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October 6, 2013, 11:55 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 …
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 …
Christina Rogers / Wall Street Journal:
GM Prods Dealers to Sell Cars Online  —  Software Lets Shoppers Bypass the Showroom  —  General Motors Co. plans to expand a new online shopping tool that allows customers to bypass showrooms when buying new cars.  —  The software, which keeps GM's 4,300 dealers central to the sale of its vehicles …
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Matt Buchanan / New Yorker:
An Interview with John McAfee: The Antivirus Pioneer on D-Central, His New Device  —  It's been nearly a year since most people have thought about John McAfee, the permanently bleary-eyed antivirus pioneer who may now be more famous for his exploits in the jungles of Central America than for the software that bears his name.
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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.
Kara Swisher / AllThingsD:
As Twitter seeks a female board member, Costolo's sharp response to criticism on the issue attracts more criticism  —  Carrot Flop: Twitter CEO Costolo Finds Lack of Woman on Board Is No Joking Matter  —  Two weeks ago, I wrote a piece about the lack of women on the board of Twitter …

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