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John Poole / Primate Labs Blog:
iPad Air Geekbench: Over 80% faster than iPad 4, A7 processor 100MHz faster than iPhone 5s  —  iPad Air Benchmarks  —  Geekbench 3 results for the new iPad Air are starting to appear on the Geekbench Browser.  I've charted the results for all iOS 7 capable iPads below.
Walter S. Mossberg / AllThingsD:
Speed and Power Packed Into a Thin iPad Air  —  One reason for the phenomenal success of the iPad has been Apple's ability to pack speed and versatility into a thin, light body with long battery life.  It doesn't do everything a laptop does, but for many common scenarios, it has replaced the laptop as its owners' go-to device.
Anand Lal Shimpi / AnandTech:
iPad Air review: lighter, more portable, more usable and faster than any previous iPad  —  The iPad Air Review  —  It seemed like a foregone conclusion that the 10-inch tablet market was done for, with all interest and excitement shifting to smaller, but equally capable 7 or 8-inch tablets instead.
Jean-Baptiste / Forbes:
Exclusive: Intel Opens Fabs To ARM Chips  —  As the old adage goes, if you can't beat them, join them!  Well, that's exactly what Intel finally decided to do relative to its lagging mobile business.  —  At the ARM developers' conference today, Intel partner Altera announced …
Brian X. Chen / NYT Bits:
“Manufacturing issue” responsible for fast battery drain on “limited number” of iPhone 5Ss  —  Shortened Battery Life Found in Some New iPhones  —  The Apple iPhone 5S is supposed to have significantly longer battery life than its predecessors.
Roger Cheng / CNET:
Sprint swings to profit of $383M, but loses a net 313,000 customers  —  Sprint swung to a third-quarter profit its first period under new ownership.  —  The company, which reports for the first time after the completion of the SoftBank takeover and Clearwire acquisition …
Andy / TorrentFreak:
IsoHunt Resurrected Less Than Two Weeks After $110 Million MPAA Deal  —  Earlier this month some pretty surprising news hit the file-sharing scene.  After many years battling aggressively with the MPAA, Canadian BitTorrent site isoHunt suddenly agreed to a settlement with the MPAA.
Iljitsch van Beijnum / Ars Technica:
OS X 10.9 brings fast but choppy Thunderbolt networking  —  If you open your network settings in the System Preferences after upgrading to OS X 10.9 “Mavericks”, you'll be informed that a new “Thunderbolt Bridge” network interface was added to the system.  So it's now possible to network two Macs over Thunderbolt.
More: ZDNet
John Herrman / BuzzFeed:
Favorite, Reply, RT now directly in Twitter feed, reducing the threshold for sharing, virality  —  Why Twitter Just Turned Itself Inside Out  —  Clicking is dead, scrolling is king.  Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, and the fight for the ultimate feed.  —  dailydot.com
Jack Clark / The Register:
IBM gives up fight to build CIA's $600m secret cloud, hands deal to Amazon  —  Withdraws injunctive action and scuttles back into shadow  —  IBM has stumbled away from its legal tussle with Amazon over a strategically important contract to build a $600m cloud system for the CIA.
Daniel P. Howley / LAPTOP Magazine:
Lenovo Yoga Tablets Hands-on: 3 Modes, 18-Hour Battery, From $249  —  The Surface isn't the only tablet with a built-in stand.  Say hello to Lenovo's new Android-powered Yoga Tablets.  On sale Oct. 30, these tablets come in an 8-inch version ($249 at Best Buy) and a 10-inch flavor ($299 at most major retailers).
Jordan Kahn / 9to5Google:
Google shows off second gen Google Glass w/ mono earbud coming later this year  —  After announcing yesterday that Google Glass hardware would be revised later this year and offered to current Glass Explorers interested in swapping to a newer unit, Google today gives us a look …
Brian Heater / Engadget:
Barnes & Noble's Nook GlowLight is lighter, brighter, whiter, with less Simple Touch for $119  —  As a ketchup bottle once famously said: Good things take time (we're paraphrasing here, of course).  Roughly a year and a half ago, Barnes and Noble made its top-notch Nook Simple Touch even better, with the addition of GlowLight.
New York Times:
As It Denounces U.S. Spying, Europe Delays Privacy Protection at Home  —  BRUSSELS — Even with Europe in an uproar over intrusive United States surveillance, its leaders are looking for ways to slow down legislation aimed at preventing violations of privacy at home.
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:
Cloud-Based Device Management Startup Soluto Acquired By Device Insurers Asurion For Up To $130M  —  Looks like another exit for an Israel-based startup - this one straddling the worlds of cloud services and hardware control.  Soluto, a service that lets users manage PCs and other connected devices remotely …
Matt McGee / Marketing Land:
Google+ Hits 300 Million Active Monthly “In-Stream” Users, 540 Million Across Google  —  As expected, Google touted the growth of its “social layer” Google+ during a special event today that also saw the introduction of 18 new features.  —  The big numbers that Google talked about are as follows:
More: USA Today, AllThingsD, CNET and Soshable.  Tweets: @marypcbuk

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