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November 8, 2012, 3:50 PM

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Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch:
You Might Have Gotten An Email From Twitter About Your Account Being Compromised, It's Real  —  Keep your eyes peeled, Twitter users: Twitter is sending out emails to some of its users telling them it has reset their password and asking them to create a new one.  If you can't log into your account that may be why.
Andrew Sinkov / Evernote Blogcast:
The New Evernote 5 for iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch  —  Our apps never stop evolving.  Every few weeks, we release an update that adds something new or improves an existing feature.  It's not often that we launch a complete redesign.  In fact, it happens only once every few years.
Jordan Golson / MacRumors:
AT&T Expands FaceTime Over Cellular Access to More Customers  —  AT&T announced today that it is planning to allow any customer “with an LTE device” on a “tiered data plan” to use iOS 6's FaceTime over Cellular feature.  Previously, only customers with a Mobile Share plan could use the feature.
Zack Whittaker / CNET:
Apple quietly pulls apology-hiding code from U.K. site  —  Visitors to Apple's U.K. Web site are no longer forced to scroll down to view a court-ordered apology to Samsung, after Apple tried to bury it using hidden code.  —  Less than a week after Apple was rumbled by Reddit users …
Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac:
Apple puts delivery dates back on LTE iPad mini orders, customers seeing November 21st date  —  After the LTE iPad mini went on sale alongside the WiFi version, we noted that customers were seeing various delivery dates for the product.  However, most readers reported delivery dates of either November 21st or November 23.
Martin Bryant / The Next Web:
Samsung's Galaxy S III overtakes the iPhone 4S as the world's best-selling smartphone in Q3 2012  —  Samsung's flagship Galaxy S III handset usurped the Apple iPhone 4S as the world's best-selling smartphone in the third quarter of 2012, according to a new report released by market research and consulting firm Strategy Analytics.
The Official Google Blog:
JAM with Chrome: Play music live with your friends online  —  If you ever dreamed of playing in a band, now's your chance to be a rock star.  JAM with Chrome is an interactive web application that enables friends in different locations to play music together in the Chrome browser on their computers.
Alexis Santos / Engadget:
Baseline Modbook Pro gets its RAM, storage and touchscreen sensitivity doubled, stays at $3,500  —  The first batch of Modbook Pros have yet to make their way to owners, but the base model is already getting a spec bump.  The Macbook come tablet will have its RAM boosted from 4GB to 8GB …
Tricia Duryee / AllThingsD:
7,000 Starbucks Locations Added to the Square Wallet  —  Starbucks is now accepting Square's mobile payment application at about 7,000 of its stores, as part of a wide-ranging agreement between the two companies.  —  The rollout is right on schedule, coming just three months after the partnership was announced in August.
Aaron Souppouris / The Verge:
Google experimenting with free mobile access to its web services in developing markets  —  Google is testing out a new way to bring its services to mobile users free of charge.  Dubbed Google Free Zone, the service will facilitate the use of Gmail, Google+, and Google Search via a special domain, g.co/freezone.
Greg Sandoval / CNET:
Web radio growing faster than on-demand services (study)  —  Webcasters, such as Pandora, saw following increase by 27 percent while on-demand players, such as Spotify and Rhapsody grew by 18 percent.  —  Music listening patterns continue to evolve and not just from analog to digital …
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Joel Falconer / The Next Web:
Call of Duty: Black Ops II to feature League Play livestreaming through YouTube  —  Activision announced today that Call of Duty: Black Ops II, to be released on November 13th, will have a livestreaming feature that is the result of a partnership with YouTube.
Ernesto / TorrentFreak:
RapidShare Limits Public Download Traffic to Drive Away Pirates  —  In the aftermath of the Megaupload shutdown, people have been keeping a close eye on other file-hosting services, RapidShare included.  —  As a company, RapidShare sees itself operating in the “cloud hosting” business …
Daniel Cooper / Engadget:
Verizon to offer Nokia Lumia 822 for $100 and HTC Windows Phone 8X for $200, both to go on sale by Thanksgiving  —  Verizon's had a few days to mull over its response to AT&T's Windows Phone 8 pricing, and it's now ready to make its intentions known: the Nokia Lumia 822 and HTC Windows Phone 8X …
Dan Goodin / Ars Technica:
Patent suits target Google, Intel, hundreds more for encrypting web traffic  —  Enlarge / A figure from the patent that has been asserted against Intel, Google, and hundreds of other companies providing SSL and TLS on their websites.  —  Google  —  An unknown company's four-year campaign …
Hamish McKenzie / PandoDaily:
Travis Kalanick: Uber may drop the term “surge pricing”  —  Uber may be about to change the name of its controversial “surge pricing” practice, in which the private car service increase its rates in times of high demand.  Delivering a keynote speech to an audience of 2,000 people …
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