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February 19, 2013, 11:00 AM

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New York Times:

Chinese Army Unit Is Seen as Tied to Hacking Against U.S. — On the outskirts of Shanghai, in a run-down neighborhood dominated by a 12-story white office tower, sits a People's Liberation Army base for China's growing corps of cyberwarriors. — The building off Datong Road …

Josh Ong / The Next Web:

Security firm releases screen capture video of alleged Chinese military hackers at work — Security firm Mandiant has released a damning report offering unprecedented evidence, including screen capture video, of the actions of an alleged Chinese military-backed hacking group.

More: Business Insider, The H Security, Washington Post, WorldViews, Tech in Asia, TG Daily and Softpedia News. Tweets: @nikcub. Thanks:@epro

Associated Press:

China calls US hacking allegations ‘groundless’

More: SlashGear. Tweets: @stshank

Brian Klug / AnandTech:

Hands on and Impressions from the HTC One - Formerly M7 — HTC is in an interesting position as a result of this last product cycle. While the previous HTC One series' industrial design and performance was top notch, other OEMs still managed to eclipse the One series in terms of market adoption and consumer perception.

More: Engadget, The Next Web, The Verge, Engadget, Engadget, Pocket-lint and Android Central

Joseph Volpe / Engadget:

HTC One unveiled: 4.7-inch 1080p display, 1.7GHz quad-core Snapdragon 600, UltraPixel camera, Android 4.1.2 with Sense 5 — Despite the abundant fanfare and critical acclaim, HTC's One X just couldn't quite mark the spot in 2012. No wonder, then, that the company's lopped off that extraneous letter …

More: LAPTOP Magazine, The Verge, TechCrunch, CNET, Ars Technica, AllThingsD, ZDNet, BGR, ABCNEWS, TechCrunch, SlashGear, SlashGear and SlashGear

Tweets: @dannysullivan and @tomwarren

Jon Russell / The Next Web:

Amazon introduces lnstant Video links to the IMDb iOS app — Amazon has made it easy for users of the IMDb iOS app to go from reading about a film to watching it, after it added Amazon Instant Video links to the app for the movie database that it bought in 2008.

More: MacRumors, iPhone, TUAW and WebProNews

David Law / The Microsoft Office Blog:

Outlook.com leaves preview as the world's fastest growing email service going from 0 to 60 million in just 6 months — Last summer, we released a preview of Outlook.com, a new modern email service from Microsoft. Since then, we've been humbled by the fast pace of adoption …

More: Computerworld, VentureBeat, PC Magazine, Mashable!, 9to5Google, digitaltrends.com, Guardian, BGR, ZDNet, InfoWorld, The Official Microsoft Blog, SlashGear, Neowin, Techie Buzz, LiveSide.net, WinBeta, Lastest ITProPortal news and Softpedia News. Thanks:@ryanburk

Dana Wollman / Engadget:

Outlook.com exits preview with 60 million active users, Hotmail UI to be retired this summer

More: Microsoft, PC World, The Next Web, The Verge, Bloomberg, GadgeTell, Inquirer, CNET, Electronista, TechCrunch, memeburn, GeekWire, BetaNews and WebProNews. Tweets: @theromit

Chris O'Brien / Los Angeles Times:

Samsung embarking on an aggressive expansion in Silicon Valley — South Korean tech giant Samsung's move to broaden its footprint in Silicon Valley signals an escalation of its rivalry with Apple. — A rendering shows Samsung's new campus for its semiconductor division in San Jose.

Thanks:@vulsai

Amir Efrati / Wall Street Journal:

Google Works on Launching Retail Stores — U.S. Outlets Would Likely Sell Internet Giant's Branded Devices, but Plans Remain Unclear; Studying Apple's Playbook — Google Inc. has been developing plans to launch retail stores in the U.S., said people familiar with the matter …

More: The Verge, BGR, TheStreet.com, PhoneArena, IntoMobile, Ubergizmo, Quartz, Hillicon Valley, Engadget and 9to5Google

Joseph Stromberg / Surprising Science:

Any Two Pages on the Web Are Connected By 19 Clicks or Less — The Opte Project creates visualizations of the 14 billion pages that make up the network of the web. Image via Opte Project — No one knows for sure how many individual pages are on the web, but right now, it's estimated that there are more than 14 billion.

More: VentureBeat, Telegraph, TG Daily, Gizmodo and Mashable!

Katherine Rushton / Telegraph:

Google looks to cut funds to illegal sites — Google is in discussions with payment companies including Visa, Mastercard and PayPal to put illegal download websites out of existence by cutting off their funding. — If Google goes ahead with the radical move, it would not mark …

More: The Verge, Gizmodo, BBC and Search Engine Land. See also Mediagazer

AnandTech:

NVIDIA Announces Tegra 4i, Formerly Project Grey, With Integrated LTE and Phoenix Reference Design — It has been a while since we've heard anything about Project Grey, the first NVIDIA SoC with an integrated digital baseband, and the result of NVIDIA's acquisition of soft-modem manufacturer Icera.

More: AllThingsD, The Verge, Digits, Engadget, VentureBeat, ZDNet, TechCrunch, GigaOM, CNET, Android Authority, Pocket-lint and IntoMobile

Chris Ziegler / The Verge:

Galaxy S IV will ‘definitely’ be announced on March 14th: sources — Expect it to take design cues from the Galaxy Note 8.0, which doesn't look like the leaks — Earlier today, mobile-review's Eldar Murtazin suggested on Twitter that March 14th would see a “big announcement,” …

Gregg Keizer / Computerworld:

Microsoft quietly raises prices of Mac Office by up to 17% — Dumps multi-license packages, all to make Office 365's subscription pricing more attractive — Microsoft has quietly raised prices of Office for the Mac as much as 17% and stopped selling multi-license packages of the application suite.

More: The Register, InfoWorld, DailyTech, CNET, Neowin, Ars Technica, TUAW, 9to5Mac, ZDNet and MacNN

Associated Press:

Burger King Twitter account back up after Monday afternoon hacking; company apologizes — Associated Press - This frame grab taken Monday, Feb. 18, 2013, shows what appears to be Burger King's Twitter account after it was apparently hacked. Starting just after noon Eastern time on Monday …

More: PC Magazine, CNET, Gizmodo, BuzzFeed, iPhone, TIME, Slate, GigaOM, BetaNews, The Atlantic Wire, The Next Web, Guardian, ABCNEWS, Reuters, Business Insider, Digiday, TG Daily, Business Insider, Business Insider, Zennie62, The Raw Story, Mashable!, NBC Bay Area, Geekosystem, memeburn, ReadWrite, AllThingsD and SiliconBeat

Tweets: @mcdonalds, @burgerking, @amyrosebrown, @davepell, @samfbiddle, @drew, @fwd and @ischafer

Emil Protalinski / The Next Web:

You can download Firefox 19 for Windows, Mac, and Linux right now; official launch tomorrow — Firefox 19 for desktop is due to officially launch on Tuesday, with long-anticipated built-in PDF viwer, but the latest version is already available for Windows, Mac, and Linux.

More: BetaNews, Inquirer, WebProNews, gHacks Technology News, WinBeta, MacRumors, Pocket-lint, Neowin and Electronista

Kara Swisher / AllThingsD:

Exclusive: In Yet Another Internal Hire, Yahoo's Mayer Makes Mann Search Head — Longtime Yahoo techie Laurence “Laurie” Mann, who has recently been SVP of engineering operations at the Silicon Valley Internet giant, has been given the new job of heading its search efforts, according to sources inside the company.

More: Business Insider, Search Engine Land and WebProNews

Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch:

U.K.'s First 4G Network Not Overrun With LTE Early Adopters — Just 201k Total 3G & 4G Postpaid Adds In Q4 — Being first to 4G may not be quite the advantage EE may have hoped. The U.K.'s first 4G network was up and running at the end of October last year but EE, the joint venture combining …

More: GigaOM, The Register, ZDNet, Engadget, Inquirer, Telegraph, Sky News, Guardian and Reuters

C. Custer / Tech in Asia:

A Shocking Expose of China's Black PR Industry Implicates Government Officials, is Quickly Deleted from the Web — Almost everyone knows about the public relations industry, but fewer people know about what in China is referred to as Black PR, the underground internet industry that has evolved with the spread of web 2.0 through China.

More: The Next Web. See also Mediagazer

Lee Hutchinson / Ars Technica:

Dell's Linux Ultrabook gets more pixels, European availability — We last reported on Dell's Ubuntu-powered XPS-13 Developer Edition at the tail end of November 2012, when the laptop was released. Comments from the Ars community on the device were generally positive, though …

More: Barton's Blog, CNET, ZDNet, The H Open Source, DisplayBlog and Dell

Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:

Taboola Raises $15 Million So It Can Suggest More Stories You Might Click On — Content recommendation service Taboola tells Web surfers where to go, 1.5 billion times a day. And it thinks that activity could turn into a really big business one day. — Hence the company's new $15 million round …

More: The Next Web, paidContent, VideoNuze Analysis, TechCrunch and FinSMEs

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