Samsung's Bowl ad claims it can help Apple fanboys break free  —  Many of the deeply affected have been standing in line waiting to see how Samsung would attack Apple in launching the Galaxy Note.  —  So here we were, during the Super Bowl, with Apple fanboys and fangirls lining up in San Francisco.

Google hires a senior director at Apple for a top secret project (exclusive)  —  Google has pulled off a coup by hiring an Apple senior director of product integrity for a secret project, VentureBeat has learned.  —  The recruiting feat is historic since Google has never hired such a senior person away from Apple.

Why Apple's A5 is so big—and iPhone 4 won't get Siri  —  Why Apple's A5 is so big and the iPhone 4 won't get Siri Noise-reduction technology from a start-up called Audience accounts for the size of the iPhone 4S chip and keeps Siri off the iPhone 4, analyst Linley Gwennap concludes.

Windows 8 Start button removed by Microsoft in ‘Consumer Preview’  —  Microsoft has taken the bold step of removing the traditional Windows Start button from its Windows 8 “Consumer Preview.”  The Start button and menu were both introduced with Windows 95 over 15 years ago …

Over 3 years later, “deleted” Facebook photos are still online  —  Facebook is still working on deleting photos from its servers in a timely manner nearly three years after Ars first brought attention to the topic.  The company admitted on Friday that its older systems for storing uploaded content …

AT&T Starts Throttling Unlimited Data Users after 2GB of Monthly Usage  —  In October, AT&T announced that they would start throttling data usage amongst mobile Unlimited Data Plan users.  While AT&T no longer offers an Unlimited Data plan to new customers, many of the original iPhone purchasers are still grandfathered into that plan.

Toyota takes to spamming Twitter for Camry Super Bowl ‘promotion’  —  Twitter is a great platform to get people stoked about anything, if done right.  You can promote potato chips like @popchips does, and it could turn into a huge following for your brand and have fun doing it.

LibreOffice stats: 400 total contributors, thousands of code commits every month  —  The Document Foundation (TDF), which launched in 2010 to develop LibreOffice, has published statistics that illustrate the project's rapid growth.  Approximately 400 total developers have contributed code to the project.

How Does Facebook Make Money?  —  Facebook's IPO filing this week confirmed what we already knew: Facebook makes the vast majority of its money by selling ads on its site.  —  But now we know just how much of its revenue comes from advertising: 85% in 2011, with the remaining 15% coming from payments and other fees.

Zuckerberg's Big Tax Bill May Benefit Facebook  —  Few billionaires are willing to reveal much about their taxes.  —  But the Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg has indirectly done so in the documents for his company's public stock offering later this year.