Apple to Announce iPad 3 First Week in March  —  Apple's not holding an event in February.  But it is holding one in March — to launch its next iPad.  —  Sources say the company has chosen the first week in March to debut the successor to the iPad 2 and will do so at one of its trademark special events.

Google Near Launch of Cloud Storage Service  —  Google Inc. is close to launching a cloud-storage service that would rival one of Silicon Valley's hottest start-ups, cloud-storage provider Dropbox Inc., according to people familiar with the matter.  —  Like Dropbox, Google's storage service …

Building Windows for the ARM processor architecture  —  One of the notable aspects of Microsoft Windows has been the flexibility the architecture has shown through shifts in technology and expansion of customer usage over time.  What started out as an operating system for one person working solo …

Steve Jobs' FBI File Released  —  The FBI has released, and posted on its web site, Steve Jobs' 191-page FBI file.  Read it here.  The file consists of a 1991 background investigation conducted when Jobs was being considered for an appointment to the President's Export Council in the Bush I White House …

Leaked iPad 3 Components Reveal New Internals, But No New Design [Exclusive]  —  Images of leaked iPad 3 components hot off the factory floor have been provided to Cult of Mac.  They reveal that the internal components of Apple's third-generation iPad are significantly different to those features …

Zuckerberg Takes Control, You Get $100  —  Mark Zuckerberg must be one persuasive deal maker.  —  After eight years, Mr. Zuckerberg, the co-founder and chief executive of Facebook, has an ironclad grip on the social networking giant.  He owns 28.4 percent of all class B shares …

End of an Era: Google's Very First Employee, Craig Silverstein — Technically, No. 3 — Leaving  —  Google's very first employee, Craig Silverstein, is leaving the company to join the high-profile online learning phenom, Khan Academy.  —  News of the departure first appeared yesterday …

Google Social is Exploding Online!  —  Now that the dust has settled from the initial launch of Google+ it is time for some analysis of the social network's functionality and popularity.  No doubt people are extremely excited with the new release of Google's social platform …

Report: How Americans are Spending their Media Time... and Money  —  Americans spend more than 33 hours per week watching video across the screens, according to the latest Nielsen Cross-Platform Report.  But how they're consuming content—traditional TV and otherwise—is changing.

Patent Troll Claims Ownership of Interactive Web - And Might Win  —  The mother of all patent troll trials unfolds in Texas where Google, Amazon and Adobe are fighting a patent claiming ownership over online video, image rotation and search auto-complete.  We explain and start a series.

Chutzpah: Google also wants 2.25% of every iPhone sale  —  It's not enough that Google borrowed the phone's look and feel to make Android?  —  From Google's IEEE letter.  Source: FOSS Patents.  Click to enlarge.  —  It took a Techmeme news cycle for the import of Google's (GOOG) …

The tone of life on social networking sites  —  Summary of findings  —  The overall social and emotional climate of social networking sites (SNS) is a very positive one where adult users get personal rewards and satisfactions at far higher levels than they encounter anti-social people or have ill consequences from their encounters.

Alibaba Suspended as Buyback of Yahoo Stake Looms With Loan  —  Alibaba.com Ltd. (1688) suspended its shares from trading in Hong Kong as the company prepares a statement about a transaction involving its parent, which is raising about $3 billion to buy back stock held by Yahoo! Inc. (YHOO)

Waze uses the iPhone proximity sensor to launch hands-free traffic reporting for iOS  —  Silicon Valley start-up Waze is launching a new addition to its iOS application today.  The free GPS and turn-by-turn navigation app is designed to crowd source information on traffic jams thanks to reports from fellow drivers.

End of an era: Kodak discontinues camera business  —  Eastman Kodak has shocked the world today, announcing that it has put an end to its camera business.  —  By the end of June, Kodak expects to phase out its digital cameras, pocket video cameras, and digital picture frames, the company announced today.

Barack Obama tweets his campaign Spotify playlist, election cycle has officially begun  —  Many have wondered if Obama has been busy lately fixing America's problems, or if he's just preoccupied with re-election while he lets Clint Eastwood do the dirty work.

File Sharing in the Post MegaUpload Era  —  On January 18, 2012 global file sharing traffic collapsed.  In a series of coordinate raids, US and New Zealand authorities seized thousands of MegaUpload servers and arrested its founder (at his own birthday party, no less).

Foxconn hacked by group called SwaggSec, here's what they are looking at...  Hacker group SwaggSec just released a dump of Foxconn internal information, including a mail server login/password dump and logins to various online procurement sites and Intranets.  The hack seems to be a retaliation …

Ice Cream Sandwich coming to some HTC devices by the end of March  —  HTC announced on Thursday that an Ice Cream Sandwich update will be available for select devices by the end of March.  The announcement came through the company's Facebook page and states that the first devices to receive …

Apple now worth more than Google and Microsoft combined  —  First on AI: Apple's stock soared to new heights on Thursday, pushing the company's market capitalization to $456 billion, a number that is greater than the values of rivals Google and Microsoft combined.

Google May Open Retail Store at European Headquarters in Dublin  —  Google Inc. (GOOG) may open its first stand- alone retail store at its European headquarters in Dublin, according to a filing by the world's most popular search engine.  —  The Google Store would be open to the public and sell unspecified …