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September 30, 2014, 5:55 AM

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Apple:

iPhone 6 & iPhone 6 Plus Available in China on Friday, October 17 — Pre-orders Begin Friday, October 10 — Apple® today announced that iPhone® 6 and iPhone 6 Plus, the biggest advancements in iPhone history, will be available in China beginning Friday, October 17 from the Apple Online Store …

More: BetaNews, The Verge, The Next Web, The Register, Re/code, VentureBeat, Engadget, MacRumors, TechCrunch, The Mac Observer, Geeky Gadgets, App Advice, MacStories, iDownloadBlog.com, SlashGear and iPhone in Canada Blog

Paul Carsten / Reuters:

China OKs iPhone 6 sale after Apple addresses security concerns

More: ABC News, Inquirer, Digital Trends, Forbes, BetaNews, New York Times, CNET, Wall Street Journal, PC World, ZDNet, Cult of Mac, The Verge, MacNN, Bloomberg, 9to5Mac, iPhone in Canada Blog, Tech in Asia, MacRumors, App Advice, AppleInsider and Business Insider. Tweets: @paulmozur

New York Times:

Gray market for iPhones in China dries up, driving iPhone 6 price down from $1960 to $1060

More: AppleInsider, Cult of Mac, Gizmodo, iPhone in Canada Blog, MacDailyNews, Digital Trends, Cult of Mac and CNET

Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac:

Apple developing iOS 8.1, 8.2, & 8.3 in shift for 2015 launches — Starting with iOS 5 in 2011, Apple has released a major new iOS version each fall and a notable follow-up update early in the following year. For example, iOS 6 launched in September 2012 and was updated to iOS 6.1 in January …

Ben Sisario / New York Times:

Judge Rules Against Grooveshark in Copyright Infringement Case — In the music industry's second big legal victory in a week, a federal judge in New York ruled on Monday that Grooveshark, an online music service long vilified by the major record companies, infringed on thousands of their copyrights.

More: The Register, Engadget, Reuters, VentureBreak and VentureBeat. See also Mediagazer

Tom Fairless / Wall Street Journal:

EU Believes Apple's Irish Tax Deal Breached Rules — European Union Comments Outline Reasons Why it Opened an In-Depth Investigation — BRUSSELS—European Union regulators said Tuesday they believe that tax deals granted to Apple Inc. in Ireland constitute illegal state support for the U.S. company …

More: VentureBeat, The Next Web, Engadget, Business Insider, BBC, Sky News and Bloomberg

Mike Beasley / 9to5Mac:

Apple releases patch for Shellshock vulnerability for OS X Mavericks, Lion, and Mountain Lion — Apple releases OS X bash update 1.0 addressing Shellshock vulnerability — Apple has just released a new download for users on OS X Mavericks to address the recently-discovered “Shellshock” bug.

More: Gigaom, Gizmodo, Mashable, Channel EYE, Graham Cluley, MacRumors, Neowin, Krebs on Security, CIO.com, MacNN, The Verge, OS X Daily, iDownloadBlog.com, TechCrunch, The Next Web and Engadget. Thanks:@markgurman

FireEye Blog:

FireEye observes significant amount of malicious traffic leveraging Shellshock bug in Bash, suspects this is a dry run before a potentially larger-scale attack

More: CVE, TrendLabs Security …, eWeek, Securelist, HP Security Research, ReadWrite, ZDNet, The Register and Inquirer

Eriq Gardner / Hollywood Reporter:

Beats files lawsuit against Steve Lamar for claiming co-founder status — Apple Suing Headphones Entrepreneur for Claiming to Be a Beats Co-Founder — Steve Lamar taken to court over what he's been tweeting — The story of how Beats Electronics was founded just got more interesting.

More: AppleInsider, MacNN and SlashGear. Tweets: @abrams

David Kravets / Ars Technica:

CEO of StealthGenie arrested on charges of designing spyware app for stalkers — Spyware executive arrested, allegedly marketed mobile app for “stalkers” — The chief executive officer of a mobile spyware maker was arrested over the weekend, charged with allegedly illegally marketing …

More: ZDNet, The Register, FBI, ABC News, SlashGear, Washington Post, NBC News, Phys.org, VentureBeat, The Hill, NPR and CIO.com

Juli Clover / MacRumors:

Bug in iOS 8's “Reset All Settings” appears to be erasing all iWork documents in iCloud Drive — Bug in iOS 8's ‘Reset All Settings’ Option Also Erases iCloud Drive Documents — It appears that there may be a serious bug with the “Reset All Settings” option in iOS 8 …

More: The Next Web, TechCrunch, Mashable, AppleInsider, Ubergizmo, iPhone in Canada Blog, MacNN, 9to5Mac, The Verge, iDownloadBlog.com, BGR, App Advice and The Mac Observer. Tweets: @joshconstine

Giulio Minotti / Phonebloks Blog:

Project Ara to use modified Android L, allowing all but CPU, display modules to be hot-swapped — PROJECT ARA NEWS — Paul Eremenko recently announced interesting news on Project Ara. The most significant concerns its market launch in early 2015. The first fully functional prototype …

More: Engadget, Gizmodo, Geeky Gadgets, PC World, Ubergizmo, Phandroid, Droid Life, Pocketnow, Android Police, SlashGear and Android Central

Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:

HP adds to its Windows Stream line, with laptops from $200, tablets from $100, available November — Hewlett-Packard reveals HP Stream series of skinny laptops and tablets — Hewlett-Packard is stretching the limits of design with the announcement today of the colorful and thin HP Stream series of Windows laptops and tablets.

More: Blogging Windows, Engadget, blog.laptopmag.com, The Verge, BetaNews, Gizmodo, SYS-CON MEDIA, PC World, TUAW and TechCrunch. Tweets: @bryanbma

Eric Slivka / MacRumors:

iOS 8.1 Carries Hidden Settings for Apple Pay, References Touch ID Support for iPad — The first beta of iOS 8.1 seeded earlier today has not yet revealed a significant number of changes visible to regular users, but developer Hamza Sood has managed to uncover several interesting hidden settings and strings from the new version.

More: Cult of Mac, Gizmodo, Engadget, MacNN, SlashGear, Geeky Gadgets, App Advice, iPhone in Canada Blog, AppleInsider, iDownloadBlog.com and 9to5Mac. Tweets: @hamzasood

Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac:

Retina iMacs with OS X Yosemite in late testing within Apple, could launch soon — A new line of iMacs with ultra high-resolution Retina Displays is in late testing stages within Apple, according to our sources who have used the future desktop computer. While the machine will sport …

More: Ubergizmo, OS X Daily, AppleTell, AppleInsider, InvestorPlace, Re/code, Macworld, BGR, App Advice, Pocket-lint, iPhone in Canada Blog, VentureBreak, The Verge, SlashGear, MacRumors and MacNN. Tweets: @johnpaczkowski

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:

Apple Rejects Launcher, The App That Lets You Launch Other Apps From iOS 8 Notification Center — Apple doesn't care for apps that let you launch other apps directly from the Notification Center, and has pulled one of the first apps to take advantage of this new functionality now available in iOS 8 from the iTunes App Store.

More: 9to5Mac, SlashGear, Business Insider, iMore, Shelly Palmer and MacNN. Tweets: @andreipop

Yevgeniy Sverdlik / Data Center Knowledge:

Cisco adds 30 companies to Intercloud initiative, commits $1B to loan to buyers of its gear — Thirty Companies Buy Into Cisco's ACI-Dependent Cloud of Clouds — Cisco has secured a lot of new partners in its $1 billion initiative to build a Cisco cloud of clouds, a global network …

More: SiliconBeat, VentureBeat, eWeek, MarketWatch, searchITChannel, Advanced Television, Bloomberg, Reuters, FierceTelecom News and ZDNet

Associated Press:

Another Card System Hack at Supervalu, Albertsons … NEW YORK (AP) — Card data of Supervalu and Albertsons shoppers may be at risk in another hack, the two supermarket companies said Monday. — The companies said that in late August or early September, malicious software was installed …

More: Fortune, Wall Street Journal and Reuters

David Meyer / Gigaom:

UK launches “sharing economy” review, but don't expect deep examination of workers' rights — The review, which should result in recommendations by the end of the year, is being led by the CEO of a sharing economy firm and does not have workers' rights as an explicit part of its terms of reference.

More: GOV.UK departments and policy, bisgovuk.citizenspace.com, TechCrunch, Guardian and ZDNet

Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet:

In Threshold, Microsoft will introduce new methods for building, testing, and updating Windows — Why Microsoft's engineering changes will be the real Windows 9 (Threshold) story — Summary: Microsoft is building, testing and updating Windows in a very different way, starting with Windows Threshold.

More: IntoMobile, Neowin, InfoWorld, CIO.com, Gizmodo, The Register, Windows Phone Central, WinBeta and SiliconANGLE

Tweets: @danieleran and @hondanhon

Ben Sisario / New York Times:

eMusic will no longer offer songs from big labels, focusing only on indies starting Oct. 1 — EMusic Returns to Indie Roots Amid Shift in Online Market — EMusic, a pioneering digital music store that has struggled to find its place in the rapidly shifting online market, has changed directions again.

More: Engadget and Gigaom. Tweets: @sisario

Wall Street Journal:

SoftBank, DreamWorks Animation Talks Cool — Two Sides Still Could Renew Talks or Agree on a Content Partnership — SoftBank Corp.'s discussions to acquire DreamWorks Animation SKG Inc. have cooled, according to people familiar with the matter, less than two days after word first emerged of the talks.

More: Business Insider and Deadline. See also Mediagazer

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