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October 6, 2013, 12:05 PM
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Liam Spradlin / Android Police:
Purported Service Manual Gives A Look At The Next Nexus Phone, Reveals 32GB Storage, 8MP OIS Camera, Photos, And More  —  Courtesy of an anonymous tipster, we've got a nice weekend treat for those caught up in Nexus season rumor hysteria.  A document, purported to be an internal Service Manual …
Shaun Walker / Guardian:
Russia to monitor ‘all communications’ at Winter Olympics in Sochi  —  Exclusive: Investigation uncovers FSB surveillance system - branded ‘Prism on steroids’ - to listen to all athletes and visitors  —  Athletes and spectators attending the Winter Olympics in Sochi in February will face …
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David Segal / New York Times:
Mugshot sites that charge for removal strike some as extortion; Google penalized several on Thursday  —  Mugged by a Mug Shot Online  —  IN March last year, a college freshman named Maxwell Birnbaum was riding in a van filled with friends from Austin, Tex., to a spring-break rental house in Gulf Shores …
Andreas Udo de Haes / PC World:
Microsoft is quietly recycling Outlook email accounts  —  Like Yahoo, Microsoft is recycling email accounts, and apparently doing so without mentioning it in service agreements for Hotmail, Live, and Outlook.com.  —  Yahoo recently started recycling unused accounts and was harshly criticized for this policy.
Josh Constine / TechCrunch:
Twitter Quitters And The Unfiltered Feed Problem  —  At its heart, Twitter is a firehose.  Everything you tweet shows up to every one of your followers.  It's what makes Twitter feel like the real-time pulse of the world.  But it could also be preventing Twitter from growing.
Tweets: @monkbent.  Thanks:@pickavet
Tom Gara / Wall Street Journal:
One Big Doubt Hanging Over Twitter's IPO: Fake Accounts  —  With Robot Accounts Spitting Tweets, Marketers May Want More Certainty They're Reaching Humans  —  At 4:45 p.m. on Thursday, the Twitter account for Mashable—one of the earliest movers into the now endless world of social media news sites …
Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac:
Tim Cook reflects on second anniversary of Steve Jobs' passing in letter to employees  —  On the eve of the second anniversary of the passing of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs, Apple CEO Tim Cook has reflected on the moment in a company-wide email.  A source has provided a copy:
Dawinderpal Sahota / Telecoms.com:
UK regulator announces Microsoft and Google are participating in a major white space broadband trial  —  Google, BT and Microsoft sign up to Ofcom white space trials  —  Ofcom is carrying out white space trials with the support of companies including BT and Microsoft
Reuters:
Exclusive: Cisco, Google, SAP discussing BlackBerry bids - sources  —  (Reuters) - BlackBerry Ltd, on the block as its smartphone business struggles, is in talks with Cisco Systems, Google Inc and SAP about selling them all or parts of itself, several sources close to the matter said.
Associated Press:
BlackBerry hit by shareholder lawsuit claiming company misled investors  —  Class action lawsuit seeks to represent thousands of shareholders who purchased Blackberry stock in the past year  —  A class action lawsuit has been filed against BlackBerry by a shareholder, claiming …

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