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March 18, 2013, 8:45 AM

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Darren Murph / Engadget:
Lenovo ThinkPad T431s Ultrabook: refined exterior, widened trackpad, shipping in April for $949  —  Lenovo's taking the wraps off of its newest ThinkPad here at Engadget Expand, but in fact, the T431s represents more than just a minor spec bump.  It's actually the first ThinkPad borne out of Lenovo's latest …
Jean-Louis Gassée / Monday Note:
Apple is Losing The War - Of Words  —  Besides its ads, Apple says very little, confident numbers will do the talking.  This no longer works as others have seized the opportunity to drive the narrative.  —  The day before Samsung's big Galaxy S4 announcement, Apple's VP of Marketing …
Patrick Wensink / Salon:
My Amazon bestseller made me nothing  —  My novel shot to the top of the site's bestseller list last summer.  You won't believe how little I got paid  —  In one more week I was going to be a millionaire.  —  At least, that was the rumor circulating around my wife's family.
Shalini Ramachandran / Wall Street Journal:
Verizon Seeks to Shake Up Fees for TV Channels  —  FiOS Operator Presses Smaller Media Firms for Deals Based on Audience Size  —  Verizon Communications Inc. is proposing to shake up the pay-television business based on a simple premise: it wants to tie the fees it pays to carry TV channels to how many people actually watch them.
Paul Smith / Financial Review:
BlackBerry chief lays out survival plan and says iPhone is old news  —  BlackBerry chief exectutive officer Thorsten Heins has said the rapidly advancing global smartphone market has left Apple's iPhone in its wake, and predicted his company would have 100,000 native apps available …
Surur / WMPoweruser:
Mainstream support for WP 8 ends July 2014, WP 7.8 September 2014  —  Plaffo.com reports on the life cycle support dates of Windows Phone 7.8 and Windows Phone 8.  —  According to the table Windows Phone 7.8 will receive security updates until 9 September 2014, while Windows Phone 8 will sunset on the 8th July 2014.
Jeff Blagdon / The Verge:
Google Keep note-taking app spotted in Drive before disappearing  —  Everyone might be focused on the services Google is scrapping as part of its spring cleaning, but it looks like there's at least one new (or rather, renewed) service on the way.  Android Police reports that a new note-taking …

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