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November 26, 2013, 1:40 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 …
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 …
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 …
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.
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.
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 …
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.
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 …
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 …
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 …
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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 …
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.
Bloomberg:
Intel Said Asking $500 Million for Streaming Pay-TV Unit  —  Intel Corp. (INTC) is asking about $500 million for OnCue, the online pay-TV service that the world's largest chipmaker developed before dialing back its ambitions, according to people with knowledge of the process.

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