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February 10, 2013, 10:25 AM

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Ed Bott / ZDNet:

Microsoft officially (and confusingly) discloses Surface Pro storage figures — Summary: Microsoft's Surface Pro, which the company officially calls “a powerful PC in tablet form,” went on sale today. On its website, Microsoft has officially disclosed how much data storage space you can expect to get from each model.

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Daniel Eran Dilger / AppleInsider:

Microsoft sells out of Surface Pro, just like the Zune HD did in 2009 — Microsoft has announced “amazing” customer response to its tablet/notebook hybrid Surface Pro, and reports have noted that the higher end 128GB model has sold out in some locations “immediately” after going on sale, just as the Zune HD did in 2009.

More: Surface Blog, ZDNet, SuperSite for Windows, The Verge, gHacks Technology News, WinBeta, Pocket-lint, SlashGear and Engadget

Ron / WinBeta:

Surface Pro already sold out at MicrosoftStore.com, BestBuy, and Staples, hours into its launch

Reuters:

Insight: Apple and Samsung, frenemies for life — (Reuters) - It was the late Steve Jobs' worst nightmare. — A powerful Asian manufacturer, Samsung Electronics Co Ltd, uses Google Inc's Android software to create smartphones and tablets that closely resemble the iPhone and the iPad.

More: 9to5Mac

Jenna Wortham / New York Times:

Snapchat, a Growing App, Lets You See It, Then You Don't — LOS ANGELES — The ephemeral now has value, at least for users of cellphones. — More than 60 million photos or messages are sent each day through an app called Snapchat and then, after they are viewed for a few seconds, the missives vanish.

More: CNET, App Advice, VentureBeat, Business Insider, AllThingsD, San Francisco Chronicle, BizPunk, if:book, TechCrunch, GigaOM and Fortune. Thanks:@gusfuldner

Ben Lovejoy / MacRumors:

Enterprise Information Workers Favor Microsoft Tablets and Apple Phones — Information workers in the enterprise sector would like a Microsoft tablet but an Apple phone, according to Forrester Research's annual Mobile Workforce Adoption Trends survey of 10,000 enterprise staff (via AppleInsider).

More: eWeek, AppleInsider, Business Insider, ZDNet and Business Insider

Adrianne Jeffries / The Verge:

Taxi race: can Uber and Hailo deliver a real-time revolution? — Naval Ravikant is the cofounder of the startup network AngelList and a small investor in Uber, the app that lets you order a car service or taxi from your phone. He uses Uber X to get to work, Flywheel for long trips …

Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:

Twitter Hikes Its Promoted Trend Prices Again, to $200,000 a Day — Twitter's ad business is still a work in progress, but here's one positive sign: Prices for the company's “promoted trends” have been steadily rising, and are now at the $200,000 a day mark in the U.S..

More: PandoDaily and The Next Web. Tweets: @pkafka

Owen Thomas / Business Insider:

Yammer Sales Will Report To Microsoft — Starting July 1—the beginning of Microsoft's fiscal year—Yammer salespeople won't be Yammer salespeople any more, Business Insider has learned. — They'll be Microsoft salespeople. — The social-collaboration startup, acquired by Microsoft …

More: TechCrunch, Business Insider and VentureBeat

Justine Sharrock / BuzzFeed:

How Facebook, A Pixar Artist, And Charles Darwin Are Reinventing The Emoticon — What comes after the smiley? Facebook is trying to find out. — Facebook wants an awful lot from its emoticons: They should be able to convey complex emotions, for example, like contemplation, admiration …

More: Softpedia News, ParisLemon, The Verge and Gizmodo. Tweets: @jonezee99

Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security:

Security Firm Bit9 Hacked, Used to Spread Malware — Bit9, a company that provides software and network security services to the U.S. government and at least 30 Fortune 100 firms, has suffered an electronic compromise that cuts to the core of its business: helping clients distinguish known …

More: Bit9 Blog, Examiner, Softpedia News, The Next Web, Ars Technica, Naked Security, Network World, Computerworld, nbcnews.com, Washington Post and Securosis Highlights

Jim Fitzgerald / Associated Press:

Watson's medical expertise offered commercially — The Watson supercomputer is graduating from its medical residency and is being offered commercially to doctors and health insurance companies, IBM said Friday. IBM Corp., the health insurer WellPoint Inc. and Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center announced …

More: AllThingsD, eWeek, HotHardware.com News, Gizmodo, Ars Technica, Forbes, ZDNet, GigaOM and Mashable!

Barbara Chai / Speakeasy:

Brett Ratner to Bring ‘Farmville’ Game to Television … Director Brett Ratner will produce a half-hour animated television series based on Zynga's hugely popular social media game, “Farmville.” — Working with Canadian television production company Six Eleven Media, Ratner will serve …

More: HotHardware.com News, Digital Media Wire and Mashable!

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