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October 8, 2013, 9:05 AM

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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 …

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.

More: Computerworld, Digital Trends, BetaNews, AllThingsD, Inquirer, InfoWorld, The Verge, ZDNet, Mashable, memeburn, WinBeta, Business Insider, GigaOM, Softpedia News, Engadget, SlashGear, BGR and TechNet Blogs. Tweets: @thurrott

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: BBC, Forbes, Data Center Knowledge, Computerworld, Gizmodo, Nextgov, The Atlantic Wire and GigaOM

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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, BetaNews and Data Center Knowledge

Jack Clark / The Register:

Microsoft takes fight to Amazon on raft of cloud announcements — Stays mute on custom chips — Microsoft has tried to close the distance between Windows Azure and Amazon Web Services by confronting the threat posed by Bezos & Co's cloud. — The company announced a range of new cloud services …

More: Microsoft, InfoWorld, ZDNet, Digits and GeekWire

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 …

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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: GigaOM, CNET, The Droid Guy, TechCrunch, AndroidHeadlines.com, Droid Life, Engadget and Phones Review

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 …

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Nick Summers / The Next Web:

Beats says its new Beats Music streaming service will launch ‘within the next few months’ in the US — Beats will launch its long-awaited music streaming service, Beats Music, “within the next few months” in the United States. Luke Wood, president and COO of the company …

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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, GigaOM, Engadget, TechCrunch, Inquirer, Guardian and The Next Web

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, Boing Boing, TechCrunch, Business Insider, VatorNews, Gizmodo, Mashable, Softpedia News, Engadget, MacDailyNews, GeekWire, Cult of Mac, TVNewser, WinBeta and The Verge

Tweets: @nostrich, @sfiegerman, @codinghorror, @jeffatrad, @brianstelter, @kevinrose and @kneath

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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: Digits

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: ZDNet

David Pierce / The Verge:

Amazon Kindle Paperwhite (2013) Review: a great ebook reader, and the only one worth considering — Amazon Kindle Paperwhite review (2013) — The best ebook reader becomes both bookstore and library — Amazon won the ebook reader war. Like the iPod, the Swiffer, or Jell-O …

More: AllThingsD and CNNMoney.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: MACé" blog, 9to5Mac, SlashGear, TechnoBuffalo and Macgasm. Tweets: @dujkan

Bloomberg:

Samsung Seeks U.S. Veto of Import Ban Just Like Apple Got — Samsung Electronics Co. (005930) wants the same favor from President Barack Obama that he gave U.S.-based Apple Inc. (AAPL) — the right to keep importing smartphones and tablets found to infringe the other's patents.

More: AllThingsD, AppleInsider, Guardian, Computerworld, iPhone in Canada Blog, iPhone Hacks and Electronista

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

Shane Cole / AppleInsider:

AT&T U-verse subscribers can now stream live TV on iPhone, iPad — AT&T updated its U-verse applications for iPad and iPhone on Monday to enable live television streaming to iOS devices, both inside and outside the user's home. — Subscribers to AT&T's U-verse internet television service …

More: The Verge, iMore, VentureBeat, 9to5Mac, Pulse 2.0, iPhone Hacks, TWICE, Home Media Magazine, Mobile Marketing Watch and DSLreports

Don Clark / Wall Street Journal:

Kumu Networks aims to double capacity of cellular and Wi-Fi communications — Startup Aims to Reinvent Wireless Communication — Kumu Networks Says It Can Double the Use of Radio Spectrum, Easing Congestion — A small startup is challenging one of the long-held precepts in communications …

Jordan Minor / PC Magazine:

LTE Samsung Galaxy Tab 3 7.0 Hitting Sprint for $49.99 — The newest Samsung Galaxy Tab 3 tablet was released as a Wi-Fi-only gadget here in the US., before AT&T jumped in with an LTE option last month. Now, Sprint has joined in, and will start selling the Samsung Galaxy Tab 3 7.0 on Oct. 11 for $49.99.

More: Sprint Newsroom, GigaOM, PhoneArena, IntoMobile, Softpedia News, TechnoBuffalo and LAPTOP Magazine

Sam Biddle / Valleywag:

Documents show Facebook's housing community will combine comforts of suburbia and college — Let's Take a Close Look at Facebook's Company Town — If Facebook staffers opt to move in to work, they'll be getting a very sweet deal out of it: the Anton Menlo project includes all the comforts of suburbia and college combined.

More: Businessweek, Mashable and BuzzFeed

Tweets: @jwherrman, @samfbiddle, @annaleen and @valleywag

Frank Konkel / Federal Computer Week:

Judge rules for Amazon Web Services over IBM in CIA cloud case — Amazon Web Services scored a major victory against IBM in the battle to build the cloud computing infrastructure for the CIA, NSA and the rest of the intelligence community. — On Oct. 7, U.S. Court of Federal Claims Judge …

More: GeekWire, The Seattle Times, TechCrunch, The Register and GigaOM

Tweets: @frank_konkel and @spencerante

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