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March 18, 2013, 4:50 AM

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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 …
More: AllThingsDTweets: @panzer and @karaswisher
John Gruber / Daring Fireball:
Ceding the Crown  —  So Phil Schiller gave a second eve-of-Galaxy-S4-launch interview, this one to Reuters reporter Poornima Gupta.  The headline ("Apple's Schiller Blasts Android, Samsung on Galaxy's Eve") is spot-on, but here's the second paragraph:
Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac:
Kim Zetter / Wired:
Crooks Spy on Casino Card Games With Hacked Security Cameras, Win $33M  —  A high-roller and hacker accomplices made off with about $33 million after they gamed a casino in Australia by hacking its surveillance cameras and gaining an advantage in several rounds of high-stakes card games.
David Carr / New York Times:
Barry Diller's Aereo Service Challenges Cable Television  —  The table in the conference room on the sixth floor of the IAC headquarters in Manhattan was a portrait of organization.  In front of each of the 10 chairs was a leather case holding a fresh tablet of paper, with a sharpened pencil placed above it, just so.
Reuters:
Panasonic considers exiting from plasma TVs: Nikkei  —  (Reuters) - Japan's Panasonic Corp is leaning towards withdrawing from plasma television operations as part of a downsizing of its television business over three years starting next fiscal year, the Nikkei newspaper said on Monday.
Jennifer Granick / Stanford CIS Blog:
Here's How to Legalize Phone Unlocking  —  In the wake of a public petition to allow people to unlock their cellphones for use on the wireless network of their choice, both the White House and the Federal Communications Commission came out in favor of a change in the law.
Alex Wilhelm / The Next Web:
Facebook's new temporary dev office in Vancouver underscores how broken US immigration policy remains  —  According to the Vancouver Sun, Facebook will hire up to 150 developers for a new temporary office in the city.  The hires will be freshly graduated engineering students.
More: Vancouver Sun and GeekWireTweets: @qthrul

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