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February 18, 2013, 11:30 AM

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Andy Greenberg / Forbes:

“Frost” Attack Unlocks Android Phones' Data By Chilling Their Memory In A Freezer — A wrapped-up Samsung Galaxy Nexus in a freezer, as a researcher measures its temperature. — If you lose possession of an Android phone, your PIN or pattern unlock might not be enough to protect the sensitive data stored on it.

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Sam Byford / The Verge:

LG's 5.5-inch 1080p Optimus G Pro is coming to North America (hands-on) — After weeks of teasing, LG has finally given its 5.5-inch Optimus G Pro a full unveiling in South Korea today. The model for LG's home country gains half an inch of screen size and a 1.7GHz Snapdragon 600 processor …

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Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac:

Apple airs new ‘Alive’ and ‘Together’ iPad TV ads to showcase reading, gaming, various App Store apps — Tonight, Apple has aired two new television commercials for both the full-sized iPad and iPad mini. The new ad showcases reading with iBooks, collaborative gaming, and several apps from the App Store.

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Claire Davenport / Reuters:

EU privacy regulators take aim at Google privacy policy — (Reuters) - European data watchdogs said on Monday they plan to take action against Google by this summer for its privacy policy, which allows the search engine to pool user data from across all its services ranging from YouTube to Gmail.

More: Computerworld and Bloomberg

Jenna Wortham / NYT Bits:

Digital Diary: Are We Suffering From Mobile App Burnout? — At last count, I had 259 applications on my iPhone. — I probably use 16 regularly — including Google Maps, Messages, Twitter for iPhone and Instagram. — When I got my first iPhone in late 2008, I couldn't wait to peruse …

More: Business Insider

Jean-Louis Gassée / Monday Note:

The Next Apple TV: iWatch — Rumors don't actual Apple products make, see the perennial Apple TV — and the latest iWatch rumors. This is an opportunity to step back, look at Apple's one and only love -personal computers — and use this thought to sift through rumors.

More: Guardian, iDownloadBlog.com, T3 News, iMore.com, NetworkWorld.com … and ITProPortal. Tweets: @jgordonshare. See also Mediagazer

David Streitfeld / New York Times:

Tech Industry Sets Its Sights on Gambling — SAN FRANCISCO — Look out Las Vegas, here comes FarmVille. — Silicon Valley is betting that online gambling is its next billion-dollar business, with developers across the industry turning casual games into occasions for adults to wager.

More: Betabeat and Media Decoder

ChinaFile:

Who Supplies Apple? (It's Not Just China): An Interactive Map — Last month, Apple Inc. released its updated list of suppliers (PDF). This report says it includes “the major manufacturing locations of suppliers who provide raw materials and components or perform final assembly on Apple.”

More: BGR, VentureBeat, Gizmodo, Fortune, iDownloadBlog.com, AppleInsider, 9to5Mac and iClarified

Associated Press:

Amazon fires German security firm amid probe over mistreatment of temporary workers — BERLIN — Amazon says it has fired a German security company amid mounting criticism after reports that temporary workers had been mistreated. — An Amazon spokeswoman in Germany, Ulrike Stoecker …

More: Business Insider, The Verge, GigaOM, The Next Web and Marketing Pilgrim

Myriam Joire / Engadget:

PSA: Sprint LTE is now live in San Francisco — Imagine our surprise when, upon firing up Sprint's Galaxy Tab 2 10.1 earlier today for some routine app updates, we saw the 4G logo light up (!) for the first time ever. Yes, ladies and gentlemen, it appears that sometime in the past few days …

More: The Verge, Android Authority, PhoneDog.com, iDownloadBlog.com and PhoneArena

Robin Wauters / The Next Web:

Opera's workforce down 10% due to switch to WebKit; CEO tells us why he thinks that's a good thing — Opera Software has ‘lost’ approximately 90 employees, some of them straight-up veterans of the Oslo, Norway-based browser maker, Digi.no duly reported earlier today (in Norwegian).

More: TechCrunch and Techie Buzz

Kevin Fitchard / GigaOM:

The newest overhyped mobile industry buzzword: LTE-Advanced — Admittedly, mobile technology evolves at a very fast pace. But somewhere along the way we seem to have skipped an entire generation of networks. — This week Broadcom unveiled its first LTE chipset for mobile devices …

Tweets: @om and @kfitchard. Thanks:@om

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