Sources: New Apple TV launching in March, near-immediate availability hinted for new iPads  —  iPads and Apple TVs work together for innovative AirPlay features  —  Reliable sources familiar with Apple's upcoming product release have said that the company is in fact launching a new Apple TV alongside the next-generation iPad.

Why Windows 8 is Microsoft's most vital launch in years  —  Microsoft Windows was a fact of life for an entire generation raised on the PC.  But we live in a different world now, and perhaps nothing underscores how much that world has changed more than the fact that the version of Windows …

PostCrunch  —  Monday was my last day at TechCrunch, after more than four years and 4,000 posts.  This blog is my new home on the Web.  I'm keeping it simple.  Just a WordPress blog where I will write about startups, technology, and media.  —  This is a personal blog.  It is not a professional news site.

Apple Loophole Gives Developers Access to Photos  —  Developers of applications for Apple's mobile devices, and Apple itself, came under scrutiny this month after reports that some apps were taking people's address book information without their knowledge.  —  As it turns out, address books are not the only things up for grabs.

HP lays off 275 employees from webOS division  —  We've just received word that HP has laid off more than 270 employees from its webOS division as it “no longer needs many of the engineering and other related positions that it required before.”  This follows just behind the departure …

Feature: How Red Hat killed its core product—and became a billion-dollar business  —  A decade ago, Linux developer Red Hat faced a decision that would make or break the company: whether to stop producing the very product that gave Red Hat its name.  The company was built on Red Hat Linux …

The Future According to Eric Schmidt  —  Google's chairman Eric Schmidt took the stage at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona this afternoon to talk about the role of technology in the “world we live in today” and how it will shape the societies of the future.

More feds ditch BlackBerrys  —  The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives is planning to start the process of ditching Research in Motion's signature BlackBerry wireless phone largely in favor of the iPhone, the agency's top tech official told POLITICO.

The Pirate Bay, Now Without Torrents  —  As announced a few weeks ago, The Pirate Bay has now largely stopped serving torrents.  —  Today, all torrent files being shared by more than 10 people have been replaced by so-called magnet links.  —  This means that instead of downloading …

Track Who's Tracking You With Mozilla Collusion  —  LONG BEACH, Calif. — Mozilla CEO Gary Kovacs took the TED stage Tuesday morning to introduce Collusion, a Firefox browser add-on that lets you track who's tracking you across the web for behavioral targeting purposes.

5 smartphone trends at Mobile World Congress  —  The key characteristics of new mobile devices are bigger, faster, or cheaper  —  Big smartphone vendors such as High Tech Computer (HTC) and LG Electronics are trying to get their mojo back after some challenging times, and they hope …

Megaupload Founder Defeats US Govt Attempts To Put Him Back In Prison  —  On February 22nd, Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom was released on bail by North Shore District Court Judge Nevin Dawson.  —  Dotcom had been held in custody since an anti-terrorist police squad raided his Coatesville mansion …

Scoop: Less than 1M Google TV devices in use  —  It's widely known Google TV hasn't exactly been a success story.  Early CE partner Logitech lost millions on the device, and consumer feedback was mostly negative after the first devices reached the market in late 2010.

Salesforce's canceled HQ project puzzles investors  —  (Reuters) - Web-based software maker Salesforce.com Inc's cancellation of plans to build a massive office complex in San Francisco has puzzled investors and city officials.  —  The pioneer in cloud computing said on Monday it would no longer …

Apple developing new audio file format to offer ‘adaptive streaming’  —  Format will provide high- or low-quality files to iCloud users  —  Apple is working on a new audio file format that will offer “adaptive streaming” to provide high- or low-quality files to users of its iCloud service.

Tello Raises $2.7M From True Ventures To Give Businesses Consumer Feedback On The Fly  —  Tello,, a SaaS and mobile app that allows customers to give businesses realtime feedback on customer service, has raised $2.7 million in new funding led by True Ventures and Bullpen Capital.

Bing Maps and Nokia Release Unified Map Design  —  Last year, we entered into a strategic partnership with Nokia which included plans to offer a unique and compelling mapping experience for our customers.  Since then we've been working with Nokia and Windows Phone to deliver a unified map style based …

Groupon Acquires Travel Search Company Uptake  —  Groupon has acquired the travel research start-up Uptake, Groupon just confirmed.  —  The price of the deal was in the “teens” of millions, and is essentially an “acqhire” for Uptake's 20-person Palo Alto, Calif.-based team, according to a source familiar with the deal.

SprintTV comes to iPhone bringing ABC, CBS, NBC, ESPN, Disney, MTV and Comedy Central with it  —  Click to view slideshow.  —  Lucky iPhone owners on Sprint's network (yeah we tried others) can now download Sprint TV and watch some pretty awesome programming. … The app is free.  —  Sprint via SprintFeed

Marvel graphic novels available on Apple's iBookstore  —  Marvel graphic novels available on Apple's iBookstore  —  Marvel on Tuesday announced that more than 80 of its graphic novels are now available on Apple's iBookstore.  —  According to Marvel, Civil War, Avengers, Stephen King's Dark Tower …

New App Stats for Publishers on Android Market  —  If you've published an app on Android Market, you've probably used Application Statistics to help tune your development and marketing efforts.  Application Statistics is a set of dashboards in the Developer Console that shows …

Raspberry Pi credit-card sized Linux PCs are on sale now, $25 Model A gets a RAM bump  —  The good news is that Raspberry Pi's highly anticipated teeny-tiny Linux computers are on sale now, just barely making the promised February launch window (good thing it's a leap year).