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Ina Fried / AllThingsD:

Top Apple Executive Saw Market for 7-Inch Tablet in 2011, Said Company Should Do One — Apple executive Eddy Cue sent an e-mail in January 2011 to CEO Tim Cook and others recommending that the company build its own 7-inch tablet. — “I believe there will be a 7-inch market and we should do one …

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Ina Fried / AllThingsD:

Apple Loses Bid to Keep Customer Survey Secret — The judge overseeing Apple's patent lawsuit against Samsung said Apple can't keep secret a marketing survey it took of its customers. — Apple argued that the survey's release would aid competitors as the data is not available elsewhere.

More: Network World, CNET, The Next Web, The Verge, GeekWire, VentureBeat, Pocketnow, Mashable!, Macgasm, SlashGear, PhoneArena, BGR, 9to5Mac, SlashGear, CNET, CNET, Macworld, Examiner, App Advice, everythingiCafe, ZDNet, FOSS Patents, TechCrunch, MacRumors and iDownloadBlog.com. Tweets: @cdixon

Ina Fried / AllThingsD:

Apple's Scott Forstall on How “Project Purple” Became the iPhone — Apple iOS head Scott Forstall testified on Friday that he had a really tough challenge as he tried in 2004 to assemble a team to build the iPhone, or “Project Purple” as it was known then. — Adam Tow / AllThingsD.com

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Eric Slivka / MacRumors:

Phil Schiller on History of the iPhone, Advertising, and Market Research — Phil Schiller is currently on the witness stand in the trial of Apple versus Samsung, and Apple's marketing chief is offering a bit of insight into the history of the iPhone, making the argument that Apple revolutionized …

More: Ars Technica, TUAW, AllThingsD, iDownloadBlog.com and 9to5Mac

Chris Dixon:

Ten million users is the new one million users — Entrepreneurs and investors have been enamored with consumer internet startups for the last few years. But there are signs this is ending. — Some observations: — Thousands of early-stage consumer web/mobile companies were started and funded in last 24 months.

More: TechCrunch and Business Insider. Tweets: @shontelaylay, @cdixon and @abrams

Thomas Gryta / Wall Street Journal:

AT&T Ending 2G Network by 2017 — AT&T Inc. is shutting down its second-generation, or 2G, wireless networks by 2017 as it continues to upgrade its systems to faster technology and better use its limited airwaves. — The telecom giant said about 12% of its contract wireless customers …

More: PC Magazine, The Next Web, Engadget, VentureBeat, BGR, Ars Technica, Pocketnow, iDownloadBlog.com, Gotta Be Mobile, ZDNet, The Verge and Slashdot

Chris Foresman / Ars Technica:

Mountain Lion having mysterious effect on battery life for some users — A large number of Mac users are reporting that installing OS X 10.8 (Mountain Lion) is causing a major drop in battery life on MacBook Pros and Airs. Those users have been posting about battery life problems …

More: Computerworld, VentureBeat, digitaltrends.com, iPhone in Canada Blog, Macworld, PC Magazine, Engadget, AppleInsider, Gotta Be Mobile, Business Insider and 9to5Mac

Daniel Eran Dilger / AppleInsider:

How Apple's new vector-based Maps leave Google Maps looking jittery — Apple isn't just declaring its independence from Google Maps with its new in-house backend for Maps in iOS 6. It has developed a superior way to deliver map data that relies on resolution independent vectors rather …

Tweets: @kevinmarks

Liz Gannes / AllThingsD:

Electronic Arts Sues Zynga for Copyright Infringement Over The Ville — After loudly complaining that Zynga had ripped off one of its biggest hits, Electronic Arts is taking its rival to court. — Filing a copyright infringement lawsuit against Zynga, Electronic Arts charged today …

More: GeekWire, Mashable!, The Next Web, CNET, TechSpot, EA Games, VG247, The Next Web, CNNMoney.com, TUAW, Inside Social Games, Forbes and Macworld

Jennifer Van Grove / VentureBeat:

Dalton Caldwell's App.net, a social utopia, makes its alpha debut — A select bunch of social media idealists are now taking up residence at App.net, the would-be status update safe house for consumers running away from advertisers and developers seeking refuge from hostile platforms like Facebook and Twitter.

More: Business Insider. Tweets: @daltonc and @daltonc

Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:

CBS Loves Apple TV, in Theory — CBS boss Les Moonves gets asked a lot about his willingness to do business with Apple. And his answer is always the same: “Sure! As long as it's on our terms.” — Yesterday's earnings call was no exception. Here's the full exchange between the CBS CEO …

More: iPhone in Canada Blog, iDownloadBlog.com, MacRumors, 9to5Mac and MacDailyNews. See also Mediagazer

Sharif Sakr / Engadget:

Logitech launches TV Cam HD for living room video chats: built-in Skype, 720p, $200 — If Cisco's ill-fated Umi video conferencing system had been more like this, would it have survived? Logitech is about to find out, one way or the other, once its TV Cam HD — recently spotted at the FCC — arrives in the US this month.

More: Softpedia News, WebProNews, The Big Blog, Gizmodo, The Next Web and The Verge

Harrison Weber / The Next Web:

Facebook is now pushing site updates twice a day thanks to new hires in NYC — Announced on its developer blog, Facebook is now pushing updates to its site twice a day. This change, up from once a day as we reported back in May of last year, is possible due to new hires in New York.

More: CNET, Facebook, ZDNet, VentureBeat and TechCrunch

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