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March 14, 2013, 11:00 PM

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Brent Rose / Gizmodo:

Samsung Galaxy S IV Hands On: Everything New Is Old Again — After a lot of teasing, and a lot of leaking, the Galaxy S IV is finally here. Last year's version, the S III, remains the world's most popular Android phone, having sold over 40 million units. Can the S IV live up to that kind of hype?

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Jordan Crook / TechCrunch:

Samsung Galaxy S 4 Beats The Best With 5-inch, 1080p Display, 1.9GHz Processor, Gesture Controls And A Q2 2013 Release — As if it could be any other way, the just-announced Samsung Galaxy S 4 is Samsung's, and perhaps even Android's, best phone yet. In fact, it very well may be the best smartphone on the market, period.

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Tweets: @levie, @dcurtis and @qhardy

BBC:

Eye-tracking Samsung Galaxy S4 smartphone unveiled — The smartphone detects when fingers are hovered over the screen — Samsung has launched a smartphone which allows users to control its 5in (12.5cm) screen using only their eyes. — The Galaxy S4 follows on from last year's S3 …

More: Mobile Technology and Mashable!

Star Chang / M.I.C. Gadget:

Chinese Tech Site Disassembles the Samsung Galaxy S IV Before it Gets Official Release

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Bryan Bishop / The Verge:

S Health turns the Galaxy S4 into a full-fledged fitness tracker

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Nathan Ingraham / The Verge:

Samsung Galaxy S4 features Mobeam, a way to beam barcodes using pulses of infrared light

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Tim Stevens / Engadget:

Samsung prototype wireless game pad hands-on! (update: video)

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Joanna Stern / ABC News:

Samsung Galaxy S4 Announced: An Android Phone You Can Control with a Wave or Tilt

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Ryan Broderick / BuzzFeed:

Reuters Social Media Editor Indicted For Allegedly Conspiring With Anonymous — If convicted, Reuters' deputy social media editor Matthew Keys faces up to 25 years in prison and $750,000 in fines. — Federal prosecutors announced Thursday that Matthew Keys, the deputy social media editor for Reuters …

Dylan Byers / Politico:

Reuters ‘investigating’ Matthew Keys after ‘Anonymous’ indictment — Thomson Reuters is ‘investigating’ the federal indictment against social media editor Matthew Keys, which charges him with allegedly conspiring with members of the hacker group “Anonymous” to hack into the Los Angeles Times.

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Tweets: @thematthewkeys, @gaberivera, @alex, @pkafka, @stevestreza and @gabrielsnyder

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Mike Isaac / AllThingsD:

Facebook to Introduce Hashtags — And That's a Double-Edged Sword for Twitter — Facebook has always wanted to edge in on Twitter's Interest Graph. — The idea is, it's a boon for ad dollars, as Twitter's real-time stream taps into the immediate sentiment of the crowd.

More: TechHive, The Register, Marketing Land, Mashable!, Los Angeles Times, Business Insider, SiliconBeat and ValueWalk

John Herrman / BuzzFeed:

Google Reader Still Drives Far More Traffic Than Google+ — The beloved but doomed Google Reader is still a healthy source of traffic. Google+, on the other hand... According to data from the BuzzFeed Network, a set of tracked partner sites that collectively have over 300 million users …

More: Google Operating System, Slate, SmoothSpan Blog, Digital Media Wire, GigaOM and NYT Bits. See also Mediagazer

Zachary M. Seward / Quartz:

Google Reader's demise is awful for Iranians, who use it to avoid censorship

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Om Malik / GigaOM:

Google Reader lived on borrowed time: creator Chris Wetherell reflects

More: TechCrunch, Rex Hammock's RexBlog.com, Building Feedly and The Verge. See also Mediagazer

Amir Efrati / Wall Street Journal:

Google Breaks Up Mapping and Commerce Unit — Google Inc. executive Jeff Huber stepped aside as head of the Internet giant's mapping and commerce unit on Wednesday, in a two-part management shift that also saw the chief of the Android unit, Andy Rubin, leave his position, said people familiar with the matter.

More: AllThingsD, Los Angeles Times, Engadget and Bloomberg

Tweets: @jhuber and @sammywalrusiv

Dan Seifert / The Verge:

Google separates its mapping and commerce unit, VP Jeff Huber headed to the X team

More: Digits, CNET, InfoWorld, Business Insider, DailyTech, BetaNews, Fortune and Quartz

Bloomberg:

Microsoft's Surface Tablet Is Said to Fall Short of Predictions — Microsoft Corp. (MSFT) has sold about 1.5 million Surface devices, people with knowledge of the company's sales said, a slow start in its bid to crack the fast-growing tablet market to make up for slumping personal-computer demand.

More: CNET, The Register, Business Insider, GeekWire, The Next Web, WinBeta, The Verge and ParisLemon

Digg Blog:

We're Building A Reader — Like many of you, we were dismayed to learn that Google will be shutting down its much-loved, if under-appreciated, Google Reader on July 1st. Through its many incarnations, Google Reader has remained a solid and reliable tool for those who want to ensure …

Emil Protalinski / The Next Web:

Digg announces plan to build an RSS reader with 'the best of Google Reader's features,' including its API

More: VentureBeat, The Atlantic Wire, Forbes and SmoothSpan Blog. See also Mediagazer

The Official Google translate blog:

Never Forget a Useful Phrase Again - Introducing Phrasebook for Google Translate — Your knowledge of a language is largely determined by how well you can say the right things at the right time. But with so many useful phrases out there, it can be hard to keep track of them all, let alone recall them when needed.

More: Google Operating System, 9to5Google, TechCrunch, Engadget and The Next Web

Mikey Campbell / AppleInsider:

Apple proposes ‘on-the-go’ wireless charging via iPad Smart Cover with built-in battery — An Apple patent application discovered on Thursday reveals that the company is actively investigating wireless charging for its line of portable devices, but proposes to use the technology in a slightly different way than existing solutions.

More: Patently Apple, CNET, Engadget, TodaysiPhone.com, iPhone in Canada Blog and PadGadget

Janko Roettgers / GigaOM:

Redbox Instant launches publicly, CEO calls original content talk premature — Surprise! Redbox Instant by Verizon officially launched to the public Thursday, just as I had predicted in an earlier story. The launch comes after a three-month-long closed beta test that Redbox Instant CEO …

More: GeekWire, VentureBeat, PC Magazine, Engadget, Pocket-lint, TechSpot and The Verge. See also Mediagazer

Liz Gannes / AllThingsD:

Google and Bing Say the Future of Search is Conversational — Longtime Google search executive Amit Singhal has a favorite example of what he and others call “conversational search.” He pulls out his phone and says, “How old is Justin Bieber?” Then he asks a follow-up question: “How tall is he?”

Eric Slivka / MacRumors:

Apple Releases OS X 10.8.3 With Mac App Store Gift Card Camera Redemption and Boot Camp Enhancements — Following Tuesday's seed of the latest beta, Apple today released OS X 10.8.3 to the public. The update brings several enhancements including support for camera redemption of gift cards …

More: Apple, digitaltrends.com, BetaNews, Macgasm, AppleTell, The Mac Observer, CNET, Engadget, The Next Web, Macworld and 9to5Mac

Declan McCullagh / CNET:

Facebook ends love affair with CISPA cybersecurity bill — Authors of cybersecurity bill criticized for privacy invasions used Facebook's enthusiasm to attract political support in D.C. Now the company's execs have backed away from CISPA. — Facebook once lauded a controversial information …

More: The Verge, AllFacebook, Techdirt, The Next Web and USA RSS

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