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Jessica E. Lessin / Digits:
Apple Design Teams Get Cozier  —  Last October Apple Inc. announced a management shake-up designed to increase collaboration across its different divisions.  Sure enough, some walls have come down, though many others remain.  —  One of the biggest areas of change has been design.
Jeff Blagdon / The Verge:
Google's Android unit reportedly building a smartwatch  —  According to a recent report from The Financial Times, Google might also be getting into the smartwatch game.  And unlike Glass, which was developed in the company's experimental X Lab, the watch (not pictured above) …
Bogdan Petrovan / Android Authority:
LG joins the fray, making a smartwatch and a Glass-like device  —  LG is joining the wearable computing race with a smartwatch of its own, and even a device that is similar to Google's Project Glass.  —  Coincidence or not, we've been hearing a lot of buzz lately about various companies …
New York Times:
IPhone Contracts With Carriers Under Scrutiny in Europe  —  European Union regulators are examining the contracts Apple strikes with cellphone carriers that sell its iPhone for possible antitrust violations after several carriers complained that the deals throttled competition.
Quentin Hardy / New York Times:
Lockheed Martin Harnesses Quantum Technology  —  VANCOUVER, British Columbia — Our digital age is all about bits, those precise ones and zeros that are the stuff of modern computer code.  —  But a powerful new type of computer that is about to be commercially deployed by a major American military contractor …
Edward Wyatt / New York Times:
F.C.C. Chairman Announces Resignation  —  Julius Genachowski, the Federal Communications Commission chairman since June 2009, who set out ambitious plans to expand broadband Internet service throughout the country and to free up additional airwaves for sale to mobile phone companies …
Matt Rosoff / CITEworld:
Box and Evernote execs: Don't ignore Microsoft's platforms  —  Evernote CTO Dave Engberg has noticed something funny: Just because a lot of people own a particular type of smartphone, that doesn't mean they actually download apps for it.  —  Speaking today at Business Insider's IGNITION Mobile conference …
More: Neowin and Android Beat.  Thanks:@menterprise360
Charles Arthur / Guardian:
Surprise!  Google chairman Eric Schmidt uses.. a BlackBerry  —  He likes the keyboard - even though Android alternatives are available.  Schmidt also spoke on whether Android and ChromeOS will merge: ‘not for a long time’  —  Who's the person you'd least expect to discover is a BlackBerry user?
Reuters:
HBO CEO mulls teaming with broadband partners for HBO GO  —  (Reuters) - HBO could widen access to its HBO GO online streaming service by teaming up with broadband Internet providers for customers who do not subscribe to a cable TV service, according to HBO's Chief Executive Richard Plepler.
Jon Russell / The Next Web:
500 Startups is now using AngelList to raise investment for its latest fund  —  500 Startups is a big fan of AngelList, the social network-like platform for young businesses.  Back in January, the US incubator and VC adopted AngelList as the sole platform for applications to its Spring 2013 batch …
Jordan Crook / TechCrunch:
Andrew ‘weev’ Auernheimer Obtains New Lawyer, Files Appeal  —  According to his brand new lawyer, Andrew “weev” Auernheimer, otherwise known as the AT&T hacker, will appeal his sentence of 41 months in prison, three years probation, and restitution of $73,000 owed to AT&T. Orin Kerr …
Mat Smith / Engadget:
Google applies for another Glass patent, thinks about controlling your garage door and fridge  —  In case you hadn't noticed, the people over at Mountain View continue to work pretty hard on bringing yet more functionality to its Google Glass.  During our patent application trawling this week …
More: SiliconANGLE and BGR
Wall Street Journal:
Samsung Covets Low-End Of Smartphone Market, Too  —  Samsung Electronics Co.'s quest for dominance in the cellphone market is expanding beyond its high-profile, high-end devices: It now wants to own the bottom of the market too.  —  Despite the buzz surrounding its Galaxy smartphones …
More: Digits
Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch:
HTC One Landing In U.K., Germany & Taiwan Next Week, Heading To North America, Asia-Pac & Across Europe Before End Of April  —  HTC's new flagship smartphone, the HTC One, will go on sale in the U.K., Germany and the company's home market of Taiwan next week, HTC has confirmed today.
More: The Verge and Engadget
Emil Protalinski / The Next Web:
Google alters AdWords rules to charge for phone number clicks, will ban workarounds starting in April  —  Google has quietly announced a change in its AdWords rules that means businesses can no longer include their phone number in the advertisement's text starting next month.
More: Search Engine Land.  Thanks:@epro
Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac:
App Store apps that access UDIDs, don't support iPhone 5/Retina to be rejected May 1  —  Apple has informed developers that it will begin officially rejecting newly submitted and updated applications that access the iOS device UDID.  Apple says that this new policy will begin on May 1st.
Paul Sawers / The Next Web:
OpenSignal data suggests T-Mobile is testing LTE on the SGS3 & SGS4 in NYC, Vegas and 6 other US cities  —  T-Mobile is the last of the four major mobile networks in the USA to flip the switch on high-speed LTE.  While we've known for a while it had big plans on this front …
Joe Mullin / Ars Technica:
IsoHunt's Fung helped users infringe, blew off “red flags,” say judges  —  A mosaic of Lady Justice at the 9th Circuit in San Francisco.  —  Thomas Hawk  —  A major Hollywood court win against the IsoHunt torrent site has been upheld on appeal.  In a ruling (PDF) issued this morning …
Matthew Panzarino / The Next Web:
7 years later, another look at Twitter  —  I don't know exactly when I joined Twitter.  The account that I'm using now was opened in January of 2009, but there were others before that as I was playing around with the service and not really getting it.  —  Trudging back through my history …
More: iMore and memeburn

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