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October 10, 2013, 1:45 AM

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Brian X. Chen / New York Times:

T-Mobile to Make It Cheaper to Make Calls While Abroad — Cellphone plans are a little like languages: they don't always translate well in foreign countries. — Often, travelers have to pay an extra $100 to their provider to get any cell service abroad. Or they must sign up for a short-term plan …

More: AllThingsD, Engadget, LAPTOP Magazine, MacRumors, Electronista and TechCrunch

Daniel P. Howley / LAPTOP Magazine:

T-Mobile International Data vs. the Competition: Rates Compared — Data Cost — Voice Calling Cost — AT&T — $30 per 120MB / $120 per 800MB (Global Add-on Package) — $30 / month for $2.00 per minute (Rest of World Plan) — Sprint — $40 per 40MB / $80 per 85MB (Multi-country Data Roaming)

More: eWeek and Gotta Be Mobile

Paul Thurrott / SuperSite for Windows:

Windows Phone 8.1: 7-10 inch screens, no hardware back button, 77% API unity with Windows RT — Windows Phone 8.1 Rumors Emerge — Yes, we'll get a third Windows Phone 8 update first. Still.... While Windows Phone 8 GDR3 is right around the corner—and, yes, I'll be writing …

More: LiveSide.net, BGR, Windows Phone Central, GigaOM, TechnoBuffalo, MobileSyrup.com, ZDNet, pocketnow.com, Ubergizmo, Gotta Be Mobile, The Verge, WinBeta, Softpedia News, Gizmodo UK, WMPoweruser and GadgetGuide4U. Tweets: @natbro

Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac:

Facebook prepares major updates to iPhone apps as top engineer returns to Apple — Screenshots of upcoming Facebook Graph Search for iPhone update — Facebook is preparing a pair of major updates for its most popular iPhone applications, according to a source familiar with the apps.

More: iPhone Hacks, Ubergizmo, AllFacebook, iClarified, everythingiCafe, GeekWire, Inside Facebook, WebProNews, MacRumors, iDownloadBlog.com, App Advice and MacNN. Tweets: @jyarow

Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:

Twitter Gets Its Strongest TV Tie-Up So Far, With an Ambitious Comcast Deal — Twitter has been trying to buddy up with the TV industry for the past few years. Now it has its biggest payoff yet: A far-reaching deal with Comcast that aims to turn the social network into a TV-watching service.

Nick Summers / The Next Web:

Twitter and Comcast's new ‘See it’ button lets you watch and record TV shows directly from a tweet

More: AdExchanger. Tweets: @dannysullivan. See also Mediagazer

Emil Protalinski / The Next Web:

Gartner: PC shipments slip 8.6% to 80.3m units in Q3 2013, the lowest back-to-school quarter since 2008 — The PC market continues to fall spectacularly, seeing the sixth consecutive quarter of declining worldwide shipments as well as the lowest back-to-school quarter since 2008.

More: IDC, Gartner, NYT Bits, The Verge, AppleInsider, eWeek, SlashGear, Tech Trader Daily, Engadget, MacNN, TechCrunch, Macgasm, AllThingsD, Electronista, Internet Evolution, MacRumors, Yahoo! News, ZDNet, GeekWire, iPhone Hacks, ZDNet and PC World

Emil Protalinski / The Next Web:

Google begins offering financial rewards for proactive security patches made to select open-source projects — Google today started to provide financial incentives for proactive improvements to open-source software (OSS) that go beyond merely fixing a known security bug.

More: Google Online Security Blog, ZDNet, Ars Technica, The Register and ITworld.com

Nick Bilton / New York Times:

“Hatching Twitter” excerpts depict a detached Jack Dorsey who later attempted to recast Twitter's history — All Is Fair in Love and Twitter — Right in the center of South Park, a large, grassy oval near San Francisco's financial district, there is a rinky-dink playground with slides …

More: TechCrunch, Forbes, Business Insider, TechnoBuffalo, MacDailyNews, GigaOM, The Atlantic Wire, TechSpot, Quartz, Medium, Digits, Businessweek, StrictlyVC, Inc.com, I4U News, AllFacebook, Mashable, SiliconBeat, Betabeat, Gawker, The Verge and Valleywag

Tweets: @vinthanedar, @bijan, @owenbrainard, @mike_ftw, @dannysullivan, @johnolilly and @ajs

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Tiernan Ray / Tech Trader Daily:

HP: We've Been a Little Late to the Game, Admits Whitman; MSFT, INTC ‘Outright Competitors’ — Hewlett-Packard (HPQ) CEO Meg Whitman took to the podium this morning to address analysts at the annual financial meeting. — HP shares surged 6%, or $1.32, at $22.05, after Whitman remarked that revenue would …

More: hp.com, VentureBeat, eWeek, AllThingsD, AllThingsD, BGR, Business Insider, GeekWire, Computerworld, Mercury News, Inquirer and ZDNet

Stacey Higginbotham / GigaOM:

GE teams up with AT&T and Intel to conquer the industrial internet. Here's its plan. — Two years ago GE made some big bets on the internet of things — what it calls the industrial internet. It opened an office in San Ramone, Calif. and started articulating a vision of connected sensors sending data …

More: NYT Bits, AllThingsD, SiliconANGLE and ZDNet

Bloomberg:

Microsoft Board Said to Work on Hiring New CEO This Year — Microsoft Corp.'s board is working toward having the successor to Chief Executive Officer Steve Ballmer in place by the end of this year and is winnowing a list of candidates, said people with knowledge of the discussions.

Kevin Michaluk / CrackBerry.com:

Apparently a lot of that TAT (The Astonishing Tribe) talent left BlackBerry Sweden to start a new company called TOPP... When companies acquire other companies, it's usually for one or more of a few reasons, including: to grow market share (and take out a competitor a long the way), to acquire technology and/or to acquire talent.

More: The Verge, TechSpot, SlashGear and BGR

Jon Fingas / Engadget:

Archos GamePad 2 tablet gets official, ships to the US in Q4 for $200 — That was fast — just days after a retailer's leak, Archos has announced the GamePad 2. As hinted earlier, the second-generation gaming tablet is a big improvement over the original.

More: BetaNews, CNET, Android Community, IntoMobile, IGN, SlashGear, The Verge, 9to5Google and I4U News

Greg Kumparak / TechCrunch:

New Google Maps Regains Support For Multi-Destination Trips, Now Integrates Your Flights And Upcoming Events — The big, still-in-Beta Google Maps overhaul brought a bunch of new shiny stuff, from its new fullscreen interface to drastically improved public transportation integration.

More: Google LatLong, The Next Web, BetaNews, Gizmodo, 9to5Google, WebProNews and PandoDaily

Jennifer Van Grove / CNET:

Foursquare gives out unsolicited tips on iPhone — A new feature lets some members go about their lives, phone in pocket, and get alerts when the service finds something interesting for them to eat, see, or do nearby. — Foursquare is releasing a new version of its application for iPhone …

More: Foursquare Blog, AppleInsider, The Verge, MacRumors, iDownloadBlog.com, Macgasm, SlashGear, PC Magazine, Engadget, GeekWire, App Advice and The Next Web

Kevin Bostic / AppleInsider:

Best Buy trade-in offer to take any working smartphone for at least $100 toward iPhone 5s, 5c — Electronics retailer Best Buy appears on the verge of kicking off another trade-in program aimed at getting iPhone 5s and 5c customers through its doors, this time offering a minimum of $100 toward …

More: TechnoBuffalo and MacNN

Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:

Synaptics moves into fingerprint ID with $255M purchase of startup Validity — Synaptics has entered the fast-growing fingerprint identification market with the acquisition of Validity, a maker of sensors used in biometric identification. Synaptics will pay $255 million in cash and stock over a period of time.

More: bizjournals, SlashGear and Digits. Tweets: @neiltwitz

John Paczkowski / AllThingsD:

Rogers Agrees to Carry BlackBerry's Newest Flagship Phone — Looks like Rogers Communications will sell the BlackBerry Z30 after all. — A week after announcing its decision to forgo BlackBerry's latest flagship phone, the Canadian wireless carrier has reversed course following outcry from its customers.

More: Electronista, The Verge and MobileSyrup.com

Lora Kolodny / Venture Capital Dispatch:

Smartling Raises $24 Million to Translate Everything Online … While most tech startups are sweating bullets over globalization-from thwarting overseas copycats to mastering pricing in multiple currencies-one company, Smartling Inc., has found a way to profit from it while helping others do so, too.

More: Marketwired and VentureBeat. Tweets: @asenkut

Tom Warren / The Verge:

Flickr iOS 7 app now automatically uploads photos to your 1TB of free storage — Yahoo is updating its iOS 7 Flickr application today to let iPhone users automatically upload photos to the service. The latest version will save photos from an iPhone camera roll straight to Flickr in full resolution.

More: The Next Web, GigaOM, CNET, iMore, 9to5Mac, everythingiCafe, IntoMobile, Engadget, TechSpot, TechCrunch, AppleInsider, MacRumors and Softpedia News

Josh Constine / TechCrunch:

A GitHub For Musicians, GroupMe Founder's ‘Splice’ Aids Collaboration With Song Version Control — Music production can be a nightmare. If you don't save after every change, you can't go back, and it's tough for collaborators to know who tweaked what. Splice wants to redefine the musician workflow.

More: Business Insider, PandoDaily, VentureBeat, Splice Blog, Union Square Ventures, Xconomy, Laughing Squid and AllThingsD

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