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Clare Jim / Reuters:
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.
John Gruber / Daring Fireball:
The Latest Apple Scuttlebutt  —  Smart thread on Branch.  Two nuggets from yours truly:  — What I've heard: iOS 7 is running behind, and engineers have been pulled from OS X 10.9 to work on it.  (Let me know if you've heard this song before.)  — Regarding Jony Ive and iOS …
Wall Street Journal:
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.
Jason Costa / Twitter Developers:
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 …
Bryan Bishop / The Verge:
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 …
David Greelish / TIME:
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.
Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:
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.
Lance Whitney / CNET:
Safari jumps to 61 percent of mobile browser share  —  Apple's mobile browser saw a 6 percent leap in Web traffic last month, according to stats out today from Web tracker Net Applications.  —  Safari has won back some of the recent ground it lost to rival mobile browsers.
Max Slater-Robins / Neowin:
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.
More: Business Insider.  Thanks:@max8378
Ki Mae Heussner / GigaOM:
‘Linux of online learning’ gets stronger: edX and Stanford team up to build open source platform  —  In its mission to become the “Linux of online learning,” edX just got a powerful new partner.  On Wednesday, the Harvard and MIT-backed non-profit is set to announce that it's teaming …
Nick Arnott / Double Encore:
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.
More: iMore and The Next Web
Maria Bustillos / Elements:
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 …
Emil Protalinski / The Next Web:
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 …
BBC:
Mobile phone celebrates 40th anniversary  —  The first mobile phone call was made 40 years ago today, on 3 April 1973.  —  Martin Cooper, a senior engineer at Motorola, called a rival colleague at another telecoms company and announced he was speaking from “a ‘real’ cellular telephone”.
Paul Lilly / Maximum PC:
Seagate Now Shipping World's First 4TB Hard Drive with 1TB Platters  —  You could store over a million songs on Seagate's 4TB hard drive.  —  A representative for Seagate dropped us a note today to let us know the company is now shipping what it claims is the industry's first and only 4TB hard drive …
John McDermott / AdAge:
SMG to Track How Mobile Ads Lead to In-store Visits  —  The Agency Has Teamed up With Startup PlaceIQ to Create Place Visit Rate  —  Starcom MediaVest Group has partnered with New York City-based startup PlaceIQ to unlock mobile marketing's great mystery: when someone shown a mobile banner ad is enticed to walk into a store.
Rainey Reitman / Electronic Frontier Foundation:
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.
Adrianne Jeffries / The Verge:
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 …
Ellyne Phneah / ZDNet:
China mobile phones to adopt Beidou navigation system  —  Summary: China is looking to introduce favorable policies and attract investment for its Beidou Navigation Satellite System, as well as expand its commercial use.  —  Ellyne Phneah  —  China is promoting the use …

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