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March 5, 2013, 11:55 AM

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Rene Ritchie / iMore:

iPhone 5S planned for August, next iPads may debut as soon as April — iMore has learned that Apple is planning the release of the iPhone 5S for this summer, currently for August. Next generation iPads, presumably the iPad 5 and potentially the iPad mini 2, may also debut as soon as this April.

Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:

Google Is Building A Same-Day Amazon Prime Competitor, “Google Shopping Express” — Google is stealthily preparing to launch an Amazon Prime competitor called “Google Shopping Express.” According to one source the service will be $10 or $15 cheaper than Amazon Prime, so $69 or $64 a year …

More: 9to5Google, VentureBeat, Reuters, The Verge, WebProNews, Washington Post, Business Insider, memeburn, Mashable! and Gizmodo. Tweets: @dannysullivan

Melanie Lee / Reuters:

Google controls too much of China's smartphone sector: ministry — (Reuters) - Google Inc has too much control over China's smartphone industry via its Android mobile operating system and has discriminated against some local firms, the technology ministry said in a white paper.

More: AppleInsider, CNET, Tech Trader Daily, Tech in Asia, TechCrunch, 9to5Google, Engadget, The Verge, memeburn, Quartz, FOSS Patents and PhoneArena

Fortune:

YouTube to launch music streaming service, take on Spotify — Google planning to roll out service to capitalize on the vast power of YouTube. — By Ryan Bradley and Jessi Hempel — FORTUNE — YouTube, the world's largest digital repository of streaming media, will launch a subscription music service later this year.

More: Engadget, Gizmodo and iDownloadBlog.com

Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac:

Apple considered calling iPhone the ‘Telepod’, ‘Mobi’, ‘iPad’, or ‘Tripod’, former Apple ad man reveals — At an event at the University of Arizona's Department of Marketing, former Apple advertising lead Ken Segall has shared some additional details into the naming behind Apple's massively popular smartphone.

More: PC Magazine, VentureBeat, MacRumors, Ars Technica, CNET, Mashable!, digitaltrends.com, Engadget, Tech Shout!, iPhone, MobileBurn.com, The Verge, Pocket-lint, Electronista, iDownloadBlog.com, IntoMobile, PhoneArena, iLounge, App Advice, Gizmodo and Softpedia News. Thanks:@apollozac

Pew Research Center:

Twitter Reaction to Events Often at Odds with Overall Public Opinion — The reaction on Twitter to major political events and policy decisions often differs a great deal from public opinion as measured by surveys. This is the conclusion of a year-long Pew Research Center study that compared …

More: Marketing Pilgrim, Mashable!, SocialTimes, CNN, nbcnews.com, VentureBeat, Stuff.co.nz, Betabeat, BuzzFeed and PC Magazine. Tweets: @panzer. See also Mediagazer

Gerry Shih / Reuters:

Google services should not require real names: Vint Cerf — (Reuters) - In the face of increasing government-led crackdowns on social media, Google Inc (GOOG.O) should not force Internet users to reveal their real names for some services, including its Google+ social network, said Vint Cerf …

More: The Verge, 9to5Google, Engadget and Hillicon Valley

Tom Warren / The Verge:

Microsoft ViralSearch: tracking and identifying popular web content on Twitter — The concept of viral internet content or memes has been played out for a number of years, but Microsoft thinks it has mastered the solution to tracking exactly how web content gets popular.

More: VentureBeat

Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Fortune:

The rise and fall of Andy Zaky — How an Internet-trained Apple analyst lost tens of millions of other peoples' money — FORTUNE — In the late 1990s, an ad agency creative director I'll call Joe Smith to protect his privacy bought several hundred shares of Apple (AAPL) at $60 apiece.

More: Business Insider. Thanks:@philiped

Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac:

Apple executives and a long history with watches — Apple design chief Ive pictured with Ikepod designer Newson — Apple is building a device for the wrist, and it may even launch later this year. One of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs' most famous sayings is that “we build the products that we want to use.”

More: Computerworld, Communications …, Business Insider, Softpedia News, ITworld.com, Redmond Pie, Edible Apple and MacRumors

Forbes:

10 Reasons To Be More Optimistic About Broadband Than Susan Crawford Is — Susan Crawford thinks she sees the future of the Internet—and it isn't pretty: Cable companies monopolizing broadband, charging too much, withholding content and keeping speeds low, all in order to suppress disruptive innovation.

More: Technology Liberation Front. Thanks:@berinszoka

Jeff Blagdon / The Verge:

Verizon considering LTE-only phones in 2014 in push to lower subsidies — Soon after Verizon transitions to Voice over LTE for ordinary telephone calls around the end of the year, it could start selling phones without CDMA chipsets, reducing costs and associated subsidies, said the company's CFO Fran Shammo.

More: ReadWrite, LAPTOP Magazine, CNET, Engadget, DSLreports, FierceWireless, 9to5Mac, Gotta Be Mobile, PhoneArena, Electronista and BGR

Jeremiah Rice / Android Police:

[New App] Opera Browser Beta, With Ground-Up Redesign And Webkit Rendering Engine, Is Live In The Play Store — Get those fingers ready, Opera fans: the biggest thing to happen to your favorite mobile browser in years has arrived. Opera Software announced a new and retooled version …

More: The Verge, Opera, TechHive, IntoMobile, CNET, ZDNet, Engadget, Inquirer, MobileSyrup.com, GigaOM, FierceMobileContent News, BetaNews, SlashGear, The Next Web and Electronista

Dara Kerr / CNET:

Oracle issues emergency Java update to patch vulnerabilities — After hackers attack a new flaw in Java, “Oracle decided to release a fix for this vulnerability and another closely related bug as soon as possible.” — In response to discovering that hackers were actively exploiting …

More: The Oracle Software …, Oracle, Inquirer, VentureBeat, Help Net Security, SlashGear, SecurityWeek, Ars Technica, ZDNet, The Register, Krebs on Security, 9to5Mac and Computerworld

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.

Matthew Panzarino / The Next Web:

Google Maps for iOS updated with Google Contacts support, local search categories and more — Google Maps for iOS has been updated with a nice set of new features today, including the ability to sign in with Google Contacts to have your saved addresses at your finger tips.

More: TechCrunch, Engadget and Google LatLong

Anthony Ha / TechCrunch:

Chamath Palihapitiya Confirms That His Social+Capital Partnership Has Raised A New Fund Of $275M+ — Chamath Palihapitiya, the early Facebook executive who left the company in 2011 to launch The Social+Capital Partnership, said today that he has raised a second fund.

More: Pulse2, VentureBeat and Business Insider

Julie Bort / Business Insider:

Microsoft: No, We're Not Abandoning Our Anti-Google Campaign — Microsoft has no intention of completely ending its Google-bashing ad campaign, “Scroogled,” the company told Business Insider. — Reports flew on the Internet today that Microsoft would kill off the controversial effort …

More: ReadWrite, Network World, TechCrunch, CNET, TechEye, GeekWire and Search Engine Watch

Alex Williams / TechCrunch:

VMware Exits Collaboration Market With Sale of SlideRocket To Clearslide, A Sales Engagement Platform — VMware is exiting the collaboration market with the sale of SlideRocket to Clearslide, which will use the rich slide creation too to buttress its service that offers sales people presentation capabilities …

More: ZDNet and GigaOM

TechCrunch:

Fitness And Health Tracker Fitbit Is Raising $30M At A $300M-Plus Valuation — Fitness technology and hardware startup Fitbit is raising north of $30 million in growth capital at a $300 million-plus valuation, according to multiple sources. The company last raised $12 million in January 2012 …

More: CNET

Jeff Blagdon / The Verge:

How emoji conquered the world — The story of the smiley face from the man who invented it — In 1995, sales of pagers were booming among Japan's teenagers, and NTT Docomo's decision to add the heart symbol to its Pocket Bell devices let high school kids across the country inject a new level of sentiment …

Carl Franzen / The Verge:

The Pirate Bay's move to North Korea is probably more satire than fact — The Pirate Bay published a blog post today claiming that it has relocated to a “new provider” in North Korea after being invited by the totalitarian country's leadership “to fight our battles from their network.”

More: Will's Blog, The Pirate Bay, SiliconANGLE, CNET, FP Passport, The Next Web, Ars Technica, ArcticStartup, ExtremeTech and digitaltrends.com

Sam Byford / The Verge:

Twitter discontinuing iPhone, Android, and Air versions of TweetDeck — Twitter has announced that it will be discontinuing several TweetDeck apps in favor of the web client. The Android, iPhone, and Air-based desktop clients will all be affected; the apps will be removed from their stores in early May …

More: TweetDeck, AllFacebook, Inquirer, InfoWorld, AppleTell, Mashable!, CNET, AllThingsD, Marketing Land, The Next Web, WindowsObserver.com, Pocket-lint, 9to5Mac, Engadget, Gizmodo, Apple Fan Site and TechCrunch

Tweets: @dannysullivan and @davewiner

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