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March 27, 2013, 7:20 PM

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Sam Biddle / Gizmodo:

That Internet War Apocalypse Is a Lie — You might've read some headlines today—in very reputable publications—saying that there's an internet attack underway. The biggest in history. Enough to slow down the internet. This would be exciting and scary, except it's just not true.

More: CNN, VentureBeat, SlashGear and The Drum

Tweets: @isaach, @samfbiddle and @felixsalmon

Thanks:@samfbiddle

New York Times:

Firm Is Accused of Sending Spam, and Fight Jams Internet — A squabble between a group fighting spam and a Dutch company that hosts Web sites said to be sending spam has escalated into one of the largest computer attacks on the Internet, causing widespread congestion and jamming crucial infrastructure around the world.

Dave Lee / BBC:

Global internet slows after ‘biggest attack in history’ — The row centres on the blocking of a web-hosting company alleged to be hosting spam websites — The internet around the world has been slowed down in what security experts are describing as the biggest cyber-attack in history.

More: Telegraph, Washington Post, Guardian, Ars Technica, Forbes, ExtremeTech, Mashable, Bloomberg, SlashGear, SiliconANGLE, PC Magazine, Associated Press, CNET, TrustedReviews, The Drum, T3 News, Electronista, GigaOM, Geekosystem, Computerworld, Internet Evolution, The Verge, WebProNews, Neowin and bizjournals. Tweets: @evanw

Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet:

Microsoft's Office ‘Gemini’: Windows Blue's twin — Summary: The Windows team isn't the only one ‘reimagining’ how to build and deliver future versions of its core product. The Office unit is, too. — Windows Blue, Windows Server Blue, Windows Phone Blue, Windows Services Blue.

More: The Register, VentureBeat, Engadget, TechSpot, Neowin, CNET, Softpedia News and MSFTKitchen

Tom Warren / The Verge:

Windows Blue public preview planned for Build developer conference — Microsoft is gearing up to release its first public preview version of Windows Blue at its Build developer conference in late June. Sources familiar with Microsoft's plans have revealed that the company started work on a …

More: Business Wire, BetaNews, TechCrunch, TechSpot, Geek.com, Neowin, Redmond Pie, Los Angeles Times, TechCrunch and WinBeta

Frank X. Shaw / The Official Microsoft Blog:

Looking Back and Springing Ahead — The following is a post from Frank X. Shaw, Corporate Vice President of Corporate Communications at Microsoft. — Last week was the official start of spring here in the Northern Hemisphere. While some folks were out doing “spring cleaning,” …

More: Unity Technologies Blog, NYT Bits, The Windows Blog, The Next Web, Digital Media Wire, SiliconANGLE, Geek News Central, POPSUGAR, LiveSide.net, ITworld.com, BetaNews, HotHardware.com News, Ubergizmo, Windows Phone Daily, digitaltrends.com, Gotta Be Mobile and Mashable. Tweets: @edbott

Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch:

Google Glass Will Be Made In The U.S.A., Report Claims, At An Assembly Facility In Santa Clara — Google Glass, the advanced head-mounted computing project the company is gearing up for a possible launch later this year, will be assembled in the U.S., according to a new report from the Financial Times today.

More: Financial Times, BGR, Mercury News, The Verge, VentureBeat, Betabeat, Engadget, 9to5Google, Business Insider and The Next Web

Ryan Gallagher / Slate:

FBI Pursuing Real-Time Gmail Spying Powers as “Top Priority” for 2013 — For now, law enforcement has trouble monitoring Gmail communications in real time — Despite the pervasiveness of law enforcement surveillance of digital communication, the FBI still has a difficult time monitoring Gmail, Google Voice, and Dropbox in real time.

More: OStatic blogs, DSLreports, WebProNews, Mashable, Gizmodo, Neowin and Motherboard

Ina Fried / AllThingsD:

One in Five BlackBerry 10 Apps Is Really an Android App — One of BlackBerry's key goals is getting developers to write apps designed to take advantage of its all-new operating system. — But, knowing that not all developers are ready to bet on a native app, the company has offered …

More: BGR, Gearburn, DailyTech, TechCrunch, MobileBurn.com, Marketing Pilgrim, FierceMobileContent News, Electronista, The Verge and Softpedia News

Dieter Bohn / The Verge:

Google's Knowledge Graph expands into movies on Android tablets thanks to facial recognition — Not content to let Amazon hold the limelight with its new X-Ray for TV feature unveiled this morning, Google is unveiling a similar feature for movies in the Google Play store.

More: Official Android Blog, TechCrunch, PC Magazine, CNET, The Next Web, 9to5Google, Engadget, The Next Web and IntoMobile. See also Mediagazer

Matt Rosoff / CITEworld:

Bitcoin takes a big step into the mainstream with support from Expensify — Expensify, an online travel-expense tracking service for businesses, will allow reimbursements to be made in Bitcoin, the all-digital currency that is gaining in popularity. It's the first sizeable enterprise business …

More: TechCrunch, VentureBeat, PR Newswire and The Verge

Bloomberg:

Ericsson Said to Discuss Buying TV-Software Unit From Microsoft — Ericsson AB (ERICB) is in talks to buy Microsoft Corp. (MSFT)'s IPTV business, which makes software used by phone companies such as AT&T Inc. (T) to deliver television over the Internet, people with knowledge of the matter said.

More: FierceWireless, TelecompetitorTelecompetitor, GigaOM, CNET, VentureBeat, InvestorPlace, Engadget, Neowin, DailyTech, GeekWire, Electronista, The Verge and ZDNet. See also Mediagazer

Reuters:

Portugal media demands Google pays for news — (Reuters) - Portuguese media companies, struggling through the worst recession since the 1970s, are pressing Google to pay for content on its news search engine, echoing similar demands elsewhere in Europe. — Alberico Fernandes …

More: CNET

Larry Dignan / ZDNet:

Tidemark launches Storylines: Can UI bring analytics, visualization to the masses? — Summary: Tidemark's big bet revolves around a user interface that uses an info graphic style to forecasting and financial reporting. The overall goal is to get all employees invested in the profitability of a company.

More: NYT Bits, Co.Design, GigaOM and TechCrunch

Kevin C. Tofel / GigaOM:

Google Translate for Android adds offline language support — Using Google Translate just became much easier for travelers having a hard time finding internet access while abroad: Google announced the addition of offline language support for the Android application.

More: Engadget, Inside Search, VentureBeat, TrustedReviews, 9to5Google, Gotta Be Mobile, TechCrunch, The Verge, Gizmodo and Electronista

Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch:

Mozilla And Epic Games Bring Unreal Engine 3 To The Web, No Plugin Needed — Back in 2011, Epic ported its popular Unreal Engine 3 technology to Flash and showed how relatively high-end 3D games could run in the browser. It's 2013 now, however, and Flash isn't exactly a hot topic anymore.

More: The Mozilla Blog, The Verge, CNET, Softpedia News, WebProNews and Geek.com

Sebastian Anthony / ExtremeTech:

Researchers create fiber network that operates at 99.7% speed of light, smashes speed and latency records — Researchers at the University of Southampton in England have produced optical fibers that can transfer data at 99.7% of the universe's speed limit: The speed of light.

More: ZDNet and Geekosystem

Agence France Presse:

Apple in court in China over ‘Siri’ claim — SHANGHAI — Apple appeared in a Shanghai court on Wednesday, accused by a Chinese firm of copying software used for the “Siri” personal assistant on its hugely popular iPhones. — The Californian company's products are big sellers in China …

More: ShanghaiDaily.com, The Register, Cult of Mac, iDownloadBlog.com, CNET, MacRumors, IntoMobile, VentureBeat, PhoneArena, Examiner, GigaOM, Quartz, Neowin, iPhone Hacks and 9to5Mac

Edvard Pettersson / Bloomberg:

Apple Seeks New Trial Over Appeal in Samsung Patent Case — Apple Inc. (AAPL) asked to proceed with a new trial on 14 Samsung Electronics (005930) Co. products for which a U.S. judge overturned a jury patent-infringement award rather than letting Samsung appeal her decision upholding damages …

More: FOSS Patents, AllThingsD, CNET, HotHardware.com News, TUAW, Electronista and ZDNet

Shira Ovide / Digits:

Research Firm Boosts Twitter Ad Sales Estimate to $950 Million for 2014 — Twitter Inc. is growing up faster than expected. — Research firm eMarketer Inc., whose advertising forecasts are closely tracked, is set to revise higher its estimates of advertising revenue for Twitter …

More: eMarketer, Forbes, NEWS.com.au, Marketing Land, paidContent, Neowin, AllThingsD, CNET, Business Insider, VatorNews, AllTwitter, Mashable and SiliconBeat. See also Mediagazer

Matt Brian / The Verge:

Thousands of accounts found to host unsecured passwords, photos, and other files on Amazon's cloud — By not setting their cloud storage accounts to private, businesses and developers have been inadvertently allowing unauthorized parties to retrieve sensitive documents, images and other files previously believed to be inaccessible.

More: Help Net Security and Information Security

Janko Roettgers / GigaOM:

Boxee TV gets DLNA, 3-D streaming and more — Boxee is rolling out a firmware update to its Boxee TV that brings DLNA functionality, 3-D streaming of Vudu titles, a more traditional TV guide, improved DVR scheduling and other features to the device. Owners of Boxee TV devices were notified …

More: Geeky-Gadgets, VentureBeat, Mashable, TechCrunch and Engadget

Drew Olanoff / TechCrunch:

Google Maps Beefs Up Its Live Transit Information With Updates For NYC, DC And Salt Lake City — One of the things that's frustrating about Apple's Maps is that you don't get the integrated transit information that's the lifeblood of living in a place like New York City or San Francisco.

More: Google LatLong, The Verge, VatorNews, PC Magazine, Zealous About Great Gadgets, Washington Post, IntoMobile, Android Community, WebProNews, 9to5Google, The Next Web, Softpedia News, Engadget and SlashGear

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:

Samsung Received The Most Mobile Patents In 2012, Now Leads The World Overall — Samsung lost out big to Apple last year in a mobile patent blowout in the U.S., but it's been slowly building up an arsenal of patents that potentially will keep it from falling into the same situation again.

More: AllThingsD, Chetan Sharma, VentureBeat, Datamation.com, Yahoo! News, bizjournals and FierceWireless

Jordan Crook / TechCrunch:

Netflix Goes Sci-Fi With Its Next Original Series, Sense8 — Hot on the heels of Netflix's original series House Of Cards, the company has announced that it will release a new sci-fi TV series to the platform called Sense8. — The show is being developed under the guidance of the Wachowskis …

More: PR Newswire, Engadget, VentureBeat, DSLreports, AllThingsD, Business Insider, VatorNews, The Verge, Betabeat, Geekosystem, Macgasm, Electronista and WebProNews. See also Mediagazer

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