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March 19, 2013, 10:15 AM

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Jungah Lee / Bloomberg:
Samsung Preparing Wristwatch as It Races Apple for Sales  —  Samsung Electronics Co. (005930) is developing a wristwatch as Asia's biggest technology company races against Apple Inc. (AAPL) to create a new industry of wearable devices that perform similar tasks as smartphones.
Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch:
Samsung Confirms It Will Build A Smart Watch As Speculation About Apple's iWatch Continues  —  Samsung is indeed working on a smart watch, the company's Executive Vice President of Mobile told Bloomberg in an interview today.  “We are preparing products for the future, and the watch is definitely one of them …
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Brooks Barnes / ArtsBeat:
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 …
Russell Holly / Geek.com:
Google expected to unify chat under the name Babble … - Home - Apple - Gadgets - Mobile - Games - Chips - - Forums - Shop
Michael Grothaus / Co.Labs:
An In-Depth Comparison Between iOS Map Frameworks: Apple MapKit vs. Google Maps SDK  —  “When we first got sight of Apple's maps in the iOS 6 SDK beta at WWDC 2012, we were excited,” says Lee Armstrong, developer of the popular Plane Finder app, which tracks planes in flight all over the world.
Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet:
Microsoft to push Windows 7 Service Pack 1 to users starting March 19  —  Summary: Microsoft is starting to push Windows 7 SP1 to Windows 7 users via Windows Update, ahead of the early April end-of-support date for the RTM version of the product.  —  As Microsoft marches toward …
Kyle Wiens / Wired:
Forget the Cellphone Fight — We Should Be Allowed to Unlock Everything We Own  —  While Congress is working on legislation to re-legalize cellphone unlocking, let's acknowledge the real issue: The copyright laws that made unlocking illegal in the first place.  Who owns our stuff?
Alexander Limi / Alex Limi:
Checkboxes that kill your product  —  (To read this article with its formatting and typography intact, click here)  —  If I told you that a company is shipping a product to hundreds of millions of users right now, and included in the product are several prominent buttons that will break …
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Zack Whittaker / ZDNet:
EU plans stronger consumer law enforcement after Apple warranty case  —  Summary: The European Commission is frustrated that its member states have on the most part failed to take action against Apple for flouting EU law, and warns that enforcement must be actioned in order to protect the rights of ordinary citizens.
Arik Hesseldahl / AllThingsD:
Slowing China Shipments Push PC Market From Bad to Worse  —  Research firm IDC has published its latest take on the state of the personal computer market, and depending on how you look at it — and where you work — it appears to be a case of going from bad to worse.
David Kravets / Wired:
Feds: No Warrant Needed to Track Your Car With a GPS Device  —  The President Barack Obama administration is claiming that authorities do not need court warrants to affix GPS devices to vehicles to monitor their every move.  —  The administration maintains that position despite …
David Pierce / The Verge:
Meet the tiny, Florida-based phone maker that thinks it can beat Samsung  —  One cheap, high-end, unlocked smartphone at a time  —  Sammy Ohev-Zion starts our chat with an economics lesson.  It costs every company about the same amount to manufacture a phone, he says …
Jake Smith / Pocket-lint:
Google airs ‘New Baby’ Nexus 10 ad, showing off multiple user accounts and available apps  —  Google has aired a new advertisement for its 10-inch Nexus 10 tablet dubbed “New Baby,” focusing in on several of the features Android 4.2 Jelly Bean brings along.  —  The theme of the advertisement …
Nilay Patel / The Verge:
Samsung weird: how a phone launch went from Broadway glitz to sexist mess  —  Surprise!  Corporate influence and ‘Sex and the City’ don't mix well  —  “While the ladies cool off, why don't you tell us about S Health?”  —  That line, uttered with complete sincerity, was the capstone …
Stephen Shankland / CNET:
RapidShare scraps unlimited storage with short notice  —  Even customers who paid in advance for long-term unlimited storage at RapidShare will see it disappear on March 20.  The company says its terms of service permit such abrupt changes.  —  Online storage provider RapidShare is expanding …
Wall Street Journal:
Liberty Media in Talks to Buy 25% of Charter Communications  —  As a pioneer in the U.S. cable industry, John Malone's hard-nosed deal making earned him the moniker “Darth Vader.”  Now, 14 years after selling a big chunk of his empire to AT&T, Mr. Malone is returning to the fray.
Ken Yeung / The Next Web:
Saleforce's Chatter mobile apps updated to allow access to customer data, easier creation of content  —  Enterprise cloud computing company Salesforce.com has released an update to Chatter, its enterprise-focused social network.  The iOS and Android mobile apps are getting a refresh and …

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