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April 9, 2013, 12:25 PM

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Michael Siliski / Official Android Blog:

A fresh new look for Google Play — Whether you're in the mood to listen to Justin Timberlake's new album, read Harlan Coben's latest bestseller or discover a new game to play, you want the experience of finding and making your purchase to be quick and easy.

More: The Verge, CNET, VentureBeat, ABCNEWS, 9to5Google, Engadget, TechCrunch, Android and Me, Gotta Be Mobile, IntoMobile, Pocketables, Android Police and Droid Life

James Kanter / New York Times:

Europe Receives Complaint About Google's Android — BRUSSELS — European antitrust regulators have received a formal complaint about Google's Android operating system for mobile devices, even as they move to the final stages of their inquiry into the company's search practices.

FairSearch.org:

FairSearch Announces Complaint in EU on Google's Anti-Competitive Mobile Strategy — The coalition issued the following in a release: — FairSearch to EU: Google's Android A ‘Trojan Horse’ to Dominate Mobile Markets — Files Complaint to European Commission On Google's Anti-Competitive Mobile Strategy

More: Ars Technica, Marketing Land, ReadWrite, TechCrunch, BetaNews, Marketing Pilgrim and Washington Post

Chris Velazco / TechCrunch:

Samsung's $399, 16GB Galaxy Note 8.0 Will Launch In The U.S. On April 11 — After showing off the international version of its pint-sized Galaxy Note 8.0 back at Mobile World Congress, Samsung is gearing up to launch its newest Note tablet in the U.S. in just a few days.

More: Business Wire, Engadget, ZDNet, Digital Trends, Ars Technica, ZDNet, GigaOM, The Next Web, Gotta Be Mobile and SlashGear

David Pierce / The Verge:

Samsung Galaxy Note 8.0 review — Killing the ‘tablets are for consumption’ line once and for all — The story of the Samsung Galaxy Note 8.0 really starts with a different device — the Galaxy Note 10.1. Samsung advertised a power-user's dream device: letting you edit documents or draw with a pen …

More: CNET, BGR, 9to5Google, Business Insider, VentureBeat, Engadget, Business Insider, Pocketnow and Softpedia News

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:

Nearly 60K Low-Quality Apps Booted From Google Play Store In February, Points To Increased Spam-Fighting — Google has stepped up its efforts to remove spammy or otherwise non-compliant applications from its mobile application marketplace, Google Play, in recent weeks.

More: BGR, VentureBeat, The Next Web, Mobile Marketing Watch, 9to5Google, Business Insider, AndroidGuys, FierceMobileContent News, Android Community, IntoMobile, Pocketnow, PhoneArena, Forbes and nbcnews.com

Tom Warren / The Verge:

Windows Phone 8 will support 1080p displays by the end of the year — Microsoft is planning to update Windows Phone 8 to support 1080p resolutions. Sources familiar with Microsoft's Windows Phone plans have revealed to The Verge that the company will issue an update later this year …

More: Inquirer, Phones Review, Gotta Be Mobile, My Nokia Blog, WinBeta, Unwired View, PhoneArena, WMPoweruser, Softpedia News and Neowin

Bloomberg:

Microsoft Surface Warranty Criticized in China After Apple Woes — Microsoft Corp. (MSFT)'s after-sales service of its Surface tablet has attracted criticism from China's state-owned radio, following similar reports in the past month targeting Apple Inc. (AAPL)

More: AllThingsD, TechEye, CNET, Neowin and Ubergizmo

David Goldman / CNNMoney.com:

Shodan: The scariest search engine on the Internet — “When people don't see stuff on Google, they think no one can find it. That's not true.” — That's according to John Matherly, creator of Shodan, the scariest search engine on the Internet. — Unlike Google ( GOOG, Fortune 500) …

More: NEWS.com.au, TechPresident and gHacks Technology News

Liz Gannes / AllThingsD:

WhatsApp: We're Not Selling to Google — Popular messaging app WhatsApp says it is not in discussions to sell the company to Google. — Neeraj Arora, WhatsApp's business development head, told AllThingsDigital today that the company is not holding sales talks with Google.

Ernesto / TorrentFreak:

The Pirate Bay Moves to .GL Domain in Anticipation of Domain Seizure — The Pirate Bay switched to a new domain overnight, from the Swedish based .se to Greenland's .gl extension. The move to thepiratebay.gl will be permanent. — A Pirate Bay insider told TorrentFreak that the change …

More: Daily Dot and Softpedia News

Ian Hardy / MobileSyrup.com:

BlackBerry Q10 will be available in Canada on April 30th — BlackBerry is on the cusp of releasing their second BlackBerry 10 device. The Q10 has the iconic design of years past, but updated with the new BlackBerry 10 OS. Many loyal BlackBerry users have been waiting for this physical QWERTY/Touch …

More: CNET, Ars Technica, Engadget, Bloomberg, Financial Post, CrackBerry.com, Softpedia News, CrackBerry.com, BerryReview, Phones Review, PhoneArena, BlackBerry Empire, Electronista and US - DLD

Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:

Spotify Launches Ad Campaign On YouTube — Spotify's digital music service has 24 million users, and 6 million subscribers. But it wants a lot more. — So it's advertising on the Web's most popular music service: Starting tonight, Spotify is running a one-day “takeover” ad on YouTube's homepage …

More: PC Magazine, The Atlantic Wire and memeburn

David Streitfeld / New York Times:

CourseSmart E-Textbooks Track Students' Progress for Teachers — SAN ANTONIO — Several Texas A&M professors know something that generations of teachers could only hope to guess: whether students are reading their textbooks. — They know when students are skipping pages …

More: TechEye and The Atlantic Wire

Mark Hearn / Engadget:

ASUS' 7-inch MeMo Pad now on sale for $150 — Cheap tablets are currently on the rise, but not just low-end hardware from manufacturers that you've probably never heard of — true consumer electronics heavyweights are getting in on the action. Today, ASUS unleashed its $150 MeMo Pad to the frugal masses.

More: Electronista, ZDNet, ZDNet, Softpedia News, Tech on Budget, Android Authority, Android Phone Fans, SlashGear, PhoneArena, Pocket-lint, Android Community and Droid Life

Kim Zetter / Wired:

Secrets of FBI Smartphone Surveillance Tool Revealed in Court Fight — A legal fight over the government's use of a secret surveillance tool has provided new insight into how the controversial tool works and the extent to which Verizon Wireless aided federal agents in using it to track a suspect.

Shalini Ramachandran / Wall Street Journal:

New Threat to Aereo TV — Legal Issues in West, Precipitated by Rival Aereokiller, Cloud Diller's Startup — The TV industry's best hope of shutting down TV startup Aereo Inc. anytime soon could rest, bizarrely enough, on a legal case involving something called Aereokiller LLC.

Ted Greenwald / Adweek:

How Wired Magazine Changed the Way We Talk About Technology — Wired co-founders Jane Metcalfe and Louis Rossetto Photos courtesy of Louis Rossetto — Imagine a time before smartphones. Before laptops. Before Twitter, Facebook, YouTube and even the mighty Google.

Peter Bright / Ars Technica:

Key Lulzsec hackers plead guilty in London courtroom — Topiary, Kayla, tflow, and Ryan Cleary cop to their roles in Anonymous hacks. — Aurich Lawson — LONDON—On the day his trial was due to start, Anonymous member Ryan “kayla” Ackroyd, 26, of Doncaster, UK, entered a guilty plea on one count of …

More: Guardian, BBC, Inquirer and The Verge

Milo Medin / Google Fiber Blog:

Google Fiber's Next Stop: Austin, Texas — We know that your time is valuable and so we've always focused on speed — from search to Gmail, Chrome to Android. Two years ago, we announced that we'd be bringing Google Fiber to Kansas City to show what's possible with super fast Internet access …

More: TechCrunch, The Verge, The Next Web, DSLreports, Austin Startup and VentureBeat

Drew Olanoff / TechCrunch:

Just Six Months After Being Acquired, Twitter's Vine Hits #1 Free Spot On Apple's App Store — Twitter acquired the mini-video-taking app Vine last October before it ever launched, sending everyone into a frenzy about the company getting into the video space. — In late January, Twitter finally launched the app to much applause.

More: AppleInsider, The Verge, The Next Web, VatorNews, memeburn, PhoneArena, The Blog Herald and SocialTimes. Thanks:@fredericl

Damaster / LiveSide.net:

Exclusive: Microsoft account to get two-factor authentication soon — Last month we exclusively reported one of the new security features coming to Microsoft account - enhanced account aliases, aimed to replace the account renaming feature currently in place.

More: BetaNews, CNET, Engadget, The Verge, gHacks Technology News, Electronista and Neowin

Sarah Silbert / Engadget:

Intel announces next-gen Thunderbolt with 20 Gbps throughput, 4K support — Here at NAB, Intel just introduced the next generation of its Thunderbolt interface, which promises a data rate of 20 Gbps in both directions (on each of the two channels) as opposed to 10 Gbps for the previous version.

John Markoff / New York Times:

Tiny Chiplets Are a New Level of Micro Manufacturing — PALO ALTO, Calif. — Under a microscope, four slivers of silicon — electronic circuits called chiplets — perform an elaborate, jerky dance as if controlled by a hidden puppet master. Then on command, they all settle with pinpoint accuracy …

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