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March 1, 2013, 5:30 PM

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Florian Mueller / FOSS Patents:
Judge strikes $450 million from $1 billion damages award in Apple v. Samsung: second trial needed  —  Judge Lucy Koh, the federal judge presiding over two Apple v. Samsung cases in the Northern District of California, has just entered an order striking (or, more precisely, vacating) $450,514,650 …
John Paczkowski / AllThingsD:
Einhorn's Greenlight Drops “Silly” Apple Suit  —  Hedge fund magnate and famous Apple bull David Einhorn has dropped his lawsuit against the company in which he holds some 1.3 million shares.  Einhorn's Greenlight Capital on Friday withdrew the suit it brought against Apple over a proxy proposal …
Matthew Panzarino / The Next Web:
Facebook holding an event to show off a ‘new look for News Feed’ on March 7th  —  Facebook has just sent out an invite to press with the text ‘come see a new look for News Feed’.  The event will be held at Facebook's Menlo Park headquarters on Thursday March 7th, 2013 at 10am PST and we'll be on site.
Gregory Ferenstein / TechCrunch:
FCC To Investigate Cell Phone Unlocking Ban  —  Following an online uproar over a law banning the unlocking of cell phones, the Federal Communications Commission will investigate whether the ban is harmful to economic competitiveness and if the executive branch has any authority to change the law.
Zach Epstein / BGR:
BlackBerry coup confirmed: iPhone, Android users make up half of Z10 sales in Canada, one-third in UK  —  BlackBerry (BBRY) is at the start of a very long haul as the struggling smartphone maker attempts to stage a comeback for the ages.  Early sales of the company's first next-generation …
Jamie Rigg / Engadget:
Bloomberg:
Google Defeats Publishers Over Copyright in German Parliament  —  Google Inc. (GOOG) and other news aggregators may continue to show short news items on their Internet sites without being required to pay, German lawmakers decided in a parliamentary vote today in a blow to publishers including Axel Springer AG (SPR) and Bertelsmann SE.
David Hsieh / DisplaySearch Blog:
Smaller Tablet PCs to Take Over in 2013?  —  The launch of the iPad mini in late 2012 has been seen as an acknowledgement by Apple that smaller size (7-9") tablet PCs would become a larger part of the market than larger sizes (9.7" or 10.1").  Key aspects are more attractive prices and the ability …
Colleen Taylor / TechCrunch:
Yahoo Is Now Officially Calling Itself A ‘Technology Company’, Ditching The ‘Digital Media’ Tagline  —  Yahoo today issued its annual 10-K report to the Securities And Exchange Commission.  These kinds of forms have a lot of boilerplate language that is reused again and again — often …
Chris Welch / The Verge:
At last, Microsoft brings Photosynth panorama app to Windows Phone 8  —  After previously making the panaroma app available for iOS (and Windows Phone 7 after that), Microsoft is finally bringing Photosynth to Windows Phone 8.  As you'd expect, Microsoft has tapped into WP8's feature set …
Alex Wilhelm / The Next Web:
FTC: Chairman was unaware of Google's donation to ceremony celebrating his work during investigation  —  The FTC has responded to yesterday's controversy regarding Google and its director stating that he knew nothing at the time of the donation in question.  This implicitly states …
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Dan Goodin / Ars Technica:
Exploit lets websites bombard visitors' PCs with gigabytes of data  —  A Web developer has demonstrated a simple-to-execute exploit that allows websites to surreptitiously bombard visitors' storage devices with gigabytes of junk data.  —  As its name suggests, FillDisk.com loads …
Zack Whittaker / ZDNet:
Oracle investigating after two more Java 7 zero-day flaws found  —  Summary: Polish security researchers have discovered yet more zero-day vulnerabilities in Java, the beleaguered Web plug-in, that led to the successful intrusion of Facebook, Apple and Microsoft in recent weeks.  —  Zack Whittaker
Rachel King / ZDNet:
HP SVP suggests learning from cyber criminals and their methods  —  Summary: HP's senior vice president of enterprise security software suggests that we could learn a thing or two from cyber criminals — and possibly persuade them to look elsewhere for targets at the same time.
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