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October 30, 2014, 5:25 AM

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David Pierce / The Verge:
Microsoft Band announced, a wearable that tracks health, shows emails, tweets; available for $199 in US tomorrow  —  Microsoft's health revolution is here, starting with a $199 fitness tracker  —  Microsoft Health, the Microsoft Band, and a plan to unite the world  —  Microsoft's fitness tracking ambitions are not small.
Todd Holmdahl / The Official Microsoft Blog:
Microsoft Health, a platform including a cloud service announced, works with Jawbone UP, RunKeeper, more; app available for Android, iOS  —  Introducing Microsoft Health  —  Today we're announcing a new platform called Microsoft Health.  Within health and fitness, there is rapid innovation …
Jason Schreier / Kotaku:
YouTube Finally Supports 60FPS, And It Looks Awesome  —  Earlier this year, YouTube announced plans to support videos running at 60 frames-per-second—plans that would make a huge difference for footage of video games.  Today, the video network has finally started rolling out the new service …
Jay Yarow / Business Insider:
CurrentC alerts users of its pilot program that some email addresses were stolen by hackers  —  Wal-Mart's Answer To Apple Pay Has Already Been Hacked  —  Here's a bad sign for CurrentC, the fledgling mobile payment system in development by a consortium of retailers.
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Shara Tibken / CNET:
Samsung's Q3 profit drops 60% YoY to $3.9 billion, mobile division profit down 74% YoY  —  Samsung's Q3 financials show ongoing struggles in mobile  —  The Korean electronics giant posts a 74 percent drop in its mobile business operating profits during the September period.
Chris Moody / The Twitter Blog:
IBM to incorporate Twitter data into its analytics tools, enterprise solutions  —  Changing the way business decisions are made  —  We believe that social data has unlimited value, and near limitless application.  Today, we're taking an important step toward unleashing this value through a new relationship with IBM.
David Kravets / Ars Technica:
MPAA, movie theaters announce “zero tolerance” policy against wearables  —  A movie theater industry group and the Motion Picture Association of America updated their anti-piracy policies and said that “wearable devices” must be powered off at show time.  —  “Individuals who fail or refuse …
Chris Velazco / Engadget:
Google takes another step into your living room with its Nexus Player (hands-on)  —  Google's wanted a piece of your living room for ages, and now — after two attempts that never really went anywhere =- the search giant seems poised to get it what it wants.
Nicole Perlroth / New York Times:
AG Kamala Harris releases data breach report: 18.5M Californians lost personal data in 2013, up from 2.5M in 2012  —  Report Analyzes Extent of Data Breaches in California  —  SAN FRANCISCO — The constant drumbeat of data breaches won't cease anytime soon, according to a new report …
Jon Russell / TechCrunch:
Chat App Line's Revenue Doubles Year-On-Year To Reach $192 Million in Q3 2014  —  Days after Facebook revealed that WhatsApp, its $18 billion messaging app acquisition, posted an overall loss for the first half of this year, Line — a rival app with 500 million registered users …
Abhimanyu Ghoshal / The Next Web:
Google Hangouts now lets you make free one-minute international calls  —  Google announced yesterday that users in 25 countries will now get the first minute free on international calls to 25 countries they make via its Hangouts app.  —  Google's Hangouts app for desktops and mobile …
Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge:
Google will discuss ‘major changes and advances’ for its modular smartphone in January  —  Google plans to update developers on the state of its Project Ara modular smartphones at a series of conferences held early next year, where it'll discuss “major changes and advances” …
Erin Griffith / Fortune:
In-store visitor tracking startup Nomi acquired by retail analytics company Brickstream following blow from privacy changes introduced in iOS 8  —  Even the smallest change to Apple's iOS platform can have a huge impact.  Tiny tweaks, such as the decision to improve privacy settings on iOS8, can wipe out whole categories of app makers.

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