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April 19, 2013, 1:05 PM

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Robert McMillan / Wired:

Apple Finally Reveals How Long Siri Keeps Your Data — All of those questions, messages, and stern commands that people have been whispering to Siri are stored on Apple servers for up to two years, Wired can now report. — Yesterday, we raised concerns about some fuzzy disclosures in Siri's privacy policy.

Steven Musil / CNET:

Julian Assange's secret chat with Google's chairman — Eric Schmidt met with the WikiLeaks founder for five hours in 2011 for material for a book expected to be released next week. — Eric Schmidt met with WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange in secret in 2011, according to the transcript …

WikiLeaks:

Transcript of secret meeting between Julian Assange and Google CEO Eric Schmidt — On the 23 of June, 2011 a secret five hour meeting took place between WikiLeaks publisher Julian Assange, who was under house arrest in rural UK at the time, and Google CEO Eric Schmidt.

More: Examiner, VentureBeat, Network World, The Register, SlashGear, OStatic blogs, 9to5Google, WebProNews, Softpedia News, memeburn, PhoneArena, The Verge and Gizmodo UK

Tweets: @taylorbuley, @wikileaks, @wikileaks, @wikileaks and @wikileaks

Steven Millward / Tech in Asia:

China's Top Apple Hackers Launch a Pirate iOS App Store — KuaiYong has just launched this web store for pirated iOS apps. — Far from being shut down by Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL), the Chinese team behind KuaiYong seems to be thriving. Last year it made a no-jailbreak-needed alternative …

More: M.I.C. Gadget, Examiner, VentureBeat, The Verge, AppleInsider, 9to5Mac, The Register, MobilesPie, iPhone, Geek.com, iDownloadBlog.com and App Advice. Thanks:@williswee

Wall Street Journal:

IBM in Talks to Sell Part of Its Server Unit to Lenovo — International Business Machines Corp. is looking to part ways with the servers that have powered much of the Internet. — The company is in advanced discussions to sell its so-called x86 server business to China's Lenovo Group Ltd., people familiar with the matter said.

More: Ars Technica, Bloomberg, The Register, memeburn, ZDNet and MoneyBeat

Larry Dignan / ZDNet:

IBM's potential x86 server sale to Lenovo highlights oncoming train

More: InfoWorld, Slashdot and ITworld.com

Dan Whitcomb / Reuters:

LulzSec hacker receives year in prison for Sony breach — A hacker who pleaded guilty last year to taking part in an extensive computer breach of Sony Pictures Entertainment was sentenced on Thursday in Los Angeles to a year in prison, followed by home detention, federal prosecutors said.

More: The Register, Mashable, Ars Technica, Inquirer, Lastest ITProPortal news, BGR, Hillicon Valley, Help Net Security, Los Angeles Times, nbcnews.com, SlashGear, PC Magazine and TechEye

Stuart Thomas / memeburn:

Reddit faces outages in midst of DDoS attack — Reddit is experiencing intermittent outages apparently due to a malicious DDoS attack. — Anyone who did manage to access the site meanwhile was greeted with a warning stating that: “Site availability is being impacted by a malicious DDoS attack.

More: VentureBeat, Betabeat and Business Insider. Tweets: @redditstatus. Thanks:@misslcgranger

Alex Hern / New Statesman:

Reddit, Boston and the missing student — When crowdsourcing goes wrong. — The FBI's two suspect photos. … On 16 March, Sunil Tripathi, a student at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, went missing, leaving behind a cryptic note. His whereabouts are still unknown …

More: The Lede, paidContent, The Atlantic Wire, PC Magazine, BuzzFeed, Slate, Boston Globe and Gawker

Tweets: @michaelskolnik, @dannysullivan and @mathewi

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Ellis Hamburger / The Verge:

Osito for iPhone: can this minimalist Google Now clone make a splash before the real thing? — There is no shortage of Google Now clones for iPhone, but none of them successfully emulate Google's concise and tasteful representation of data. Tempo focuses too much on being a “smart” calendar …

More: TechCrunch, Android and Me, TechnoBuffalo, App Advice and Gotta Be Mobile

Matthew Miller / ZDNet:

HTC One available at AT&T and Sprint, Developer Edition delayed — Summary: HTC needs to hit it out of the ballpark to turn the financial tide and it comes to two US carriers today. However, the Developer Edition is delayed and the Galaxy S4 is coming around the corner. — Matthew Miller

More: Engadget, Engadget, CNET, TechCrunch, CNET and Pocketnow

Dan Farber / CNET:

Amazon Studios debuts 14 pilots for free viewing — Whether the pilots get the green light for a season of episodes will depend on what the data says. “The goal is to get customer feedback,” says studio head Roy Price. — After evaluating more than 4,000 submissions and commissioning …

More: Engadget, Gizmodo, The Verge, BetaNews, GeekWire, Inquirer, The Next Web and Variety. See also Mediagazer

Rebecca J. Rosen / The Atlantic Online:

Now, With No Further Ado, We Present ... the Digital Public Library of America! — Three questions with the project's executive director — Benjamin Sewall Blake jumping, ca. 1888. Francis Blake, photographer. (Massachusetts Historical Society) — Two-and-a-half years ago …

More: Digital Public Library …, Tested, PetaPixel, NPR, Will Knight, Forbes, The Verge, ResourceShelf, ABCNEWS and TechHive. See also Mediagazer

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:

Where's Twitter Music For Android? Why Today's Tech Companies Are Still Going iOS First — Where is Twitter Music for Android? With today's launch of Twitter's new music discovery platform, the company has again made a move to sideline the install base of around half of the U.S.'s smartphone audience …

More: hypebot, TUAW and The Loop. Thanks:@pickavet

Google:

Google Inc. Announces First Quarter 2013 Results — Google Inc. today announced financial results for the quarter ended March 31, 2013. “We had a very strong start to 2013, with $14.0 billion in revenue, up 31% year-on-year,” said Larry Page, CEO of Google.

Chris Velazco / TechCrunch:

Google Reports Mixed Q1 2013 Earnings: Revenue Up 31 Percent To $14B, Net Income Of $3.35B, Beats EPS Estimates

More: ReadWrite and Forbes

Drew Olanoff / TechCrunch:

Larry Page: Google's Focus On Constant Iteration Will Shift Toward Big Bets Like Google Fiber And Glass

More: Yahoo! News and Search Engine Roundtable. Tweets: @chris_ciaccia

Darren Murph / Engadget:

Broadband internet arrives in California's Gold Country through white spaces deployment — While select outfits race to make satellite broadband an acceptable solution for those who need ping times south of three digits, there's another game in town looking to quietly revolutionize rural access.

More: Ars Technica

Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet:

The Microsoft number we all want to know: Windows 8 sales to date — Microsoft didn't release an updated count of Windows 8 licenses sold as part of its third quarter earnings. But here's what the company did say about Windows. — On April 18, Microsoft didn't share the one number …

More: Softpedia News, CITEworld and ParisLemon

Tweets: @asymco and @asymco

Alex Wilhelm / The Next Web:

Here are Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer and Peter Klein's internal memos regarding the CFO's exit — TNW has obtained copies of the internal memos sent by Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer and departing CFO Peter Klein concerning the latter's departure. That exit was announced as part of Microsoft's quarterly earnings.

More: WinBeta, TechEye, GigaOM and PC Magazine

Nathan Ingraham / The Verge:

Microsoft profits increase to over $6 billion in Q3 2013 despite flat Windows revenue

More: CITEworld, SiliconANGLE, WebProNews, New York Times, ExtremeTech, Lastest ITProPortal news, Guardian, Ars Technica, CNET, ReadWrite, Reuters, Softpedia News and Electronista

Microsoft:

Microsoft Reports Third-Quarter Results

More: Tim Anderson's ITWriting, The Seattle Times, Bloomberg, The Register, PhoneArena, AllThingsD, VentureBeat, Edge Online, BetaNews, ZDNet, The Next Web and Windows Phone Central

Emil Protalinski / The Next Web:

Google leak hints at an Android game center with multiplayer, chat, lobbies, leaderboards, and achievements — Google appears to be preparing the launch of a game center for Android with an unknown name. It looks like the new hub will sport a slew of features, including multiplayer support …

More: Android Police, SiliconANGLE, VentureBeat, TechHive, BestTechie, Ubergizmo, Softpedia News and BGR

Darren Murph / Engadget:

Google CEO Larry Page confirms: yes, Google Glass runs on Android

More: TechCrunch, CNET and Pocketnow

Alex Howard / Strata:

Finding and telling data-driven stories in billions of tweets — Twitter has hired its first data editor. Simon Rogers, one of the leading practitioners of data journalism in the world, will join Twitter in May. He will be moving his family from London to San Francisco and applying …

More: Simon Rogers, PressGazette and CNET. Tweets: @smfrogers. Thanks:@digiphile

Angela Haggerty / The Drum:

Simon Rogers quits data journalist role at the Guardian to become Twitter's first data editor

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