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Joshua Topolsky / The Verge:
Sources: Apple TV update, iPad 3 for Verizon and AT&T LTE launching tomorrow, no quad-core SoC  —  When Tim Cook takes the stage tomorrow in San Francisco, a new iPad apparently won't be the only product announced.  As we reported last week, a new Apple TV model is expected to arrive alongside the higher-resolution iPad update.
Mat Honan / Gizmodo:
What to Expect at Apple's Event Tomorrow  —  Apple has an event tomorrow, and it will be the Biggest Consumer Technology News of 2012.  It will likely remain the Biggest Consumer Technology News of 2012 until Apple's next event, which may then overtake it.  Here's what to expect.
Seth Weintraub / 9to5Mac:
Apple's next iPad will be available on March 16th, additional launch event planned  —  .  —  We've been told by an Apple Store source who has been reliable in the past that preparations are being made for a big Apple Store event which will culminate on Friday, March 16th.
Arnold Kim / MacRumors:
Apple Creates a New App Store Category Called ‘Catalogs’ on Eve of Media Event  —  On the eve of the Apple media event for the iPad 3, Apple has added a new category in the App Store.  The new category is called “Catalogs” and seems to be not yet fully deployed.
Seth Weintraub / 9to5Mac:
J33 Apple TV introduced tomorrow will be $99, B82 part will be $39, iPad AppleCare +: $99  —  We've gotten a few more tidbits about tomorrow's Apple TV announcement (Oh, there will be a new iPad too!).  The Apple TV J33 model, MD199LL/A - J33 BEST -USA, which we've covered before will come …
Jamie Rosenberg / The Official Google Blog:
Introducing Google Play: All your entertainment, anywhere you go  —  Entertainment is supposed to be fun.  But in reality, getting everything to work can be the exact opposite—moving files between your computers, endless syncing across your devices, and wires...lots of wires.
Nate Anderson / Ars Technica:
Stakeout: how the FBI tracked and busted a Chicago Anon  —  “Script kiddie”—no hacker worth his salt wants to hear the term used to describe him.  Anyone with modest computer skills can cause modest havoc using other people's code fragments, scanners, and infiltration tools …
Andy Greenberg / The Firewall:
Anonymous Posts Response Letter To Snitch Sabu (On A Hacked Security Firm's Website)  —  The hacker group Anonymous is dealing with the arrest and betrayal of one of its most vocal members the only way it knows how: By hacking a security firm and covering its website with a rant against feds and snitches.
Jana Winter / Fox News:
EXCLUSIVE: Infamous international hacking group LulzSec brought down by own leader  —  EXCLUSIVE: Law enforcement agents on two continents swooped in on top members of the infamous computer hacking group LulzSec early this morning, and acting largely on evidence gathered by the organization's brazen leader …
Reuters:
Exclusive: Netflix in talks for cable partnership  —  (Reuters) - Netflix Chief Executive Reed Hastings has quietly met with some of the largest U.S. cable companies in recent weeks to discuss adding the online movie streaming service to their cable offerings, according to sources familiar with matter.
Chronic Wire:
iOS 5.1 Gold Master passes QA  —  The Gold Master build of iOS 5.1 has been in a vigorous quality assurance phase for the past three weeks, with extensive testing being done internally by Apple as well as by various carriers/partners.  —  It is rumored to have added Japanese language support in Siri …
Vlad Savov / The Verge:
Acer: $799 ultrabooks make no profit, aiming for $499 price nonetheless  —  Acer Global President Jianren Weng has been quoted at CeBIT today reiterating something he said at the beginning of December: ultrabooks will drop to the crazy-low price of $499 in 2013 and compete directly against Apple's iPad.
Amit Runchal / TechCrunch:
The Barber Of Infinite Loop: How The iPad Could Give Microsoft A Serious Revenue Haircut  —  After Apple pushed its 25 billionth app this weekend there was nothing especially surprising about the list of all-time paid apps for the iPhone: games and novelty apps dominated it.
Drew Olanoff / The Next Web:
After eight years at Pandora, Executive VP Jessica Steel will be stepping down in May  —  The internet radio company that went public last year, Pandora, had an earnings call today, but we found out some more interesting facts about the company after the call.
More: CNET
Nick Bilton / Bits:
Countering the Google Plus Image Problem  —  Google has a bit of an image problem.  —  For people peering in, Google Plus, Google's latest attempt at social media, has been a ghost town.  Some say it is a desolate wasteland that is used only by, well, Google employees and a few Google faithful.
Juan Carlos Perez / Computerworld:
Google drops the price of Cloud Storage service  —  Google has cut the price of its Cloud Storage, a hosted service designed for enterprise developers who want to store their applications' data in the cloud, as opposed to in their own servers.  The fees, based on monthly usage …
Dan Polivy / Bing:
Announcing: Bing Maps for Metro Style Apps  —  On Wednesday, February 29, our friends over in the Windows division proudly unveiled the Windows 8 Consumer Preview release to the world.  Today, we are excited to announce a beta of the new Bing Maps SDK for Metro style apps …
Joshua Topolsky / The Verge:
Sony tries to pivot back to premium, begins ‘unilateral’ pricing on consumer electronics  —  Today at a small gathering of journalists, Sony COO Phil Molyneux shared plans for the company's new retail strategy, and it's a new but familiar direction for the company.
Donald Melanson / Engadget:
Windows Embedded Standard 8 preview now available for download  —  We're guessing it won't get to a million downloads quite as quick as the Windows 8 consumer preview did, but Microsoft has now made another upcoming operating system available for download in “preview” form: Windows Embedded Standard 8.
Mark Lee / Bloomberg:
Facebook Says China Is Biggest Source of Applications Developers in Asia  —  Facebook Inc. (FB), whose website has been restricted in China since 2009, said it has more application development partners in the country than any other part of Asia.  —  Developers of software from China …
Nick Bilton / Bits:
With New Hardware, Square Begins Taxi Rollout  —  If you've ever been in a rush and in a taxi cab in New York, then you know how it feels to swipe your credit card at the end of the ride and wait for the receipt to pop out so you can sign it and hand it back to the driver.

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