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March 2, 2013, 8:35 AM
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Florian Mueller / FOSS Patents:
Judge strikes $450 million from $1 billion damages award in Apple v. Samsung: second trial needed  —  Judge Lucy Koh, the federal judge presiding over two Apple v. Samsung cases in the Northern District of California, has just entered an order striking (or, more precisely, vacating) $450,514,650 …
Matthew Panzarino / The Next Web:
Apple's Lightning AV Adapter contains an ARM SoC, 256MB memory, may be an ‘AirPlay’ decoder  —  Apple's new Lightning Digital AV Adapter appears to have a system on a chip inside of it and may actually function as an AirPlay receiver, according to some recent investigation by Panic Software.
Colleen Taylor / TechCrunch:
Yahoo Is Now Officially Calling Itself A ‘Technology Company’, Ditching The ‘Digital Media’ Tagline  —  Yahoo today issued its annual 10-K report to the Securities And Exchange Commission.  These kinds of forms have a lot of boilerplate language that is reused again and again — often …
Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:
Google Releases Interactive Infographic: “How Search Works”  —  Every wondered how Google Search works, finds pages from across the web and decides how to list them in response to a search?  If so, Google's got a new resource designed to answer questions.  Called “How Search Works,” …
Ben Lovejoy / MacRumors:
Apple Offers Refund After British Boy Spends $2500 on In-App Purchases in 15 Minutes  —  A five-year-old boy in the UK accidentally made £1700 ($2550) of in-app purchases in a freemium game in just 15 minutes after asking his father to type in the password for a free download, reports the BBC (via Gizmodo).
Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica:
The Raspberry Pi: One year since launch, one million sold  —  The Pi super-charged DIY projects and offers a perfect teaching tool.  —  The folks who built the Raspberry Pi knew they had a great idea, but they probably didn't anticipate just how successful it would be.
Zach Epstein / BGR:
BlackBerry coup confirmed: iPhone, Android users make up half of Z10 sales in Canada, one-third in UK  —  BlackBerry (BBRY) is at the start of a very long haul as the struggling smartphone maker attempts to stage a comeback for the ages.  Early sales of the company's first next-generation …
Jamie Rigg / Engadget:
First BB10 update addresses battery life, low-light photography, third-party app performance and more
Elizabeth Spiers / Fast Company:
Exclusive: Andrew Mason's Last Interview As Groupon CEO  —  One month ago, I interviewed then-Groupon CEO Andrew Mason for a forthcoming Fast Company feature on the future of Groupon.  His performance—at turns, defensive, weary, combative, and naïve—foreshadowed his firing on Thursday.

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Gary Baum / The Hollywood Reporter:
A look at the first “case” brought before Objection, which aims to use AI to evaluate news stories, and a Q&A with Objection's founder; the site is now dark

Janko Roettgers / The Verge:
Apple TV relies on a few tentpole titles to draw audiences, like HBO did in the past, while Netflix uses its catalog size and algorithms to keep viewers engaged

Malcolm Ferguson / New Republic:
60 Minutes correspondent Cecilia Vega was fired while working on a feature on Francesca Albanese, UN special rapporteur on the Palestinian territories

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