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September 22, 2013, 4:20 AM

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Luke Reimer / Inside BlackBerry:

BlackBerry pulls BBM app from iOS App Store and delays Android release after Android app leaks — BBM for Android and iPhone Update — Prior to launching BBM for Android, an unreleased version of the BBM for Android app was posted online. The interest and enthusiasm we have seen already …

DealBook:

BlackBerry co-founder Mike Lazaridis considering bid to take company private — BlackBerry Co-Founder Is Said to Consider Bid for Company — Mike Lazaridis, the co-founder of BlackBerry who stepped down as co-chief executive in 2012, has reached out to private equity firms about a possible bid for the troubled company.

More: The Next Web, Wall Street Journal, The Verge, New York Times, PC Magazine, VentureBeat, TechnoBuffalo, WebProNews, MobileSyrup.com, Digits, Ars Technica and BlackBerry Press Room. Tweets: @howardlindzon

Sam Grobart / Businessweek:

Apple CEO Tim Cook's Complete Interview With Bloomberg Businessweek — For this week's cover story on Apple and its future, I spent some time with Tim Cook, who said far more than was ever going to make it into the story. Or even the outtakes from the story.

More: The Verge, 9to5Mac, T3 News and MacLife

Tweets: @wilshipley and @ryan

Linda Sandler / Bloomberg:

Lawsuit alleges LinkedIn breaks in to external email accounts to collect email addresses — LinkedIn Customers Allege Company Hacked E-Mail Addresses — LinkedIn Corp. (LNKD), owner of the world's most popular professional-networking website, was sued by customers alleging it appropriated …

More: AllThingsD, The Verge, Official LinkedIn Blog, GigaOM, Ars Technica, I4U News, Mashable, PC Pro, Softpedia News, The Huffington Post, Los Angeles Times and Ubergizmo. Tweets: @bartongellman

Kevin Gosztola / Firedoglake:

NSA Sends Letter to Its ‘Extended’ Family to Reassure Them That They Will ‘Weather’ This ‘Storm’ — The National Security Agency sent out a letter to all of its employees and affiliates, including contractors, that could be printed and shared with family, friends and colleagues.

More: Guardian, Techdirt, Salon and Softpedia News

Tweets: @kgosztola, @anonyops and @jayrosen_nyu

Andy Greenberg / Forbes:

Another iOS 7 Bug Lets Anyone Make Calls From Locked iPhones—And This One Has No Quick Fix — Apple has yet to fix one nasty bug in the lockscreen of iOS 7, and the next one has already appeared. — On Friday, Karam Daoud, a 27-year old Palestinian living in the West Bank city of Ramallah …

More: Engadget, The Mac Observer, Redmond Pie, T3 News, Ars Technica, iPhone in Canada Blog, Business Insider, Gizmodo, Mashable, BetaNews, AppleInsider, App Advice, The Verge, iPhone Hacks, Security Watch and Geek.com. Thanks:@lainnafader

Dan Marantz / Bing Search Blog:

An overview of Bing's “Page Zero” results, which appear even before you finish typing — Page Zero: A Deep Dive — At Bing, our central mission is to help you spend less time searching and more time getting things done. To that end, we are in a constant state …

More: Search Engine Land, Engadget and TechNet Blogs

Somini Sengupta / New York Times:

California bill includes online “right-to-delete” provision for minors — Sharing, With a Safety Net — SAN FRANCISCO — Kids. The reckless rants and pictures they post online can often get them in trouble, by compromising their chances of getting into a good college or even landing them in jail.

Tweets: @stanfordedf

Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:

Benchmark test shows iPhone 5's touchscreen responds more than 2X faster than Android devices — Apple's iPhone 5 touchscreen is 2.5 times faster than Android devices — Apple's iPhone 5 is 2.5 times faster at responding to touches than Google Android devices, according to a benchmark test by game and app streaming firm Agawi.

More: TouchMarks, MacRumors and The Next Web

Tweets: @holyj, @limi and @lukew

Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch:

Mozilla Launches Preview Of Firefox For Windows 8 Tablets — Mozilla's long-delayed Firefox for Windows 8 tablets has finally made its first public appearance outside of the relatively obscure and unstable Nightly development channel. As Mozilla announced today, the chrome-less tablet version …

More: Engadget, Future Releases, Ubergizmo, The Next Web, gHacks Technology News and Softpedia News

Christopher Mims / Quartz:

Siri is just the start; Multipath TCP will improve connection reliability for more apps over time — Apple's iOS 7 includes a surprise: a ticket to the next generation of the internet — For five years, researchers have toiled over an obscure bit of fundamental internet infrastructure …

More: Olivier Bonaventure

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