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March 4, 2013, 5:15 PM

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Bloomberg:

Apple's Planned ‘IWatch’ Could Be More Profitable Than TV — While Tim Cook has dropped hints that Apple Inc. (AAPL) is hard at work on a television to drive the next era of growth, the company's wristwatch-style device, still in development, may prove more profitable.

Nilay Patel / The Verge:

Apple's watch will run iOS and arrive later this year, say sources — Jony Ive wants a spot on your wrist — More details are emerging about Apple's forthcoming watch, which is targeted for release this year, according to aBloomberg report this morning and corroborated by our sources.

More: ReadWrite, PC Magazine, GeekWire, ABCNEWS, Forbes, Business Insider, 9to5Mac, TechCrunch, MobileSyrup.com, everythingiCafe, Apple Fan Site, The Next Web, InvestorPlace, Redmond Pie, Quartz and iPhone Hacks. Tweets: @joemfbrown

Brian X. Chen / NYT Bits:

Samsung's New Smartphone Will Track Eyes to Scroll Pages — Samsung's next big smartphone, to be introduced next month, will have a strong focus on software. A person who has tried the phone, called the Galaxy S IV, described one feature as particularly new and exciting: Eye scrolling.

More: GigaOM, VentureBeat, Business Insider, digitaltrends.com, The Verge, Ars Technica, CNET, BGR, Engadget, 9to5Google, Gizmodo, TechCrunch, SlashGear, Pocket-lint, Pocketnow, ValueWalk, The Consumerist, Redmond Pie, Gotta Be Mobile, The Full Signal, AndroidGuys, PhoneArena and Mashable!. Tweets: @markmilian. Thanks:@bxchen

Aaron Souppouris / The Verge:

Samsung posts first teaser video for Galaxy S 4 — Samsung has just posted a teaser video for the upcoming launch of its new flagship smartphone, the Galaxy S 4. The clip shows a young boy, apparently “the secret messenger” of Samsung Unpacked 2013, taking delivery of a secret package.

More: Digits, CNET, App Advice, Engadget, TechCrunch, Wired, Los Angeles Times, PC Magazine, BGR, The Huffington Post, IntoMobile, WebProNews, Ars Technica, Pocketnow, Inquirer, TechSpot and The Next Web

Ina Fried / AllThingsD:

White House: It's Time to Legalize Cellphone Unlocking — The White House on Monday came out in support of a consumer's right to unlock their cell phone once they have fulfilled the terms of the contract. — Responding to a petition on whitehouse.gov, the executive branch stated …

Ina Fried / AllThingsD:

Backer of Cellphone Unlocking Petition Sets Sights on Modifying Copyright Act

More: digitaltrends.com, Mashable! and digiphile

Laird Harrison / KQED News Fix:

Microsoft Winds Down ‘Scroogled’ Campaign Against Google — Can nothing stop Google? — On Thanksgiving, Microsoft launched attack ads against the Internet giant that were so ferocious they made headlines in advertising and technology publications alike.

More: Fortune, VentureBeat, BGR, GeekWire, Marketing Land, DailyTech, The Verge, Search Engine Land, Neowin and WinBeta

Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Fortune:

Warren Buffett: If he were Tim Cook, he'd be buying Apple — “If you could buy dollar bills for 80 cents, it's a very good thing to do.” — FORTUNE — In a three-hour appearance on CNBC's Squawk Box Monday morning, Berkshire Hathaway's (BRKA) Warren Buffett addressed two burning issues …

More: Tech Trader Daily, CNBC, Guardian, CNET, Business Insider, MacRumors, VentureBeat, iDownloadBlog.com, Edible Apple, bizjournals, Deal Journal and 9to5Mac

Jeremy C. Owens / Mercury News:

Apple loses title of most valuable company to Exxon

More: 9to5Mac, The Verge, MacNN, Business Insider and Mashable!. Thanks:@mercbizbreak

John Paczkowski / AllThingsD:

Netflix Has No Current Plans for a BlackBerry 10 App — If BlackBerry is “in talks” with Netflix about a BlackBerry 10 version of the company's popular video-streaming app, they aren't going very well. — Sources say Netflix isn't developing a version of its app for BlackBerry 10 — native or port.

More: TechCrunch, BGR, The Verge, ValueWalk, WebProNews and MobileSyrup.com

Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:

YouTube Programmers Complain About Video Advertising Dollars — The big picture for YouTube looks good. The world's biggest video site keeps getting bigger, generating more video views and more ad dollars. — Things are fuzzier for some of YouTube's biggest programming partners.

More: The Verge and Virtual-Strategy Magazine. See also Mediagazer

Josh Constine / TechCrunch:

Facebook And Google Bury The Hatchet (Temporarily) To Kill A Core Problem In Gingerbread Dalvik — When Facebook hit a limitation in Android's virtual machine, Dalvik, that would halt its app development, Google and Facebook worked together to create a patch for Gingerbread.

More: Engadget, CNET, AllFacebook, AllThingsD, VentureBeat and SlashGear

Arik Hesseldahl / AllThingsD:

IBM Makes a Big Bet on OpenStack in the Cloud — The open source software for running cloud computing installations just got a big new name in its camp: IBM. — Big Blue announced today that all of its cloud services and software will be based on an open cloud architecture.

More: VentureBeat, ZDNet, Datamation.com, Wired, GigaOM and Wired

Joel Johnson / Gizmodo:

Hold On Tight, Gizmodo Is a TV Show Now — If we made a Top Gear for gadgets, would you watch it? In two weeks, you'll have your chance. — Nearly ten years ago, when I first ran Gizmodo, gadgets were as niche of a topic for news and debate as could be.

Tweets: @alexweprin, @kylenw, @joshpetri, @nicknotned and @joeljohnson. Thanks:@nstango. See also Mediagazer

Ernesto / TorrentFreak:

The Pirate Bay Moves to North Korea, Gets ‘Virtual Asylum’ — Last week the Swedish Pirate Party was forced to shut down its routing services to The Pirate Bay. — The Party and its leaders took this difficult decision after they were threatened with a lawsuit by a local anti-piracy group.

More: The Pirate Bay, Los Angeles Times, Gizmodo, Technology Personalized and TechSpot. See also Mediagazer

Graham Cluley / Naked Security:

Jailed cybercriminal hacked into his own prison's computer system after being put in IT class — Here's a piece of advice for those running classes training prisoners about information technology. — It's probably not a good idea to let notorious hackers join the course - or, if you do …

More: CNET, Computerworld, The Register, Macgasm and Inquirer

Robin Wauters / The Next Web:

Blurred Navision: Microsoft may owe Denmark more than $1b in unpaid taxes — American software juggernaut Microsoft may owe Denmark's treasury department several billions of Danish kroner in unpaid taxes, according to a report from DR, the country's national broadcasting corporation.

More: CNET, Softpedia News, TechSpot, ValueWalk and Geek.com

Katherine Rushton / Telegraph:

Tesco gears up for online fight with Amazon — Tesco has hired one of Facebook's most senior European executives and is launching a slew of online entertainment stores as it gears up for battle with Amazon. — Blinkbox's sales model allows it to offer recent box office hits, such as Skyfall, much earlier than its rivals

More: blinkbox News site, paidContent, TechCrunch and Engadget. See also Mediagazer

Wayne Williams / BetaNews:

Xbox Live premieres its first movie — In tough economic times, raising the money and getting a movie made without any major stars in it can be more than a little challenging for independent film makers. Getting it distributed is even harder. — So instead of trying to get their movie into cinemas …

More: BBC, ReadWrite, Telegraph, The Next Web, TG Daily, GeekWire, CNET, VentureBeat, Inquirer, blog.chron.com, Engadget, Ubergizmo, Laughing Squid, Mashable!, Electronista and Pocket-lint. See also Mediagazer

Kara Swisher / AllThingsD:

Former Top Yahoo Ad Exec Sues Yahoo, Accusing It of Trying to “Cheat” Him Over Acquisition Compensation — Michael Katz, a former high-profile advertising exec at Yahoo who sold Interclick to the Silicon Valley Internet giant, has filed a lawsuit claiming the company tried to …

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