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October 22, 2013, 12:35 PM

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Mat Smith / Engadget:
Nokia Lumia 1520: Windows Phone with 6-inch 1080p display and 20MP camera for $750  —  Is this the Windows Phone you've been waiting for?  If you've been holding out for a flagship with a 6-inch 1080p display, high-resolution PureView camera and the top-of-the-line processor, we'd suspect the answer is probably yes.
Tom Warren / The Verge:
Official Instagram Windows Phone app arriving in the ‘coming weeks’  —  Windows Phone is finally getting an official Instagram client.  After months of pressure from Nokia, Instagram CEO Kevin Systrom confirmed today that an official client will be made available to Windows Phone users shortly.
Tom Warren / The Verge:
Nokia Lumia 2520: a closer look at Nokia's first Windows tablet  —  The moment has finally come, Nokia's first Windows tablet.  While its been rumored for what feels like years, Nokia's Lumia 2520 is the Finnish smartphone maker's answer to a Lumia-style tablet.
Emil Protalinski / The Next Web:
Tim Culpan / Bloomberg:
HTC Said to Plan Android Smartwatch With Camera for Next Year  —  HTC Corp. (2498) is developing a smartwatch that uses Google Inc. (GOOG)'s Android software and can take pictures, according to a person familiar with the matter.  —  The watch's price, full functions and sales strategy still must …
Dan Goodin / Ars Technica:
How Apple's Address Book app could allow the NSA to harvest your contacts  —  Overlooked in last week's revelation that the National Security Agency is harvesting hundreds of millions of e-mail address books around the world was this surprising factoid: Apple makes this mass collection easier …
Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet:
Microsoft WebApps: Mobile Web sites in Windows Phone app's clothing  —  Summary: Microsoft is packaging up some popular mobile Web sites and making them available as downloadable Windows Phone apps.  —  There are some interesting new “apps” published by Microsoft showing up in the Windows Phone store, as of late.
Liam Boogar / Rude Baguette:
Google shells out $23 Million to buy FlexyCore, the French startup behind DroidBooster  —  Google has acquired the Rennes-based startup Flexycore for $23 Million (€16.9 Million), according to L'Expansion[fr].  The startup provides optimization solutions applications …
MIT Technology Review:
Million-Year Data Storage Disk Unveiled  —  Magnetic hard discs can store data for little more than a decade.  But nanotechnologists have now designed and built a disk that can store data for a million years or more  —  Back in 1956, IBM introduced the world's first commercial computer capable …
More: The Verge and GizmodoTweets: @smarterplanet
Ruletheworld / BTC Geek:
Dawn of Autonomous Corporations, Powered by Bitcoin  —  Still waiting for Bitcoin to be accepted at Amazon and eBay?  Forget it.  Bitcoin will power the next generation of corporations and the only way to deal with those corporations will be through Bitcoin (that's right, they won't, or rather can't, accept fiat like US Dollar).
Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet:
Microsoft fixes Windows RT 8.1, update is back in Windows Store  —  Summary: Microsoft has fixed its Windows RT 8.1 update, which was causing installation users for some Surface RT users, and made it available again for download from the Windows Store.  —  On October 22, Microsoft returned …
Emil Protalinski / The Next Web:
Richard Nieva / CNET:
Watch Apple's slick video that helped convince Cupertino to approve its new HQ  —  Lead architect Norman Foster and Apple design chief Jonathan Ive look over a model of Apple's new headquarters.  —  (Credit: City of Cupertino video/Screenshot by CNET) Last week, Apple all but got the green light …
More: AppleInsiderThanks:@richardjnieva
Siobhan Gorman / Wall Street Journal:
Contractors Fight Over Delays to NSA Data Center  —  Contractors working on a new National Security Agency data center in Utah are fighting over the causes and responsibility for electrical failures that have caused construction delays costing up to $50 million, project officials say.

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