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February 18, 2013, 4:13 AM

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Andy Greenberg / Forbes:

“Frost” Attack Unlocks Android Phones' Data By Chilling Their Memory In A Freezer — A wrapped-up Samsung Galaxy Nexus in a freezer, as a researcher measures its temperature. — If you lose possession of an Android phone, your PIN or pattern unlock might not be enough to protect the sensitive data stored on it.

More: Ars Technica, The H Open Source, Ubergizmo, Android Police and IntoMobile

Sam Byford / The Verge:

LG's 5.5-inch 1080p Optimus G Pro is coming to North America (hands-on) — After weeks of teasing, LG has finally given its 5.5-inch Optimus G Pro a full unveiling in South Korea today. The model for LG's home country gains half an inch of screen size and a 1.7GHz Snapdragon 600 processor …

More: Engadget, The Next Web and 9to5Google

Kevin Fitchard / GigaOM:

The newest overhyped mobile industry buzzword: LTE-Advanced — Admittedly, mobile technology evolves at a very fast pace. But somewhere along the way we seem to have skipped an entire generation of networks. — This week Broadcom unveiled its first LTE chipset for mobile devices …

Tweets: @om and @kfitchard. Thanks:@om

Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac:

Apple airs new ‘Alive’ and ‘Together’ iPad TV ads to showcase reading, gaming, various App Store apps — Tonight, Apple has aired two new television commercials for both the full-sized iPad and iPad mini. The new ad showcases reading with iBooks, collaborative gaming, and several apps from the App Store.

More: AllThingsD, iMore, The Next Web, PhoneArena, MacRumors and MacStories

Tweets: @parislemon and @reneritchie

Thanks:@llsethj

ChinaFile:

Who Supplies Apple? (It's Not Just China): An Interactive Map — Last month, Apple Inc. released its updated list of suppliers (PDF). This report says it includes “the major manufacturing locations of suppliers who provide raw materials and components or perform final assembly on Apple.”

More: Fortune, VentureBeat, AppleInsider, iDownloadBlog.com, 9to5Mac and iClarified

Phil Goldstein / FierceWireless:

Samsung launches Rex handset line for emerging markets, challenging Nokia — Samsung Electronics is launching a new handset line called Rex that is aimed at emerging markets. The move could be the beginning of a battle between Samsung and Nokia's (NYSE:NOK) touchscreen Asha line …

More: Samsung Mobile Press, SlashGear, The Verge, ZDNet, Examiner, TechnoBuffalo, GadgeTell and VentureBeat

Adam Lashinsky / Fortune:

Transcript: The keys to Andreessen Horowitz's success — Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz talk to Fortune's Adam Lashinsky about their investing philosophies, role models and business model. — FORTUNE — When partners at the venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz are late to a meeting …

Thanks:@waqasaday

Myriam Joire / Engadget:

PSA: Sprint LTE is now live in San Francisco — Imagine our surprise when, upon firing up Sprint's Galaxy Tab 2 10.1 earlier today for some routine app updates, we saw the 4G logo light up (!) for the first time ever. Yes, ladies and gentlemen, it appears that sometime in the past few days …

More: PhoneArena

Kara Swisher / AllThingsD:

When Mayer Called Yahoo's Mobile Revenue “Nascent,” She Wasn't Kidding (And Here's the Actual Number She Left Out) — On Yahoo's recent fourth-quarter earnings call, CEO Marissa Mayer called the company's mobile efforts a “nascent source of revenue,” a theme she reiterated in her appearance earlier …

More: ECPM BLOG and Marketing Land. Tweets: @gsterling

Ken Yeung / The Next Web:

In a Fireside Hangout on Google+, Obama says we need more patent reform and computer education — In President Obama's inaugural Fireside Hangout on Google+, he faced the public and answered a bevy of questions along a wide range of topics, including immigration, gun violence, and even technology.

More: Mashable!, Electronic Frontier Foundation, TechCrunch, Business Insider, The Register and White House.gov Blog

Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch:

Why Mozilla Matters And Won't Switch To WebKit — Earlier this week, Opera announced that it would stop working on its own Presto layout engine and switch to WebKit. It's obvious that the open source WebKit engine currently has a lot of momentum behind it, with Google, Apple and now Opera backing it.

More: TechCrunch, Fink @ Mozilla and Brendan Eich

Leena Rao / TechCrunch:

The Rise Of Company Builders — Entrepreneur-turned-investor is a classic story arc in Silicon Valley but recently the plot has earned a twist. Certain operators are foregoing the traditional path of joining a traditional VC to instead create a studio-like holding operation.

More: Sean Percival's Blog. Thanks:@ipaullee

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