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March 22, 2013, 5:45 PM

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Chris Welch / The Verge:
Major security hole allows Apple passwords to be reset with only email address, date of birth (update)  —  Apple yesterday rolled out two-step verification, a security measure that promises to further shield Apple ID and iCloud accounts from being hijacked.  Unfortunately, today a new exploit …
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 …
Joanna Stern / ABC News:
BlackBerry Testing Phone-Powered Tablets, Laptops  —  BlackBerry finally launches today its first BlackBerry 10 phone in the United States, the BlackBerry Z10.  After sitting on the sidelines during Apple, Google and Microsoft's smartphone war, the new software platform has the features …
Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet:
Microsoft expected to update its full suite of built-in Windows 8 apps  —  Summary: Microsoft appears ready to roll out the set of expected updates to its full set of core, Microsoft-developed Windows 8 applications, as rumored earlier this month.  —  It looks like Microsoft is …
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 …
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 …
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.
Tom Warren / The Verge:
Elop throws an iPhone on Finnish TV, refuses to answer Lumia 928 questions  —  Nokia CEO Stephen Elop faced some tough questions from a Finnish TV presenter this week, focusing on the upcoming Lumia 928 handset.  In a show aired on commercial TV station MTV3 in Finland …
Robin Wauters / The Next Web:
“An historic moment”: 888 first online gambling company to win US license  —  888, a London, UK-listed operator of online casino, bingo and poker games, today announced that it has gained a license to operate in the United States.  —  The online gaming giant, which is headquartered …
Jack Clark / The Register:
Ubuntu tapped by China for national operating system  —  Canonical to help government add “Chinese specific” features to OS  —  Ubuntu is going to become the reference architecture for a Linux distribution, backed and developed by the Chinese government.  —  The news means Ubuntu-stewards Canonical …
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Decide.com Raises $8M Series C For Its Price Predictions Engine; Will Expand To More Categories, Improve Data Mining & Mobile Apps  —  Shopping and comparison engine Decide.com, which offers suggestions as to not just what to buy but also when, is announcing today that it has raised $8 million …
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.
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 …

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Inside NuGet for C++  —  NuGet support for C++ projects in Visual Studio has arrived in NuGet 2.5!  It's been around for about a month now so we figured we'd go talk to one of the developers who helped make it happen, Garrett Serack.
Cloud Foundry:
Static.com Adds Hadoop Support for Cloud Foundry  —  In this guest post, Jake Farrell, CTO for Static.com, explains how the major shift in the hosting industry towards platforms for high developer productivity …
Rackspace Blog:
An Army Is Forming To Battle Patent Trolls  —  For the past several months, we've exposed the flaws in the patent system and how they're being exploited by opportunistic patent trolls looking to extort a quick buck …
Hortonworks » Blog:
Hadoop, Hadoop, Hurrah!  HDP for Windows is Now GA!  —  Today we are very excited to announce that Hortonworks Data Platform for Windows (HDP for Windows) is now generally available and ready to support the most demanding production workloads.
Unison's blog:
“Yammer sucks”  —  Not to be mean to Yammer, or anything — it's a very good tool for some use cases — but that's what a customer told me recently (and others feel the same way).
 

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