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• 05 October 2013

• How-Tos: How to fix iMessage in iOS 7

  How to fix iMessage if it's not working for you any more in iOS 7.

• News: Valve's prototype Steam Machines dump AMD for Nvidia

  Valve Software said Friday that it will ship its prototype Steam Machines to 300 lucky beta testers, ranging from premium boxes based on Nvidia Titan cards down to low-end Intel Core i3 machines.

• News: What's behind Origin PC's decision to so publicly dump AMD video cards?

  One week after AMD took the wraps off its next-gen R7- and R9-series Radeon GPUs, and one day after the first wave of Radeon R9 290X graphics cards hit online retailer Newegg, Kevin Wasielewski, CEO of the boutique PC builder Origin PC, informed some in the media (including PCWorld) that his company will no longer sell machines with AMD graphics cards inside.

• News: AMD unveils Radeon R9 and R7 graphics cards

  AMD has unveiled its new R9 and R7 range of Radeon video cards aimed at video and image professionals, as well as video gamers.

• News: Adobe hit with cyber attack

  Cyber criminals have accessed information about 2.9 million Adobe customers including names, encrypted credit card numbers and expiration dates. The attackers also took customer IDs and encrypted passwords.

• 04 October 2013

• News: HTC still struggles financially as year's end looms

  In spite of favorable reviews for the One handset and the myriad of television ads currently making the rounds, things still aren't looking up for HTC.

• News: Five lasers and five cameras help Nissan LEAF drive itself into demo at CEATEC in Japan

  Put five lasers and five cameras in a Nissan LEAF, and what do you get? A car that can drive itself into an expo hall, as Nissan demonstrated its autonomous-car technology at CEATEC in Yokohama, Japan. That's Nissan CEO Carlos Ghosn in the photograph above, no hands on the wheel. The Japanese automaker promised to deliver a commercially viable version of the tech in cars by the year 2020. (What is it about that year 2020, anyway? Every future advancement known to man seems projected to occur then.)

• News: Asia Pacific to spend more on UC

  Businesses in Asia Pacific will invest more in unified communications and communications solutions (UC&C;) solutions in the coming months.

• News: ExtraHop mines the network to glean operations intelligence

  Jesse Rothstein, who was the lead architect of F5's flagship product line, founded ExtraHop in 2007 to develop products to derive IT operations intelligence from data gleaned from the network. Network World Editor in Chief John Dix recently caught up with Rothstein for an update on the company and what it has learned about things like virtual packet loss (hint: it can be the bane of highly virtualized environments).

• News: Overseas, Twitter cites access, privacy and Kakao among its biggest challenges

  Twitter doesn't seem to have a problem attracting users in international markets, but it definitely has problems making money off them.

• News: Facebook networking chief: No more secret ASIC commands

  Facebook's head of network operations has great expectations for software defined networking (SDN), though he may not be relying on commercial hardware vendors to bring SDN to the social networking giant's own infrastructure.

• News: Wall Street Beat: Business as usual for tech, but gov't crisis casts shadows

  The tech sector appears to be going about business as usual in the face of the U.S. federal government shutdown, but some industry insiders are nervous about a long-term stoppage or, even worse, the possibility of a debt default if a political compromise on the budget is not reached.

• News: Gateway's new AIO cracks the $400 price point

  The lines that seperate tablets, notebooks, and all-in-ones have increasingly blurred over the past few years--and prices have begun following that trend.

• News: Cotap launches mobile messaging app for work teams

  Campfire, HipChat and other group chat platforms are popular with distributed work teams because of the ability to communicate in real time via a web browser or mobile app. Cotap, a free iPhone app that launched Tuesday, takes a different tack by forgoing the browser element, opting instead to be a simple group texting app for work that you use primarily on your phone.

• News: Tor stands strong against the NSA, but your browser can bring you down

  Another day, another revelation revealed by Edward Snowden's leaks. Friday, The Guardian reported that the U.S. NSA and its British equivalent, the GCHQ, have been actively trying to defeat the encrypted protection provided by the popular Tor anonymity software.

• News: HTC's first net loss in a decade could spell its collapse in two years

  HTC's net loss of $101 million for the third quarter as reported Thursday might not sound all that traumatic, but in today's fiercely competitive smartphone market it could signal the beginning of the end for the phone maker.

• News: CBS app brings full episodes of popular shows, even on Windows 8

  CBS will open the floodgates of streaming video with new phone and tablet apps and full episodes for all of its primetime shows.

• News: U.S. supercomputers haven't been affected by gov't shutdown -- yet

  The U.S. government shutdown has taken some government Web sites offline, including data.gov. But the nation's most powerful supercomputers continue to operate -- for now, at least.

• News: 10 fun new facts found in Twitter's IPO filing

  Twitter's initial public offering is official as of Thursday, which means Wall Street investors and tech journalists are collectively losing their minds from all the excitement. The IPO doesn't mean much for Twitter's 215 million+ monthly active users, except that Twitter needs you to survive--and it's a little worried that you might move on.

• News: Apple's Schiller, Forstall set to testify in retrial over Samsung damages

  Apple and Samsung Electronics will return to a Silicon Valley federal court on Nov. 12 for a retrial of their billion-dollar 2012 patent battle, and Apple marketing chief Phil Schiller may come back to testify.

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