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March 4, 2013, 3:30 PM

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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.

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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.

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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.

Ina Fried / AllThingsD:

White House: It's Time to Legalize Cell Phone 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 …

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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.

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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 …

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Jeremy C. Owens / Mercury News:

Apple loses title of most valuable company to Exxon

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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.

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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.

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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 …

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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, @joeljohnson 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, Gizmodo and WebProNews

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, GigaOM, Wired, SiliconANGLE and Wired

Christopher S. Stewart / Wall Street Journal:

As Pirates Run Rampant, TV Studios Dial Up Pursuit — By the glow of six flat screens inside a windowless room in a California office tower, three content cops from NBCUniversal watch as pirated versions of the cable-TV drama “Suits” begin popping up on the Internet within minutes of the show's closing credits.

More: paidContent and ZDNet. See also Mediagazer

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.

Greg Bensinger / Wall Street Journal:

The Evolving Economics of the App — Music search application SoundHound is a bargain on Microsoft Corp.'s Windows Phone store: It is free. — But for iPhone users, one version of SoundHound costs $6.99. And on Google Inc. Android devices, a version of the mobile app costs $5.99.

More: GigaOM and Wall Street Journal

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