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February 13, 2013, 5:10 PM

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Apple:

Apple Updates Processors & Prices of MacBook Pro with Retina Display — Apple® is making the MacBook Pro® with Retina® display faster and more affordable with updated processors and lower starting prices. The 13-inch MacBook Pro with Retina display now starts at $1,499 for 128GB of flash …

Nilay Patel / The Verge:

Apple lowers 13-inch Macbook Pro with Retina display price to $1,499, speedbumps other Retina machines

More: Computerworld and Gizmodo

BBC:

Apple loses Brazilian iPhone trademark ruling — Gradiente launched its Android-powered iPhone in Brazil in December — Brazilian regulators have ruled that Apple does not have exclusive rights to use the “iPhone” trademark in the country. — The decision is the result of a local company …

More: Examiner, TechCrunch, LAPTOP Magazine, MacRumors, CNET, Betabeat, Mobile Geeks, GigaOM, PhoneArena, The Full Signal, Pocket-lint, The Next Web, InvestorPlace, TechSpot, SlashGear, Droid Life, iDownloadBlog.com, Macgasm and iPhone in Canada Blog

Ryan Block / gdgt blog:

AOL adds gdgt to its Have-list! — We've got some big news: we couldn't be more excited to announce that gdgt has been acquired by AOL! — As you might recall, last year we started a fruitful partnership with the fine folks at Engadget to provide structured product data to their site.

More: Engadget, Digital Media Wire, Mashable!, memeburn, PC Magazine, Engadget and Marco.org

Tweets: @tim_stevens and @peterrojas

TechCrunch:

AOL Confirms gdgt Acquisition, Quests For tch Domination — AOL (owners of TechCrunch) today is taking one more step to build out its content empire: it has officially confirmed the acquisition of technology reviews site gdgt — first reported by TechCrunch nearly two weeks ago.

More: VatorNews, The Next Web, Engadget, Forbes and VentureBeat. Thanks:@ingridlunden. See also Mediagazer

Devindra Hardawar / VentureBeat:

GDGT's Ryan Block: We're bringing design and engineering skills to AOL's tech sites (interview)

Thanks:@devindra

Gartner:

Gartner Says Worldwide Mobile Phone Sales Declined 1.7 Percent in 2012 — Huawei Reached No. 3 Spot in Worldwide Smartphone Sales Ranking — Apple and Samsung Increased Share to Control 52 Percent of Worldwide Smartphone Sales — Worldwide mobile phone sales to end users totaled 1.75 billion units …

Opera Press Room:

Opera gears up at 300 million users — Opera Software today announced reaching the milestone of 300 million monthly users across all its browser products on phones, tablets, TVs and computers. — “300 million marks the first lap, but the race goes on,” says Lars Boilesen, CEO of Opera Software.

More: My Opera, BuzzFeed, Web Browser, 9to5Mac, DailyTech, Mashable!, The Verge, MobileSyrup.com, Neowin, TechCrunch, iPhone in Canada Blog, The Full Signal, TechSpot, ReadWrite, Ubergizmo, SitePoint and Webmonkey

Stephen Shankland / CNET:

Web world bemoans loss of Opera independence

More: My Opera, Well, I'm Back, Bruce Lawson, Computerworld, QuirksBlog, Softpedia News, Google Operating System, Inquirer and ExtremeTech

Jon Russell / The Next Web:

Opera formally adopts WebKit as its Web browsers reach 300 million users

More: CNET, Engadget, GigaOM, Geek.com, TG Daily, Softpedia News, BetaNews and The Register

The White House:

Executive Order — Improving Critical Infrastructure Cybersecurity — By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered as follows: Section 1. Policy. Repeated cyber intrusions into critical infrastructure demonstrate …

More: The Hill, AllThingsD, Wired, PC Magazine, Hillicon Valley, Forbes, ZDNet, New York Times, Web Host Industry Review, ZDNet, HOTforSecurity, BBC and Washington Post

Andy Greenberg / Forbes:

President Obama's Cybersecurity Executive Order Scores Much Better Than CISPA On Privacy

More: Techdirt

The Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence:

Rogers & Ruppersberger Reintroduce Cybersecurity Bill to Protect the American Economy

More: The Verge, Computerworld and Washington Post

iFixit:

Microsoft Surface Pro Teardown — It's a laptop! It's a tablet! It's a lablet! It's...it's...Microsoft's Surface Windows 8 Pro, and it's about to go down on the teardown table. Want more super gadget gutting? Follow us on Twitter or like us on Facebook.

More: The Verge, AnandTech, Neowin, Ars Technica, Electronista, Geek.com, SlashGear, Inquirer, Technabob, iDownloadBlog.com, CNET, PhoneArena and GSMArena Blog. Tweets: @edbott

Sean Ludwig / VentureBeat:

iFixit: If you try to repair the Surface Pro, you're probably gonna break it

More: TechCrunch

Taylor Wimberly / ReadWrite:

HP To Adopt Android For Upcoming Mobile Devices — Having failed to carve out a place for itself in the post-PC era, Hewlett-Packard is now taking drastic measures — by adopting Google's Android operating system to run a series of upcoming mobile devices. — It's a bit of a Hail Mary pass for HP …

More: TechCrunch, The Verge, BGR, GigaOM, BestTechie and SlashGear

Declan Butler / Nature:

When Google got flu wrong — US outbreak foxes a leading web-based method for tracking seasonal flu. — When influenza hit early and hard in the United States this year, it quietly claimed an unacknowledged victim: one of the cutting-edge techniques being used to monitor the outbreak.

More: Search Engine Land. Tweets: @ebellm

Nicole Lee / Engadget:

Slacker reinvents itself: simpler, more approachable internet radio — If you were a fan of Slacker's old-school black and gold aesthetic, you can mourn its passing today. The internet radio service has just undergone a rebirth, with a brand new white and burnt orange logo …

More: Slacker Blog, SplatF, New York Times, VentureBeat, SlashGear, socalTECH.com, TUAW, ZDNet, Electronista, Gotta Be Mobile, FierceMobileContent News and Gizmodo

Bryan Bishop / The Verge:

Google Search for Android updated with Google Now widget, Fandango movie passes, and more — The existence of a Google Now widget was leaked on the official Nexus support pages just days ago, and now a new version of Google Search has been released that adds the feature and quite a bit more.

More: Official Android Blog, Engadget, CNET, TechCrunch, AllThingsD, 9to5Google, Pocketnow and Gotta Be Mobile. Thanks:@sidharthdassani

Arik Hesseldahl / AllThingsD:

Cisco Beats Expectations in Second Fiscal Quarter — Quarterly results from networking giant Cisco Systems just crossed the wires, and they're above expectations. Cisco shares are moving up slightly after hours. — Cisco reported earnings of 51 cents per share on revenue of $12.1 billion.

More: Cisco, Business Insider, Tech Trader Daily, ZDNet and Bloomberg

Wayne Chang / Crashlytics Blog:

Crashlytics Enterprise Is Now Free — Crashlytics gives mobile app developers insight into their apps' performance, so you can pinpoint and fix issues quickly and easily. In addition to the main Crashlytics product, we've also offered Crashlytics Enterprise, which we introduced …

More: TechCrunch, The Next Web, Twitter Developers, AllThingsD, BostInno and Xconomy

Owen Thomas / Business Insider:

Jeff Weiner Just Gave Every LinkedIn Employee At The Company An iPad Mini — Darain Faraz, a communications manager at LinkedIn in the UK, just tweeted that CEO Jeff Weiner just gave an iPad Mini to every one of LinkedIn's 3,500 employees. — A spokesperson confirmed the gift:

More: TechCrunch and MacRumors. Tweets: @darainfaraz

Nate Raymond / Reuters:

Another investor sues Apple, taking a page from Einhorn playbook — (Reuters) - Apple Inc on Wednesday was hit by another shareholder lawsuit, a case that is similar to the court challenge that star hedge fund manager David Einhorn brought as part of his push to unlock the company's cash hoard.

More: CNET and Neowin

Anthony Ha / TechCrunch:

Incubated By Siri Birthplace SRI, Tempo Launches A Calendar App With The Info You Need For Any Meeting — Even if you're not as laughably disorganized as I am, I'm guessing you've had a few of those “oh, crap” moments before a meeting or a phone call. You've sat there desperately trying …

More: PandoDaily, MacRumors, Mashable!, Scobleizer, Wired, GigaOM, VentureBeat, 9to5Mac, The Verge and TUAW. Thanks:@startupbridges

Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet:

Microsoft CFO Klein: We're ready for devices of all sizes — Summary: Microsoft is continuing to hint that its core Windows platform will scale across devices of all sizes. Write once, run anywhere really is getting closer, the company's CFO says. — For years, write once …

More: Digits, GeekWire, TechCrunch, The Verge, CNET, Business Insider, WMPoweruser and Forbes

Liam Tung / ZDNet:

Don't open that PDF: There's an Adobe Reader zero-day on the loose — Summary: After Java and Flash, now PDF Reader is under attack, with one security firm warning Reader users to avoid PDFs. — Liam Tung — Security researchers are warning users not to open PDFs from unknown sources …

More: FireEye, Adobe Product Security …, The H Security, PC World, Ars Technica, Naked Security, F-Secure Antivirus …, WebProNews, Help Net Security, Datamation.com, Geek.com and SecurityWeek

Reuters:

Google files patent lawsuits against BT — (Reuters) - Google Inc and its Motorola Mobility unit filed patent lawsuits on Wednesday against BT Group plc in the United States and in the U.K., a Google spokeswoman said, more than a year after the British telecoms group launched its own lawsuit against Google.

Tweets: @fosspatents

Andrew Longstreth / Reuters:

High stakes if Apple e-books antitrust case goes to trial in U.S — (Reuters) - As the only remaining defendant in the U.S. government's e-books antitrust case, Apple Inc appears headed for a high-stakes trial that could significantly increase the personal computer company's liability in related litigation.

More: TUAW and iPhone in Canada Blog

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