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February 24, 2013, 1:00 PM

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Vlad Savov / The Verge:

Live from Mozilla's Firefox OS event — This time last year, Mozilla was showing off Firefox OS for the first time — and now it's circling back with carriers and manufacturers. Can a web-based phone platform actually work this time? We're here — Chris Ziegler on text duty today, none other than Vlad Savov on photos.

More: AllThingsD, Engadget, The Verge, Gizmodo, Business Insider, Web Browser and Mashable!

The Mozilla Blog:

Mozilla Unlocks the Power of the Web on Mobile with Firefox OS — Mozilla is excited to share that today 18 operators at Mobile World Congress 2013 in Barcelona announced their commitment to Firefox OS, which will power the world's first Open Web Devices. — These operators include …

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Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:

Firefox OS Hits The Ground Running With Phones From Telefonica, T-Mobile, Firefox Marketplace For Apps; 18 Carriers In All Signed Up For Mozilla's Open Web Effort — Firefox OS, the new, HTML5-friendly mobile OS from Mozilla, is today taking a big step forward in its strategy to become …

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Sean Hollister / The Verge:

HP announces Slate 7: the company's first Android tablet arrives in April for $169.99 — It's officially true: Hewlett-Packard is back in the mobile race. Today, HP is announcing its first Android product: the HP Slate 7. But it looks like the company won't be making a splash right away …

More: AllThingsD, Engadget, Gizmodo, GigaOM, CNET and Droid Life. Tweets: @reckless

Sean Hollister / The Verge:

HP building multiple tablets this year: ‘we want to be the number one computer vendor’ — HP's Slate 7 is just the beginning. The company sees the writing on the wall: if you add in all the iPad sales, Apple — not HP — is selling the most computers these days.

Jeff Blagdon / The Verge:

Firefox to follow Safari, start blocking cookies from third-party advertisers — Firefox is set to start blocking cookies from third-party ad networks by default, thanks to a patch submitted by Stanford law student and online privacy activist Jonathan Mayer.

More: Ars Technica, Web Policy, PC World, Neowin, gHacks Technology News and OSDir.com

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Stephen Totilo / Kotaku:

The Incredible Rise and Fall of a Hacker Who Found the Secrets of the Next Xbox and PlayStation—And Maybe More — The first thing that ever puzzled me about the man I used to know as SuperDaE was that he didn't sound Australian. — I couldn't detect an accent.

More: The Verge, Yahoo! News and Neowin

Mat Smith / Engadget:

Huawei Ascend P2 hitting Europe in Q2 for 399 euros, we go hands-on (update: video) — Just ahead of Huawei's press event, Huawei's treated us to an early viewing of its new 8.4-millimeter smartphone, the Ascend P2. With Android 4.1, a quad-core 1.5GHz processor, 13-megapixel camera …

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Tom Warren / The Verge:

Microsoft preparing Windows Blue public preview with significant search improvements — Microsoft is working towards a public preview version of Windows Blue. Sources familiar with Microsoft's plans have revealed that the software giant is aggressively targeting a summer launch date for Windows Blue …

More: ZDNet, Business Insider, Gizmodo, SuperSite for Windows, Softpedia News, Neowin, Softpedia News, WinBeta and CodenameWindows

Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch:

Mozilla, AT&T And Ericsson Team Up To Demo Seamless Web-To-Mobile WebRTC Integration At MWC — What if your browser could know when you are getting a call on your mobile phone? Earlier this month, Google and Mozilla demonstrated how their browsers' WebRTC implementations could interoperate.

More: The Verge, The Mozilla Blog, Ars Technica, Engadget, CNET, Neowin and PalmAddict

Ryan Holiday / Betabeat:

Hail Corporate: The Increasingly Insufferable Fakery of Brands on Reddit — The best kind of marketing messages are the ones that don't seem like marketing messages. Because it means that the viewers' defenses are down. — That may be why the front page of Reddit has become …

Tweets: @davidparmet

Richard Lawler / Engadget:

Samsung HomeSync Android TV box packs 1TB HDD, dual-core CPU — A mobile-focused show like MWC 2013 seems like an odd place to show off a TV-connected box, but that's how Samsung has chosen to introduce its new HomeSync device. Powered by a 1.7GHz dual-core CPU and running Android Jelly Bean …

More: SAMSUNG TOMORROW Global, CNET, Android Police, Liliputing, The Verge, AndroidGuys, Pocket-lint and Gearburn

Joseph Volpe / Engadget:

Samsung Galaxy Note 8.0 official: 1.6GHz Exynos 4 Quad, 1280 x 800 display, HSPA+ 21, Android Jelly Bean 4.1.2 — We knew another Note was coming. After all, Samsung Mobile head JK Shin confirmed the news back in January. But here at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, the tablet's finally been made official.

More: Gizmodo, iMore, The Next Web, AllThingsD, IntoMobile, Neowin, BetaNews, TmoNews, iPhone in Canada Blog, The Huffington Post, Computerworld, Mashable!, Macgasm, Sammy Hub and Pocketnow

Tweets: @tim_chr and @dannysullivan

Dan Seifert / The Verge:

Samsung Galaxy Note 8.0 hands-on preview

More: CNET, AnandTech, 9to5Google, TechCrunch, Gearburn and VentureBeat. Tweets: @viticci

Brian X. Chen / NYT Bits:

Samsung's New 8-Inch Tablet Takes on the iPad Mini

More: Engadget, ABCNEWS, SlashGear, Ubergizmo, The Huffington Post, PhoneArena, nbcnews.com and MobileSyrup.com

Jodi Kantor / New York Times:

Sheryl Sandberg, ‘Lean In’ Author, Hopes to Spur Movement — Before Sheryl Sandberg, the chief operating officer of Facebook, started to write “Lean In,” her book-slash-manifesto on women in the workplace, she reread Betty Friedan's “The Feminine Mystique.”

More: New York Times and SiliconBeat. Tweets: @rachelsklar and @tarensk

Kevin Roose / New York Magazine:

When Is Sheryl Sandberg Leaving Facebook?

More: Business Insider and Quartz. Tweets: @karaswisher

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