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March 19, 2013, 2:00 PM

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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 …
Russell Holly / Geek.com:
Google expected to unify chat under the name Babble … - Home - Apple - Gadgets - Mobile - Games - Chips - - Forums - Shop
Lorraine Luk / Wall Street Journal:
HTC's Rollout of Flagship Smartphone Delayed  —  TAIPEI—The rollout of HTC Corp.'s new flagship smartphone is being pushed back due in part to some component shortages, executives said, a setback for the Taiwanese smartphone maker attempting to turn around its sales.
Steve Kovach / Business Insider:
HTC Says Its Next Phone Is Delayed Because It's No Longer A ‘Tier-One’ Customer  —  HTC's new flagship phone, the HTC One, is facing delays because the company can't lock down the components its needs to produce the device.  —  In a surprisingly candid interview with WSJ …
Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac:
Apple releases iOS 6.1.3 with Lock screen security flaw fix, Maps improvements for Japan  —  Apple has released iOS 6.1.3 to end users today.  It is currently available over-the-air via Software Update in the Settings app.  —  The update includes a security flaw fix involving the iOS device Lock screen.
Brian Stelter / New York Times:
ABC Works on an App for Live Streaming Shows to Mobile Devices  —  THE WALT DISNEY Company, while sorting out the future of the online video Web site Hulu, has an app in the works that may render Hulu passé for some people.  —  The app will live stream ABC programming to the phones …
Brian Cairns / Google Developers Blog:
Build collaborative apps with Google Drive Realtime API  —  Google Drive lets users create Docs, Sheets, and Slides, collaborate on them in real time, and have their changes saved automatically.  With the new Google Drive Realtime API, you can now easily add some of the same real-time collaboration …
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 …
Stephen Shankland / CNET:
Google undeletes RSS extension for Chrome browser  —  TheIt's not dead after all.  Google has resurrected an extension that lets Chrome handle RSS and Atom feeds, even though it's not resurrecting the related Google Reader service.  —  The 868,163 people who've installed Google's RSS-handling extension …
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 …
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.
Nathan Ingraham / The Verge:
Verizon Galaxy Nexus finally updated to Android 4.2.2 Jelly Bean  —  The Galaxy Nexus for Verizon is a bit of a black sheep in the Nexus family — the handset was one of the precious few to run a stock version of Android and ran on Verizon's excellent LTE network, but the phone …
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: DSLreports
Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
To Compete With Amazon, eBay Debuts Free Listings And Simpler Fee Structures For Sellers  —  eBay is debuting a new fee structure and incentives for sellers today in an effort to remain the most competitive commerce platform next to e-commerce marketplace Amazon.
More: Reuters
Tom Warren / The Verge:
Skype for Windows Phone updated with People Hub integration and HD video support  —  After temporarily disabling People Hub integration in Skype for Windows Phone, Microsoft is pushing out a fresh update this week that brings back the feature to its latest mobile OS.
Ina Fried / AllThingsD:
Lytro Names Former Ning Head Rosenthal as CEO  —  Light field camera maker Lytro is naming former Ning chief Jason Rosenthal as its new CEO.  —  Rosenthal, who also worked at HP/Opsware, Netscape and AOL, takes over a company with a unique technology but lots of work ahead of it.
More: CNET and LYTRO BLOG

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