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April 7, 2012, 4:33 AM

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John Pavlus / Technology Review:
An Expert's View on Google's Goggles  —  Mark Changizi, a neurobiologist and the author of The Vision Revolution, discusses Google's augmented-reality glasses.  —  Project Glass, the latest sci-fi concept to come out of Google's X Lab, has gotten a lot of attention online in the past 24 hours thanks …
Brian X. Chen / Bits:
Why Is AT&T Releasing Nokia's Big Phone on Easter?  —  AT&T has said that the release of the Nokia Lumia 900 will be its biggest product introduction ever.  But the phone is coming out on Easter Sunday, when some AT&T stores won't even be open.  —  Melissa Havel, a spokeswoman representing Microsoft …
Jordan Golson / MacRumors:
AT&T Will Unlock Off-Contract iPhones Starting Sunday, April 8  —  AT&T has announced it will begin unlocking customers' iPhones once their 2-year contracts have expired.  The move will free up the currently-locked devices to use a micro-SIM from any carrier offering a network compatible with the device.
Roger Cheng / CNET:
More HTC handsets with Beats headphones?  Probably not  —  The Rezound will likely be the last HTC phone for a while to come bundled with Beats headphones.  —  (Credit: Josh Miller/CNET)  —  Don't expect HTC to pack Beats headphones or earbuds with the Evo 4G LTE — or any of its smartphones for the time being.
Gerry Shih / Reuters:
Ex-Intel employee pleads guilty to theft charges  —  (Reuters) - A former Intel Corp employee who allegedly stole from the chipmaker documents worth hundreds of millions of dollars pleaded guilty on Friday to five counts of wire fraud.  —  Federal prosecutors in Boston had alleged that Biswamohan Pani …
Arik Hesseldahl / AllThingsD:
What's This?  A Mac Virus?  No, Actually It's a Weakness in Java.  —  When a computer incident happens on Apple's Mac OS X, it's a headline-making event.  When it happens on Windows, it's just another day.  —  That remains the reality, even after a bunch of media reports on how a vulnerability …
Janko Roettgers / GigaOM:
Rdio is working on Pandora-like radio functionality  —  Nomen est omen for Rdio, the music subscription service founded by the inventors of Skype: Rdio is going to bring a Pandora-like radio functionality to its service, I was told by Rdio VP of Product Malthe Sigurdsson.

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