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March 11, 2013, 12:15 AM

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Jennifer Van Grove / CNET:

Mozilla says no plans to return to iOS — During a SXSW talk, the not-for-profit's vice president of product says the organization won't build a version of its Firefox browser for iOS devices until Apple changes its ways. — The mobile browser wars panel at SXSW Interactive.

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Yeganeh Torbati / Reuters:

Iran blocks use of tool to get around Internet filter — (Reuters) - Iranian authorities have blocked the use of most “virtual private networks”, a tool that many Iranians use to get around an extensive government Internet filter, Iranian media quoted an official as saying on Sunday.

More: CNET, PC Magazine, Gizmodo, Quartz, Engadget, NZweek, SlashGear and The Verge

James Temple / San Francisco Chronicle:

The hypocrisy in Silicon Valley's big talk on innovation — In the fall of 2011, Max Levchin took the stage at a TechCrunch conference to lament the sad state of U.S. innovation. — “Technology innovation in this country is somewhere between dire straits and dead,” said the PayPal co-founder …

Tweets: @jimnotwell, @hunterwalk and @jaberman. Thanks:@techchronicle

Wall Street Journal:

New Money Ventures to Silicon Valley

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Greg Bensinger / Wall Street Journal:

Amazon's Quest for Web Names Draws Foes — Large and small companies are vying for control of an array of new Internet domain names, but Amazon.com Inc.'s plans are coming under particular scrutiny. — Two publishing industry groups, the Authors Guild and the Association of American Publishers …

More: CNET, The Verge and The Authors Guild

Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch:

If It Gets Them, Google May Open .Search, .App, .Blog And .Cloud gTLDs To The Public — If Google is awarded the right to manage the domain registrations for .search, .app, .blog and .cloud, there is now a good chance that it won't just use them for its own services and will open them up for non-Google properties, too.

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Matthew Panzarino / The Next Web:

The iPhone's biggest flaw — The iPhone has a flaw, and it's not a minor one. In fact, it affects every single one of the over 100 million sold so far, and there is no real solution yet in sight. — The iPhone's battery sucks. — Before you bust out your benchmarks or anecdotes …

More: Engadget. Tweets: @tariqkrim and @mattk. Thanks:@sidharthdassani

Brian Heater / Engadget:

Google shows off hacked speaking shoe at SXSW, promises it's not getting into the footwear business — All the hype of Google's presence at this year's SXSW has, not surprisingly, largely revolved around the company's Glass project, but much to our surprise, the software giant used the show to take the wraps off yet another wearable.

More: TechCrunch, Washington Post, CNET, SlashGear, ABCNEWS, AllThingsD, Fast Company, Gizmodo, iClarified, PhoneArena and The Verge

Eric Slivka / MacRumors:

Tweaked Apple TV Contains Die-Shrunk A5 Chip, Not A5X — Back in late January, an update to the Apple TV software revealed a new “AppleTV3,2”, with FCC documents for the device showing up the following day. By digging into the software files for this new device, it was discovered …

More: iPhone Hacks, iDownloadBlog.com, Marco.org and iClarified

Mike Isaac / AllThingsD:

How One Boring Company Pulled Off the Perfect SXSW Troll — Aside from plaid-clad hipsters and mountains of barbecue, every South by Southwest attendee is sure to see one thing: Completely idiotic startup marketing campaigns. — Lyft, the car-sharing service, touted offering free piggyback rides …

More: Vanity Fair and The Verge. Tweets: @dannysullivan, @mattbuchanan, @jennydeluxe, @davidsrose, @thestalwart and @mikeisaac

Jordan Kahn / 9to5Google:

Google Glass app from Duke University recognizes people by what they wear — Google Glass has yet to even land as the “Explorer Edition” for developers, but devs are already fast at work on innovative applications for Google's head-mounted computing platform.

More: Tom's Hardware Guide, TechCrunch, The Register, The Verge, New Scientist, Gizmodo, Android and Me, CNET, Macgasm, Gotta Be Mobile, Redmond Pie, PC World, TechHive, ValueWalk, Business Insider and Engadget

Roger Cheng / CNET:

AT&T: Ban on unlocking phones won't affect our customers — The telecom giant says that it will unlock phones for customers that have been active for 60 days, are in good standing with no unpaid balance, and have honored their service agreement commitments.

More: AT&T Public Policy Blog, Examiner, Electronista, digitaltrends.com, TechSpot, BGR, Mashable!, VentureBeat, Gotta Be Mobile, PC Magazine and PhoneNews.com

Parker Higgins / Electronic Frontier Foundation:

A Tale of SimCity: Users Struggle Against Onerous DRM — It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, for the latest installment in the popular SimCity video game franchise, which was released this week to massive sales, and then just as quickly, an epic fail as the paying customers …

More: EA Games, TechCrunch, Giant Bomb, Ars Technica, Wired, VentureBeat, Polygon, Forbes, Engadget, ReadWrite, Slate, The Escapist, VG247, IGN, Polygon, The Verge, AllThingsD, Kotaku, PC Magazine, Techdirt, nbcnews.com, destructoid, Techdirt, Kotaku and Joystiq

Tweets: @simcity, @markjardine, @jimsterling, @vladsavov and @dannysullivan

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