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October 23, 2013, 12:30 PM

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Nick Wingfield / NYT Bits:

Apple's pricing of iWork, Microsoft's hesitation with Office for iOS seen as strategic plays — Apple Exploits Microsoft Hesitation on Office — Microsoft may want to rethink its hesitation about bringing its Office applications to the iPad. — On Tuesday, Apple made its own rival suite …

More: SiliconANGLE, LiveSide.net, MacDailyNews, Macworld and MacRumors

Austin Carr / Fast Company:

All Of The Ways Apple's New Free Mac OS Hurts Microsoft Windows — Apple announced today that Mavericks, its latest version of Mac OS X, will be free for all Mac users to download. Windows 8.1 is still $119.99. — Apple products are usually seen as expensive if not out of reach for average consumers …

More: AllThingsD and MacDailyNews. Tweets: @dannysullivan

Serenity Caldwell / Macworld:

What you need to know about Apple's free apps policy — Apple made waves during Tuesday's media event when the company announced that its iLife and iWork suite would be free for customers who buy a new Mac or iOS device. But the apps are also free for users who already have the apps installed, and one app is free, period.

More: SiliconANGLE, MacRumors, Softpedia News, iPhone in Canada Blog, The Verge, MacNN and InfoWorld

Tweets: @macworld and @settern

Eric Slivka / MacRumors:

‘Previous Versions’ Coming to Mac App Store for Users of Older Macs

More: Ars Technica, MediaNama, AppleInsider, Macworld, iMore, LAPTOP Magazine, iPhone in Canada Blog, iDownloadBlog.com, 9to5Mac, Electronista and iPhone Hacks

Sam Byford / The Verge:

LG's curved-screen G Flex smartphone revealed in photos and video — We've seen rendered images of LG's G Flex and its curved OLED display, but the device itself has proven elusive — until now. Argentinian broadcaster Telefe Noticias managed to obtain the phone for an in-studio hands-on video …

Dale Peterson / Digital Bond's SCADA Security Portal:

Call Yourself A Hacker, Lose Your 4th Amendment Rights — The US District Court for the State of Idaho ruled that an ICS product developer's computer could be seized without him being notified or even heard from in court primarily because he states on his web site “we like hacking things and don't want to stop”.

More: Techdirt, Business Insider, TechEye and The Verge

Jon Fingas / Engadget:

LG unveils the Fireweb, its first Firefox OS smartphone (video) — So far, Firefox OS has been limited to ultra-basic smartphones like the ZTE Open. LG is expanding the platform's reach today by releasing its inaugural Mozilla-powered handset, the Fireweb.

More: The Mozilla Blog, BetaNews, Digital Trends, Telecompaper, CNET, Unwired View, I4U News, Phones Review, Pocket-lint, VentureBeat, Geeky Gadgets, PhoneArena, IntoMobile, SlashGear and Electronista

Mike Isaac / AllThingsD:

Facebook Reverses Stance — Again — On Violent Viral Video — Sometimes figuring out the fine line between free expression and overly objectionable content is harder than you'd think. — Just ask Facebook, which on Tuesday reversed a stance it took just 24 hours previously and removed …

More: Examiner, ZDNet, BBC, SiliconANGLE, Digits, The Register, Bloomberg, Graham Cluley, Gizmodo UK, Mercury News, Softpedia News, The Next Web, The Verge and VatorNews. See also Mediagazer

Clare Jim / Reuters:

Exclusive: HTC scales back production lines as cash flow worsens-sources — (Reuters) - Taiwanese smartphone maker HTC Corp has halted at least one of its four main manufacturing lines, accounting for at least a fifth of total capacity, and is outsourcing production as a sales slump puts pressure …

More: Wall Street Journal, VentureBeat, Gigaom, BGR, Electronista, TechnoBuffalo, AndroidGuys, The Verge, Android Community, PhoneArena, T3 News, Engadget and TechEye

Patrick Hoge / bizjournals:

Facebook's Zuckerberg highest-paid CEO at $2.28 billion — Facebook (NASDAQ: FB) CEO Mark Zuckerberg was the highest paid CEO of a North American public company last year, with total compensation of $2.28 billion — almost all of it coming from share options exercised when Facebook went public …

More: GeekWire, GMI Ratings, Variety, USA Today, Guardian, I4U News and ABC News

David Meyer / Gigaom:

Snowden revelations hit war on terror as EU MPs call for suspension of data-sharing deal — The European Parliament has voted to suspend a data-sharing agreement with the U.S., which gave the Americans access to certain details of financial transactions in order to track terrorist financing.

More: Inquirer, PC World, Computerworld, EU Press Room, Slate and BBC. See also Mediagazer

MG Siegler / TechCrunch:

Air or Mini? A hard choice - nearly identical internals, both comfortable one-handed devices — Two iPads To Tango — I walked into today's Apple event positive that the iPad mini with a retina display, if unveiled, would be the one iPad to rule them all.

More: MacStories, Digital Trends, Engadget, Chicago Grid, The Verge, iDownloadBlog.com and The Verge

Tweets: @joshconstine and @kevinctofel

Apple:

Apple Announces iPad Air—Dramatically Thinner, Lighter & More Powerful iPad

More: Ars Technica, MediaNama, Geeky Gadgets, GigaOM, TechCrunch, EE Times, MacRumors, The Register, POPSUGAR, MacDailyNews, Digital Media Wire, Liliputing, Forbes, Global Nerdy and eWeek

Tweets: @bigzaphod, @tapbot_paul, @ryan, @parislemon, @bxchen, @apollozac, @gruber, @nerdtalker and @nickbilton

Mat Smith / Engadget:

Galaxy Gear compatibility comes to the Samsung Galaxy S 4, S3, Note 2 and more — If you wanted live out your Inspector Gadget fantasies, but lacked the Galaxy Note 3 needed to take full advantage of the possibilities, we've got good news. Samsung's bringing compatibility for its Galaxy Gear …

Josh Constine / TechCrunch:

SEC Votes To Propose Equity Crowdfunding By Unaccredited Investors, Now Up For Public Comment — Hundreds of days past the deadline, an SEC panel today unanimously voted to propose a rule allowing equity crowdfunding of startups by anyone, not just rich accredited investors.

More: Gigaom and The Verge

Alexis Santos / Engadget:

Aereo app finally arrives on Android — It's taken a while for Aereo's Android app to see the light of day, but it's finally hit Google Play today as promised. Subscribers to the service will now be able to watch live TV streamed to handsets and tablets running Android 4.2 or higher …

More: Ars Technica, CNET, Geeky Gadgets, Hillicon Valley, Android Community, Softpedia News, The Next Web and The Verge. Tweets: @aereo

David Meyer / Gigaom:

Why in-contract price hike controls will likely mean the end of UK handset subsidies — Britain's telecommunications regulator, Ofcom, has told the country's fixed-line and mobile carriers that they will no longer be allowed to keep customers tied to their monthly contracts if they raise prices before the contract is up.

More: Ofcom, BGR, Engadget, I4U News, whatmobile.net, The Next Web and Gizmodo UK

Alex Williams / TechCrunch:

SkySQL Raises $20M To Support Open-Source Relational Database MariaDB — SkySQL has raised $20 million to deepen its support for MariaDB, the fast growing open-source relational database and the emerging database of choice for Wikipedia. The round was led by Intel Capital with participation …

More: Data Center Knowledge, ZDNet, Inquirer, Tech Europe, GigaOM, ArcticStartup and The Register

Economist:

Upcoming USB Power Delivery standard brings variable voltage, up to 100W to device charging — Edison's revenge — The humble USB cable is part of an electrical revolution. It will make power supplies greener and cheaper — From the print edition — FIDDLY cables …

More: Gizmodo, BGR and Next Big Future

Tweets: @akianastasiou and @codinghorror

Tom Warren / The Verge:

Nokia Refocus turns your Lumia into a Lytro-like camera — Nokia may have had a bunch of hardware on display at its Abu Dhabi event today, but some of the company's most impressive work is linked with its camera improvements. While the Lumia 1020 introduced a 41-megapixel camera and a new Pro Cam app …

More: Inquirer, The Register, My Nokia Blog, Nokia Conversations, Softpedia News, whatmobile.net, 1001 Noisy Cameras, PetaPixel, Ars Technica, Engadget, The Register, Electronista and Engadget

Tom Warren / The Verge:

Microsoft drops ‘RT’ moniker from original Surface, hides desktop mode on new RT tablets — Microsoft is altering its Surface RT name to just Surface today. After dropping the RT moniker for its Surface 2 tablet, the software maker is removing the RT branding on the Surface entirely.

More: VentureBeat, TechHive, Inquirer, IntoMobile, WinBeta, BetaNews and TechCrunch. Tweets: @tomwarren

Dara Kerr / CNET:

US government releases draft cybersecurity framework — According to NIST, all levels of an organization should be involved in cybersecurity. — (Credit: The National Institute of Standards and Technology) — The National Institute of Standards and Technology released …

More: nist.gov, Reuters, The Verge, Hillicon Valley, PC World, CircleID and The State of Security

Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet:

Microsoft enables developers to add speech recognition to Windows 8 apps — Summary: Microsoft is continuing to flesh out its Bing developer platform with a new speech-recognition control, allowing coders to add speech input to their Windows 8 apps. — In July of this year …

More: MSDN, ScottGu's Blog, MSDN Blogs, MSDN Blogs, TechNet Blogs, Channel 9 and Ubergizmo

Jeanine Poggi / AdAge:

BBC Global News, Latest Twitter Partner, Starts Series of Original In-Tweet Video Reports — ‘#BBCTrending’ Will Give Viewers the Story on News and Memes Circulating on Social Media — BBC Global News has struck a deal to serve sponsored video clips inside paid tweets via Twitter's growing …

More: The Next Web, Gigaom, bbc.co.uk, Mashable and bizjournals. See also Mediagazer

Andrew Leonard / Salon:

The candidate from Facebook: Silicon Valley's march on Washington — The tech economy elite are pouring money into Ro Khanna's campaign for Congress. What do they want in return? — It is a Thursday night in mid-May in San Francisco's North Beach and Silicon Valley is feeling its oats.

More: Business Insider, Stanford Daily and Valleywag

Tweets: @karaswisher and @salon

Adi Robertson / The Verge:

US intelligence chief denies reports that the NSA collected 70 million French call records — The NSA has struck back at reports that it recorded millions of French telephone calls and stored metadata from them. In a statement on Tumblr, Director of National Intelligence James Clapper …

More: IC ON THE RECORD

Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols / ZDNet:

Linux Foundation adopts Open Virtualization Alliance and KVM — Summary: The Linux Foundation used to be just about Linux. Now it's also directly backiing virtualization with support for Linux and the Open Virtualization Alliance's KVM. — In Edinburgh, Scotland at the European LinuxCon …

More: Linux Foundation Blogs, Muktware, Linux Foundation Blogs, OStatic blogs and PC World

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