Antitrust: Commission seeks feedback on commitments offered by Google to address competition concerns  —  The European Commission invites comments from interested parties on commitments offered by Google in relation to online search and search advertising.  The Commission has concerns …

Exclusive: Verizon eyes $100 billion bid for Vodafone's Wireless stake  —  (Reuters) - Verizon Communications has hired advisers to prepare a possible $100 billion cash and stock bid to take full control of Verizon Wireless from its partner Vodafone, two people familiar with the matter said.

LinkedIn Turns Its Contacts Section Into A Personal Assistant, With Google, Yahoo, Evernote & Outlook Apps Integration And A Standalone iPhone App  —  Make way for another major update to the LinkedIn platform: today the company is relaunching its Contacts section as a smart contact management system …

Strategy Analytics: 3 million Windows tablets shipped in Q1 2013  —  Microsoft may not be talking about how many of its Surface tablets it has shipped or sold since the Surface RT launched in late October.  However, a report claims that three million Windows-based tablets shipped worldwide in the first quarter of 2013.

MacBook Pro declared ‘best performing’ Windows laptop  —  A PC services company placed Apple computers in the No.1 and No. 6 slots as the best performing Windows laptops.  —  The MacBook Pro 13 was rated the best performing Windows laptop.  One of the biggest reasons: ‘every Windows installation on it is clean.’

China court fines Apple $118K for copyright breach  —  Summary: A Beijing court has ordered Apple to compensate three Chinese writers for selling their works via its app store without getting their permission.  —  Kevin Kwang  —  Apple will have to compensate three Chinese writers …

Live from Yahoo! It's Saturday Night!  —  Matt Foley, Motivational Speaker, or Tina Fey as Sarah Palin?  As a lifelong Saturday Night Live fan, it is nearly impossible for me to pick my favorite skit.  And, as a fan, I couldn't be more excited to announce that we have reached an agreement …

IHS: Expect 9.4 million ‘smart’ glasses units shipped by 2016  —  Summary: Are “smart” glasses the new wave of mobile?  Based on the fervor around Google Glass, IHS analysts seem to think so.  —  The pending launch of “smart” glasses as a new mobile category might not just be reserved for Google Glass.

McAfee Patents Technology to Detect and Block Pirated Content  —  For years copyright holders have urged search engines and Internet providers to make it harder for users to access infringing content online.  —  Thus far these efforts have been in vain, but anti-virus vendor McAfee …

Amazon Said to Plan TV Set-Top Box for Streaming Video  —  Amazon.com Inc. (AMZN), the world's largest online retailer, plans to release a television set-top box that would stream video over the Internet into customers' homes, people with knowledge of the matter said.

Data Science of the Facebook World  —  More than a million people have now used our Wolfram|Alpha Personal Analytics for Facebook.  And as part of our latest update, in addition to collecting some anonymized statistics, we launched a Data Donor program that allows people to contribute detailed data to us for research purposes.

MightyText, “The iMessage for Android,” Targets iCloud With New Cross-Device Photo And Video Sync  —  Today, our lives are spread across a growing array of digital devices, from smartphones and laptops to tablets and connected TVs.  While each device tends to perform certain tasks better than others …

Samsung Delays Release of Security Software for Galaxy Phones  —  In February, Samsung Electronics introduced Knox, a version of Android with security features to make the company's phones more suitable for businesses, expected for release this spring.  But the company has delayed the release …

In the Wired World, Feeds Drive Trading  —  When the words “explosions” and “White House” popped up Tuesday on a verified Associated Press Twitter account, computers in the bare-bones offices of a New York City startup sprang into action.  —  The computers, housed in the Madison Avenue headquarters …

iPhone Super-Hacker Comex, Let Go From Apple, Goes To Work For Google  —  A Brief History of Apple Hacking  —  iPhone Super-Hacker Comex, Let Go From Apple, Goes To Work For Google  —  If Apple couldn't appreciate one of the most talented hackers to ever touch its products, perhaps its biggest competitor can.

Solar Chargers Advance in Mobile Device Market  —  WHETHER you're comparing restaurant menus while sitting in the park or turning on the air-conditioner before getting home, life is becoming increasingly mobile thanks to smartphones and tablets.  And with new apps appearing constantly …

Fifth Amendment shields child porn suspect from decrypting hard drives  —  A federal judge refused to compel a Wisconsin suspect to decrypt the contents of several hard drives because doing so would violate the man's Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination.

Amid A Challenging Mobile Transition, Zynga's Revenues Decline 18% To $264M  —  Zynga's revenues for the first quarter of 2013 declined 18% year-over-year to $264 million as the company is in the midst of doing a big pivot onto mobile platforms.  The company swung to a profit from a year ago though, with net income of $4 million.