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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 …

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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:

More: Forbes and Mobile Industry Review. Tweets: @qthrul and @karaswisher

Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac:

Following Samsung Galaxy S4 launch, Apple debuts ‘Why iPhone’ webpage to tout why people love iPhone, slam Android

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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 …

More: Engadget, Engadget, TechSpot, The Verge, CNET, Computerworld, LAPTOP Magazine, Neowin, SlashGear, Gizmodo and eWeek

Darren Murph / Engadget:

The inside story of Lenovo's ThinkPad redesign — “When you talk to end users about ports, they'll tell you how much they need them. They'll talk about the vast number of USB devices that they have. It's easy to hear that and determine that you need five or more ports based on what these people report.

More: ZDNet and Pocket-lint. Tweets: @robertyune and @robertthomas

Jessica E. Lessin / Wall Street Journal:

Loren Brichter, a High Priest of App Design — PHILADELPHIA—More than 2,500 miles from Silicon Valley, in a small home office with a dog bed under the desk, sits a man on the cutting edge of the apps boom. — Loren Brichter isn't a household name. Nor are the mobile apps he has built …

More: App Advice and iMore. Tweets: @myoung, @jakeosmith, @jessicalessin and @rajunarisetti

CBS News:

The Innovator: Jack Dorsey — Jack Dorsey is one of the biggest and most ambitious innovators of our time. His name doesn't resonate like Jobs or Bezos or Zuckerberg, but his innovations do. His low profile may have a lot to do with his personality. Dorsey describes himself …

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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.

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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 …

More: Android Police, Google+, TechCrunch, The Next Web, SlashGear, Android Beat and Ubergizmo

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.

Tweets: @joshglasser and @brianstelter

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.

More: Engadget, The Verge and ZDNet

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.

More: NYT Bits and Technology Liberation Front

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 GeekWire. Tweets: @qthrul

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