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February 26, 2012, 1:15 PM

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David Pierce / The Verge:

Huawei MediaPad 10 FHD has quad-core K3 processor, 1080p display (hands-on pictures) — It was barely an afterthought in Huawei's MWC press conference, but the company is also getting ready to launch a seriously high-end tablet. The MediaPad 10 FHD has a 1080p display (actually 1920 x 1200) …

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Joseph Volpe / Engadget:

Huawei outs Ascend D Quad: 4.5-inch 720p display, Dolby 5.1, 1.5GHz K3V2 CPU — We'd seen some prior leaks, but aside from poorly translated marketing jargon, Huawei's managed to keep its latest and greatest smartphone under wraps — until now, that is. The device is being billed as the …

More: Bits, CNET, LAPTOP Magazine, Engadget, Inquirer, Gizmodo, PhoneArena, The Next Web, Technically Personal!, Softpedia News, IntoMobile, MobileSyrup.com and The Verge

Richard Lawler / Engadget:

Samsung unveils new Galaxy Beam smartphone / projector combo with dual core CPU — Samsung has finally started to reveal its new products at MWC 2012, starting with this new refresh of the Galaxy Beam packing Android 2.3, a projector and a dual-core CPU. There's more details and specs in the press release after the break.

More: Computerworld, Samsung Mobile Press, The Verge, TechCrunch, VentureBeat, AllThingsD, Mashable!, Electronista, Android Police, MobileSyrup.com, 9to5Google, CNET and The Verge

Tweets: @samsungmobile and @dcurtis

Dante D'Orazio / The Verge:

Galaxy Tab 2 coming in 10.1-inch version as well — Samsung has just announced a 10.1-inch version of the Galaxy Tab 2 Android tablet after revealing the 7.0-inch version earlier this month. The Galaxy Tab 2 (10.1) will have a 10.1-inch 1280 x 800 LCD and a 1GHz dual-core processor running a Touch Wiz-skinned version of Android 4.0.

More: LAPTOP Magazine, TechCrunch, CNET, Computerworld, Samsung Mobile Press, Mashable!, Electronista, Electronista, Engadget and MobileSyrup.com

Christian Zibreg / 9to5Mac:

Adobe Photoshop Touch hits iPad 2 for US$9.99 (Update: Pulled until Monday) — Note - Photoshop Touch just started hitting AU/NZ. Update: It was pulled, but it will be available Monday. Some of our readers reported that it works better than the Android version.

More: VentureBeat, App Advice, The Next Web, Electronista, Mashable!, 1001 Noisy Cameras, iDownloadBlog.com, Redmond Pie, The Verge, Quintura blog and MacRumors. Tweets: @stroughtonsmith. Thanks:@9to5mac

Julia Angwin / Digits:

FBI Turns Off Thousands of GPS Devices After Supreme Court Ruling — The Supreme Court's recent ruling overturning the warrantless use of GPS tracking devices has caused a “sea change” inside the U.S. Justice Department, according to FBI General Counsel Andrew Weissmann.

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Roger Cheng / CNET:

LG leans on high-end specs in smartphone push — LG, which has struggled over the past few years to make a major impact in the smartphone business, looks to LTE, HD displays, and quad-core chips to set itself apart. — LTE is a big focus at LG during its media preview event at Mobile World Congress.

More: AllThingsD, TechCrunch, The Verge, AllThingsD, Engadget, The Verge, The Verge, The Verge and BGR

Roger Cheng / CNET:

LG in talks with Google for Nexus device — LG wants to be on the ground floor for one of the next iterations of Android. An LG executive noted that there were still no firm commitments yet. — LG and Android are as close as ever. — BARCELONA, Spain—LG is jockeying …

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Jon Gertner / New York Times:

Innovation and the Bell Labs Miracle — “INNOVATION is what America has always been about,” President Obama remarked in his recent State of the Union address. It's hard to disagree, isn't it? We live in a world dominated by innovative American companies like Apple, Microsoft, Google and Facebook.

Thanks:@the_spinmd

Chris Meadows / TeleRead:

PayPal cracks down on erotica e-book sales — Remember when Amazon started removing various kinds of erotica from its store? It's happening again, this time with a number of independent e-publishing sites such as All Romance and Smashwords. Today, Nate Hoffelder called attention to an e-mail …

More: TechCrunch, Smashwords and The Digital Reader

Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:

WSJ Pulls Back On What Google Searchers Can Read For Free — Are you used to using Google as a way around the Wall Street Journal's paywall? Think again. The WSJ has been holding back stories available through Google's “First Click Free” program, a move that I suspect other newspapers might soon emulate.

Bill Gurley / abovethecrowd.com:

Why Dropbox Is A Major Disruption — Back in October, Techcrunch announced that Dropbox had raised $250mm at a seemingly absurd valuation. Many firms, including my firm Benchmark Capital, participated. When this happened, many people asked us why this was a special company that would cause us …

More: Computerworld, Greg Knieriemen, PC Magazine, Pulse2 Technology … and Interactioned

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