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May 13, 2013, 2:05 PM

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Steven Levy / Wired:
New Android Boss Finally Reveals Plans for World's Most Popular Mobile OS  —  For the past few years, Sundar Pichai has been part of a tag-team routine staged at Google's annual I/O developer conference.  Pichai, a Googler since 2004, would present on behalf of Google's Chrome division …
CBS News:
Bill Gates on Steve Jobs: We grew up together  —  We've seen plenty of Bill Gates on television, but we'd never seen him get emotional before.  It was a striking, yet subtle moment in Gates' 60 Minutes interview this week when Charlie Rose asked him about his longtime business rival, the late Steve Jobs.
Mike Isaac / AllThingsD:
Path Product Management Director Dylan Casey Departs for Yahoo  —  Dylan Casey, director of product management at Path, has left the company and will soon join Yahoo, according to sources familiar with the matter.  —  Update 9:29 am PT: And Casey has confirmed his new job via Twitter …
Sean Buckley / Engadget:
Samsung ready for 5G rollout in 2020, has reportedly pulled down 1Gbps in tests  —  LTE might be all the rage right now, but next generation mobile technology is already in the works.  According to Korea's Yonhap News Agency, Samsung has successfully tested its 5G platform, pulling down data at 1Gbps in recent tests.
David McLaughlin / Bloomberg:
Apple, Google Pressed by N.Y. Over Handheld Device Thefts  —  Apple Inc. (AAPL) and Google Inc. (GOOG) are among technology companies being asked by the New York attorney general to take steps to deter thefts of iPhones and other handheld devices and eliminate a black market for the products.
Xperia Blog:
Xperia ZR announced: 4.6-inch 720p display, IP58 water resistant, 13MP camera with dedicated camera button  —  Sony has unveiled the Xperia ZR (C550X 'Dogo') and our previous report was right on the money with the specs.  The Xperia ZR has a 4.55-inch OptiContrast display with 720 x 1280 pixel resolution and 319 PPI.
Nick Summers / The Next Web:
Could this be the Lumia 925, Nokia's highly-anticipated ‘Catwalk’ device?  —  Rumors about a new flagship smartphone from Nokia, codenamed ‘Catwalk’, have been circulating on the Internet for some time.  Less than 24 hours before the company holds a dedicated Lumia event in London …
Tom Warren / The Verge:
Drew Olanoff / TechCrunch:
Google Unifies Its Free And Paid Storage Options, Gives You 15GB To Share Between Drive, Gmail And Google+ Photos  —  Until now, you've had to track your free storage on Google products separately.  It was just another thing that Google hadn't brought together to make it easier on users.
Brian Stelter / New York Times:
ABC to Live-Stream Its Shows via App  —  This week ABC will quietly revolutionize its app for iPhones and iPads with a button called “live.”  Users around New York and Philadelphia will be able to live stream all the programming from ABC's local stations there, the first time that any major broadcaster has turned on such a technology.
Horace Dediu / asymco:
iTunes users spending at the rate of $40/yr.  —  In the latest quarter the iTunes top line grew by 32%.  Additional newly reported items:  — Quarterly revenues topped $4 billion (a new high) and the company suggests that this rate is maintainable by stating it has a “$16 billion annual run rate”.
Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet:
With Windows Blue, Microsoft may (finally) do the right thing  —  Summary: Call it capitulation.  Call it listening to customers.  But whatever you call it, making Windows 8 more usable with expected coming Blue tweaks is a positive, not a negative.  —  Mary Jo Foley
Vijith Assar / New Yorker:
The Evolution of the Web, in a Blink  —  The Web browser you're probably using to read this article is a small marvel of engineering.  It can be broken down into many discrete parts—a URL bar, a set of bookmarks, perhaps a built-in video player.  But the most important component is hidden …
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