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December 10, 2013, 2:30 PM

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Paul Thurrott / SuperSite for Windows:

Windows Threshold may have options to run metro apps in windowed mode, bring back start menu — Further Changes Coming in Windows “Threshold” — After previous revelations about Windows “Threshold,” a release we might think of as Windows 8.2, some more information has emerged about Microsoft's plans for the future.

More: Examiner, Inquirer, Softpedia News, ExtremeTech, T3 News, InvestorPlace, Geek.com, InfoWorld, Gizmodo, PC Pro, GeekWire, TechSpot, The Register and gHacks Technology News

Tim Peterson / AdAge:

Apple's iTunes Radio Hires Sales Exec From Cumulus Media — Former Cumulus Media Exec Michael Pallad Started Last Week — Apple's iTunes Radio has poached a top radio ad exec as it prepares to offer the service widely to advertisers in 2014. — Former Cumulus Media executive VP-sales Michael Pallad …

More: CNET, MacRumors, AppleInsider, App Advice, Cult of Mac, 9to5Mac, The Mac Observer, iPhone in Canada Blog, Electronista, iDownloadBlog.com and iClarified. Tweets: @jeffschmidt. See also Mediagazer

Kellex / Droid Life:

LG-V510 is a Google Play Edition LG G Pad 8.3, Not a New Nexus — The mystery of the LG-V510 is pretty close to being solved today, as open source files for the tablet have surfaced over at LG's site. If you download the source .zip file and unzip it, you are greeted with three files …

More: 9to5Google, The Verge, My LG Cell Phones, The Next Web, Engadget, IntoMobile, TechCrunch, Gotta Be Mobile, Android and Me, PhoneArena, Unwired View and Phones Review

Janko Roettgers / Gigaom:

Chromecast gets Plex, Vevo, RealPlayer, Viki and more with massive app update — A few months ago, a developer source told me that Google planned to release apps for its Chromecast streaming stick in waves. Well, guess what: The first wave is here, and it's a massive one …

More: Plex, TechCrunch, Engadget, The Next Web, Ask The Post, The Verge, Android and Me, Gotta Be Mobile, Android Central, WebProNews, Softpedia News and Droid Life

Ernesto / TorrentFreak:

The Pirate Bay Moves to .AC After Domain Name Seizure — A few hours ago Pirate Bay users were shocked to discover that their favorite torrent site was no longer loading. — Without warning the nameservers were removed from thepiratebay.sx domain, making it impossible to load the site in places where DNS entries were not cached.

More: Inquirer, Ars Technica, Plagiarism Today, Softpedia News, Daily Dot and Polygon

Mike Beasley / 9to5Mac:

Apple launches 2013 “12 Days of Gifts” app on iTunes, available in U.S. for the first time — Apple has just launched its annual 12 Days of Gifts campaign for 2013. In previous years, this campaign was available only in a few select countries, but not in the United States.

Mikey Campbell / AppleInsider:

Apple patents tech for making curved touch surfaces, displays — The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office on Tuesday awarded Apple a patent that describes a method for forming curved touch sensors with high structural rigidity, suggesting the company is experimenting with curved iOS device displays.

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Matthew Panzarino / TechCrunch:

How Does Apple Really Feel About Bitcoin? — Over the past couple of months, there have been a few Bitcoin app rejections by Apple that have made some waves. First, the venture-backed startup Coinbase had its app removed entirely from the App Store. Today, a blog post from peer …

More: Guardian, Business Insider, MacRumors, Gliph Company Blog, CoinDesk and Gliph Company Blog

Sean Hollister / The Verge:

One standard to sync them all: AllSeen Alliance forms to accelerate Internet of Things adoption — Eighteen months ago, Qualcomm SVP Rob Chandok succinctly explained how the internet of things had failed. Instead of working together, manufacturers designed their smart televisions and appliances …

Hamish McKenzie / PandoDaily:

Yahoo acquires QuikIO, yet another startup to add to its video team — Early this morning, the creators of a little known but excellent cross-platform video streaming app called QuikIO sent a farewell note to its users. After December 31, the “FedEx of media files” would be shut down, the email said.

More: iDownloadBlog.com and WebProNews. Tweets: @hamishmckenzie. See also Mediagazer

Dan Goodin / Ars Technica:

“We cannot trust” Intel and Via's chip-based crypto, FreeBSD developers say — Developers of the FreeBSD operating system will no longer allow users to trust processors manufactured by Intel and Via Technologies as the sole source of random numbers needed to generate cryptographic keys …

More: The Register, InfoWorld, Gigaom and Boing Boing. Tweets: @bascule

Ben Thompson / stratechery:

Promotion in the App Store — Two interesting articles last week, better together. — First came TheInformation's1 maiden piece about How Apple Gives Some Apps an Edge (subscription required): … The next day came news that Cut the Rope 2 was launching in two weeks, and that it would be exclusive to iOS.

More: VentureBeat and The Information. Tweets: @hunterwalk and @drbarnard

CBC News:

Snowden document shows Canada set up spy posts for NSA — CSEC conducted espionage activities for U.S. in 20 countries, according to top-secret briefing note — A top secret document retrieved by American whistleblower Edward Snowden reveals Canada has set up covert spying posts around …

More: Daily Dot

Edgar Alvarez / Engadget:

Microsoft's Socl social network gets iOS, Android and Windows Phone 8 apps — The Microsoft Research team launched Socl in beta form a little over a year ago — and yes, it is still very much alive. Now, Redmond's experiment could potentially have a more extensive reach …

More: The Verge, iMore, The Next Web, TechHive, Softpedia News, WinBeta and Ubergizmo

Kyle VanHemert / Wired:

How Apple's Lightning-Plug Guru Reinvented Square's Card Reader — Square also developed a new custom read head—the piece that swipes data from the card itself. The two rectangles here draw from two different data bands hidden in the card's magnetic stripe. Photo: Josh Valcarcel/WIRED

More: The Next Web, Fortune, App Advice, SiliconANGLE, iDownloadBlog.com, iPhone, TechCrunch, AppleInsider, 9to5Mac, Android Beat and iPhone in Canada Blog

Tweets: @fmanjoo and @nimprojects

Mike Isaac / AllThingsD:

Facebook Wants to Be a Newspaper. Facebook Users Have Their Own Ideas. — Most people think of Facebook in a similar way: It's a place to share photos of your kids. It's a way to keep up with friends and family members. It's a place to share a funny, viral story or LOLcat picture you've stumbled upon on the Web.

More: Search Engine Roundtable. Tweets: @mikeisaac, @laurengoode and @mikeisaac. See also Mediagazer

Kaylene Hong / The Next Web:

Samsung has shipped 10 million Galaxy Note 3 devices since its launch 2 months ago — Samsung announced today that the Galaxy Note 3, its latest large-screen so-called ‘phablet’ device that follows on from the successful Note and Note II, has just surpassed 10 million units in shipments since …

More: Engadget, Samsung Tomorrow, BGR, TechHive, Electronista, Gigaom, 9to5Google, GadgeTell, CNET, SlashGear, Inquirer, Phandroid, Android Beat, MobileSyrup.com, Android Central, Tech in Asia, Softpedia News and Android and Me

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:

Amazon's Kindle FreeTime Becomes An Even Better Babysitter, With New Educational Feature That Tells Kids To “Learn First,” Play Later — Kindle FreeTime, Amazon's parental control software built into its line of Kindle Fire devices, is being upgraded ahead of the holidays …

More: LAPTOP Magazine, Amazon.com, GeekWire, The Next Web, PC World, WebProNews, SlashGear, Fast Company and AndroidOS.in

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:

Microsoft Releases 3rd Generation Of Photosynth, Turns 3D Images Into Video-Like Experiences — Microsoft this morning lifted the veil on the next generation of Photosynth, its 3D image technology, with the release of a technical preview of the new Photosynth.

More: Search Blog, BetaNews, Channel 9, The Verge, The Next Web, NYT Bits, WebProNews and TechNet Blogs

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:

Dailymotion Buys SublimeVideo Developer Jilion To Build Out Video Producing And Customizing Capabilities — With a Yahoo purchase very much off the table, France's Dailymotion is making an acquisition of its own: it is buying Jilion, the developer behind the SublimeVideo platform for distributing web videos with customized features.

More: Jilion Blog, CNET, The Next Web and ReelSEO Video Marketing. See also Mediagazer

Jon Russell / The Next Web:

Viber introduces Viber Out international calling feature, touts cheaper prices than Skype — Internet telephony company Viber has officially launched its Viber Out calling service which allows its 200 million-plus registered users to make low-cost calls to mobile and landline phones worldwide from within its mobile apps.

More: Android Central, Engadget, TechCrunch, iMore, iDownloadBlog.com, NextBigWhat.com, App Advice, 9to5Mac and Lastest ITProPortal news

Joab Jackson / Computerworld:

DARPA makes games of finding software vulnerabilities — DARPA creates a set of games that covertly search for software vulnerabilities — The U.S. Department of Defense may have found a new way to scan millions of lines of software code for vulnerabilities, by turning the practice …

More: Computerworld, PSFK, Gizmodo, blog.chron.com, VentureBeat, Help Net Security, Softpedia News, Expert Reviews and bit-tech.net

Daniel Terdiman / CNET:

Google barge on ‘hiatus’ amid scrutiny from two agencies — Whether it's a Google Glass store or a showroom for all things Google X, one thing is clear: No one will be visiting Google Barge anytime soon. — The once-mysterious barge, currently sitting idle alongside a pier at Treasure Island …

More: 9to5Google, BGR, Gizmodo, Digital Trends, Telegraph, Ubergizmo, TechnoBuffalo and The Switch. Tweets: @amir

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