Jony Ive paints a fresh, yet familiar, look for iOS 7  —  According to multiple people who have either seen or have been briefed on the upcoming iOS 7, the operating system sports a redesigned user-interface that will be attractive to new iOS users, but potentially unsettling for those who are long-accustomed to the platform...

BlackBerry CEO Questions Future of Tablets  —  BlackBerry Focused on ‘Crazy Multi-Taskers’: Heins  —  BlackBerry (BBRY) Chief Executive Officer Thorsten Heins said he sees a limited future for tablet computers, an indication he may shelve plans to build a follow- up to the smartphone maker's ill-fated PlayBook device.

Cern re-creating first web page to revere early ideals  —  A team at the European Organisation for Nuclear Research (Cern) has launched a project to re-create the first web page.

Jack Dorsey Talks Square and Wearable Devices  —  Many technology enthusiasts have had their eye on Glass, Google's monocle that looks like something out of Star Trek.  But the Internet-connected eyewear doesn't really pique the interest of Jack Dorsey, chief executive of the mobile payment system Square and a co-founder of Twitter.

Jawbone Acquires BodyMedia for More Than $100 Million, as Wearable Tech Gets More Intense  —  Looking to gain even more traction in the wearable health and fitness market, Jawbone is snapping up another health product company.  —  The Bay Area-based private company has acquired BodyMedia …

Nokia Invests in High-Resolution Cameras to Woo Apple Customers  —  Nokia Growth Partners, the venture- capital arm of Nokia (NOK1V) Oyj, plans to invest in California startup Pelican Imaging as the phonemaker seeks to win back customers from Apple Inc. (AAPL) and Android devices with cameras …

Fab's 3rd pivot takes on Amazon with physical stores, exclusive products, redesigns, EU expansion  —  Back in December, Fab CEO Jason Goldberg detailed his company's plans to pivot “towards a new model that [it is] not yet ready to reveal publicly.”  Now, following various predictions …

Skype video calling launches for Outlook.com, available in UK today and US in ‘coming weeks’  —  When Microsoft first unveiled its Outlook.com webmail service in July, the software maker promised Skype video calling from the web.  While Outlook.com has seen a number of updates over the months …

Twitter Warns Journalists: “We Believe That These Attacks Will Continue”  —  “Please help us keep your accounts secure,” the urgent memo says.  —  In a memo sent to news organizations, Twitter warns that it expects high profile account hijackings — like the one that took down the AP's Twitter account last week — to continue.

Silicon Valley learning the D.C. art of secret money  —  Google, Microsoft, Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg and other digital heavyweights increasingly are borrowing a favorite technique from the world of politics: secret money.  —  These top tech executives and their companies are embracing stealth …

Microsoft Azure Sales Top $1 Billion Challenging Amazon  —  Microsoft Corp. (MSFT)'s Windows Azure software and related programs have surpassed $1 billion in annual sales for the first time, a sign of progress in the effort to challenge Amazon.com Inc. (AMZN) in cloud computing.

SoftBank digs in on Sprint bid, rules out sweeteners  —  (Reuters) - SoftBank Corp President Masayoshi Son came out swinging on Tuesday against a counteroffer for Sprint Nextel Corp, saying rival bidder Dish Network Corp was ill-prepared to run the wireless carrier and refusing to raise his own $20.1 billion bid.

The irony of the French government's intervention in the Yahoo! - Dailymotion deal...  Last week, my cofounder wrote about how the French government's may potentially be slowing the deal for Yahoo to acquire 75% of Dailymotion (currently 100% owned by Orange).

Handle Is A Priority Engine And Task Management App For Your Inbox  —  Menlo Ventures partner Shawn Carolan searched for over five years to find an investment tackling the problem of email overload.  Carolan, who led investments in Apple-acquired Siri among others, personally faced …

Nielsen Gets Digital to Track Online TV Viewers  —  Nielsen is expected to announce Tuesday that it is testing a tool to measure online viewing of TV shows, the latest step in the company's efforts to improve how it tracks digital audiences.  —  Broadcast and cable networks, including NBC …

Yahoo rolls out six original shows and new TV partnerships  —  Aiming to bring users more content, the company is launching Web shows, starring Ed Helms, John Stamos, and Cheryl Hines, and debuting programming from WWE, ABC News, CNBC, and Conde Nast.  —  Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer is working …

BlackBerry Rises as CEO Sees Q10 Selling Tens of Millions  —  BlackBerry (BBRY), the Canadian smartphone maker, climbed to its highest level in more than a month after Chief Executive Officer Thorsten Heins said he sees sales of its new Q10 device to be in the “tens of millions.”

Under the Hood: The natural language interface of Graph Search  —  Xiao Li is an engineering manager on the natural language team for Graph Search and Maxime Boucher is a research scientist for Graph Search.  —  The Graph Search engine is built upon highly structured datain the form of a graph …

Why your password can't have symbols—or be longer than 16 characters  —  Why are there so many password restrictions to navigate?  Characters want to be free.  —  Daremoshiranai  —  The password creation process on different websites can be a bit like visiting foreign countries with unfamiliar social customs.

AMD's “heterogeneous Uniform Memory Access” coming this year in Kaveri  —  AMD wants to talk about HSA, Heterogeneous Systems Architecture (HSA), its vision for the future of system architectures.  To that end, it held a press conference last week to discuss what it's calling “heterogeneous Uniform Memory Access” (hUMA).

Online Ads Can Now Follow You Home  —  Firms Are Helping Brands Like Expedia Serve Ads to Users Across PCs and Mobile Devices  —  Advertisers already know what people are up to on their personal computers.  But understanding their online whereabouts on smartphones or tablets has remained elusive.

Bang With Friends Is Raising ~ $1 Million To Help People Find Hook Up Buddies  —  Bang with Friends (BWF) is a Facebook app that does exactly what you're thinking it does.  It helps people on Facebook find friends to hook up with rather than date.  —  So it may come as a shock that BWF …

Best Buy will sell its half of European arm to Carphone Warehouse for $775 million  —  As Best Buy attempts a return to financial well-being, it's decided to sell the 50 percent share it still owns in Best Buy Europe to fellow joint venture partner Carphone Warehouse.