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February 19, 2012, 6:05 PM

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Kyle Wagner / Gizmodo:

Everything Apple's Trying to Kill with OS X Mountain Lion — Apple's OS X Mountain Lion brings a lot of new features to the table. It's the future of instant messaging, for one thing, and probably more than a few other things as well. — But with the update, Apple's also moving to push …

More: eWeek and Business Insider

Chris Forsythe / Growl:

Growl's response to Notification Center: Welcome to the party, we were worried that we were being stood up — OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion was revealed yesterday. A few people have noticed a new feature that is somewhat similar to Growl. Apple calls it Notification Center.

More: MacStories, Pulse2 Technology …, The Verge, Ars Technica and Macgasm. Tweets: @mrjoeyp

Daniel Eran Dilger / AppleInsider:

Mountain Lion focuses on Cocoa, drops X11 and deprecates Carbon Core

More: MacRumors

Terrence O'Brien / Engadget:

Google quietly launches Latitude Leaderboards, threatens Foursquare under its breath — Google didn't exactly offer much fanfare for this new feature — as far as we can tell, it still hasn't been officially announced. With the latest update to the Maps app, Mountain View delivered …

More: The Next Web, The Verge and Android Phone Fans

Josh Ong / AppleInsider:

Analyst who leaked Apple sales projections arrested, charged for insider trading — A research analyst who allegedly obtained secret information about Apple and sold it for hundreds of thousands of dollars has been arrested and charged with securities fraud, conspiracy and insider trading.

More: Reuters, iDownloadBlog.com, 9to5Mac, Bloomberg, Bloomberg, DealBook and Wall Street Journal

Josh Lowensohn / CNET:

Settlement reached in iPhone 4 antennagate suit — A settlement has been reached in a class action lawsuit targeting the antenna in Apple's iPhone 4. Original buyers are entitled to $15 or a new bumper case from Apple. — An iPhone 4 being tested inside one of Apple's anechoic chambers …

Kevin Lincoln / Business Insider:

Pinterest Might Be Enabling Massive Copyright Theft — Pinterest is one of the fastest-growing web sites in history. — Launched about six months ago, the site already has more than 10 million monthly visitors and, among social networks, is ranked below only Facebook and Tumblr in terms of average time-spent-per-user per month.

More: The Awl, bizjournals and Digital Trends

Matthew Panzarino / The Next Web:

Apple posts gorgeous new ‘how to get started as an iOS developer’ guide — If there is one aspect of Apple's iDevice ecosystem that deserves a ton of credit for both growing and cementing its user base, it has to be the way developers flock to it. Apple wants developers on that line, Apple needs developers on that line.

More: Cult of Mac, AppleInsider, iDownloadBlog.com and The Loop

Ashley Lutz / Bloomberg:

Retailers Shut Facebook Storefonts Amid Apathy — Last April, Gamestop Corp. (GME) opened a store on Facebook to generate sales among the 3.5 million-plus customers who'd declared themselves “fans” of the video game retailer. Six months later, the store was quietly shuttered. — Gamestop has company.

More: New Web Order, Business Insider, 9.blog, P Morgan Brown, Andrew Lark, Friending Facebook Blog, Jon Burg's Future Visions, Tech~Surf~Blog, Pulse2 Technology …, Social Media, All Facebook and Marketing Pilgrim. Tweets: @cdixon. Thanks:@sarahfrier

John P. Mello Jr. / PC World:

Google Working on Password Generator for Chrome — Google is working on a new password manager for its Chrome browser that would also automatically create strong passwords for users. — The new manager is currently in the design phase, but Google has described the process by which it would work.

More: LIVEdigitally, Hardware 2.0 Blog, Dennis Fisher, PC Magazine and Slashdot

Steven Leckart / Wired:

The Hackathon Is On: Pitching and Programming the Next Killer App — Dirk de Kok is grinding. Hunched over a MacBook in a fluorescent-lit basement, he and 31 other software engineers pound away at source code for the 12th straight hour. Thick metal bars—actual bars—obscure the few tiny windows.

More: Scripting News

Bryan Bishop / The Verge:

LG makes the Optimus Vu official: 5-inch display and LTE in an 8.5mm-thin package — When LG surprised us with a teaser for the Optimus Vu smartphone, touting its 4:3 aspect ratio display, we expected an official announcement to come at Mobile World Congress.

More: VentureBeat, Engadget, 9to5Google, AllThingsD and Electronista

Vinod Khosla / TechCrunch:

The “Unhyped” New Areas in Internet and Mobile — Editor's note: Legendary investor Vinod Khosla is the founder of Khosla Ventures. You can follow him on Twitter at @vkhosla. All Khosla Ventures investments, as well as ventures related to Vinod Khosla, are italicized.

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