Apple Suppliers to Boost Gold iPhone Production  —  In Hong Kong, it's all about the Gold iPhone 5S.  —  Apple Inc. has asked its suppliers to increase production of the gold-colored iPhone 5S by an additional one-third after seeing strong demand, people familiar with the situation said.

Microsoft: Phablets are Windows RT's future  —  Summary: The possible convergence between Windows RT and the Windows Phone OS may be closer than many thought, based on new hints from Microsoft's Financial Analyst Meeting.  —  The question arises again and again: Why is Microsoft continuing …

Dow Jones confirms split with Mossberg and Swisher, plans to launch new tech conference  —  Wall Street Journal and All Things D Decide Not To Renew Agreement At The End Of the Year  —  For years, Dow Jones/The Wall Street Journal has enjoyed working with Walt Mossberg and Kara Swisher …

iPhone 5s Teardown  —  One...Three...G...Three...G again...S!...Four...Four again!...And another S!...Five!...S!...Five?!...C!  Thankfully Apple is in the technology business, not the education business.  We can only imagine how jumbled pre-school students' ABCs and 123s would be if they were taught in Cupertino.

Siri on iOS7 found communicating with Apple servers using Multipath TCP, an extended networking protocol  —  Apple seems to also believe in Multipath TCP  —  Multipath TCP is a TCP extension that allows a TCP connection to send/receive packets over different interfaces.

British Spy Agency GCHQ Hacked Belgiam Telecoms Firm  —  A cyber attack on Belgacom raised considerable attention last week.  Documents leaked by Edward Snowden and seen by SPIEGEL indicate that Britain's GCHQ intelligence agency was responsible for the attack.

Pinterest begins monetization; “experimenting” with “promoted pins” from select businesses  —  Planning for the future  —  Just over a year ago, my wife and I welcomed our son into the world.  Since his first day, I've been pinning fun things we can do together …

Yes, Apple Is Working on a Fix for the iOS 7 Lock Screen Hack  —  When it debuted Wednesday, iOS 7 brought with it a slew of bug fixes to Apple's mobile operating system, but it brought a new vulnerability as well — one that can be exploited to bypass the lock screen on iOS devices.

Nokia's Last Great Deal: Zero to $7.2 Billion  —  ESPOO, Finland—Nokia Corp. was desperate.  But don't think of it as a victim.  —  Most of the world's attention will wander from the Finnish company when it completes its sale to Microsoft Corp. in March.

RSA Tells Its Developer Customers: Stop Using NSA-Linked Algorithm  —  Amidst all of the confusion and concern over an encryption algorithm that may contain an NSA backdoor, RSA Security released an advisory to developer customers today noting that the algorithm is the default algorithm …

Klout launches Cinch, a Quora-like iOS app tied to your personal graph  —  Social influence measurement service Klout quietly released a new app product this week, called Cinch.  The iOS app (update: only available in the US App Store) is very much a mixture of Quora and Klout blended together …

Tragedy: Amazon's First CFO and Internet Pioneer Joy Covey Dies in Bike Accident  —  Photo by Bob Williams, from Joy Covey's Facebook profile  —  I met Joy Covey in the mid-1990s, which is a very long time ago in Internet terms, on a trip I made to Seattle to visit the then-fledgling online bookseller Amazon.

Source: Twitter IPO will likely come before Thanksgiving  —  Twitter in talks to add banks to IPO, set fees: sources  —  (Reuters) - Twitter is in talks to add additional banks to its underwriting syndicate for its upcoming initial public offering and in the process of finalizing the fee structure …