Last year, Apple and Google spent more money on patents than product research, Lenovo ousts HP as the world’s top PC maker, 5G research centre gets a major funding grant and Samsung announces the Galaxy S3 Mini smartphone.

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• Apple and Google Spent More Money Last Year on Patents than Product Research
• Lenovo ousts HP as world’s top PC maker
• OnLive’s video gaming tech was sold for less than $5m
• 5G research centre gets major funding grant
• Firefox 16 Recalled
• Samsung announces Galaxy S3 Mini smartphone
• Kindle Fire HD and Paperwhite sales make Amazon no profit

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• Ellie Goulding to Hold Digital Album Signing in Google+ Hangout
• Welcome to Twitter, David Cameron
• Apple, Facebook, Google, Microsoft and others join forces to launch new Web standards resource
• Microsoft DMCA Notice ‘Mistakenly’ Targets BBC, Techcrunch, Wikipedia and U.S. Government

  

Apple to hold iPad mini media event on October 23rd, Apple reply to criticism on the iPhone 5’s purple lens flare and do you know where the time capsule containing Steve Jobs’ mouse is?

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HP CEO admits struggles they face, leaked Blackberry handset shows RIM are still trying to find their place and Windows Phone 8 launch event to be held in San Francisco on October 29th.

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• HP CEO: We’re screwed (for the next few years)
• HP looking for more than 50 developers in webOS hiring spree
• Leaked Blackberry handset shows RIM is still trying to find it’s place
• Valve Adds Software to Steam
• Windows Phone 8 launch event to be held in San Francisco on October 29th
• Samsung Galaxy S3 outsells iPhone 5 in UK, say new figures
• The CD turns 30

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• MySpace undergoes another facelift
• Facebook surpasses one billion users
• 21% of the FTSE companies are not on Twitter, good or bad?
• The makers of Tweetbot have released an app for App.Net

  

Apple extends iCloud Storage Bump for MobileMe Users to 2013, Apple Maps usage down to just 4%, is the iPad Mini already in mass production and Samsung adds iPhone 5 to latest patent infringement claims against Apple

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Yahoo gets back into the Display Ad Business, Apple apologises for Maps switch frustration, RIM reports loss yet sees a cash pile grow and AMD deal brings Android apps to Windows 8.

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• Phil Schiller Says iPhone 5 Scratching ‘Normal’ for Any Aluminum Product
• Yahoo Gets Back Into the Display Ad Business
• Apple apologises for Maps switch ‘frustration’
• Blackberry maker RIM reports loss but sees cash pile grow
• AMD deal brings Android apps to Windows 8

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• In California It’s now illegal for employers to ask for your social media passwords
• Facebook begins eliminating fake likes
• Why not use your error pages to help find missing people?
• Instagram now has more daily active users on mobile than Twitter
• Facebook security hole lets hackers impersonate group members

  

Phil Schiller says iPhone 5 scratching is “normal” for any aluminum product, will Apple try to make the next generation Macbook Air and Macbook Pro even thinner and Apple highlights third-party Maps alternatives in App Store.

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Is Nokia’s Lumia 920 better than the iPhone 5? Samsung is suing Apple over 8 LTE patents, Facebook given 4 weeks to fully satisfy Irish data commissioner and is there a way out of all the patent madness?

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• Is Nokia’s Lumia 920 better than the iPhone 5?
• Apple’s buggy iOS 6 maps lead to widespread complaints
• Twitter responds to IFTTT
• Samsung Is Really Suing Apple Over 8 LTE Patents
• Facebook given 4 weeks to FULLY SATISFY Irish data commissioner
• A way out of all this patent madness?
• Wii U developer reports struggles with slow CPU

Topics Talked about Today:

• Twitter Announces New Look for Profile Pages, Updated Mobile Apps
• Zynga Fights Back, Says EA Copied Games
• IFTTT disables Twitter Triggers in response to Twitter’s new third-party app policies
• ‘Gangnam Style’ Sets a Guinness World Record
• Google Will Overtake Facebook in U.S. Display Ad Revenue This Year

  

How much do Apple make from the iPhone 6, Google has an iOS 6 Maps app awaiting approval and Apple goes on a hiring spree in rush to make iOS 6 Maps better.

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Microsoft cuts branding of Live, HP have to ultimately offer a Smartphone, Samsung, HTC to block US, EU sales of iPhone 5 using LTE patents and Apple’s iPhone arrogance could cost in the long term.

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• Apple announced iPhone 5, iPod Touch and a Multitouch iPod Nano
• People Are Legitimately Furious At Apple Over The iPhone 5’s New Connector
• Microsoft Cuts Live Branding
• HP CEO: ‘We Have to Ultimately Offer a Smartphone’
• Apple Co-founder Steve Wozniak Hates The Samsung Patent Verdict

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• Neil Armstrong Twitter tribute recreates journey to the Moon (See below for link)
• 235 Million people play games on Facebook
• “Disheartened” by Twitters new API rules, web app developer Twimbow gives up
• Apple’s attempt at a music-based social network will close Sept 30
• GoDaddy’s DNS servers go down, taking thousands of sites with it

  

Apple announces the iPhone 5, 4-Inch iPod Touch alongside the Multitouch iPod Nano, the 30-Pin dock connector is no more and an OS X Password hack that you may want to watch out for!

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