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November 26, 2013, 1:45 PM

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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 …

More: Gigaom and Techdirt. Tweets: @pkedrosky, @cipherlaw, @mattcutts, @webmink, @tapbot_paul, @edbott, @dangillmor, @laurencstill, @xor, @0xabad1dea and @psaffo

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 …

More: SiliconBeat, ReadWrite, Business Insider, Gizmodo, Softpedia News, Yahoo! News, Gigaom and VentureBeat

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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 …

More: Glass Almanac, TechCrunch, VentureBeat, Marketing Land, CNET, Gotta Be Mobile, Softpedia News, 9to5Google, Android Community, SlashGear and The Next Web

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 …

More: AppleInsider, BGR, InvestorPlace, Gotta Be Mobile, iDownloadBlog.com, Electronista, iPhone, App Advice, Cult of Mac, TUAW and iPhone Hacks

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.

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.

More: The Verge, Gigaom, MacRumors, Gizmodo, VentureBeat, 9to5Mac, iPhone Hacks, pocketnow.com, TechCrunch, iLounge, iPhone in Canada Blog and MacNN

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, BGR, PhoneArena, The Droid Guy, 9to5Mac, iDownloadBlog.com, SlashGear, TUAW and App Advice

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 …

More: CNET, Tech Trader Daily, Softpedia News and Gotta Be Mobile. Tweets: @capnsmak

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: The Tech Report and HEXUS.net Latest Content. Tweets: @bingchen, @lisatalia, @hblodget and @willsmith

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

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 …

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, OStatic blogs, PC Magazine, Computerworld, 9to5Google, VatorNews, WinBeta, The Next Web, CNET, Inquirer, Benzinga, AndroidHeadlines.com and Softpedia News

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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

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: 9to5Mac, AppleInsider, iPhone in Canada Blog, iDownloadBlog.com, MacNN and iClarified. Tweets: @tapbot_paul

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, Business Insider, Lastest ITProPortal news and Guardian

Tweets: @laurastevenswsj and @teamcoworker

Sari Horwitz / Washington Post:

Julian Assange unlikely to face U.S. charges over publishing classified documents — The Justice Department has all but concluded it will not bring charges against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange for publishing classified documents because government lawyers said they could not do so without …

Tweets: @galtsgirl, @mlcalderone, @mathieuvonrohr, @rupertmurdochpr, @jlllow and @postbaron. See also Mediagazer

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

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

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 …

More: Inquirer and Softpedia News. Tweets: @glynmoody

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 …

More: The Verge, Geek.com, Inquirer, HEXUS.net Latest Content, Gotta Be Mobile, Kotaku, gameinformer.com, destructoid, Softpedia News, VG247, GamePolitics blogs, Engadget and Joystiq

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, 9to5Google, YouTube Creator Blog, ReelSEO Video Marketing and Guardian

Jon Fingas / Engadget:

U-Verse dropping Xbox 360 receiver support after December 31st — We hope you weren't bent on using the Xbox 360 as a U-Verse TV receiver. AT&T is now telling customers that it will drop IPTV support for Microsoft's older console after December 31st, leaving viewers with little choice but to use a conventional set-top box.

More: DSLreports, TelecompetitorTelecompetitor and TweakTown

Steve O'Hear / TechCrunch:

After Last Month's Security Breach, Social Media Scheduling Service Buffer Adds 2-Step Login — Buffer, the social media scheduling service, experienced a potentially brand-damaging security breach last month that saw a slew of weight-loss spam posted to Twitter and Facebook on behalf of its users.

More: The Buffer blog, The Next Web, VentureBeat, PandoDaily, ZDNet, Softpedia News and Lifehacker

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