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November 26, 2013, 2:30 PM

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Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:

Improved App Store Search Engine Now Corrects For Users' “Fat Finger” Mistakes & Other Misspellings — A recent change to Apple's App Store search engine now leads to improved search results for misspelled queries with small typos, we've learned. In addition, searchers looking for an app they know by name …

More: Gigaom, Search Engine Land, MacRumors, 9to5Mac, AppleInsider, SlashGear, App Advice, iPhone in Canada Blog, iDownloadBlog.com and MacNN. Tweets: @tapbot_paul

Joe Mullin / Ars Technica:

Jury: Newegg infringes Spangenberg patent, must pay $2.3 million — Determined lawyers, and the father of modern crypto, couldn't stop TQP patent. — MARSHALL, TX—Newegg, an online retailer that has made a name for itself fighting the non-practicing patent holders sometimes called …

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Mikey Campbell / AppleInsider:

Apple patents Lytro-like refocusable camera suitable for iPhone — The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office on Tuesday awarded Apple a patent for a camera system that uses a microlens adaptor to enable refocusing of an image after the initial shot is taken, much like the Lytro light-field camera.

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Jon Fingas / Engadget:

Google now inviting developers to buy Glass — Now that Google has offered a preview of Glass' SDK and opened the Mirror API to all developers, it has a strong incentive to get its eyewear in the hands of app writers. Accordingly, the crew in Mountain View is now inviting developers …

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New York Times:

Internet backbone giant Level 3 suspected of giving NSA access to Google and Yahoo users' data — N.S.A. May Have Hit Internet Companies at a Weak Spot — SAN FRANCISCO — The recent revelation that the National Security Agency was able to eavesdrop on the communications of Google …

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Arik Hesseldahl / AllThingsD:

Microsoft's Xbox One Costs $90 More to Build Than Sony's PS4, Teardown Shows — With two significant game console releases recently, research firm IHS has been working a little extra overtime these days. After doing surgery on Sony's Playstation 4, the team gave Microsoft's Xbox …

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Ina Fried / AllThingsD:

Apple Store a Big Source of Cellphone Sales; Best Buy Is Key for Carriers — The carrier stores are still the dominant place for Americans to get their new cellphones, but two other retailers — Apple and Best Buy — have emerged as significant channels. — Apple, of course, sells only iPhones …

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Stephen Shankland / CNET:

Google confirms RAW photo support and burst mode coming to Android — Click! Google rebuilds Android camera base for better photos — Want a better camera on your Android device? Google does, too. — For that reason, the company has overhauled the mobile OS's plumbing.

Steven Musil / CNET:

Judge denies Samsung motion to stay Apple patent damages trial — Korean electronics giant sought halt to proceedings so that the Patent Office could examine a key patent's validity. — A federal judge has denied Samsung's emergency motion to stay a patent infringement damages trial while the validity of a key patent is re-examined.

More: FOSS Patents, AppleInsider, iPhone in Canada Blog, MacRumors, PhoneArena, The Droid Guy, 9to5Mac, iDownloadBlog.com, SlashGear, BGR, TUAW and App Advice

Jim Edwards / Business Insider:

TV Is Dying, And Here Are The Stats That Prove It — The TV business is having its worst year ever. — Audience ratings have collapsed: Aside from a brief respite during the Olympics, there has been only negative ratings growth on broadcast and cable TV since September 2011, according to Citi Research.

More: TechSpot and The Tech Report. Tweets: @bingchen, @lisatalia, @hblodget and @willsmith

Michael McWhertor / Polygon:

Xbox One owners with hardware issues get complimentary game — Xbox One owners who found themselves on the receiving end of a defective console are being offered a free game for the inconvenience, according to emails from Xbox support representatives. — According to an email …

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Emil Protalinski / The Next Web:

Moto G now available unlocked in the US: 8GB for $179 and 16GB for $199, starts shipping on December 2 — Motorola today announced the GSM version of the Moto G is now available for purchase in the US on Motorola.com, and will start shipping on December 2. The device comes with no contract …

Shira Ovide / Digits:

Microsoft Hires ‘Pawn Stars’ to Bash Google Chromebooks — Microsoft has enlisted the reality-television series “Pawn Stars” in its ongoing campaign to bash rival Google. — An online video ad released Tuesday mimics the plot set up of “Pawn Stars,” which features people toting precious …

More: TechCrunch, The Next Web, 9to5Google and WinBeta

Bloomberg:

Apple Defeats Patent Claim Over Invention of Smartphone — Apple Inc. (AAPL), the world's most valuable technology company, was found by a federal jury not to infringe the patent of a 70-year-old electrical engineer who claims he came up with the idea for the smartphone.

More: PadGadget, iPhone Hacks, iDownloadBlog.com, Cult of Mac, Electronista, MacDailyNews, The Mac Observer and TUAW

Graham Cluley:

YouTube comment spam on the rise. Google tries to fight back — Long term users of YouTube will know that its commenting system has always been home to some of the most unpleasant, purile and single-braincelled comments in the universe. — But what it didn't have much of a problem with was link spam.

More: TechCrunch, CNET, PC World, 9to5Google, YouTube Creator Blog, Ubergizmo, ReelSEO Video Marketing and Guardian

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:

Canalys: Half Of All PCs Shipped in 2014 Will Be Tablets; Android 65%, Apple 30% — The growth of tablet sales has been outstripping that of more traditional desktop and laptop personal computers for a while, and now it looks like we are finally approaching the tablet/PC tipping point …

More: Canalys Newsroom, 9to5Google, VentureBeat, OStatic blogs, PC Magazine, Computerworld, Digital Trends, VatorNews, The Next Web, WinBeta, CNET, Benzinga, Inquirer, AndroidHeadlines.com and Softpedia News

Tweets: @bill_gross, @lukew and @halberenson

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Sarah Sloat / Wall Street Journal:

Amazon Workers in Germany Strike — Services Union Ver.di Says 1,000 Workers Participate — Nearly a thousand Amazon.com Inc. employees on Monday participated in strikes at two of the e-commerce giant's German sites and services union Ver.di threatened further action as the year's busiest shopping season begins.

More: DW.DE, Lastest ITProPortal news, Business Insider and Guardian

Tweets: @laurastevenswsj and @teamcoworker

Reuters:

German watchdog ends Amazon probe after pricing concession — (Reuters) - Germany's antitrust watchdog has dropped an investigation into Amazon after the world's biggest Internet retailer agreed to stop forcing third-party merchants to offer their cheapest price when selling products on its platform.

More: Softpedia News

Todd Bishop / GeekWire:

Barnes & Noble's Nook business falls more than 32% — Barnes & Noble's Nook business continues to struggle in its competition with Amazon, with revenues in the segment declining more than 32 percent in the company's most recent quarter, according to numbers released this morning.

More: DailyFinance.com, BGR, New York Times, ABC News, Reuters, CNET, Fox Business, WebProNews, Barnes & Noble, Inc. and Mashable. See also Mediagazer

Nick Summers / The Next Web:

BBM Channels coming to BlackBerry smartphones later today, will hit iOS and Android in coming months — BBM Channels, a new part of BlackBerry's popular cross-platform mobile messaging app BBM, will be available later today on any handset running BlackBerry OS 5 and above.

More: CrackBerry.com, Gigaom, Wall Street Journal, CNET, MobileSyrup.com and Android Community

Alex Wilhelm / TechCrunch:

Microsoft Confirms That “Excessive Profanity” In Xbox Upload Studio Videos Can Cost You Account Privileges — Reports have surfaced over the past 24 hours that Xbox users are losing their Xbox Live account privileges after uploading profanity-laced videos. Xbox One customers complained …

More: Telegraph, ComputerAndVideoGames.com, Forums Home, Polygon, Business Insider, Engadget, Guardian, Gearburn, SlashGear, Gizmodo UK, CNET, Inquirer, PandoDaily and Gizmodo

Ernesto / TorrentFreak:

Kim Dotcom Links €20,000 Wikileaks Donation to Megaupload Raid — Few people would disagree that Kim Dotcom is a fascinating man. After his file-sharing service Megaupload was raided early 2012, Kim Dotcom became an instant Internet celebrity. — The success and controversy surrounding …

Tweets: @glynmoody

Aaron Souppouris / The Verge:

Google brings Street View inside more than 65 airports and train stations, calls it a ‘first effort’ — Foreign airports and train stations can often be confusing places to find your way around. Perhaps with that in mind, Google today launched an interactive map featuring Street Views of over 65 mass transit hubs.

More: Google LatLong, CNET, Engadget, Search Engine Land, VentureBeat, Daily Dot, The Next Web and WebProNews

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