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March 19, 2013, 7:30 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.| 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 …
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| 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 … | 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.
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| 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.| Joseph Volpe / Engadget: |
| 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?
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| Russell Holly / Geek.com: |
Google expected to unify chat under the name Babble … - Home - Apple - Gadgets - Mobile - Games - Chips - - Forums - Shop
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| 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 …
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Softpedia News, TweakTown News and TorrentFreak
| 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 …
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| 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 … | 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.
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| 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 …
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| Florian Mueller / FOSS Patents: |
Nokia wins German patent injunction against HTC over power-saving technology — This morning Nokia won a German patent injunction against HTC that may give the Finnish handset maker enough leverage to sell a patent license to its Taiwanese rival unless Qualcomm, which provides baseband chipsets to HTC …
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Engadget, WMPoweruser, SlashGear and Neowin
| 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 …
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| 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.
| 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 …
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| 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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| 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 …
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PadGadget, Inside Mobile Apps, Joystiq, Betabeat, App Advice, AllThingsD and Softpedia News. Tweets: @tfadp
| 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 … | 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 …
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| John Poole / Primate Labs Blog: |
Samsung Galaxy S 4 Benchmarks — Android Authority ran Geekbench 2 on the new Samsung Galaxy S 4 last week and posted the results on YouTube. I thought it would be interesting to see how the Samsung Galaxy S 4 compares to other popular smartphones. — I've charted the Geekbench 2 scores … | 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.
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PandoDaily, Associated Press and The Verge
| 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 …
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ScottGu's Blog, MSDN Blogs, TechCrunch, Neowin, MSDN Blogs and The Next Web
| 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 …
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AT&T, Cult of Mac, Engadget, FierceWireless, TechnoBuffalo, iDownloadBlog.com and Gotta Be Mobile
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