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March 26, 2012, 6:40 PM

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Roger Cheng / CNET:

AT&T to sell Nokia Lumia 900 for $100 on April 8 — Nokia's Lumia 900 smartphone will hit AT&T's store shelves on April 8, a move Nokia hopes will usher a return to the U.S. in a big way. The phone will sell for $99.99 with a two-year contract, AT&T told CNET.

Paul Thurrott's / SuperSite for Windows:

AT&T Continues To Harm Windows Phone Users — On Monday, AT&T will announce the availability of the eagerly-awaited Nokia Lumia 900, a high-end yet inexpensive device that the company's sales agents are allegedly drooling over internally. Selected as Microsoft's premier carrier partner for Windows Phone …

More: All about Microsoft Blog, LiveSide.net, Pocketables, The Verge, The PhoneBoy Blog, WMPoweruser, The Next Web and Gotta Be Mobile

Loretta Chao / Wall Street Journal:

Apple's Tim Cook Meets With Chinese Officials — BEIJING—Apple Inc. Chief Executive Tim Cook met Chinese government officials in Beijing Monday, a company spokeswoman said, as the consumer electronics giant faces a legal challenge in China to the iPad trademark and as it looks to further its surging Chinese growth.

More: Bloomberg

Jon Russell / The Next Web:

Tim Cook does what Jobs didn't: Visit China as Apple's CEO — Tim Cook has been spotted in China, making him the first Apple CEO to visit the world's most populous country, sparking a media frenzy among a nation that is already obsessed by Apple. — The Apple CEO was spotted by Sina Weibo users …

More: Fortune, CHINAdaily, Techland, AppleInsider, Business Insider, Phones Review, 9to5Mac, The Verge, the Econsultancy blog, Computerworld, GigaOM, Edible Apple and MacRumors

Nathan Ingraham / The Verge:

Microsoft apologizes over ‘Smoked by Windows Phone’ controversy, offers winner laptop and phone — Microsoft's working quickly to counter backlash it's receiving after denying a user who won a Windows Phone challenge his just reward. Yesterday, Sahas Katta won a “Smoked by Windows Phone” …

More: PC Magazine, The Verge, Pulse2 Technology …, MobileSyrup.com, Android Phone Fans and Know Your Mobile

Sahas Katta / Skatter Tech:

I Won The Windows Phone Challenge, But Lost “Just Because”

More: Computerworld, InfoWorld, The Verge, wpcentral, PhoneArena, Android Community, Engadget, GeekWire, pocketnow.com, Techland, SlashGear, Internet2Go, MacNN, WMPoweruser, DailyTech, TechnoBuffalo, CNET, Reuters, WebProNews, IntoMobile, Geek.com, My Nokia Blog, Neowin.net, Gotta Be Mobile, Redmond Pie, Mashable!, VentureBeat, Techie Buzz, The Register, BGR, TechSpot, 9to5Google, Inquirer, istartedsomething, TechEye and Electronista. Tweets: @benthepcguy. Thanks:@mattlynley

Shayndi Raice / Digits:

Facebook Releases Emails From Zuckerberg's Harvard Days — For the first time, Facebook released a trove of emails that were sent between its CEO Mark Zuckerberg and wood-pellet salesman Paul Ceglia. … Facebook's motive in releasing the emails: to quash Ceglia's claims that he is owed 50% of Zuckerberg's stake in the company.

More: Business Insider, All Facebook, CNET, Bits, The Verge, SlashGear, Pulse2 Technology …, AllThingsD and Deal Journal

Emil Protalinski / Friending Facebook Blog:

Facebook files motion to dismiss Paul Ceglia lawsuit

More: Washington Post and Wall Street Journal

Florian Mueller / FOSS Patents:

Apple offers royalty-free license to nano-SIM patents, a proposed standard backed by most European carriers — Last week, the Financial Times reported that Apple is at loggerheads with Motorola Mobility, RIM and Nokia over a proposed standard called “nano-SIM”, a further miniaturization …

Mikael Ricknas / Computerworld:

Nokia lashes out at Apple's royalty-free nano-SIM

More: The Verge

Nicholas Carlson / Business Insider:

A Year Later, $41 Million Startup Color Has A Pathetic 30,000 Daily Users — About a year ago, serial entrepreneur Bill Nguyen shocked the startup world when he announced his latest effort, a company called Color, had raised $41 million out of the gate in order to build yet-another iPhone photography app.

Tweets: @tristanwalker

Ernesto / TorrentFreak:

Kim Dotcom: The US Government is Wrong, Here's Why — For a man who's the main defendant in one of the biggest criminal cases ever brought in the US, Kim Dotcom is surprisingly composed. — The Megaupload founder is convinced of his innocence, and instead of letting fear or anger get to him, he is excited.

More: Techdirt, Ars Technica, TorrentFreak, GamePolitics blogs, WebProNews, TechEye, Betabeat, BGR and SiliconANGLE

New York Times:

Microsoft Raids Tackle Net Crime — SEATTLE — Microsoft employees, accompanied by United States marshals, raided two nondescript office buildings in Pennsylvania and Illinois on Friday, aiming to disrupt one of the most pernicious forms of online crime today — botnets …

More: CircleID, VentureBeat, WebProNews and The Verge

Jeffrey Meisner / The Official Microsoft Blog:

Microsoft and Financial Services Industry Leaders Target Cybercriminal Operations from Zeus Botnets

Matthew Panzarino / The Next Web:

Twitter launches Promoted Products for small business advertisers who use American Express — Twitter has today launched its advertising program specifically aimed at small businesses with an American Express card. The program appears to be designed as a test run for rolling …

More: PC Magazine, The Verge, Screenwerk, VentureBeat, VatorNews, CNET, Mobile Marketing Watch, Twitter Advertising, Mashable!, WebProNews, Marketing Pilgrim, TechCrunch and MarketingVox News & Trends

Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:

Twitter's Ad for Its Ads (Video)

More: The New Persuaders and Fast Company

The Japan Times Online:

Google ordered to suspend autocomplete function over cyber-harassment — The Tokyo District Court approved a petition demanding that Google Inc. suspend its autocomplete search feature for Internet browsers after a man alleged that it breached his privacy and got him fired, his lawyer said Sunday.

More: The Next Web, Mainichi Daily News, PC Magazine, Marketing Pilgrim, Gizmodo, Search Engine Land, Bloomberg, ZDNet, Softpedia News, PC World and WebProNews

Jessica Dolcourt / CNET:

Google Voice eyeing carrier tie-ups beyond Sprint — (Credit: Screenshot by Jessica Dolcourt/CNET) — Sprint's reign as the only carrier to integrate Google Voice into its cell phone service could be coming to an end. — “We are having discussions with other carriers about this,” …

More: 9to5Google, AndroidGuys, Android Phone Fans and WebProNews. Tweets: @arrington

Sarah Lacy / PandoDaily:

Colourlovers Buys Forrst to Build an Etsy for Digital Bling — Creative community Colourlovers has acquired another creative community called Forrst in a bid to create the preeminent place on the Web where creative types can come together, make pretty things, help each other get better …

More: VentureBeat, TechCrunch and Betabeat

Jessica E. Vascellaro / Digits:

Apple's Siri Gains Traction-For Some Things — Siri, how popular are you? — New research set to be released this week found that 87% of those who own Apple's iPhone 4S use at least one feature of its Siri virtual assistant monthly. — But most usage is across a relatively limited set of functions …

More: Search Engine Land, MacRumors and Business Insider

Adrian Chen / Gawker:

Mike Daisey Finally Gives the Apology He Should Have Given Days Ago — Like a moth emerging from a cocoon, lying monologuist Mike Daisey has reached the final stage of his belabored public apology for making up stuff about Foxconn. Let's trace his dramatic transition from fatuous defiance to full contrition.

More: Wired, Nieman Journalism Lab, AppleInsider, GeekWire, TPM IdeaLab, Gothamist, The Loop and Mike Daisey. See also Mediagazer

Matt McGee / Marketing Land:

Yahoo Meme Shutting Down On May 25th — This will likely come as no surprise to anyone: Yahoo has announced that it will shut down Yahoo Meme on May 25th. — Not familiar with Yahoo Meme? That was probably the main problem: Not enough familiarity and adoption.

More: Meme from Yahoo!

BBC:

Murdoch firm used hacker site to target pay-TV rival — ITV Digital was plagued by piracy of its smartcards and went into administration in 2002 — A News Corporation company recruited a pay-TV “pirate” to post hacked details of a rival's secret codes online, BBC Panorama has found.

More: The Verge. See also Mediagazer

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