Apple to Begin iPhone Production This Quarter  —  Apple Inc. plans to begin production of a new iPhone similar in size and shape to its current one in the second quarter of the year, according to people familiar with the device's production, teeing up a possible summer launch for the next version of its flagship device.

Google to sell second-gen Nexus 7 tablet from July: sources  —  (Reuters) - Google Inc will launch a new version of its Nexus 7 tablet powered by Qualcomm Inc's Snapdragon processor around July, two sources told Reuters, as the software giant pushes deeper into the cut-price mobile hardware market.

Mobile app deep-linking and new Cards  —  Twitter Cards are being used by more than 10,000 developers, mobile apps and websites to richly represent content on Twitter, including article summaries, user-posted photos, videos, songs, and more.  Today, through those Cards …

Yes, Google Says It's Having Problems Listing iTunes Preview Pages  —  Yes, it is harder to find pages to iTunes apps in Google.  But no, the company says, it's not part of some nefarious plot.  Rather, Google's having technical problems gathering iTunes Preview pages, an issue it's working to solve.

An Interview with Computing Pioneer Alan Kay  —  Born in 1940, computer scientist Alan Curtis Kay is one of a handful of visionaries most responsible for the concepts which have propelled personal computing forward over the past thirty years — and surely the most quotable one.

Meet Gabriel Weinberg, the man taking on Google and Bing  —  In 1998, two college friends decided to build a method of analysing every website on the Internet to find the most relevant information when a user put in a small amount of text.  Their names were Sergey Brin and Larry Page, and they had just founded Google.

Google changes how it measures Android version adoption, sees uptick in Jelly Bean devices  —  Google routinely gives monthly numbers breaking out the adoption of various versions of Android, but the company has now changed the way it calculates those numbers — providing a distinctly different portrait …

What Apple's ‘Limit Ad Tracking’ Feature Actually Means to Users  —  Back in 2011, with the release of iOS 5, Apple deprecated the use of UDIDs by developers.  A few months later they started rejecting apps that used a device's UDID without getting the user's permission.

Following iPad release, Google rolls out free Android and iPhone versions of Quickoffice for Apps customers  —  Google on Wednesday announced the release of Quickoffice for Android and iPhone, available gratis for all its Apps for Business customers.  If you fit the bill …

Firefox 20 arrives with per-window private browsing, new download manager, separate plugin closing, and more  —  Mozilla on Tuesday officially launched Firefox 20 for Windows, Mac, Linux, and Android.  The improvements include per-window private browsing, a new download manager in the Firefox toolbar …

Google engineers find a way to filter robocalls the way Gmail filters spam  —  Two Mountain View employees were among the winners in the FTC's crowdsourced challenge  —  The anti-robocall solution proposed by two Google engineers.  —  The Federal Trade Commission just announced the three winners …

The Bitcoin Boom  —  On March 16th, the Cypriot President Nicos Anastasiades, who'd been in office for about a month, announced a strategy to solve the country's banking crisis.  This plan, which would be funded in part by confiscating money directly from every single bank account in Cyprus …

The Silent Partner  —  Jason Goldman helped build Google and Twitter into what they are today — but few outside of tech's inner circle know his name .  On shunning the spotlight in a star-obsessed industry.  —  Biz Stone, Jack Dorsey, Ev Williams and Jason Goldman accept the award for “Best Blog” on behalf of Twitter at SXSW 2007.

Zynga's Big Bet on Real-Money Gaming to Launch This Week in the U.K.  —  It's about time Zynga doubled down.  —  The company will roll out two real-money versions of its casino and poker games in the next few days, marking the gaming giant's first offerings in the online gambling space.

Has Facebook Lost Faith in Social Ads?  —  After Once Vowing to Transform Online Advertising, It's Increasingly Embracing Standard Offerings  —  Has Facebook lost faith in the potential of social ads and its mantra of “word-of-mouth marketing at scale”?  —  The company once publicly …

Verizon Denies Report That It's Considering a Bid for Vodafone  —  Verizon Communications Inc. (VZ) denied that it's considering a bid for Vodafone Group Plc (VOD), disputing a report that said it was discussing a plan with AT&T Inc. to make a joint offer for the U.K. carrier.

HearPod sounds off about Apple's EarPods, files trademark infringement suit  —  Randolph Divisions, the company behind the HearPod digital hearing aid, has sued Apple over trademark infringement.  —  The lawsuit, filed last week in the Hawaii District Court in Honolulu …

Tableau Files For IPO As Strong Run For Business Software Continues  —  Tableau Software is set to hold its initial public offering, according to an S-1 filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission today, continuing a strong period of market debuts for enterprise software companies.

Facebook Photo Phenom Instagram Gets a Business Lead to Scale Its Operations (and Presumably Revenue)  —  According to sources, Facebook has moved well-regarded exec Emily White to a new job as director of business operations at its Instagram mobile photo-sharing unit.

New California “Right to Know” Act Would Let Consumers Find Out Who Has Their Personal Data — And Get a Copy of It  —  Let's face it: most of us have no idea how companies are gathering and sharing our personal data.  Colossal data brokers are sucking up personal facts about Americans from sources they refuse to disclose.