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October 8, 2013, 1:10 PM

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Bloomberg:

Samsung Loses Bid for Presidential Veto of Apple-Won Import Ban — Samsung Electronics Co. must stop importing certain models of its smartphones and tablet computers after President Barack Obama's administration let stand a ban won by Apple Inc. in a patent-infringement dispute.

More: The Verge, AllThingsD, BGR, Washington Post, ZDNet, MacRumors, Computerworld, AppleInsider, 9to5Google, Business Insider, Engadget, GigaOM, iPhone in Canada Blog, App Advice, Patently Apple, iClarified and Electronista. Tweets: @dangillmor

Steven Levy / Wired:

Nest Gives the Lowly Smoke Detector a Brain — And a Voice — One day in June, about 20 engineers and managers at the startup company Nest went on a field trip. They didn't need to pack a lunch. Their destination: a storage closet near the bathrooms at their new headquarters in Palo Alto.

More: TechCrunch, Nest, Gizmodo, StrictlyVC, 9to5Mac, Business Insider, ABC News, Reuters, CNET, NYT Bits, stratechery, iLounge and Gotta Be Mobile

Tweets: @tfadell, @dangillmor, @jess and @stevenlevy

Ken Yeung / The Next Web:

Nest unveils its $129 Protect smoke and carbon monoxide detector, available from November — Connected home provider Nest is expanding its offering as launches a new product designed to redefine what you come to expect out of appliances in your domicile. On sale this November …

More: The Verge, GigaOM, BetaNews, AppleInsider, VentureBeat, Ars Technica, TechHive, MacRumors, Associated Press, Guardian, iMore, Los Angeles Times, Fortune, AllThingsD, everythingiCafe and TUAW

Tom Warren / The Verge:

Office for iPad will debut after Microsoft's touch-friendly Windows version — Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer has revealed that the company is planning to bring Office to the iPad with a touch user interface. Speaking at a Gartner event in Florida today, Ballmer said “iPad will be picked up when there's a touch first user interface.”

More: Examiner, AppleInsider, MacRumors, 9to5Mac, GigaOM, The Next Web, iDownloadBlog.com, SlashGear and Gotta Be Mobile

Sarah Silbert / Engadget:

Google announces HP Chromebook 11 for $279, we go hands-on — Today Google announced some new hardware: the HP Chromebook 11. Priced at $279, this 11-incher is available today, and we've already spent had a change to get our hands on several units. — The laptop is sleek and attractive …

More: Google Chrome Blog, The Next Bench Blog, The Verge, ZDNet, Ars Technica, TechCrunch, ABC News, Ars Technica, The Next Web, GigaOM, LAPTOP Magazine, CNET, Technology Personalized, Electronista, Softpedia News and Android Beat. Tweets: @stshank

Siobhan Gorman / Wall Street Journal:

Meltdowns Hobble NSA Data Center — Investigators Stumped by What's Causing Power Surges That Destroy Equipment — Chronic electrical surges at the massive new data-storage facility central to the National Security Agency's spying operation have destroyed hundreds of thousands of dollars worth …

More: Forbes, NEWS.com.au, The Verge, The Switch, TechCrunch, Business Insider, Network World, Gizmodo, Ars Technica, Data Center Knowledge, BBC, VentureBeat, Nextgov, The Atlantic Wire and Daily Dot

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Bloomberg:

iTunes Radio to reach UK and Canada before Pandora, also expanding to Australia and NZ in early 2014 — Apple Said to Expand ITunes Radio to U.K. Before Pandora — Apple Inc. (AAPL) plans to expand iTunes Radio to English-speaking countries outside the U.S. by early 2014 …

Artem Russakovskii / Android Police:

All But Confirmed - Google Hangouts 1.3 Screenshots Suggest SMS/MMS Integration; Video Sharing Capabilities Coming Too — Several days ago, I started a series of rumor posts on my personal Google+ account discussing some Android rumors I felt were interesting enough to share …

More: TechHive, Gizmodo, Ars Technica, 9to5Google, IntoMobile, Gotta Be Mobile, GigaOM, iDownloadBlog.com, CNET, The Droid Guy, Engadget, TechCrunch, Phones Review, AndroidHeadlines.com and Droid Life

Matthew Panzarino / TechCrunch:

Yahoo Mail Gets Cross-Platform Themes, 1TB of Storage, ‘Mail Plus’ Features For All And Better ‘Conversations’ — Yahoo is updating its Mail app across all platforms with a fresh design that includes syncing themes, a new compose experience, collapsible toolbar and better handling of threaded conversations.

More: Yahoo, The Verge, Yahoo Mail, 9to5Mac, Gizmodo, Engadget, Softpedia News, iPhone, Bloomberg, iDownloadBlog.com, Electronista and Mashable

Alex Wilhelm / TechCrunch:

Microsoft Announces Azure For US Government, Satya Nadella Dodges The CEO Question — At the San Francisco offices of Yammer, Microsoft's Satya Nadella today announced a new instance of its Azure cloud product built for U.S. government customers. The product, formally called …

More: NYT Bits, VentureBeat, BetaNews and InfoWorld

Jack Clark / The Register:

Microsoft wades into cloud with new services, takes the fight to Amazon

More: Microsoft, ZDNet, WebProNews, GeekWire, InfoWorld, Digits and PC World

Wall Street Journal:

Samsung eyes software acquisitions, has evaluated several gaming and mapping startups — A Weak Spot for Samsung? — South Korean Giant Weighs Software Deals to Better Compete With Apple, Google — Samsung Electronics Co. is stepping up its hunt for acquisitions and building …

More: The Verge, AllThingsD and Hillicon Valley

Tweets: @scottmaustin and @iansherr

Kyle VanHemert / Wired:

Early Apple designer and Frog Design founder Hartmut Esslinger on 4 areas ripe for innovation — The Godfather of Apple Design Spots 4 Looming Tech Trends — Before there was Jony Ive, there was Hartmut Esslinger. The founder of the influential design consultancy Frog started working …

More: Co.Design

John Cook / GeekWire:

Zulily files for $100M IPO — reveals $331M in 2012 revenue, 2.2M active customers — Fast-growing Zulily is looking to take the IPO plunge. — The Seattle company, which sells clothes, toys and accessories for babies, kids and moms, today filed to raise up to $100 million in an initial public offering.

More: Business Insider, AllThingsD and TechCrunch. Thanks:@toddbishop

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:

BBC Launches Playlister, A Social Music Service With Spotify, YouTube And Deezer To Tag Tracks Heard On BBC — On the heels of the BBC ramping up its iPlayer on-demand video and music player as the go-to place for all its digital assets, the UK's public broadcaster is also gearing up to take its music service up another notch.

More: BBC Media Centre, Digits, Engadget, Inquirer, Softpedia News, I4U News, The Next Web, Engadget and blogs.ft.com. See also Mediagazer

Joe Flint / Los Angeles Times:

Fox, Sinclair and Local TV file suit against Aereo in Utah — This post has been updated. Please see details below. — The fight over Aereo is moving to Utah. — On Monday afternoon, Fox Broadcasting Co., Sinclair Broadcast Group and Local TV filed suit in federal court in Utah against Aereo …

More: GigaOM, TechCrunch, VentureBeat, Plagiarism Today and Techrockies.com

Sean Silcoff / Globe and Mail:

BlackBerry, Kik Interactive settle lawsuit over instant-messaging app — BlackBerry Ltd. has settled its lawsuit against Kik Interactive, a company started by one of its former co-op students which developed a rival instant messaging application to its BlackBerry Messenger that eventually surpassed it in popularity.

More: Engadget, AllThingsD, The Next Web, CrackBerry.com and MobileSyrup.com

Jordan Golson / MacRumors:

Sharp Bringing OS X-Compatibility to New 32" 4K Touchscreen Monitor — Sharp has announced that its 32" 4K touchscreen monitor will eventually have drivers for full OS X touchscreen support, reports Japanese site Mac Otakara [Google Translate] (via 9to5Mac).

More: Ars Technica, MACé" blog, I4U News, SlashGear, 9to5Mac, TechnoBuffalo and App Advice. Tweets: @dujkan

Jason Del Rey / AllThingsD:

PayPal Unveils Yet Another Way to Pay in Stores. Now It Has to Get People to Use It. — Another day, another announcement of a product aimed at getting shoppers to buy stuff in retail stores using an app on their phone instead of a physical credit card or cash.

More: The Official PayPal, GigaOM, TechCrunch, The Verge, The Next Web, Digits, Engadget, CNET, WebProNews, Mashable and Payments News

Ki Mae Heussner / GigaOM:

Basis bags $12M for health-tracking watch amid growing competition in wearable tech — Seven months after announcing an $11.5 million Series B round of funding, Basis Science is filling its coffers once again. On Tuesday, the startup behind the Basis health-tracking wristwatch …

More: AllThingsD, VentureBeat and TechCrunch

Rory Cellan-Jones / BBC:

Baked in Britain, the millionth Raspberry Pi — For British computing this is quite a day. The Raspberry Pi Foundation has announced that a million of the tiny cheap computers aimed at transforming education have now been made in the UK. — When the Pi was launched in February last year, the device was made in China.

More: Raspberry Pi, BetaNews, GigaOM, The Register, TechCrunch, Engadget, Inquirer, The Next Web, TechWeekEurope UK and Guardian

Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge:

Google chairman Eric Schmidt's next book will tell you how to lead a tech company — Eric Schmidt will reveal stories and advice from how he led Google for a decade in an upcoming book. The former Google CEO's first book, The New Digital Age, was just released this past April …

More: Marketing Land and Yahoo! News

Arik Hesseldahl / AllThingsD:

Yahoo Redux: HP Says “All Hands on Deck” Needed, Requiring Most Employees to Work at the Office (Memo) — Computing and technology services giant Hewlett-Packard, which appears to be taking a page from Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer, has quietly begun enacting a policy requiring employees to work from the office and not from home.

More: NYT Bits, Signal vs. Noise, Business Insider and bizjournals

Alex Wilhelm / TechCrunch:

Those Giant Fox News Touchscreens Are Microsoft Perceptive Pixel Displays Running Windows 8 — Huge iPads or tiny journalists? That's the question that many are asking after Fox News released a video detailing a new set that includes a number of analysts sat before massive touch interfaces.

More: AppleInsider, TechnoBuffalo, SocialTimes, MacDailyNews, Business Insider, Gizmodo, Mashable, VatorNews, Softpedia News, Engadget and MacDailyNews

Tweets: @nostrich, @sfiegerman and @codinghorror

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