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October 30, 2013, 10:10 AM

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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.

More: New York Times, TechCrunch, Engadget, Telegraph, ZDNet, Macworld, Guardian, The Register, SlashGear, Bloomberg, CNET, Cult of Mac, AnandTech, IntoMobile, The Next Web, TUAW, NBCNews, App Advice, Electronista, AppleInsider, Gizmodo and Mashable. Tweets: @franciscome. Thanks:@sidharthdassani

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.

More: The Loop, A Note from Pogue, CNET, USA Today, Tech.pinions, Fox News, Telegraph, Reuters, TIME, Guardian, Mashable, Gigaom, InfoWorld, iMore, 9to5Mac, MacRumors, iDownloadBlog.com, iPhone Hacks, Business Insider and Pixel Envy

Tweets: @tapbot_paul and @stroughtonsmith

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.

More: AppleInsider, 9to5Mac, CNET, Softpedia News, MacRumors, Cult of Mac, Phones Review, iDownloadBlog.com, iPhone in Canada Blog and PhoneArena. Tweets: @parislemon

John Gruber / Daring Fireball:

iPad Air light enough to supplement a laptop, fast enough to replace one for most people — The iPad Air — There are so many millions of iPad users that no simple explanation can cover all use cases. But my take, since last year, has been that the full-size iPad is best seen …

More: iPhone in Canada Blog. Tweets: @adamnash and @dlpasco

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.

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 …

More: Engadget, MacRumors, CNET, InfoWorld, Digital Trends, PhoneArena, Altera Newsroom, iMore, The Register, AppleInsider, Android Beat, Gizmodo, Softpedia News, Cult of Mac, EE Times, SiliconANGLE, SlashGear, ARMdevices.net and The Tech Report

Tweets: @lessien, @mlchild, @dalmaer and @gusfuldner

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.

More: PC World, The Verge, The Switch, Digital Music News and Ars Technica. See also Mediagazer

AllThingsD:

Intel May Turn Over Its Web TV Project to Verizon — Intel's efforts to break into the TV business may be coming to a close. — Sources say the chipmaker is close to a deal to hand over control of Intel Media, the unit that has been trying to build a Web-based subscription TV service …

More: Engadget, DSLreports and bizjournals. Tweets: @sai

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

More: SocialTimes and Wired. Tweets: @michellelockett, @jayrosen_nyu, @felixsalmon, @rsarver, @budip, @cpen and @andrewphelps

Mathew Ingram / Gigaom:

Twitter tries to entice new users with media previews, facilitates banner ads

More: bizjournals, Computerworld, Digiday, Daily Dot, The Technology Chronicles and Marketing Pilgrim

Tweets: @bryce, @bmorrissey, @seanbonner, @jvanslem, @cwarzel and @panzer

Matthew Panzarino / TechCrunch:

Twitter Apps For iOS, Android And Web Get In-Stream Video And Image Previews

More: Twitter, Inquirer, BetaNews, Telegraph, Computerworld, AllTwitter, TechSpot, Engadget, Digits, Poynter, TechnoBuffalo, AllThingsD, AppleTell, Softpedia News, Slate and iMore

Tweets: @panzer, @levie, @benedictevans, @mattbuchanan, @mikeisaac, @rsarver, @benedictevans, @piercedavid, @vindugoel and @hunterwalk

See also Mediagazer

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).

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

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 …

More: The Verge, Betabeat, ReadWrite, Inquirer, Business Insider, Mashable, Digital Trends, I4U News, The Droid Guy, Search Engine Roundtable, VatorNews, eWeek, Redmond Pie, Engadget, Softpedia News, Gotta Be Mobile, Glass Almanac, Marketing Land, Android Police, TechnoBuffalo, ZDNet, Droid Life, IntoMobile, The Next Web, VentureBeat and Phandroid. Tweets: @markgurman. Thanks:@jordankahn

Sharon Gaudin / Computerworld:

Mysterious barges in Maine and San Francisco ignite Google rumors — Is Google building floating data centers? Transporting Google Glass outlets or retail stores? Everyone is mum on the subject — Speculation that had been growing about mysterious barges harbored on both sides of the U.S. is exploding.

More: Business Insider, The Atlantic Wire, CBS San Francisco, Softpedia News, Geek News Central, Portland Press-Herald and NY Daily News

Jason Wilson / VentureBeat:

Oculus Rift virtual reality headset coming to mobile — but just Android, not iOS [corrected] — REDWOOD CITY, Calif. — Virtual reality meets today's mobile reality. Oculus VR announced that it's bringing its virtual-reality headset, the Oculus Rift, to mobile gaming.

More: TechEye, Softpedia News, VG247, BGR, Gearburn, GeekWire, Joystiq, bit-tech.net and Gizmodo

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.

More: Barnes & Noble, Inc., LAPTOP Magazine, Digital Trends, ZDNet, Gotta Be Mobile, Gizmodo, TechCrunch, The Verge, Gigaom, Mashable, Digits, SlashGear, I4U News and New York Times. See also Mediagazer

Mat Smith / Engadget:

Nintendo sells 300,000 more Wii U consoles, but over two million more 3DS handhelds — Nintendo's just released its financial results for the last three months, and while hardware sales have increased substantially, it still made a loss. Wii U sales have rebounded significantly.

More: VentureBeat, Digits, Reuters, Bloomberg, BBC and The Verge

Dan Goodin / Ars Technica:

Hack of MongoHQ exposes passwords, user databases to intruders — Cloud-based database service MongoHQ said it's changing log-in credentials for employees and customers alike after suffering a security breach that allowed attackers to access sensitive customer files and obtain users' e-mail addresses …

More: Computerworld, Softpedia News, TechCrunch and SecurityWeek

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.

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.

More: Gigaom, Federal Computer Week and Forbes

Ken Yeung / The Next Web:

Google+ gets new backup, auto-enhance, and HDR filters to help you become a better storyteller — Google is rolling out new features for photographers on its Google+ social network. At a press conference today, company VP of Engineering Vic Gundotra spoke about additional problems that its photo feature will help solve.

More: Google, MacRumors, Softpedia News, iDownloadBlog.com and TechHive

Matt McGee / Marketing Land:

Google+ Hits 300 Million Active Monthly “In-Stream” Users, 540 Million Across Google

More: USA Today, CNET, AllThingsD, Reuters, Soshable and ClickZ. Tweets: @marypcbuk

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