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October 17, 2013, 11:45 AM

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Brandon LeBlanc / The Windows Blog:
Windows 8.1 now available!  —  Less than a year ago we were preparing to launch Windows 8, which introduced our vision of highly personalized mobile computing.  And here we are today announcing the global availability of Windows 8.1.  Windows 8.1 demonstrates our commitment to continuously improving …
Tom Warren / The Verge:
Windows 8.1 review  —  It's take two for Microsoft's ambitious operating system  —  A year ago, Microsoft “reimagined” the look and feel of Windows, and placed a risky bet on the future of computing.  Touch is everything, it said, and nearly everything about Windows 8 was designed to be used …
Joan E. Solsman / CNET:
AOL dethrones Google at top of video-ad ranking  —  AOL CEO Tim Armstrong.  —  (Credit: Getty Images)  —  YouTube is still the king of Internet video, but AOL's takeover of Adap.tv last month is making it the richest in that kingdom.  —  In ComScore's Web video rankings for September …
Dieter Bohn / The Verge:
Motorola hopes to tempt iPhone users to Moto X with iCloud migration tool  —  Motorola's Moto Maker site is primarily meant to help customize and purchase a new Moto X, but today the company is adding another feature: the option to transfer your contacts and calendars from an Apple iCloud account to a Google account.
Reuters:
NSA security chief Keith Alexander and his deputy John Inglis expected to depart within the next few months  —  U.S. eavesdropping agency chief, top deputy expected to depart soon  —  (Reuters) - The director of the U.S. National Security Agency and his deputy are expected to depart in the coming months …
Joe Mullin / Ars Technica:
Powered by the crowd, EFF attacks infamous “podcasting patent”  —  There are lots of patents out there claiming basic Internet functionalities or business practices, but some of them occasionally hit a nerve.  That's what happened with the so-called “podcasting patent,” a patent on …
Jordan Novet / Data Center Knowledge:
First Look: Facebook's Oregon Cold Storage Facility  —  Facebook's cold storage systems incorporate Western Digital hard drives.  (Photo: Jordan Novet)  —  PRINEVILLE, Ore. - Last Thursday, Facebook began migrating data - primarily pictures - to its newly constructed cold storage facility …
John Koetsier / VentureBeat:
Facebook ad profit a staggering 1,790% more on iPhone than Android  —  Nov. 12 - 13, 2013  —  A study of more than 200 billion ads on Facebook says that mobile ads on iPhone generate 1,790 percent more return on investment than ads on Android.  Even worse, advertising on Android actually costs more than it returns.
Mario Aguilar / Gizmodo:
iPhone 5s accelerometer issues may be linked to change in supplier  —  Here's Why the iPhone 5S Accelerometer Is So Screwed Up  —  A few weeks ago we confirmed reports that the iPhone 5S motion sensors were embarrassingly off.  Some enterprising devs have investigated the problem …
Matt Brian / Engadget:
Samsung proposes five-year patent lawsuit hiatus to escape EU antitrust warnings  —  Almost 20 months after the European Commission (EC) formally launched an investigation into its patent licensing practices, Samsung believes it has come up with an answer.  Today, the EC published an open call …
Roger Cheng / CNET:
T-Mobile ad criticized for belittling smartphone theft  —  T-Mobile CEO John Legere.  —  (Credit: Lori Grunin/CNET)  —  T-Mobile is hot water again for one of its “Uncarrier” campaign commercials.  —  The latest comes in the form of a letter written by San Francisco District Attorney George Gascon …
Pierre Omidyar / Omidyar Group:
My Next Adventure in Journalism  —  As many of you know, I've had an interest in journalism for some time now.  I've been working on Civil Beat for three years and through my philanthropic work at Omidyar Network and Democracy Fund, we've supported many efforts around the world related to media …
Dana Wollman / Engadget:
Acer intros the Iconia W4, its second 8-inch Windows 8.1 tablet: brings improved screen for $330 (hands-on)  —  Once Intel shows off an unannounced tablet at one of its press events, the jig is up: the product may as well be official at that point.  That's what happened with Acer's Iconia …
Bruce Schneier / Wired:
How to Design — And Defend Against — The Perfect Security Backdoor  —  We already know the NSA wants to eavesdrop on the internet.  It has secret agreements with telcos to get direct access to bulk internet traffic.  It has massive systems like TUMULT, TURMOIL, and TURBULENCE to sift through it all.
Janko Roettgers / GigaOM:
F# wants to turn banner ads into web radio stations  —  New York-based ad tech startup F# wants you to stop hating banner ads — and it has a pretty clever idea to make those despised ad units more interesting: The company, whose name is pronounced like the musical note F-sharp …
Laura Hazard Owen / GigaOM:
Ebook subscription startup Oyster expands to iPad and opens to all; some stats from Scribd  —  Oyster, the Peter Thiel-backed startup that aims to be a Netflix for ebooks, was iPhone-only and invite-only for its first six weeks.  On Wednesday, though, Oyster launched its iPad app and opened up to everyone.
Abhijeet M. / SamMobile:
Galaxy Round simply a prototype test device, will have limited production even in South Korea  —  Your plans to score one of Samsung's Galaxy Round, the world's first smartphone to feature a flexible display might not work out that well, as according to our insider, Samsung is looking to produce …
Mozilla Hacks:
Introducing TogetherJS, a service to add real-time collaboration features to existing websites  —  Introducing TogetherJS  —  What is TogetherJS?  —  We'd like to introduce TogetherJS, a real-time collaboration tool out of Mozilla Labs.  —  TogetherJS is a service you add to an existing website …

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