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Seth Weintraub / 9to5Google:

Google Glass tech specs: 5MP/720P camera, 802.11b/g Wifi 16GB storage (12GB usable), full day battery — Along with today's Glass API release, Google now officially announced specs for the Glass Explorer editions. Notable is the camera which will take 5 Megapixel images or 720P video.

More: Gizmodo, VentureBeat, TechCrunch, CNET, Engadget, TechCrunch, The Verge, AnandTech and 1001 Noisy Cameras. Tweets: @fredericl. Thanks:@markgurman

Liam Spradlin / Android Police:

MyGlass App Goes Live In The Play Store, Google Launches Glass Setup Page — It looks like Google is gearing up for the Glass Explorer program, launching the MyGlass companion app and a new Glass setup page, both accessible to the general public. — The companion app relies on Google's now-signature …

More: TechCrunch, Engadget and Gizmodo

Alexis Santos / Engadget:

Google Glass API documentation now live, Glassware sample code provided

More: NEWS.com.au, CNET, 9to5Google, TechCrunch, The Next Web, SlashGear, Google+ and Mashable. Tweets: @grg

Jonathan Stempel / Reuters:

Trader admits fraud in $1 billion Apple stock scheme — (Reuters) - A former Rochdale Securities trader whose unauthorized purchase of about $1 billion of Apple Inc stock caused the demise of the financial services company pleaded guilty on Monday to wire fraud and conspiracy.

More: Associated Press, MacNN, AppleInsider and bizjournals

Bloomberg:

Twitter Said to Seek Deals With Viacom, NBC to Feature TV Online — Twitter Inc. is close to reaching partnerships with television networks that would bring more high-quality video content and advertising to the social site, according to people familiar with the matter.

More: TechCrunch, CNET, Engadget, Gizmodo and The Verge. See also Mediagazer

Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac:

Apple says small number of Apple TVs have WiFi issues, opens replacement program — Apple has informed its official retail stores, AppleCare employees, and authorized resellers that a small number of third-generation Apple TV units have WiFi issues. These issues surround not being able …

More: iPhone in Canada Blog, iDownloadBlog.com, The Verge, MacRumors, Macgasm and MacNN

Janko Roettgers / GigaOM:

Comcast confirms: Yes, we're encrypting basic cable now — Comcast customers, get ready for yet another TV transition: The cable provider has started to alert its customers in some markets that it is about to encrypt their basic cable signals, forcing them to order a digital adapter …

More: The Droid Guy, PC Magazine, The Verge, Engadget, Electronista and Gizmodo

Ina Fried / AllThingsD:

SoftBank Says Still Hopes to Complete Sprint Deal By July — Japan's SoftBank said Tuesday that it still expects to complete its deal by July to acquire a controlling interest in Sprint Nextel. — SoftBank's statement comes despite a rival $25.5 billion bid for Sprint coming from Dish Network.

More: CNET, The Verge, Digits and Reuters. See also Mediagazer

Wall Street Journal:

Dish Launches $25.5 Billion Bid for Sprint

Bryan Bishop / The Verge:

Netflix plans its move from Microsoft Silverlight to HTML5 video — Last month Google announced that Netflix was now available on ARM-based Samsung Chromebooks thanks to the use of HTML5 video — and now the streaming service has outlined its larger plans to eventually move to the format for all computers.

More: The Netflix Tech Blog, Engadget, VentureBeat, Neowin, CNET, Gizmodo, SlashGear, GeekWire and TechCrunch

Jennifer Warnick / Microsoft:

How Microsoft Quietly Built the City of the Future — A small, covert team of engineers at Microsoft cast aside suggestions that the company spend US$60 million to turn its 500-acre headquarters into a smart campus to achieve energy savings and other efficiency gains.

More: The Verge, The Next Web, MSDN Blogs, Gizmodo, WinBeta, Neowin and TechNet Blogs

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Bloomberg:

Apple Dominates Best-Paid as Board Retains Jobs Deputies — Four of the five highest-paid employees at Standard & Poor's 500 companies aren't chief executive officers. They're Apple Inc. (AAPL) senior lieutenants receiving compensation packages designed to keep management intact in an increasingly competitive industry.

More: Business Insider, AppleInsider, Los Angeles Times, The Register, PC Magazine, TechSpot, bizjournals, PadGadget, iDownloadBlog.com, PhoneArena, Cult of Mac and TUAW

John Paczkowski / AllThingsD:

Meet Xiaomi, the Biggest Smartphone Company You've Never Heard Of — Xiaomi may not be the biggest smartphone company in China, but it's probably the fastest-growing. And if you haven't yet heard of it, you will soon. Xiaomi sold 7.19 million handsets in 2012, and expects to sell double that number this year.

More: Engadget, The Droid Guy, CNET and GigaOM

Jay Alabaster / PC World:

Sony ISP launches world's fastest home Internet, 2Gbps — A Sony-backed ISP in Japan has launched a 2Gbps Internet service, which it said is the world's fastest for home use. — So-net Entertainment began offering its “Nuro” fiber-based service on Monday to homes, apartments …

More: The Verge, ZDNet, BGR and Mashable

Adi Robertson / The Verge:

YouTube adds support for live streaming on iOS with latest update — When Coachella streamed its concerts on YouTube this weekend, iOS users may have been disappointed to discover that the YouTube app didn't support live broadcasts. Now, Google is adding live event streaming to iOS, albeit a little late.

More: Engadget, IntoMobile, iMore, Pocket-lint, Gotta Be Mobile, PhoneArena, Ubergizmo, MacRumors, The Next Web, MacNN, AppleInsider, TUAW and WebProNews

John Paczkowski / AllThingsD:

Mozilla Will Debut Firefox OS in Five Countries in June — Mozilla, the nonprofit foundation behind the Firefox browser, is bringing its engineering acumen to bear on a new mobile operating system, Firefox OS. And it plans to debut this year. — But when exactly does the company plan to launch it?

More: Business Insider, ABCNEWS, CNET, AllThingsD, ZDNet, Engadget and Neowin

David Carr / New York Times:

More Cracks in Television's Business Model — For the longest time in the media business, the concept of the bundle has been foundational. Ads go with editorial content in print, commercials go with programming on television and the channels you desire are paired with ones you did not in your cable package.

Tweets: @laurenlacapra

Agence France Presse:

Taiwan probes Samsung ‘dirty tricks’ vs HTC' — TAIPEI — Taiwanese authorities said Monday they had launched an investigation into allegations that South Korean tech giant Samsung hired students to post malicious comments about local rival HTC online. — “The case was set up last week …

More: TechCrunch, The Verge, CNET, Ubergizmo and PhoneArena

Lorraine Luk / Wall Street Journal:

Foxconn Steps Up Hiring As Apple Readies New iPhone — TAIPEI—Foxconn Technology Group has resumed hiring assembly-line workers in China after a postholiday freeze, in the latest sign that major customer Apple Inc. is gearing up for production of the new iPhone.

Harrison Weber / The Next Web:

The Internet Archive Aggressively Expands Its Software Collection, Now the Largest of Its Kind Online — Because the Web was created in such a rapid and decentralized manner, the history of the Internet could have been lost completely, had it not been for organizations like the Internet Archive.

More: TUAW, VentureBeat, Engadget, Computerworld and Inquirer

Jennifer Martinez / Hillicon Valley:

IBM executives head to Washington to press lawmakers on cybersecurity bill — Nearly 200 senior IBM executives are flying into Washington to press for the passage of a controversial cybersecurity bill that will come up for a vote in the House this week. — The IBM executives will pound …

More: Techdirt, GamePolitics blogs, Daily Dot and Fierce Enterprise …

Derrick Harris / GigaOM:

Gracenote co-founder on ‘iPod day’ and better music through data — It was April 2000 when the team at Gracenote got a call from Apple that would change its business forever. Apple wouldn't give Gracenote any specifics, but it did offer up some prescient advice: “You need to buy more servers.”

The Official BitTorrent Blog:

BitTorrent Surf Beta Launches Today On Chrome And Firefox — In early January, we launched an Alpha of BitTorrent Surf, a Chrome plugin that brings BitTorrent to your browser. — Today, we're ready to catch bigger waves. Yep. Puns. We went there. With big thanks and props to our Alpha users …

More: addons.mozilla.org, PC Magazine, TechCrunch, Gizmodo and hypebot

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