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Jungah Lee / Bloomberg:
Samsung Preparing Wristwatch as It Races Apple for Sales  —  Samsung Electronics Co. (005930) is developing a wristwatch as Asia's biggest technology company races against Apple Inc. (AAPL) to create a new industry of wearable devices that perform similar tasks as smartphones.
Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch:
Samsung Confirms It Will Build A Smart Watch As Speculation About Apple's iWatch Continues  —  Samsung is indeed working on a smart watch, the company's Executive Vice President of Mobile told Bloomberg in an interview today.  “We are preparing products for the future, and the watch is definitely one of them …
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Brooks Barnes / ArtsBeat:
Funny or Die Makes a Steve Jobs Movie  —  LOS ANGELES — Techies have been keeping a hot eye on dueling Steve Jobs biopics, one an indie starring Ashton Kutcher and the other, written by Aaron Sorkin, in the works at Sony, which made “The Social Network.”  —  But it turns out there was also a joker …
Russell Holly / Geek.com:
Google expected to unify chat under the name Babble … - Home - Apple - Gadgets - Mobile - Games - Chips - - Forums - Shop
Michael Grothaus / Co.Labs:
An In-Depth Comparison Between iOS Map Frameworks: Apple MapKit vs. Google Maps SDK  —  “When we first got sight of Apple's maps in the iOS 6 SDK beta at WWDC 2012, we were excited,” says Lee Armstrong, developer of the popular Plane Finder app, which tracks planes in flight all over the world.
Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet:
Microsoft to push Windows 7 Service Pack 1 to users starting March 19  —  Summary: Microsoft is starting to push Windows 7 SP1 to Windows 7 users via Windows Update, ahead of the early April end-of-support date for the RTM version of the product.  —  As Microsoft marches toward …
Kyle Wiens / Wired:
Forget the Cellphone Fight — We Should Be Allowed to Unlock Everything We Own  —  While Congress is working on legislation to re-legalize cellphone unlocking, let's acknowledge the real issue: The copyright laws that made unlocking illegal in the first place.  Who owns our stuff?
Alexander Limi / Alex Limi:
Checkboxes that kill your product  —  (To read this article with its formatting and typography intact, click here)  —  If I told you that a company is shipping a product to hundreds of millions of users right now, and included in the product are several prominent buttons that will break …
Arik Hesseldahl / AllThingsD:
Slowing China Shipments Push PC Market From Bad to Worse  —  Research firm IDC has published its latest take on the state of the personal computer market, and depending on how you look at it — and where you work — it appears to be a case of going from bad to worse.
David Kravets / Wired:
Feds: No Warrant Needed to Track Your Car With a GPS Device  —  The President Barack Obama administration is claiming that authorities do not need court warrants to affix GPS devices to vehicles to monitor their every move.  —  The administration maintains that position despite …
David Pierce / The Verge:
Meet the tiny, Florida-based phone maker that thinks it can beat Samsung  —  One cheap, high-end, unlocked smartphone at a time  —  Sammy Ohev-Zion starts our chat with an economics lesson.  It costs every company about the same amount to manufacture a phone, he says …
Jake Smith / Pocket-lint:
Google airs ‘New Baby’ Nexus 10 ad, showing off multiple user accounts and available apps  —  Google has aired a new advertisement for its 10-inch Nexus 10 tablet dubbed “New Baby,” focusing in on several of the features Android 4.2 Jelly Bean brings along.  —  The theme of the advertisement …
Nilay Patel / The Verge:
Samsung weird: how a phone launch went from Broadway glitz to sexist mess  —  Surprise!  Corporate influence and ‘Sex and the City’ don't mix well  —  “While the ladies cool off, why don't you tell us about S Health?”  —  That line, uttered with complete sincerity, was the capstone …
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Stephen Shankland / CNET:
RapidShare scraps unlimited storage with short notice  —  Even customers who paid in advance for long-term unlimited storage at RapidShare will see it disappear on March 20.  The company says its terms of service permit such abrupt changes.  —  Online storage provider RapidShare is expanding …
Wall Street Journal:
Liberty Media in Talks to Buy 25% of Charter Communications  —  As a pioneer in the U.S. cable industry, John Malone's hard-nosed deal making earned him the moniker “Darth Vader.”  Now, 14 years after selling a big chunk of his empire to AT&T, Mr. Malone is returning to the fray.
Ken Yeung / The Next Web:
Saleforce's Chatter mobile apps updated to allow access to customer data, easier creation of content  —  Enterprise cloud computing company Salesforce.com has released an update to Chatter, its enterprise-focused social network.  The iOS and Android mobile apps are getting a refresh and …

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Devlin Barrett / New York Times:
Sources: the DOJ issued a subpoena to NYT freelancer Matthew Cole, seeking to force him to reveal his sources about a failed top secret mission in North Korea

Michael Calderone / New York Magazine:
Q&A with Economist EIC Zanny Minton Beddoes on her Elon Musk interview, the move away from de-platforming, the growing visibility of Economist journalists, more

Stephen Council / Business Insider:
Sensor Tower estimate: ChatGPT advertisers grew from around 300 in April to more than 820 in July; retail shopping remains the biggest sector by ad spend

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