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February 20, 2012, 5:30 AM

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Terrence O'Brien / Engadget:

Google quietly launches Latitude Leaderboards, threatens Foursquare under its breath — Google didn't exactly offer much fanfare for this new feature — as far as we can tell, it still hasn't been officially announced. With the latest update to the Maps app, Mountain View delivered …

More: Gizmodo, The Next Web, SlashGear, PhoneArena, Gotta Be Mobile, PC Magazine, Mashable!, Android Phone Fans, Marketing Pilgrim and WebProNews

Dante D'Orazio / The Verge:

Google Latitude for Android now gives Foursquare-style points for checking in

Eric Slivka / MacRumors:

Photo of iPad 3 Logic Board with “A5X” System on a Chip — A forum post at Chinese site WeiPhone offers a photo of what is claimed to be the iPad 3's logic board showing an “A5X” system-on-a-chip. — Apple is expected to introduce an upgraded processor and graphics package for the iPad 3 …

Danny Sullivan / Marketing Land:

Move Over Search Box, Google's Home Page Gets A Share Box — If you still don't get how much Google is behind ensuring Google+ gets everything it needs to succeed, consider the screenshot below, showing how for the first time ever, Google's home page now lets you do something other than search.

More: Danny Sullivan

Vinod Khosla / TechCrunch:

The “Unhyped” New Areas in Internet and Mobile — Editor's note: Legendary investor Vinod Khosla is the founder of Khosla Ventures. You can follow him on Twitter at @vkhosla. All Khosla Ventures investments, as well as ventures related to Vinod Khosla, are italicized.

Tweets: @robmoff

Electronista:

Samsung to spin out LCDs as Samsung Display on April 1 — Samsung spinout backs shift to OLEDs — Samsung on Monday confirmed rumors it was spinning out its LCD business. The group, to be renamed Samsung Display, would separate from its parent on April 1 pending approval.

More: Gizmodo, 9to5Mac, Engadget, Bloomberg and Electronista. Thanks:@matthewmspace

Reg Gale / Bloomberg:

Transistor Made Using a Single Atom May Help Beat Moore's Law — Feb. 20 (Bloomberg) — Scientists have taken a first early step toward escaping the limits of a technological principle called Moore's Law by creating a working transistor using a single phosphorus atom.

More: TechEye, Nature, New York Times, Sydney Morning Herald, Forbes, The Register, Fudzilla, Naked Security, Agence France Presse and Examiner

E.D. Kain / Forbes:

Possible Conflict Of Interest In ABC's Exclusive Access To Apple Chinese Supply Chain — In January, the New York Times published a controversial and troubling report about working conditions in FoxConn factories where Apple products are manufactured. Beneath the smooth exterior of the iPads …

More: ABCNEWS and 9to5Mac

Damaster / LiveSide.net:

More upcoming SkyDrive features revealed: ODF documents, BitLocker key management, URL shortening, and much more — Following the screenshot leaks of SkyDrive yesterday, revealing details about Microsoft's plans for paid storage and SkyDrive apps for Windows and Mac, today we've been tipped …

More: WinBeta, Redmond Pie, WMPoweruser and Techie Buzz. Thanks:@kipkniskern

Matthew Panzarino / The Next Web:

Evidence of extended Microsoft SkyDrive plans, apps for Mac and Windows

More: gHacks Technology News, Techie Buzz, The Verge, LiveSide.net, Neowin.net and WMPoweruser. Tweets: @akashman. Thanks:@martinsfp

Kyle Wagner / Gizmodo:

Everything Apple's Trying to Kill with OS X Mountain Lion — Apple's OS X Mountain Lion brings a lot of new features to the table. It's the future of instant messaging, for one thing, and probably more than a few other things as well. — But with the update, Apple's also moving to push …

More: eWeek

Chris Forsythe / Growl:

Growl's response to Notification Center: Welcome to the party, we were worried that we were being stood up

More: Ars Technica, SlashGear, MacStories, Pulse2 Technology … and The Verge. Tweets: @mrjoeyp

Daniel Eran Dilger / AppleInsider:

Mountain Lion focuses on Cocoa, drops X11 and deprecates Carbon Core

More: MacRumors

Bryan Bishop / The Verge:

LG makes the Optimus Vu official: 5-inch display and LTE in an 8.5mm-thin package — When LG surprised us with a teaser for the Optimus Vu smartphone, touting its 4:3 aspect ratio display, we expected an official announcement to come at Mobile World Congress.

More: IntoMobile, Engadget, Engadget, VentureBeat, PC Magazine, PC World, 9to5Google, AllThingsD and Electronista

John P. Mello Jr. / PC World:

Google Working on Password Generator for Chrome — Google is working on a new password manager for its Chrome browser that would also automatically create strong passwords for users. — The new manager is currently in the design phase, but Google has described the process by which it would work.

More: Hardware 2.0 Blog, LIVEdigitally, Dennis Fisher, PC Magazine and Slashdot

Josh Ong / AppleInsider:

Analyst who leaked Apple sales projections arrested, charged for insider trading — A research analyst who allegedly obtained secret information about Apple and sold it for hundreds of thousands of dollars has been arrested and charged with securities fraud, conspiracy and insider trading.

More: Reuters, iDownloadBlog.com, 9to5Mac, Bloomberg and Bloomberg

Kevin Lincoln / Business Insider:

Pinterest Might Be Enabling Massive Copyright Theft — Pinterest is one of the fastest-growing web sites in history. — Launched about six months ago, the site already has more than 10 million monthly visitors and, among social networks, is ranked below only Facebook and Tumblr in terms of average time-spent-per-user per month.

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