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iPad Air Teardown — It's All Hallows' Eve, the ghosts are out, and there's a spooky chill in the—nope, that's just Apple's latest ghoul, the iPad Air. Time to gut our new toy and carve it into a bone-chilling Apple-lantern. While our cobbers down under don't celebrate Halloween quite like we do …
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| Jordan Kahn / 9to5Mac: |
Confirmed: Apple & Best Buy will price match Walmart's $479 iPad Air deal in stores (Staples too) — As it has been known to do for recent Apple product launches, Walmart announced last week that it would be offering a $20 discount on Apple's new entry-level 16GB iPad Air starting as soon as the device launches tomorrow on November 1.
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Google's Secret Revealed: Barge To Offer High-End Showrooms, Party Deck — SAN FRANCISCO (KPIX 5) - Google's mysterious floating barge on San Francisco Bay will feature luxury showrooms and a party deck for the tech giant to market Google Glass and other gadgets to invitation-only clients, multiple sources told KPIX 5.
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| Joe Mullin / Ars Technica: |
Patent war goes nuclear: Microsoft, Apple-owned “Rockstar” sues Google — Rockstar's reverse-engineering lab in Ottawa, Canada. — Rockstar Consortium — Canada-based telecom Nortel went bankrupt in 2009 and sold its biggest asset—a portfolio of more than 6,000 patents covering 4G wireless innovations …
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| Claire Cain Miller / New York Times: |
Angry Over U.S. Surveillance, Tech Giants Bolster Defenses — SAN FRANCISCO — Google has spent months and millions of dollars encrypting email, search queries and other information flowing among its data centers worldwide. Facebook's chief executive said at a conference this fall that the government “blew it.”
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| Jennifer Van Grove / CNET: |
The preview is over: Instagram ads are here — Instagram will start running its first official advertisements Friday with a sponsored photo coming courtesy of fashion brand Michael Kors, the Facebook-owned company told CNET. — The ad, which features a watch from the brand's Timeless collection …
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| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
Meet “badBIOS,” the mysterious Mac and PC malware that jumps airgaps — Three years ago, security consultant Dragos Ruiu was in his lab when he noticed something highly unusual: his MacBook Air, on which he had just installed a fresh copy of OS X, spontaneously updated the firmware that helps it boot.
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| Felix Salmon: |
Apple should continue to focus on its products and resist Icahn's advice on stock buyback — Apple should be like Bloomberg — I'm very glad that the WSJ has published today's debate between Farhad Manjoo and Dennis Berman on the subject of Apple. Manjoo has been writing …
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| Ryan Lawler / TechCrunch: |
PLAiR 2 Launches To Take On Chromecast With Netflix, Hulu Plus, Spotify, And Pandora Apps For $49 — What do you do when your startup launches a product in a nascent category and then a behemoth like Google enters the space and validates it? And eats your lunch in the process?| Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Fortune: |
J.D. Power's fuzzy math: Samsung's 18 stars beat Apple's 22 — How exactly did Samsung overtake Apple in “overall satisfaction”? — FORTUNE — You can hardly blame the reporters and editors who wrote all those headlines proclaiming Samsung's victory over Apple (AAPL) … | Kellex / Droid Life: |
Motorola Announces Devices to Receive Android 4.4 - Moto X and New DROIDs for Sure — Earlier today, Motorola began teasing the Android 4.4 Kit Kat update for their line of devices. They promised news on their plans, which they have now delivered on. If you cruise over to their device upgrade portal … | Brad Molen / Engadget: |
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| Alex Konrad / Forbes: |
Fab.com Co-Founder Departs After Pivot From Flash Sales Model — Cofounder Bradford Shellhammer is leaving commerce site Fab.com following the company's pivot away from flash sales, the company announced Fri. Shellhammer will transition to a non-executive adviser while cofounder Jason Goldberg stays on as Fab's CEO.
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| Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch: |
Groupon Redesigns Web And Mobile Apps To Focus On Personalization, Local And Search — Groupon hasn't had a great go of things since becoming a publicly traded company; founder and CEO Andrew Mason was ejected earlier this year, and its so-called “third-party” or daily deal revenue seems …
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| Sam Biddle / Valleywag: |
Lawsuit: Chad Hurley shared Kanye West proposal video to promote “foundering” startup MixBit — Read the Hugely Insulting Kanye West Lawsuit Against YouTube's Founder — As we mentioned earlier this week, Kanye and Kim are suing YouTube creator Chad Hurley … | Philip Oltermann / Guardian: |
Germany may ask Snowden to be witness in NSA inquiry — Green politician meets US whistleblower in Moscow to discuss possibility of helping parliamentary investigation into US spying — Edward Snowden may be invited to Germany as a witness against the US National Security Agency.
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