android revealed — Office Mobile will arrive in early 2013 — Microsoft's Office for iPad, iPhone, and Android is a reality. Although Office Mobile has been rumored and reportedly spotted in the wild, Microsoft has remained persistently quiet about its plans for the product.

Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet:

Microsoft Office for iOS, Android to have Office 365 subscription tie-in: Report

More: The Next Web and Apple Bitch

Mike Isaac / AllThingsD:

On Election Day 2012, Twitter Kills the Great White Fail Whale — In one pithy, three-word sentence, Twitter creative lead Doug Bowman summed up the microblogging service's election day perfectly: — “RIP Fail Whale.” — Indeed, all throughout Nov. 6, that cutesy, once-ubiquitous cartoon …

More: SplatF, Computerworld, VentureBeat, Business Insider, Twitter Blog, Gizmodo, Washington Post, Business Insider, Inquirer, Quick Online Tips, AllTwitter and Betabeat

Tweets: @dickc and @stop

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Reuters:

Foxconn's Gou says tough to cope with iPhone demand — TAIPEI (Reuters) - Taiwan's Foxconn Technology Group said on Wednesday the company's flagship Hon Hai unit is finding it difficult to cope with the massive demand for Apple Inc's iPhones. — “It's not easy to make the iPhones.

AppleInsider:

Apple's Eddy Cue joins Ferrari board of directors — Eddy Cue, Apple's head of Internet software and services, has joined the Ferrari board of directors, in a move that could hint that Apple is interested in moving into users' vehicles. — Ferrari announced in a statement on Wednesday that Cue has joined its board.

More: Business Insider, CNET, The Next Web, MacRumors, Gizmodo, AllThingsD, iDownloadBlog.com, 9to5Mac, Ferrari and MacNN

Roger Cheng / CNET:

AT&T will spend $14B to pump up wireless, wireline network — The telecommunications giant is investing heavily in its infrastructure in a bid to spark accelerating growth. — AT&T today laid out a broad plan to upgrade both its wireline and wireless networks and keep its growth moving.

More: Reuters, Dow Jones Newswires, Computerworld, AT&T, GigaOM, The Next Web, SlashGear, The Verge, Bloomberg, TechCrunch, Engadget and ZDNet

Chris Ziegler / The Verge:

Is AT&T's plan to end landline phone service crazy, or just crazy enough?

More: PC Magazine and dailywireless.org

Enigmax / TorrentFreak:

Me.ga Hackers: We're Real Pirates & We'll Sell Dotcom's Domain To Universal — On January 20, 2013 Kim Dotcom is set to launch the successor to Megaupload, along with a promise for it to be bigger and better than before. — In anticipation of opposition, Dotcom previously revealed …

More: Wired, Techdirt, PC Magazine, Betabeat, ITworld.com, Daily Dot, VentureBeat, digitaltrends.com, Gizmodo, Geekosystem, Softpedia News, The Next Web and Gizmodo UK

Greg Sandoval / CNET:

MegaUpload redo is shut down even before debut

More: BBC, Agence France Presse, Ars Technica, The Domains and GadgeTell. Tweets: @jeremiahg

Jeremy C. Owens / Mercury News:

Apple officially in ‘bear market’ following postelection sell-off — CUPERTINO — Apple (AAPL) shares plunged to a five-month low Wednesday in the midst of a postelection sell-off, pulling shares to 20 percent below the peak reached less than two months ago, which investors term a “bear market.”

More: Digits, DailyFinance.com, Forbes and Reuters

Susan Decker / Bloomberg:

Apple Told to Pay $368.2 Million to VirnetX in Trial

Gregg Keizer / Computerworld:

Adobe, now ‘married’ to Microsoft, moves Flash updates to Patch Tuesday — Will sync Flash security updates with partner's monthly schedule — Adobe on Tuesday announced that it will pair future security updates for its popular Flash Player with Microsoft's Patch Tuesday schedule.

More: ZDNet, The Next Web, Naked Security, TechNewsDaily.com, HotHardware.com News, parislemon, Neowin, The H Security, The Register and WinBeta

Arik Hesseldahl / AllThingsD:

Appcelerator Acquires Nodeable, Boosts Mobile Big Data — Appcelerator, a mobile applications development outfit, said today that it had acquired Nodeable, a small start-up focusing on using Hadoop for real-time big-data work. — The combination, Appcelerator says, will boost its ability …

More: TechCrunch and Market Wire

Daniel Cooper / Engadget:

AT&T selling Nokia's Lumia 920 for $450 off-contract — It's an understatement to say that the Lumia 920 is priced “to sell,” and that doesn't just mean with AT&T's carrier subsidy. If you'd prefer to own your smartphone outright, you can snag the handset for $449.99 …

More: CNET, BetaNews, Gotta Be Mobile, DailyTech, Softpedia News, My Nokia Blog, Phones Review, Pocketnow, Ubergizmo, Nokia Conversations, PhoneArena and TechnoBuffalo

Sam Byford / The Verge:

Microsoft's Xbox SmartGlass app now out for iOS — It's been a couple of weeks since the Android app launched, but Xbox-owning iOS users can finally get their first look at SmartGlass in action today. Microsoft has released SmartGlass as an update to its existing Xbox Live app …

More: Inquirer, 9to5Mac, BGR, GeekWire, The Register, VentureBeat, TechnoBuffalo, WebProNews and iPhone Hacks

Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Fortune:

Did Apple use $2 billion to bail out Sharp last quarter? — Explaining a curious discrepancy in Apple's projected and actual capital expenditures — FORTUNE — Sharp was in serious trouble last summer. — It had hemorrhaged 103 billion yen ($1.3 billion) in cash in the first half of 2012.

More: MacRumors, Computerworld, asymco, iDownloadBlog.com, MacDailyNews, HotHardware.com News and 9to5Mac. Tweets: @asymco

Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:

Netflix Has Big Usage Lead on Amazon, Hulu, HBO, says Sandvine Report — Netflix has plenty of competitors selling streaming video on the Web. — So far none of them is remotely close to challenging Reed Hastings and company. — That's a reasonable conclusion to draw from a new report …

More: CNET, TechCrunch, SlashGear, Bloomberg, GigaOm, Sandvine Press Releases and FierceOnlineVideo News. See also Mediagazer

Josh Constine / TechCrunch:

Killing Rumors With Facts: No, Facebook Didn't Decrease Page Feed Reach To Sell More Promoted Posts — People have been screaming bloody murder, claiming Facebook purposefully reduced how many users see Page posts in the news feed to get Pages to pay to reach their fans.

More: TechPresident. Thanks:@joshconstine

Kevin C. Tofel / GigaOM:

T-Mobile makes three more cities iPhone-friendly with 4G — Apple iPhone owners wanting to use their device on T-Mobile's 4G network can now do so in three additional metropolitan areas. The operator announced Wednesday that the Washington, DC, Baltimore and Houston markets now support HSPA+ service on the 1900 MHz band.

More: BGR, 9to5Mac, T-Mobile Issues …, App Advice, Know Your Cell, SlashGear and iDownloadBlog.com

Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet:

Microsoft to fold in-memory database technology into SQL Server Next — Summary: Hekaton, Microsoft's coming in-memory database engine, will be built into the next version of SQL Server. And SQL Server 2012 SP1 is now generally available. — Just a few months after launching SQL Server 2012 …

More: The Register, TechNet Blogs and InfoWorld

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