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April 16, 2013, 12:25 PM

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Seth Weintraub / 9to5Google:

Google Glass tech specs: 5MP/720P camera, 802.11b/g Wifi 16GB storage (12GB usable), full day battery — Along with today's Glass API release, Google now officially announced specs for the Glass Explorer editions. Notable is the camera which will take 5 Megapixel images or 720P video.

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Jeff Blagdon / The Verge:

Google Glass developers prohibited from using ads or charging for apps — Google has released documentation for the Mirror API, the interface that programmers will use to write services for Glass. The contents include everything from quick start guides for Java and Python to in-depth developer guides …

More: CNET, Business Insider, PC Magazine, Business Insider, Mashable, Zef.me, SlashGear, Neowin, linux.com and Selfscreens

Liam Spradlin / Android Police:

MyGlass App Goes Live In The Play Store, Google Launches Glass Setup Page

More: TechCrunch, TechCrunch, Engadget and Gizmodo

Alexis Santos / Engadget:

Google Glass API documentation now live, Glassware sample code provided

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Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:

Google's Next Group of Gadgets Will Blow You Away, Says Eric Schmidt — Google chairman Eric Schmidt is spending a lot of time on the road right now — he's got a new book to promote — but he has popped into Google's Motorola unit to see what the phone company is working up. — It's amazing stuff, he promises.

More: Engadget, CNET, BGR, Betabeat, ABCNEWS, ZDNet, Business Insider, TechCrunch, The Verge, Android and Me, FierceWireless, Phones Review and MobileSyrup.com

Sean Ludwig / VentureBeat:

Google chairman Eric Schmidt on Facebook Home: ‘I love it’ — July 9-10, 2013 — NEW YORK CITY — Facebook Home takes away part of the Android experience in favor of social networking. But outspoken Google chairman Eric Schmidt said today at the Dive into Mobile conference …

More: Engadget, TechCrunch, 9to5Google, AllThingsD, CNET and The Verge

Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:

Facebook's Chat Heads Come to iPhones, iPad With App Update — You can't get Facebook Home on iPhone. But very soon you'll be able to get one of the most buzzed-about features from Facebook's new mobile software set: “Chat Heads” are coming to iOS devices, via a Facebook app update.

More: Engadget, TechCrunch and Gizmodo

Dieter Bohn / The Verge:

Facebook 6.0 for iPad and iPhone: hands-on with Chat Heads, stickers, and more — Perhaps you hadn't noticed, but we're in the midst of a fairly remarkable blitz of Facebook releases on mobile. The company announced Facebook Home and the HTC First and then (in a pattern that's all-too-rare) released both about a week later.

More: 9to5Mac. Tweets: @sharonvak

Bloomberg:

Twitter Said to Seek Deals With Viacom, NBC to Feature TV Online — Twitter Inc. is close to reaching partnerships with television networks that would bring more high-quality video content and advertising to the social site, according to people familiar with the matter.

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Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet:

Microsoft's Windows 8 Plan B(lue): Bring back the Start button, boot to desktop — Summary: Microsoft may be moving toward bringing back the Start Button and allowing users to boot straight to the desktop with its coming Windows 8.1 release later this year.

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Cotton Delo / AdAge:

Facebook Seeks 7-Figure Price Tag for Summer Debut of Video Ads — TV-Like Ads Can Be Bought for Four Broad Demographic Swaths — Facebook is hoping that its hotly anticipated video-ad units can be a more-than-$4-million daily business out of the gate — if its asking price is met.

More: CNET, Engadget, VentureBeat, AllFacebook, Business Insider, The Verge, ReelSEO Video Marketing, Electronista, Ubergizmo and Mashable

Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch:

WhatsApp “Bigger Than Twitter” With Over 200M Monthly Active Users, 8B Inbound And 12B Outbound Messages Daily — WhatsApp CEO Jan Koum was on stage today at the AllThingsD Dive Into Mobile conference in New York City, where he said that the app is now larger than Twitter by monthly active users.

More: AllThingsD, GigaOM, CNET, VentureBeat and CNET

Richard Lawler / Engadget:

AT&T's Galaxy S 4 page lists April 30th ship date, $199 / $639 price for 16GB — We saw AT&T open up a registration page for the Galaxy S 4 almost as soon as Samsung's presentation was over, but now that link is exposing a bit more information. Several tipsters let us know that for customers …

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Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac:

Apple says small number of Apple TVs have WiFi issues, opens replacement program — Apple has informed its official retail stores, AppleCare employees, and authorized resellers that a small number of third-generation Apple TV units have WiFi issues. These issues surround not being able …

More: Macworld, Ars Technica, MacRumors, iLounge, App Advice, Insanely Great Mac, Macgasm, iPhone in Canada Blog, The Verge, Gizmodo, iDownloadBlog.com and MacNN

Mike Isaac / AllThingsD:

Snapchat Now Boasts More Than 150 Million Photos Taken Daily — Snapchat, the wildly popular messaging service that lets users send self-deleting photos to one another, has exploded in volume over the past few months, now moving upward of 150 million photos through the service on a daily basis.

More: GigaOM, TechCrunch, Betabeat, PC Magazine, VentureBeat, ABCNEWS, The Verge, The Verge, Washington Post and WebProNews

NPD Group:

Screen Mirroring Awareness Reaches 40 Percent of Smartphone and Tablet Owners, According to The NPD Group — Apple's AirPlay is the most well-known — Screen mirroring technologies, which gives consumers the ability to wirelessly project content from smartphones, PCs or tablets directly to a television …

More: AppleInsider, blog.chron.com, TUAW, Ars Technica, App Advice, PhoneArena and iPhone in Canada Blog

Ina Fried / AllThingsD:

SoftBank Says Still Hopes to Complete Sprint Deal by July — Japan's SoftBank said Tuesday that it still expects to complete its deal by July to acquire a controlling interest in Sprint Nextel. — SoftBank's statement comes despite a rival $25.5 billion bid for Sprint coming from Dish Network.

More: Wall Street Journal, Reuters, FierceWireless, PhoneArena, CNET, The Verge and Digits

Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch:

Google: Mobile Web Access Speeds Increased 30% Over The Last 12 Months — Mobile browsing got significantly faster over the last 12 months, according to a new report from Google, and the average page load times on mobile are now comparable to desktop page load times.

More: Google Analytics Blog, 9to5Google, memeburn and Marketing Pilgrim

Gregory Ferenstein / TechCrunch:

Details Of Immigration Bill Revealed, More High-Skilled Visas And Employer Fees — New details of the highly anticipated comprehensive immigration reform bill have leaked ahead of its introduction to Congress on Tuesday (April 16). Most of the technology industry will be pleased …

More: Politico and The Verge

Chris Ziegler / The Verge:

Facebook Home available outside US later today, first update coming ‘second week of May’ — On stage at AllThingsD's Dive Into Mobile conference today, Cory Ondrejka, head of mobile engineering at Facebook, announced that the first update to Facebook Home for Android will be released in “the second week of May.”

More: The Next Web

Martin Bryant / The Next Web:

Twitter cuts off another payment service: Flattr is told to stop tying Favorites to money — Just days after Ribbon was forced to withdraw the ability to make payments within tweets, Twitter has moved to stymie another startup's ambitions to monetize its platform.

More: Flattr Blog, GigaOM, Evolver.fm, ArcticStartup and hypebot

Derrick Harris / GigaOM:

Gracenote co-founder on ‘iPod day’ and better music through data — It was April 2000 when the team at Gracenote got a call from Apple that would change its business forever. Apple wouldn't give Gracenote any specifics, but it did offer up some prescient advice: “You need to buy more servers.”

Jonathan Stempel / Reuters:

Trader admits fraud in $1 billion Apple stock scheme — (Reuters) - A former Rochdale Securities trader whose unauthorized purchase of about $1 billion of Apple Inc stock caused the demise of the financial services company pleaded guilty on Monday to wire fraud and conspiracy.

More: Inquirer, TechEye, Associated Press and MacNN

Bryan Bishop / The Verge:

Netflix plans its move from Microsoft Silverlight to HTML5 video — Last month Google announced that Netflix was now available on ARM-based Samsung Chromebooks thanks to the use of HTML5 video — and now the streaming service has outlined its larger plans to eventually move to the format for all computers.

More: The Netflix Tech Blog, PC Magazine, Ars Technica, 9to5Google, CNET, WebProNews, 9to5Mac, Engadget, Inquirer, The Register, WinBeta, Neowin, SlashGear, VentureBeat, GeekWire, Gizmodo and TechCrunch

Andy / TorrentFreak:

Massive BitTorrent and Cyberlocker Domain Crackdown Underway (Updated) — The action is being billed as “A Monster from Rome” and when you look at the scale and implications that's hard to contest. — The Public Prosecutor of Rome, Italy, has targeted a total of 27 file-sharing related sites …

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Jeff Blagdon / The Verge:

Adobe Lightroom 5 beta: hands-on with Smart Previews, radial gradients, and easy straightening — A landmark photo app adds the greatest feature of all — hard drive space — In the seven years since Adobe launched Lightroom, it's established a devout fanbase of professional and amateur photographers alike.

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