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 …

Funny or Die Makes a Steve Jobs Movie  —  LOS ANGELES — Techies have been keeping a hot eye on dueling Steve Jobs biopics, one an indie starring Ashton Kutcher and the other, written by Aaron Sorkin, in the works at Sony, which made “The Social Network.”  —  But it turns out there was also a joker …

Andrew ‘weev’ Auernheimer sentenced to 41 months for exploiting AT&T iPad security flaw  —  Following prison term, Auernheimer will be subject to three years of supervised release; ordered to split $73,000 restitution to AT&T  —  Security researcher Andrew ‘weev’ Auernheimer was today sentenced …

T-Mobile's LTE ambitions get real: network expansion, the BlackBerry Z10 and an OTA update for the Galaxy Note II  —  AT&T's failed acquisition was the best thing to ever happen to T-Mobile.  As a consequence of the failed merger, the fourth place wireless carrier received AWS spectrum in over 100 markets …

EA CEO John Riccitiello steps down  —  Electronic Arts announced today that John Riccitiello will step down as chief executive officer and as a member of the Board of Directors effective March 30.  —  Riccitiello will be replaced by Larry Probst “to ensure a smooth transition” …

Flattr now lets you make money from your Twitter Favorites, Instagram Likes and more  —  Swedish startup Flattr has been running its ‘online tipjar’ service for a few years now, and yet it's failed to gain much traction.  However, it's now taking a new direction that may finally make it click with a mainstream audience.

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.

Behold: Google's Stunning Street Views From the Top of the World  —  While on the Everest Base Camp Trek in Nepal you can stand face to face with Mount Everest, the “Goddess Mother of the Earth”, from the easily reached high-point of 18,192-foot Kala Pattar.

Messaging Service WhatsApp To Extend Subscription Model To iOS This Year, But Don't Hold Your Breath For A Desktop App  —  WhatsApp, the popular mobile messaging app that eschews advertising in favor of a paid model, is getting ready to bring its iOS app in line with the apps it makes …

Short Term Thinking vs Long Term Thinking  —  One of the mistakes I often see in business is short term thinking vs long term thinking.  It struck me over the weekend when I saw this tweet: … Sure Samsung is making a killing on handset sales right now.  So is Apple.

Uber, Data Darwinism and the future of work  —  A year ago, I hosted a small conclave of fellow (early) explorers of the post-html Internet.  And while we are not of the SnapChat generation, most of us grew up connected.  There were some who helped build the gear that runs the post-1999 Internet, and some who built the space ships.

Zynga Looks To Revive Draw Something With A Sequel That's Much More Of A Social Network  —  Zynga's biggest acquisition to date — the $180 million deal to buy Draw Something-maker OMGPOP last year — was the one it ended up being the most pilloried for.  At its peak, Draw Something …

Analysis: Amazon's sellers unhappy about fee hikes, eye rivals  —  (Reuters) - A brewing conflict between Amazon.com Inc and its merchants over fee hikes could benefit rival eBay Inc, and provide an opening for Wal-Mart Stores Inc and Google Inc, which are just getting into the space.

Reddit Debuts Original Web Mini-Series (Exclusive)  —  The site is debuting three episodes of a series based on the subreddit “Explain Like I'm Five.”  —  Online community Reddit is experimenting with original web programming and is debuting three episodes of a new web series on Monday.

Small Twitter Advertisers Can Now Target Ads Like Big Brands (& Use The Advanced Interface)  —  Equality has arrived in Twitter's advertising system.  —  The company has announced that small, self-serve advertisers now have access to the same “advanced” dashboard as bigger spenders …

Marc Andreessen, Tim Berners-Lee and Vint Cerf Among Inaugural Winners Of The £1M Queen Elizabeth Prize For Engineering  —  Queen Elizabeth II is not exactly known for being a digital-first champion of technology, but it looks like the British monarchy may be trying to change that association …

Pinterest Shares Its New Look and Pin Discovery Features With All  —  Avid Pinterest users, prepare for some changes to your pinboards.  Today the content-sharing site, which allows users to “pin” photos, videos, articles, graphics and other objects to their own boards …

GOP Taps Tech Allies To Narrow Digital Gap  —  The Republican Party is working with Silicon Valley investors on a venture, backed by political strategist Karl Rove, to create a digital platform for targeting voters and donors, an effort that is adding to tensions between the party's establishment and its insurgent wings.

AT&T rolls out monstrous 30GB, 40GB, and 50GB shared data tiers starting at $300 monthly  —  It's unlikely you'll ever see unlimited data from AT&T again, but the carrier today rolled out three new Mobile Share packages for its most data-hungry customers.  The company's previous shared tiers topped …

Gmail app for Android updated with reply/archive/delete from notifications, faster search & more  —  Google announced today on its Official Gmail Blog that it has released an update to the Android app for Gmail that brings new features, faster search, and other enhancements for certain users.

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.