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March 27, 2013, 1:55 PM
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Frank X. Shaw / The Official Microsoft Blog:
Looking Back and Springing Ahead  —  The following is a post from Frank X. Shaw, Corporate Vice President of Corporate Communications at Microsoft.  —  Last week was the official start of spring here in the Northern Hemisphere.  While some folks were out doing “spring cleaning,” …
Tom Warren / The Verge:
Windows Blue public preview planned for Build developer conference  —  Microsoft is gearing up to release its first public preview version of Windows Blue at its Build developer conference in late June.  Sources familiar with Microsoft's plans have revealed that the company started work on a …
Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet:
Microsoft's Office ‘Gemini’: Windows Blue's twin  —  Summary: The Windows team isn't the only one ‘reimagining’ how to build and deliver future versions of its core product.  The Office unit is, too.  —  Windows Blue, Windows Server Blue, Windows Phone Blue, Windows Services Blue.
Dave Lee / BBC:
Global internet slows after ‘biggest attack in history’  —  The row centres on the blocking of a web-hosting company alleged to be hosting spam websites  —  The internet around the world has been slowed down in what security experts are describing as the biggest cyber-attack in history.
New York Times:
Firm Is Accused of Sending Spam, and Fight Jams Internet  —  A squabble between a group fighting spam and a Dutch company that hosts Web sites said to be sending spam has escalated into one of the largest computer attacks on the Internet, causing widespread congestion and jamming crucial infrastructure around the world.
Amir Efrati / Digits:
At Y Combinator, Social is Out, Revenue is In  —  Y Combinator, the best-known “incubator” of technology startups in Silicon Valley, is showing further proof that the social-networking craze has died down and more founders are tackling “boring” problems that generate cash.
Ina Fried / AllThingsD:
One in Five BlackBerry 10 Apps Is Really an Android App  —  One of BlackBerry's key goals is getting developers to write apps designed to take advantage of its all-new operating system.  —  But, knowing that not all developers are ready to bet on a native app, the company has offered …
Agence France Presse:
Apple in court in China over ‘Siri’ claim  —  SHANGHAI — Apple appeared in a Shanghai court on Wednesday, accused by a Chinese firm of copying software used for the “Siri” personal assistant on its hugely popular iPhones.  —  The Californian company's products are big sellers in China …
Liz Day / ProPublica:
How the Maker of TurboTax Fought Free, Simple Tax Filing  —  This story was co-produced with NPR.  —  Imagine filing your income taxes in five minutes — and for free.  You'd open up a pre-filled return, see what the government thinks you owe, make any needed changes and be done.
Ellis Hamburger / The Verge:
Apple's broken promise: why doesn't iCloud ‘just work?’  —  Frustrations mount as developers deal with Apple's inability to manage another cloud service  —  iCloud, perhaps more than any Apple software product, is meant to “just work.”  When Apple introduced iCloud, it made clear its hopes …
Ryan Gallagher / Slate:
FBI Pursuing Real-Time Gmail Spying Powers as “Top Priority” for 2013  —  For now, law enforcement has trouble monitoring Gmail communications in real time  —  Despite the pervasiveness of law enforcement surveillance of digital communication, the FBI still has a difficult time monitoring Gmail, Google Voice, and Dropbox in real time.
Jordan Crook / TechCrunch:
Netflix Goes Sci-Fi With Its Next Original Series, Sense8  —  Hot on the heels of Netflix's original series House Of Cards, the company has announced that it will release a new sci-fi TV series to the platform called Sense8.  —  The show is being developed under the guidance of the Wachowskis …
Nicholas Carlson / Business Insider:
Here's Why Marissa Mayer Is About To Spend ~$200 Million On A YouTube Wannabe  —  Last week, Amir Efrati and Sam Shechner of the WSJ reported that Yahoo is close to acquiring a controlling stake in the YouTube-of-Europe, Dailymotion, at a valuation somewhere around $300 million.
Nick Summers / The Next Web:
Amazon expands its X-Ray movie information service to cover TV shows on Instant Video  —  Amazon has expanded its X-Ray for Movies feature, which enables Kindle users to tap on an actor and see the other films they've starred in, by adding support for TV shows today.
Walter S. Mossberg / AllThingsD:
New Flipboard: News and Posts Handpicked and Shared  —  One of the best ways of following topics that are interesting to you is Flipboard, a popular app for Apple and Android mobile devices that automatically turns social-network posts and news from online publications, into beautiful, magazine-like pages you “flip” through by swiping.
Shira Ovide / Digits:
Research Firm Boosts Twitter Ad Sales Estimate to $950 Million for 2014  —  Twitter Inc. is growing up faster than expected.  —  Research firm eMarketer Inc., whose advertising forecasts are closely tracked, is set to revise higher its estimates of advertising revenue for Twitter …
Marco Arment / Marco.org:
The power of the RSS reader  —  With the decreasing use of RSS readers over the last few years, which will probably be accelerated by Google Reader's shutdown in July, many are bidding good riddance to a medium that they never used well.  —  RSS is easy to abuse.  In 2011, I wrote Sane RSS usage:

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