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November 22, 2012, 5:26 PM

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Staska / Unwired View:

Microsoft has its own Project Glass - augmented reality glasses/wearable computer combo — Microsoft has it's own Project Glass cooking in the R&D labs. — It's an augmented reality glasses/heads-up display, that should supply you with various bits of trivia while you are watching a live event, e.g. baseball game.

More: BuzzFeed, TechCrunch, Neowin, PhoneArena, SlashGear, Geek.com, Engadget and Softpedia News. Thanks:@uvstaska

Bryan Bishop / The Verge:

Samsung accuses iPad mini of patent infringement in latest legal salvo — Samsung successfully added the iPhone 5 to its newest patent battle with Apple, and today the company accused several more of Cupertino's products of infringement — including the iPad mini.

More: CNET, TechCrunch, iDownloadBlog.com, BGR, Macgasm, The Register, Inquirer, FOSS Patents, The Tech Block, TechEye, GSMArena Blog, SlashGear, Gizmodo, PhoneArena, Engadget and AppleInsider

Florian Mueller / FOSS Patents:

Apple-HTC license agreement would terminate automatically after change of control

More: AppleInsider, Guardian, Gizmodo and PhoneArena

Florian Mueller / FOSS Patents:

Samsung's lawyers will get to see complete Apple-HTC license agreement including fees

More: BBC, Reuters, The Verge, TechSpot, digitaltrends.com, AppleInsider, VentureBeat, MacDailyNews, iDownloadBlog.com, CNET, SlashGear, TechCrunch, Examiner and AllThingsD

Jason Del Rey / AdAge:

Yahoo's Ad Sell-Through Rate on its Log-in Page Has Plummeted — A Huge Display Unit to Appeal to Brand Advertisers — One of Yahoo's prime pieces of ad real estate has been awfully ad-free of late, according to a report from financial research firm Macquarie Equities Research.

More: Business Insider. Tweets: @timcohn

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iPad mini Review — Over the last two months, Apple has updated almost all of its core product lines, with the addition of a 13" model to the Retina MacBook Pro line and new silicon for the iPad and Mac mini to go with ground up redesigns for the iPhone, iMac, iPod touch, and iPod nano.

Erica Orden / Wall Street Journal:

DreamWorks Releases Software Used in ‘Guardians’ — DreamWorks Animation SKG Inc., after spending years developing specialized software used to make one of its most expensive movies ever, is giving it away free to competitors. — The studio released onto the open market one of the primary tools used …

More: PandoDaily and The Verge

Jay Yarow / Business Insider:

Apple's Big Problem: Google Is Getting Better At Design Faster Than Apple Is Getting Better At The Internet — Apple's biggest problem is that Google is getting better at what it does poorly faster than Apple is getting better at what it does poorly, says Patrick Gibson in a blog post.

More: Patrick B. Gibson, ZDNet, iPhone Hacks, iDownloadBlog.com, Mac Weekend, Business Insider and dailylicious!

Tweets: @jeffiel and @mjasay

Emil Protalinski / The Next Web:

Mozilla quietly kills Firefox 64-bit for Windows, despite an estimated 50% of testers using it — Mozilla Engineering Manager Benjamin Smedberg last Friday quietly posted a thread over on the Google Groups mozilla.dev.planning discussion board titled “Turning off win64 builds.”

More: Engadget, CNET, TechSpot, DailyTech, bit-tech.net, Web Browser and Neowin

Enigmax / TorrentFreak:

Police Raid 9-Year-Old Pirate Bay Girl, Confiscate Winnie The Pooh Laptop — Very soon in the United States, letters will be sent out to Internet account holders informing them that they should stop sharing copyrighted material on BitTorrent. — The message in the US from mainstream rightsholders …

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Allison Hoffman / Tablet Magazine:

Meet the Young Soldiers Who Pushed the IDF's Social Media Strategy — Young Israeli soldiers have pushed older commanders into adopting a more aggressive social media strategy After the first night of Israeli airstrikes in Gaza, now almost a week ago, a photograph began circulating around Twitter …

More: Gizmodo

Sarah Ali / YouTube Blog:

Just for U: YouTube arrives on Wii U — The new YouTube app for Nintendo Wii U brings the YouTube videos and channels you love to your living room, and with the Wii U GamePad you can quickly search for great videos to watch. From the new Super Mario Bros to music videos …

More: BetaNews, VentureBeat, Engadget, TechCrunch and SlashGear

Emil Protalinski / The Next Web:

Following Netflix and Hulu, Amazon brings over 140,000 movies and TV episodes to the Nintendo Wii U

More: The Verge, Mashable!, Amazon.com, 9to5Google and Hulu Blog

Reuters:

Hard drive maker OCZ says facing SEC probe — OCZ Technology Group Inc said it is being investigated by the Securities and Exchange Commission, and it received a subpoena requesting certain documents and information related to its Sep. 5 and Oct. 10 announcements.

More: Market Wire, X-bit labs, Bloomberg and Tech Trader Daily

Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch:

Skobbler Launches Hybrid Online/Offline Maps App For Android As Showcase For What Its OpenStreetMaps-Powered Map Engine Can Do — You'd think the last thing mobile users need right now is another digital mapping service — what with Google, Apple and Nokia all duking it out …

More: iMore.com, Tech Europe, PandoDaily and VentureBeat

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:

IBM: Thanksgiving Sales Data Shows Mobile Commerce Jumping, iPhone/iPad Driving 19% Of Traffic, Social Nets Only 0.2% — ComScore yesterday predicted that e-commerce sales would jump by 14% this holiday season compared to last year, to $42 billion, and some numbers just out from IBM's Benchmark service …

More: PhoneArena and NYConvergence.com

Quentin Hardy / New York Times:

H.P.'s Misstep Shows the Risk in Big Ideas — When Hewlett-Packard spent roughly $10 billion on the software company Autonomy, it thought it was buying a slice of the future — investing in the hot trend of big data. But the deal turned out to be a debacle, and not only because H.P. wrote down $5 billion of the purchase.

More: Forbes, blog.chron.com and DealBook. Tweets: @cisco_mobile

Arik Hesseldahl / AllThingsD:

The Red Flags That Were Obvious — To Some — In the HP-Autonomy Deal

More: breakingviews.com, Bronte Capital, DealBook, PandoDaily, CNBC, AllThingsD, TechEye and DealBook

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