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March 19, 2013, 4:45 AM

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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 …

More: AppleInsider, Cult of Mac, TUAW, CNET, PhoneArena, Los Angeles Times, MacNN, PadGadget, iDownloadBlog.com, PC Magazine, I4U News, MacRumors, Betabeat, 9to5Mac, TechRadar.com, Macgasm, Rolling Stone, SiliconBeat, Gizmodo, PopWatch, VentureBeat, Business Insider, WebProNews, iPhone Savior, Mashable!, AllThingsD and iLounge. Tweets: @funnyordie

Ina Fried / AllThingsD:

T-Mobile Plans March 26 Event to Tout Big Changes Coming — T-Mobile USA is planning a March 26 event in New York where it is expected to detail further changes to both its technology and business. — The No. 4 U.S. carrier is in the midst of readying an LTE network for commercial launch.

More: TmoNews, Engadget, AppleInsider, PhoneArena, Gotta Be Mobile, Mobile Marketing Watch and dailywireless.org

Joseph Volpe / Engadget:

T-Mobile's LTE ambitions get real: network expansion, the BlackBerry Z10 and an OTA update for the Galaxy Note II

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.

More: 9to5Mac, Cult of Mac, AppleInsider, iMore, iPhone Hacks and MacRumors

Drew Olanoff / TechCrunch:

Google Chromebooks Go Global: Now Available In Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Ireland And The Netherlands — Google has learned all that it needs to learn about the reception of its Chromebook laptops in the U.S. and UK and has announced availability of Acer, HP and Samsung flavors …

More: Google Chrome Blog, NEWS.com.au, CNET, The Next Web, ZDNet, Engadget, BetaNews and The Verge

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?

More: Boing Boing

Evelyn M. Rusli / Wall Street Journal:

Tensions Rise Between Facebook, Developers — The Social Network Steps Up Efforts to Curb Spam, But Developers Say It Is Blocking Competing Apps — Last month in Paris, developer Antoine Morcos received an unexpected email: Facebook Inc. said it was cutting ties with his photo-sharing application, Vintage Camera.

Tweets: @panzer, @davidu, @scottmaustin and @scottmaustin

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.

More: The Verge, Engadget, CNET and The Next Web

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 …

More: PhoneArena, TechSpot and sefsar

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 …

More: Fortune

Matt Brian / The Verge:

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 …

More: Wired, AppleInsider, Bloomberg, The Huffington Post, TUAW, SlashGear, Reuters, Cult of Mac, MacRumors, Macgasm, Slate, Guardian, PhoneArena, The Next Web, Mashable!, PC Magazine, TechCrunch, Electronista, VentureBeat, DSLreports, Betabeat, Business Insider, Gizmodo, iClarified, 9to5Mac and Help Net Security

Tweets: @anildash, @adrianchen, @rsingel, @tcarmody and @mat

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 …

More: The Verge, CNET and PhoneArena. Thanks:@jakeosmith

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 …

Sean Gallagher / Ars Technica:

Same hacker may have targeted Ars, reporter Krebs, and Wired's Honan — Security reporter Brian Krebs has uncovered some details about one of the people tied to the denial of service attack on his site and the fraudulent 911 call that brought armed police to Krebs' doorstep.

More: Krebs on Security. Tweets: @robpegoraro

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 …

More: TechCrunch, GigaOM and VentureBeat

Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet:

Microsoft delivers first public preview of its Hadoop on Windows Azure service — Summary: Microsoft is making available its first public preview of HDInsight, the Hadoop big-data framework on Windows Azure technology it is developing with Hortonworks. — Microsoft made available …

More: ScottGu's Blog, MSDN Blogs, TechCrunch, MSDN Blogs and The Next Web

Kim-Mai Cutler / TechCrunch:

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 …

More: PadGadget, Inside Social Games, App Advice, Betabeat and AllThingsD. Tweets: @tfadp

Emil Protalinski / The Next Web:

NPD: US homes now hold over 500m Internet-connected devices with apps, at an average of 5.7 per household — There are now more than 500 million devices in US homes connected to the Internet. Furthermore, the average number of devices per US Internet household has grown from 5.3 devices just three months ago to 5.7 today.

More: NPD Group, Los Angeles Times and VentureBeat

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:

ARM CEO Warren East Is Stepping Down And Getting Replaced By President Simon Segars — Warren East, the executive who has seen UK semiconductor juggernaut ARM Holdings through some of its most explosive growth, fuelled by deals with companies like Apple for its iPhone and iPad devices …

More: Engadget, GigaOM, The Verge and ARM

Chris Welch / The Verge:

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 …

More: AT&T, Cult of Mac, Engadget, FierceWireless, TechnoBuffalo, iDownloadBlog.com, Gotta Be Mobile and Gizmodo

Roberto Baldwin / Wired:

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.

More: The Official Google Blog, Google LatLong, 9to5Google, Engadget, Neowin, Pocket-lint, Search Engine Land, TweakTown News, BetaNews, PC Magazine, CNET, Gizmodo, GeekWire, VentureBeat, Softpedia News, The Atlantic Online, The Next Web and BuzzFeed. Thanks:@strngwys

Laurie Burkitt / China Real Time Report:

Apple Attack Backfires for State Broadcaster … A report by China Central Television questioning the integrity of Apple Inc. has instead ended up shining an unkind spotlight on the state broadcaster's own reputation thanks to what appears to be a poorly edited post on the country's most popular Twitter-like microblogging service.

More: AppleInsider, Electronista, Macgasm and Business Insider

Greg Sterling / Marketing Land:

State Of The News Media: Everything In Decline But Digital — The Pew Research Center's Project for Excellence in Journalism's has served up its annual and comprehensive “State of the News Media” report. It offers a mostly pessimistic assessment of the condition and trajectory of various news media in the US today.

More: PandoDaily, Associated Press, The Verge, Poynter, Poynter, O'Reilly Radar, Screenwerk and Nieman Journalism Lab. See also Mediagazer

Fred Wilson / A VC:

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.

Tweets: @graubart, @mdudas and @jyarow

Josh Constine / TechCrunch:

Facebook Hires Co-Founders Of Trustworthiness Verification Startup Legit — Legit, a startup working on a universal reputation system that could help sharing economy services verify whether users are trustworthy, has announced its team will join Facebook. Specifically, co-founders Jeremy Barton …

More: The Next Web

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