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February 8, 2013, 7:05 PM

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Andy Greenberg / Forbes:

Evasi0n Is The Most Popular Jailbreak Ever: Nearly Seven Million iOS Devices Hacked In Four Days — Over the last half a week, Apple has been hit with the largest mass-hacking incident in its history. And the perpetrators were the company's own users. — Nearly seven million iPhone …

Omar Shahine / The Windows Blog:

A billion Office documents on SkyDrive, now with easier collaboration … For those of you who have tried the new Office, you'll know we made it easy to quickly save your documents to SkyDrive and get a link to share with others—earlier today we made it even easier for people to share …

Emil Protalinski / The Next Web:

As SkyDrive hits 1bn documents, Microsoft now lets you share and edit files in Office Web Apps sans account

More: Computerworld

Daniel Trotta / Reuters:

U.S. Secret Service investigates Bush email hacking — (Reuters) - The U.S. Secret Service is investigating whether former President George H.W. Bush's email was hacked along with other family members and friends, the agency said on Friday. — That probe comes in response to reports …

More: The Smoking Gun, BBC, Los Angeles Times, BuzzFeed, Network World, Guardian, Ars Technica, TMZ.com, Business Insider, Mashable!, The Verge, Gawker, Softpedia News and Computerworld

Henry Blodget / Business Insider:

AOL's Dial-Up Subscription Business Produces More Than All Of The Company's Profit — AOL just released quasi-profit numbers for each of its divisions for the first time. — As expected, AOL's dial-up subscription business—the business that powered AOL to astounding global success in the 1990s …

More: SplatF, Gizmodo, InfoWorld, Forbes and paidContent. See also Mediagazer

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:

AOL Q4 2012 Beats The Street On Revenues Of $600M, Showing Its First Revenue Growth In 8 Years — AOL (owner of TechCrunch) has just reported earnings for Q4 2012 of $600 million on earnings of 41 cents per share. That matches analysts expectaions on EPS but beats on revenues of $573.1 million.

More: AllThingsD, Reuters, SiliconANGLE, CNET, Guardian, Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, Business Insider, Marketing Land, VentureBeat and Mashable!. Tweets: @emilysteel. See also Mediagazer

Ellis Hamburger / The Verge:

4chan creator Chris Poole draws a future where anyone can make art — 4chan creator Chris “moot” Poole spent two years building and refining Canvas, a family-friendly version of the massively successful 4chan, when he realized something was off. “90 percent of our users didn't feel …

More: The Next Web, TechCrunch, MacRumors, 9to5Mac, Mashable!, Ars Technica and Wired

Emil Protalinski / The Next Web:

Google Drive's Create menu now lets you add and access third-party, Drive-enabled apps — Google on Friday announced a new feature for its Drive service: a significantly revamped Create menu featuring third-party apps. For consumers, the change means Drive-connected apps are easier to access …

More: googledevelopers.blogspot.ca, Google Operating System, TechCrunch, Engadget, The Verge and 9to5Google

Alexei Oreskovic / Reuters:

Google's Schmidt to sell roughly 42 percent of stake — (Reuters) - Google Inc Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt is selling roughly 42 percent of his stake in the Internet search company over the coming year, Google announced on Friday. — Schmidt will sell 3.2 million shares of Class …

More: TechCrunch, The Verge, Associated Press, ZDNet, Business Insider and AllThingsD

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Emil Protalinski / The Next Web:

Some iPhone users are seeing battery drain and overheating issues after upgrading to iOS 6.1 (Updated) — We have started seeing an increase in iPhone issues related to battery life and overheating. All of them seem to be related to users upgrading their devices to iOS 6.1.

More: MacRumors, The Verge, AllThingsD, Wired, 9to5Mac, Guardian, WindowsITPro, iDownloadBlog.com, Pocket-lint, ZDNet and MacNN. Thanks:@alex

Michael Bonfils / Search Engine Watch:

Yandex Just Passed Bing to Become 4th Largest Global Search Engine — Yandex surpassed Microsoft on the number of monthly search queries worldwide in November and December 2012, according to a recently released comScore qSearch report. Microsoft sites processed 4.477 billion queries and Yandex did 4.844 billion.

More: CNET, PC Magazine, WebProNews, DailyTech, Neowin, SlashGear and Guardian. Tweets: @tomwarren

Ernesto / TorrentFreak:

TPB AFK: Watch and Download The Pirate Bay Documentary NOW — The Pirate Bay is one of the best known file-sharing brands and the site has a well-earned place in Internet history. — The BitTorrent site and its founders have been targeted by several court cases over the years …

More: Daily Dot, TechSpot, Wired, Geek.com and The Verge

Russell Brandom / The Verge:

Four years in the Pirate Bay: director Simon Klose on why file-sharing is still political

More: TorrentFreak, CNET, TechCrunch, SiliconANGLE, WebProNews, Mashable! and Softpedia News

Jordan Kahn / 9to5Mac:

Apple hires AMOLED TV Application Expert James (Jueng-Gil) Lee from LG — According to reports originating from OLED-A.org (via OLED-Info), Apple has hired OLED expert Dr. James (Jueng-Gil) Lee. He was previously a senior researcher on LG Display's R&D team and worked on printed AMOLED TVs.

More: OLED Info, oled-a.org, GigaOM, AppleInsider, BGR, MacRumors, TUAW, CNET, iDownloadBlog.com, iClarified, SlashGear and Electronista

Don Clark / Digits:

Intel Bets on New-wave Networking with Big Switch — For people who equip and run computer rooms, a trend called software-defined networking has been widely identified as a very big deal. Intel is helping to fund the movement. — The chip giant's venture capital arm on Friday is announcing …

More: Big Switch Networks, Inc., AllThingsD, VatorNews, TechCrunch, GigaOM, ZDNet and ITworld.com

Liam Boogar / Rude Baguette:

Orange & Alcatel Lucent lay down the fastest internet connection (400G/sec) from Paris to Lyon — This past week, a joint effort between French telecom company Orange and Alcatel Lucent has led to the fastest internet connection in the world, a 400 gigabyte/second connection, being set up between Paris and Lyon (450km or 275 miles).

More: Communications … and GigaOM

Ben Worthen / Wall Street Journal:

Big Dell Holder to Vote Against Buyout — Dell Inc.'s largest outside investor on Friday said it would vote against the proposed $24.4 billion deal to take the computer maker private. — The shareholder, Southeastern Asset Management Inc., which says it owns approximately 8.5% …

More: Tech Trader Daily, DealBook and Forbes

Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch:

Google Now Uses Its Own WebP Format Instead Of PNGs In The Chrome Web Store — Google loves everything that makes the web faster. Given that images typically account for more than half of a web page's size, it has now been working on its own WebP image format for a few years.

More: CNET, Google Operating System and Softpedia News

Daniel P / PhoneArena:

5.5" LG Optimus G Pro picture and specs sheet are in: Full HD screen, 3140 mAh battery and microSD — While LG's current flagship, the Optimus G, has been selling in the US for a while, and hitting Europe and China, we've been hearing about an upcoming upgrade, the Optimus G Pro, for a while now …

More: Engadget, Android Authority, Ars Technica, Pocketnow, digitaltrends.com, LAPTOP Magazine, Mobile Magazine, Tech Shout!, 9to5Google, Pocketnow, Pocket-lint, AndroidGuys, IntoMobile, GSMArena.com, MobileSyrup.com, TechRadar.com and Ubergizmo

Romain Dillet / TechCrunch:

LinkedIn Shares Soar 19.2% In The Wake Of Impressive Earnings — Right after yesterday's earnings, LinkedIn shares (NYSE:LNKD) have popped 19.16 percent to 147.86. It is clearly linked to the company's earnings. Revenue is up 81 percent to $304 million and net profit is following the same trend.

Jennifer Van Grove / CNET:

LinkedIn eyes future as professional publishing hub

More: Adweek, Wired, Beyond Search and SocialTimes. Thanks:@mariosundar. See also Mediagazer

Laura Hazard Owen / paidContent:

Macmillan settles with DOJ, leaving Apple last defendant standing in ebook pricing case — Macmillan, the last remaining publisher holdout in the Department of Justice's ebook pricing antitrust lawsuit against five publishers and Apple, has decided to settle about ten months after the lawsuit was originally filed.

More: The United States Department …, AllThingsD, Computerworld, Engadget, Tor.com Frontpage Partial, Reuters, Macgasm, CNET, Good E-Reader, The Verge and Electronista. See also Mediagazer

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