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February 26, 2013, 6:50 PM

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Seth Sternberg / Google+ Developers Blog:

Introducing Google+ Sign-In: simple and secure, minus the social spam — Today we're adding a new feature to the Google+ platform: application sign-in. Whether you're building an app for Android, iOS or the web, users can now sign in to your app with Google, and bring along their Google+ info for an upgraded experience.

Bryan Bishop / The Verge:

Google+ Sign-In takes on Facebook Connect and frictionless sharing

More: Examiner. Tweets: @williamtm

Ina Fried / AllThingsD:

Google's Rubin: No Need for Retail Stores — Despite reports that Google has been eyeing real estate for physical stores, Android chief Andy Rubin says the company really doesn't need its own retail effort. — A few years ago, consumers needed to touch and feel devices …

More: The Verge, PC Magazine, BGR, bizjournals, Geekosystem, TechCrunch, Gotta Be Mobile, IntoMobile, Mobile Marketing Watch, Neowin, CNET, memeburn, Ubergizmo, Android and Me, PhoneArena, Macgasm and The Verge. Tweets: @gsterling

Kara Swisher / AllThingsD:

Exclusive: PayPal Co-Founder Levchin Launches New Payments Startup, Affirm — High-profile Silicon Valley entrepreneur Max Levchin is launching a new mobile payments startup today called Affirm. — It's the first project emerging from Levchin's San Francisco tech incubator Hard, Valuable …

More: Engadget, GigaOM and bizjournals

Ernesto / TorrentFreak:

“Six Strikes” Anti-Piracy Scheme Starts, With Mystery Punishments — The MPAA and RIAA, helped by five major Internet providers in the United States, will start to warn BitTorrent pirates this week. The parties launched the Center for Copyright Information (CCI) and agreed on a system through …

More: BBC and Geekosystem

Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:

Should you be worried about the new “six strikes” anti-piracy rules? Yes and no

More: Center for Copyright …, Electronic Frontier Foundation, Forbes, The Atlantic Wire, Lifehacker, Hollywood Reporter, Gawker, LAW.com, Cable Tech Talk and Wall Street Journal

Enigmax / TorrentFreak:

The Pirate Bay Departs Sweden And Sets Sail For Norway and Spain — When it comes to hosting a website there are thousands of companies and organizations around the world open for business. However, the options reduce massively when your site is internationally infamous.

More: PC Magazine, Piratpartiet, Falkvinge on Infopolicy, Techdirt, Engadget, CNET, TechSpot, Neowin, Ars Technica, DailyTech, Gizmodo, Daily Dot and ArcticStartup

Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:

For the First Time Since Napster, Music Sales Are Growing — The last time music was a growth business was 1999 — back when people bought millions of Britney Spears CDs, and GeoCities was the third-most popular Web property in the world. You know what's happened since then.

More: IFPI, New York Times, AppleInsider, Techdirt, The Next Web, Softpedia News, MacRumors, VatorNews, internetretailer.com, Gizmodo and Electronista. See also Mediagazer

Emil Protalinski / The Next Web:

NPD: Illegal P2P music sharing declined 17% in 2012 as Internet users turn to free, legal streaming services

More: NPD Group, Forbes, VentureBeat, Wired, GeekWire, SlashGear, WebProNews and CNET. See also Mediagazer

Brendan McGarry / Bloomberg:

Pentagon Will Open Networks to Apple, Google Devices in 2014 — The U.S. Defense Department said today it plans to open its networks by next February to about 100,000 mobile phones and tablet computers from companies such as Apple Inc. (AAPL) and Google Inc. (GOOG)

More: AppleInsider, 9to5Mac, U.S. Department of Defense, AllThingsD, ZDNet, BGR, Wired, Forbes, iDownloadBlog.com and iPhone in Canada Blog

Dan Goodin / Ars Technica:

Revealed: Stuxnet “beta's” devious alternate attack on Iran nuke program — Version 0.5 shows cyberweapon development began two years earlier than thought. — Researchers have uncovered a never-before-seen version of Stuxnet. The discovery sheds new light on the evolution …

More: CNET, VentureBeat, SlashGear and SecurityWeek

Jim Finkle / Reuters:

Researchers say Stuxnet was deployed against Iran in 2007

More: Symantec, The Verge and The Register

Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:

Silicon Valley dwarfs list of top regions for tech acquisitions — Silicon Valley headed the list of the top 10 U.S. cities in terms of tech acquisitions in 2012. — PrivCo, a New York company that tracks private investments, said that Silicon Valley (combining San Francisco and the region around it) …

More: AllThingsD

Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:

Maybe You'll Get the Pay TV You Want, After All: Cablevision Sues Viacom to Break Up the Bundle — Pay TV has a simple model: If you want to watch one channel, you have to pay for dozens — or hundreds — of others, whether you watch them or not. That model drives lots of consumers nuts, but it has looked very, very hard to dislodge.

More: Engadget, Ars Technica, Wired, PR Newswire, VentureBeat, Gizmodo, The Next Web, AdAge and multichannel.com/rss. See also Mediagazer

Owen Thomas / Business Insider:

Glam Media Just Secretly Filed For An IPO — Two sources familiar with the matter say that Glam Media, the digital lifestyle-content publisher, has filed confidential documents as part of a new secret IPO process. — Glam got its start offering fashion and gossip content on Glam.com …

More: VentureBeat and The Next Web

Ina Fried / AllThingsD:

Apple Now a Bit Easier to Deal With, and Other Observations From France Telecom's Straight-Talking CEO — Apple, while still a force to be reckoned with, has become a bit easier to deal with under Tim Cook, at least according to one major European operator.

More: Engadget, TechCrunch, digitaltrends.com, Computerworld, iPhone, iDownloadBlog.com and WMPoweruser

Peter Bright / Ars Technica:

Internet Explorer 10 finally released for Windows 7 — Four months after Microsoft released Internet Explorer 10 with and for Windows 8, Redmond has finally released a version of the company's newest browser for Windows 7 users in 95 other languages too. More than 700 million people …

John Paczkowski / AllThingsD:

Apple's Selling More Macs Because It Finally Has More Macs to Sell — Though supplies of its new iMac remain somewhat constrained, Apple appears to be making some headway in bringing supply of the machine into rough parity with demand. To wit, new data from NPD that shows Mac sales up significantly this year.

More: iPhone in Canada Blog

Rachel King / ZDNet:

Intel baking Apache Hadoop into silicon for big data, security uses — Summary: Silicon Valley is turning to Hadoop to tackle big data, and Intel is attempting to get involved at ground level through integration on its chips. — SAN FRANCISCO — Not to be left out of the party this week …

More: SiliconANGLE, The Register, Intel Newsroom, Computerworld, InfoWorld, TechCrunch, Reuters, VentureBeat, PC Magazine and V3.co.uk

Gregg Keizer / Computerworld:

Adobe springs emergency Flash update, says hackers hitting Firefox — Second ‘out-of-band’ patch this month, fourth fix overall in 2013 — Adobe today patched new vulnerabilities in Flash Player that hackers are now exploiting in attacks aimed at Firefox users, the company said.

More: Ars Technica, The Next Web and The Mac Security Blog

Matt Burns / TechCrunch:

“Angry Birds Toons”, Rovio's New Cartoon Series, Is Coming To A Browser Near You March 16 — They're cute. They're bouncy. And they're angry. Introducing “Angry Birds Toons”. Seriously. — Rovio has long teased the existence of an Angry Birds cartoon series but held most of the details secret.

More: Rovio, The Verge, The Next Web, Kotaku and SlashGear

Nick Wingfield / NYT Bits:

Gates, Zuckerberg, Other Tech Icons Promote Youth Coding in New Film — A new nonprofit seeking to rally interest among children, parents and schools in computer programming is getting help from some big guns in the tech industry, including the founders of Microsoft, Facebook and Twitter.

More: CNET, USA Today, Forbes, GadgeTell, Gizmodo, Betabeat, MSDN Blogs, HotHardware.com News, ZDNet, Macgasm and Softpedia News

Élyse Betters / 9to5Mac:

Staples now sells Apple accessories including Apple TV, keyboards, Airports, Magic Mouse, and Smart Covers — Staples executives confirmed last week that the office supply retail chain would soon offer Apple accessories in its U.S. online store, and now the merchandise is finally live.

More: CNET, iMore.com, MacRumors, Edible Apple, Gotta Be Mobile, TechnoBuffalo, TUAW, Cult of Mac and PadGadget

Barb Darrow / GigaOM:

Exclusive: RightScale is first to resell, support Google Compute Engine — Here's something to ponder for those who don't see Google Compute Engine as ready for primetime: RightScale will start reselling and providing first-line support of the Google public cloud infrastructure. This is big news.

Jordan Kahn / 9to5Mac:

China labor watchdog SACOM says Apple failing to monitor work conditions at suppliers — Hong Kong-based labor watchdog Student & Scholars Against Corporate Misbehaviour released a report on Tuesday that criticizes Apple for failing to properly monitor the labor practices of its suppliers.

Thanks:@ebetters

Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch:

Cloudflare Partners With World's Leading Web Hosts To Implement Its Railgun Protocol, Speeds Up Load Times By Up To 143% — Cloudflare, the content delivery network and website security company that launched at TechCrunch Disrupt SF in 2010, just announced that the majority …

More: CloudFlare blog, Ars Technica, Softpedia News and The Next Web

Eric Eldon / TechCrunch:

Former Square COO Keith Rabois Joins Square Investor Khosla Ventures As Partner — Keith Rabois is going to be a full-time investor after more than a decade in operating roles. And fittingly, he'll be doing that as a partner at Khosla Ventures — a high-powered firm as feisty, contrarian, and entrepreneur-focused as he is.

More: Business Wire, Business Insider, Mercury News, Wired, Forbes, CNET, Digits, VentureBeat and Businessweek. Thanks:@ryanlawler

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