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February 21, 2013, 12:00 PM

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Mikey Campbell / AppleInsider:

Apple patent filing points directly to ‘iWatch’ concept with flexible touchscreen display — A patent application discovered by AppleInsider on Thursday reveals Apple is indeed investigating a wearable accessory device that not only boasts a flexible touchscreen display …

Claire Cain Miller / New York Times:

Google Looks to Make Its Computer Glasses Stylish — People wearing Google's glasses are transported to a strange new world in which the Internet is always in their line of sight. But for people looking at the people wearing those glasses, the view is even stranger — someone wearing a computer processor …

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Jon Russell / The Next Web:

Google reportedly in talks with Warby Parker to make its Google Glass specs look cool — Google took a big step towards making its Google Glass specs available to the wider public after it expanded pre-orders for the technology, and showed off its potential in a new video.

More: TechCrunch, SiliconANGLE, Electronista and Guardian

Amar Toor / The Verge:

New Google Glass UI video shows off search, camera, and voice translation features

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Tom Bramwell / Eurogamer.net:

Sony tells Eurogamer: PlayStation 4 will not block used games — Shuhei Yoshida confirms it. Plus: source tells EG patent wasn't PS4-related. — Sony Worldwide Studios boss Shuhei Yoshida has told Eurogamer that PlayStation 4 will not block the use of second-hand games …

Matthew Panzarino / The Next Web:

Sony announces PlayStation 4 with 8-core x86 processor, 8GB GDDR5 memory and DualShock 4 controller

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Sam Byford / The Verge:

Sony fails to show PlayStation 4 console at PlayStation 4 event

More: Engadget, Kotaku, The Next Web, WebProNews, ParisLemon, Gizmodo, blogs.news.com.au, Gotta Be Mobile, VentureBeat, NEWS.com.au, The Next Web, LaptopMemo, techeblog.com and Guardian

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Amir Efrati / Wall Street Journal:

Google Developing Touchscreen Devices Using Chrome Operating System — Google Inc. has developed the first touchscreen laptops powered by its Chrome operating system to be sold later this year, according to people familiar with the matter, as the Internet giant tries to go toe-to-toe with Microsoft Corp.'s Windows operating system.

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Ryan Lawler / TechCrunch:

Video Discovery Startup Fanhattan Launches A Web Interface With More Than 1 Million Movies And TV Titles — It's not hard to find video on the web. But with dozens of premium content providers out there and millions of videos to choose from, figuring out what's worth watching can be a challenge.

More: AllThingsD, GigaOM and The Verge

Alex Ben Block / Hollywood Reporter:

Nielsen Agrees to Expand Definition of TV Viewing — After a meeting in New York Tuesday, the ratings company will roll out a system to measure broadband, Xbox and, in time, iPads, with more changes to come. — The Nielsen Co. is expanding its definition of television and will introduce …

More: The Verge, Mashable! and Gizmodo. Tweets: @dannysullivan. See also Mediagazer

Rip Empson / TechCrunch:

Coursera Adds 29 Schools, 90 Courses And 3 New Languages To Its Online Learning Platform — It's almost as if there's an arms race in online education. Which MOOC platform can expand the fastest? Place your bets now. On the heels of edX's announcement that it will be expanding internationally …

More: VatorNews, Virtual-Strategy Magazine, BBC, ZDNet, VentureBeat, GigaOM, AllThingsD, Wall Street Journal and The Next Web

Emil Protalinski / The Next Web:

Petition to make unlocking phones legal again passes 100,000 signatures; White House now required to respond — A White House petition to make unlocking cell phones legal again has passed the 100,000 signature mark. Passing the milestone means the US government has to issue an official response.

More: Ars Technica, VentureBeat, Hillicon Valley, The Verge, PhoneArena, TechPresident, Mashable!, SlashGear, MobileBurn.com and WebProNews

Kara Swisher / AllThingsD:

Exclusive: Pinterest Completes $200 Million Funding at $2.5 Billion Valuation — Pinterest, the popular social scrapbooking site, has completed a massive $200 million funding, which values the company at $2.5 billion, according to sources close to the situation.

More: Wired, @semil's blog, Marketing Pilgrim, SocialTimes, Bloomberg, SiliconBeat, Hillicon Valley, Wall Street Journal, CNET, GigaOM, The Next Web, Business Insider, Daily Dot and VentureBeat

Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica:

FCC orders 2M people to power down cell phone signal boosters — Wireless signal boosters improve cellular connections to service provider networks. — FCC — The Federal Communications Commission today enacted a set of rules governing the sale and deployment of wireless signal boosters …

More: CNET, SiliconANGLE, FCC, Hillicon Valley, blog.chron.com, Electronista, Engadget and The Register

Ben Sisario / New York Times:

Billboard Makes YouTube Part of Hot 100 Formula — What makes a song a hit? In the “Gangnam Style” age the answer often has as much to do with its popularity on YouTube as any other factor. — This week the Billboard Hot 100, the magazine's 55-year-old singles chart …

More: YouTube Blog, Billboard, CNET, WebProNews, SlashGear, Mashable!, Pocket-lint and hypebot. See also Mediagazer

Kara Swisher / AllThingsD:

Ahead of Apple Proxy Fight Explainer, ATD Late-Night Chat With Greenlight's Einhorn — Like me, David Einhorn — the brainy hedge fund star who is currently engaged in a proxy battle with Apple over how to deal with its giant cash hoard — is a bit of a night owl.

More: Bloomberg and The Tell

Poornima Gupta / Reuters:

Hedge fund manager Einhorn takes Apple campaign to shareholders

More: Business Wire

Emil Protalinski / The Next Web:

Google ports Chrome OS app launcher to the Chrome browser Dev channel on Windows; Mac and Linux coming soon — Google on Wednesday announced a significant bridging of the gap between Chrome and Chrome OS: the app launcher, a little window that features all your apps in one place.

More: Chromium Blog, The Register, PC World, The Verge, ZDNet, Softpedia News, Engadget, Techdows and Pocket-lint

Digits:

Saverin on the Future of Facebook — At the Wall Street Journal's Unleashing Innovation Conference in Singapore Facebook co- founder Eduardo Saverin talks with Executive Editor Almar Latour about what might lie ahead for the popular social network, and whether Facebook should buy LinkedIn.

More: Bloomberg, CNET, AllFacebook, ZDNet and Wall Street Journal

Bloomberg:

Sprint CEO Hesse Seeking More Deals as Data Demand Surges — Sprint Nextel Corp. Chief Executive Officer Dan Hesse said he's on a hunt for wireless spectrum after watching Verizon Wireless and AT&T Inc. devour more and more of the mobile-phone industry's most precious resource.

More: AllThingsD, Engadget, CNET, FierceWireless and ZDNet

John Leyden / The Register:

Ad-titan Google blocks Adblock Plus in Android security tweak — We're being singled out, claims app maker — The maker of Adblock Plus is upset its users must jump through hoops to get its advert-banishing app working on devices running Android - the mobile OS made by advertising giant Google.

Ginny Marvin / Search Engine Land:

Google Shopping Tops Amazon Product Ads: 32.7% More Cost Effective — A new report from CPC Strategy looks at how Google Shopping fared against its rival, Amazon Product Ads, after making the switch to a commercial model in Q3 last year. The analysis finds its performance changed significantly compared …

More: CPC Strategy and Search Engine Watch

Brandon Butler / Network World:

Microsoft Azure overtakes Amazon's cloud in performance test — Azure's cloud is faster at uploading and downloading files to the cloud, Amazon still more scalable, storage provider Nasuni finds — h(f)){c=a.createElement('script'); c.type='text/javascript';c.src= 'http …

More: CIOL, The Schwartz Cloud Report, Virtualization Review, PR Newswire and WhatIs:

Ernesto / TorrentFreak:

CNET Doesn't Have to Ban BitTorrent Clients, Court Rules — CBS and CNET have scored an important victory in their ongoing copyright infringement case against a coalition of artists. — The musicians, joined by billionaire Alki David, had requested a preliminary injunction to prevent …

More: Softpedia News

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