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October 8, 2013, 12:20 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, MacRumors, AppleInsider, 9to5Google, Business Insider, Engadget, GigaOM, PC World, App Advice and Patently Apple

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.

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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, AppleInsider, VentureBeat, TechHive, Ars Technica, MacRumors, Associated Press, Guardian, iMore, Los Angeles Times, AllThingsD, Fortune and Automated Home

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: MacRumors, 9to5Mac, GigaOM and The Next Web

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

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 …

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

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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, Bloomberg, iPhone, iDownloadBlog.com, Electronista and Mashable

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 …

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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, InfoWorld and BetaNews

Jack Clark / The Register:

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

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

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: @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

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, Inquirer, Softpedia News, Engadget, The Next Web, Engadget, I4U News and blogs.ft.com. See also Mediagazer

Steven A. Ballmer / Microsoft:

Steve Ballmer's final shareholder letter: “We are still in the early days of our transformation” — Shareholder Letter — TO OUR SHAREHOLDERS, CUSTOMERS, PARTNERS AND EMPLOYEES: This is a unique letter for me — the last shareholder letter I will write as the CEO of the company I love.

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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, The Next Web, CrackBerry.com, AllThingsD and MobileSyrup.com

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, TechCrunch, GigaOM, The Verge, The Next Web, Digits, Engadget, CNET, WebProNews, Mashable and Payments News

Richard Lai / Engadget:

HTC teases One Max in October 16th event invitation (update: global launch October 15th) — With all the recent leaks, it's no surprise that the launch for the HTC One Max is just around the corner. According to an invitation we just received from HTC Taiwan, the company will be hosting …

More: Digits, TechHive, BGR, TechCrunch, Droid Life, Gotta Be Mobile, Phones Review, PhoneArena, Unwired View, Ubergizmo, Digital Trends, The Droid Guy, IntoMobile, Softpedia News, AndroidHeadlines.com, pocketnow.com, MobileSyrup.com, Electronista and Gizmodo

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

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, Boing Boing, MacDailyNews, SocialTimes, Business Insider, Gizmodo, Mashable, VatorNews, Softpedia News, Engadget, MacDailyNews, Cult of Mac and TVNewser

Tweets: @nostrich, @sfiegerman and @codinghorror

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