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November 17, 2012, 2:55 PM

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Cyrus Farivar / Ars Technica:
Apple's stock price falls to lowest point in six months  —  While short-term challenges remain, analysts are bullish on Apple's long-term.  —  On Friday Apple's stock price closed at $527.68 per share, the lowest it's been in six months.  Since September, the company has lost about 25 percent …
Reuters:
Peter Bright / Ars Technica:
Microsoft begs Web devs not to make WebKit the new IE6  —  Internet Explorer 10 is a fast browser with good standards compliance, and the version of Internet Explorer 10 included with Windows Phone 8 is no exception, as it's almost identical to its desktop sibling.
iFixit:
Nexus 4 Teardown  —  The Nexus 4 landed in our inbox just in time for a Friday teardown-a-rama.  Questions that linger in our minds: Is it good as a phone?  No idea.  We dived right into the Nexus 4for science!  Will it blend?  We'll let Tom answer that one.  How repairable is it?
Dalton Caldwell:
Twitter is pivoting  —  Peter Chernin had this to say during his days as President of News Corp, owners of MySpace, in 2006: … This was the justification and mentality that MySpace employed as they blocked various fast-growing platform partners that they felt impinged in MySpace's core user experience.
New York Post:
JFK worker busted in $1.9M iPad mini heist  —  He could star in “Dumbfellas.”  —  An airport worker has been accused of being the less-than-master-mind behind the theft of $1.9 million in iPad minis from JFK Airport, court papers revealed yesterday.  —  Federal agents were able …
More: 9to5Mac and Gothamist
Jeff Plungis / Bloomberg:
TSA Vendor Denies Faking Test of Body-Imaging Software  —  OSI Systems Inc. (OSIS)'s Rapiscan unit, one of two suppliers of body-scanning machines in U.S. airports, may have falsified tests of software intended to stop the machines from recording graphic images of travelers, a U.S. lawmaker said.
Dante D'Orazio / The Verge:
Into the vault: the operation to rescue Manhattan's drowned internet  —  Hurricane Sandy's storm surge flooded Verizon's downtown office, rendering miles of copper wiring useless  —  At Broad Street, near the tip of Lower Manhattan, the situation is far from normal.
Matt Brian / The Next Web:
AT&T exceeds LTE deployment plan ahead of schedule, now covers more than 150 million people in the US  —  Confirming the deployment of LTE networks in 24 new markets across the US today, AT&T today announced that it has surpassed its 2012 deployment plan ahead of schedule and is now covering more than 150 million people in the country.

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