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April 16, 2013, 2:15 PM

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Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:

Facebook's Chat Heads Come to iPhones, iPad With App Update — You can't get Facebook Home on iPhone. But very soon you'll be able to get one of the most buzzed-about features from Facebook's new mobile software set: “Chat Heads” are coming to iOS devices, via a Facebook app update.

More: Tech Europe, Bloomberg, The Verge, Digital Trends, VentureBeat, MacRumors, Ars Technica, Engadget, Gizmodo, TechCrunch, SlashGear, IntoMobile, iDownloadBlog.com, FierceMobileContent News, Electronista and CNET

Tweets: @panzer and @sharonvak

Dieter Bohn / The Verge:

Facebook 6.0 for iPad and iPhone: hands-on with Chat Heads, stickers, and more — Perhaps you hadn't noticed, but we're in the midst of a fairly remarkable blitz of Facebook releases on mobile. The company announced Facebook Home and the HTC First and then (in a pattern that's all-too-rare) released both about a week later.

More: Facebook Newsroom, AllFacebook, CNET, CNET, 9to5Mac, iPhone Hacks, everythingiCafe and iDownloadBlog.com

Chris Ziegler / The Verge:

Facebook Home available outside US later today, first update coming ‘second week of May’ — On stage at AllThingsD's Dive Into Mobile conference today, Cory Ondrejka, head of mobile engineering at Facebook, announced that the first update to Facebook Home for Android will be released in “the second week of May.”

More: TechCrunch, Engadget, Phones Review and Softpedia News

Sean Ludwig / VentureBeat:

Google chairman Eric Schmidt on Facebook Home: ‘I love it’ — July 9-10, 2013 — NEW YORK CITY — Facebook Home takes away part of the Android experience in favor of social networking. But outspoken Google chairman Eric Schmidt said today at the Dive into Mobile conference …

More: Engadget, TechCrunch, GigaOM, SiliconANGLE, AllThingsD, 9to5Google, The Verge and CNET

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: BGR, Examiner, ZDNet, Marketing Land, TechCrunch, Guardian, LAPTOP Magazine, Computerworld, Ars Technica, CNET, DSLreports, PetaPixel, Engadget, Search Engine Roundtable, Mashable, Gizmodo, Pocket-lint, newlaunches.com, Business Insider, BetaNews, Gearburn, Electronista, WebProNews, TechEye and Inquirer. Thanks:@markgurman

Jeff Blagdon / The Verge:

Google Glass developers prohibited from using ads or charging for apps

More: CNET, Business Insider, PC Magazine, Geek.com, Mashable, The Next Web, Zef.me, Business Insider and SlashGear

Liam Spradlin / Android Police:

MyGlass App Goes Live In The Play Store, Google Launches Glass Setup Page

More: Examiner

Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet:

Microsoft's Windows 8 Plan B(lue): Bring back the Start button, boot to desktop — Summary: Microsoft may be moving toward bringing back the Start Button and allowing users to boot straight to the desktop with its coming Windows 8.1 release later this year.

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Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:

Google's Next Group of Gadgets Will Blow You Away, Says Eric Schmidt — Google chairman Eric Schmidt is spending a lot of time on the road right now — he's got a new book to promote — but he has popped into Google's Motorola unit to see what the phone company is working up. — It's amazing stuff, he promises.

More: Computerworld, Guardian, Engadget, CNET, Betabeat, ABCNEWS, BGR, ZDNet, Business Insider, The Verge, TechCrunch, Neowin, Android and Me, FierceWireless, Phones Review and MobileSyrup.com

Sascha Segan / PC Magazine:

Motorola Plans Stock Android Phones, Sized ‘Just Right’

More: The Verge. Thanks:@saschasegan

Cotton Delo / AdAge:

Facebook Seeks 7-Figure Price Tag for Summer Debut of Video Ads — TV-Like Ads Can Be Bought for Four Broad Demographic Swaths — Facebook is hoping that its hotly anticipated video-ad units can be a more-than-$4-million daily business out of the gate — if its asking price is met.

More: Engadget, Betabeat, CNET, AllFacebook, VentureBeat, ReelSEO Video Marketing, Business Insider, The Verge, Electronista and Ubergizmo

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: AllThingsD, VatorNews, GigaOM, TechHive, VentureBeat, Marketing Land, Business Insider, CNET, TechCrunch, Digital Trends, SocialTimes and SlashGear. See also Mediagazer

Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch:

WhatsApp “Bigger Than Twitter” With Over 200M Monthly Active Users, 8B Inbound And 12B Outbound Messages Daily — WhatsApp CEO Jan Koum was on stage today at the AllThingsD Dive Into Mobile conference in New York City, where he said that the app is now larger than Twitter by monthly active users.

More: AllThingsD, GigaOM, CNET, VentureBeat, CNET and memeburn

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:

Mailbox Drops Its Reservation System As It Revamps To Handle 100M Messages/Day — Mailbox, the email-reading and organizing app that was scooped up by Dropbox for reportedly $100 million in March after a barnstorming entry to the market, is dropping its reservation system …

More: The Next Web, iMore, GigaOM, The Verge, Macworld and Lifehacker

Richard Lawler / Engadget:

AT&T's Galaxy S 4 page lists April 30th ship date, $199 / $639 price for 16GB — We saw AT&T open up a registration page for the Galaxy S 4 almost as soon as Samsung's presentation was over, but now that link is exposing a bit more information. Several tipsters let us know that for customers …

More: Examiner, CNET, BGR, TechHive, Mashable, IntoMobile, BetaNews, Pocketnow, Digital Trends, The Verge, The Next Web, TechCrunch, Phone Scoop, PhoneArena and Sammy Hub

Mike Isaac / AllThingsD:

Snapchat Now Boasts More Than 150 Million Photos Taken Daily — Snapchat, the wildly popular messaging service that lets users send self-deleting photos to one another, has exploded in volume over the past few months, now moving upward of 150 million photos through the service on a daily basis.

More: GigaOM, Betabeat, TechCrunch, PC Magazine, VentureBeat, ABCNEWS, The Verge, Washington Post and WebProNews

Alex Sherman / Bloomberg:

Time Warner Cable to Offer Live Mobile TV for Apple Devices — Time Warner Cable Inc., the second- largest U.S. cable operator, is adding live out-of-home programming for the first time to its TWC TV application, letting customers watch shows on Apple Inc. (AAPL) mobile devices.

More: 9to5Mac, Engadget, CNET, Business Insider, iDownloadBlog.com and dailywireless.org

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: CNET, Macworld, Ars Technica, MacRumors, iLounge and App Advice

Kara Swisher / AllThingsD:

Windows Phone Head Myerson: Android “Still Kind of a Mess” — In an interview at the D: Dive Into Mobile conference today, the leader of Microsoft's Windows Phone division, Terry Myerson, said that the software giant's mobile effort continued to cast it as a “challenger,” but that Google's Android market was “still kind of a mess.”

More: The Next Web, Business Insider, TechCrunch, Engadget, Digital Trends, GeekWire, Bloomberg, CNET, The Verge and FierceWireless

Matthew Panzarino / The Next Web:

Tweetie and ‘pull-to-refresh’ creator Loren Brichter working with Facebook Home team — According to a tweet from Facebook's Mike Matas this morning, the company's new social home screen project has gained itself a hot collaborator. Matas says that developer and designer Loren Brichter is ‘helping out’ his Facebook Home team.

More: BuzzFeed, Business Insider, TUAW and Gizmodo. Tweets: @mike_matas

Emil Protalinski / The Next Web:

Outlook.com for Android gets revamped interface, adds conversation threading, filters, and more — Microsoft on Tuesday announced it has updated its Outlook.com app for Android with a revamped user interface and a few new features. You can download the latest version of the app now from Google Play.

More: The Microsoft Office Blog, LiveSide.net, TechCrunch, ZDNet, Engadget, The Verge, Softpedia News, Neowin and WinBeta

NPD Group:

Screen Mirroring Awareness Reaches 40 Percent of Smartphone and Tablet Owners, According to The NPD Group — Apple's AirPlay is the most well-known — Screen mirroring technologies, which gives consumers the ability to wirelessly project content from smartphones, PCs or tablets directly to a television …

More: blog.chron.com

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: SiliconANGLE, Wall Street Journal, Tech Trader Daily, Reuters, FierceWireless, CNET and The Verge

Graham Cluley / Naked Security:

Syrian Electronic Army hacks NPR, vandalizes headlines — The Syrian Electronic Army appears to have hacked into accounts belonging to the NPR media network, and defaced news stories overnight. — A Google search for the phrase “Syrian Electronic Army Was Here” reveals some evidence of webpages that were hit in the attack.

More: NPR, Ars Technica, VentureBeat, The Verge, Poynter, Daily Dot, Softpedia News and TechPresident. See also Mediagazer

Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch:

Google: Mobile Web Access Speeds Increased 30% Over The Last 12 Months — Mobile browsing got significantly faster over the last 12 months, according to a new report from Google, and the average page load times on mobile are now comparable to desktop page load times.

More: 9to5Google, memeburn and Marketing Pilgrim

Martin Bryant / The Next Web:

Twitter cuts off another payment service: Flattr is told to stop tying Favorites to money — Just days after Ribbon was forced to withdraw the ability to make payments within tweets, Twitter has moved to stymie another startup's ambitions to monetize its platform.

More: Flattr Blog, VentureBeat, GigaOM, The Awl, Evolver.fm and ArcticStartup

Gregory Ferenstein / TechCrunch:

Details Of Immigration Bill Revealed, More High-Skilled Visas And Employer Fees — New details of the highly anticipated comprehensive immigration reform bill have leaked ahead of its introduction to Congress on Tuesday (April 16). Most of the technology industry will be pleased …

More: Politico and The Verge

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