U.S. To Consider Cellphone Use On Planes  —  Proposal Would Allow for Calls Above 10,000 Feet  —  The Federal Communications Commission will propose allowing passengers to use their cellphones on airplanes, people familiar with the matter said.  —  While phone use would still …

HBO GO now works with Chromecast  —  Grab your favorite snack and get cozy on your Iron Throne, because HBO GO has added Chromecast support to their Android, iOS and web app.  Now you can easily enjoy “Game of Thrones,” “Boardwalk Empire,” “Girls” and your favorite movies on your TV by casting from the HBO GO app or website.

Xbox One Teardown  —  After eight years, Microsoft has finally released a proper successor to the Xbox 360—the Xbox One.  Will this be the One Xbox?  Follow us as we journey into the tower of Microsoft's new console—coming to you straight from Mordor New Zealand!  Step 1 — Xbox One Teardown This is the One.

Spotify Raises $250 Million, Valued Above $4 Billion  —  Swedish music-streaming company Spotify AB has secured nearly $250 million in new financing led by Silicon Valley firm Technology Crossover Ventures, valuing the company somewhere “north” of $4 billion dollars, according to multiple people familiar with the deal.

ESPN ScoreCenter App Is a Hit, but It's Getting an Overhaul Anyway: New Name, More Video, More Stuff  —  ESPN's ScoreCenter app isn't broken — it's one of the most successful mobile offerings from a media company that has done a very good job with mobile.  But ESPN is trying to fix it, anyway.

Source: Microsoft In Talks To Buy Shoutcast And Winamp From AOL  —  Looks like the llama may not get off so easily after all.  AOL yesterday announced that it was shutting down Winamp, media playing software for Windows and Android devices that it picked up through its 1999, $80 million acquisition of Nullsoft in 1999.

iPad Mini Retina is a no-show at carriers  —  Carriers are still waiting on the iPad Mini Retina.  —  (Credit: Apple)  —  Carriers are still waiting on the iPad Mini Retina with 3G/4G capability, as back orders grow.  —  Verizon, AT&T, and T-Mobile are all back-ordered on the cellular version …

Video Trailers Debut On The App Store With ‘Clumsy Ninja’  —  Apple is featuring Clumsy Ninja, an iOS game that was first announced at the iPhone 5 keynote in 2012, with a custom page on the App Store that, alongside a description, features a 1-minute trailer for the game.

Samsung owes Apple $290M more in damages, jury says  —  (Credit: CBS) SAN JOSE, Calif. — A jury on Thursday ruled that Samsung must pay Apple $290 million in additional damages for patent infringement, slightly less than the $380 million Apple had requested.  —  Samsung believed it owed Apple only $52 million more in damages.

LG promises to stop your Smart TV spying on you  —  In light of accusations that its Smart TVs were sending private data to its servers, LG has admitted that some of its sets are behaving in ways they shouldn't be.  In a statement, the Korean manufacturer conceded that it has been collecting channel …

What's He Really Like?  Check the Lulu App  —  Not long ago, after Alexandra Amin, an assistant at Warner Brothers, broke up with an agent she had been dating for a year, her friend told her about a new, free, female-friendly social networking app that lets women anonymously review men who are their Facebook friends.

A university in Cyprus is the first in the world to accept tuition fees with Bitcoin  —  This university is the first in the world to accept Bitcoin for tuition  —  The Bitcoin craze has made its way to the educational system.  —  The University of Nicosia in Cyprus announced today …

Introducing Place Pins, for the explorer in all of us  —  About a year ago, we noticed Pinners creating more and more boards around the vacations they're planning, special places near where they live and sites they want to see someday.  In fact, every day people Pin about 1.5 million places …

Google's Schmidt Sees Encryption Killing Censorship  —  Protecting Internet traffic with hard-to-crack code may prevent governments from censoring their populations' communications within a decade, Google Inc. (GOOG) Chairman Eric Schmidt said.  —  Schmidt described the coming of a …

Haiku Deck tops 800,000 downloads, rolls out Web-based service to take on PowerPoint's stronghold  —  Haiku Deck co-founders Kevin Leneway and Adam Tratt at their new offices in Fremont.  —  Haiku Deck is one of Seattle's hottest startup companies.  But up until today, I (and millions of other consumers) couldn't use it.

SkyDrive gets camera backups on iOS, Facebook previews on the web  —  Windows Phone owners have long had the option of backing up their photos to SkyDrive, but Microsoft hasn't extended that courtesy to other platforms so far.  The company must be feeling a little more generous today …

Windows Phone Now Sees 10M Transactions And 500 New Apps Daily, Has Served 3B Total Downloads  —  Today Instagram and Waze came to the Windows Phone platform, bringing two applications to Microsoft's smartphone venture that it has long lacked.  —  Microsoft also released a set of numbers …

Wordpress Goes Legal: Sues Over Two Egregiously Bogus DMCA Notices That Were Designed To Censor  —  We've talked in the past about the unfortunate situation in which there is almost no real punishment for bogus DMCA notices.  Section 512(f) of the DMCA is supposed to provide a way to get attorneys' fees …

US Working Overtime Behind The Scenes To Kill UN Plan To Protect Online Privacy From Snooping  —  The UN has apparently been considering a proposal pushed by Brazil and Germany, to clarify that basic offline rights to privacy should apply to online information and activities as well.

Acer founder steps in to save company as CEO and president resign  —  Acer's been on a quest to reinvent itself pretty much since the sunset of the netbook era — which both fuelled the Taiwanese company's rapid growth and left it floundering when consumers moved on to other devices.

Nokia's Finland HQ To Become A Microsoft Site Next Year, After Devices & Services Sale  —  The wheel of fortune symbolism is clear: as Apple prepares to break ground on a new UFO-esque HQ, the former kingpin of mobile, Nokia, is quietly preparing to move out of its own headquarters - to make way for Microsoft.

4chan Creator's Drawing App Comes to the iPhone  —  Chris Poole is looking for another image-based hit.  —  The territory isn't foreign to Poole, who founded 4chan — the popular, anonymous online message board community notorious for its crazy photo sharing and meme generation.

These Leaked Videos Could Lead To A Huge Payday For Ousted Snapchat Co-Founder  —  Reggie Brown, Bobby Murphy and Evan Spiegel attended Stanford University together and joined the same fraternity, Kappa Sigma.  —  Now the three are tangled in a lawsuit over equity in today's hottest startup, Snapchat.