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February 23, 2014, 3:10 PM

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Joe Belfiore / Windows Phone Blog:

Scaling Windows Phone, evolving Windows 8 — A lot of you folks know me as “the Windows Phone guy.” Over the past five years I've been co-managing the Windows Phone product team on a mission to make Windows Phone a delightful and successful platform. Recently my job changed to focus …

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Roger Cheng / CNET:

Microsoft announces new Windows Phone partners, teases update to loosen hardware requirements, support software face buttons, dual-SIM, app install on SD — Next Windows Phone update will allow for more affordable devices — Microsoft wants Windows Phone to go global in an even bigger way.

More: CITEworld, The Verge, Electronista and Wpxbox

Tom Warren / The Verge:

Microsoft announces spring update for Windows 8.1 that will improve mouse and keyboard experience, enable lower cost hardware

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Tweets: @mobilenewsmag, @saschasegan, @martyn_williams and @mrseb

Peter Bright / Ars Technica:

Windows Phone 8.1? With the size of these updates, it's more like Windows Phone 9

More: BetaNews and Inquirer

Kevin Fitchard / Gigaom:

Microsoft, Qualcomm offer a Windows Phone design-in-a-box to handset makers

More: CNET, FierceWireless and WMPoweruser

Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch:

Facebook Messenger Coming To Windows Phone Platform Within “Weeks”

More: CNET, SlashGear, I4U News and Engadget

Shalini Ramachandran / Wall Street Journal:

Netflix Agrees to Pay Comcast to End Traffic Jam — Deal Ends Standoff Over Streaming, Would Give Netflix Direct Access to Comcast Systems — Netflix Inc. has agreed to pay Comcast Corp. to ensure Netflix movies and TV shows stream smoothly to Comcast customers, a landmark agreement …

More: PC World, ZDNet, The Verge, Gizmodo, Business Insider and AmongTech

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Richard Lai / Engadget:

Huawei announces TalkBand B1 smart watch with 1.4 inch flexible OLED display and removable earpiece — Huawei's first smartband has a pop-out earpiece for voice calls — Huawei hasn't exactly been keeping quiet about its very own wearable device, so today's announcement of its TalkBand B1 should be no surprise to anyone.

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Andrew Hoyle / CNET:

Huawei Ascend G6 has 4G LTE and a 5-megapixel front-facing camera (hands-on) — Huawei has a new phone to show off at this year's Mobile World Congress in Barcelona in the form of the Ascend G6. With a 5-megapixel front-facing camera, Huawei is hoping the Android phone will appeal …

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Chris Hall / Pocket-lint:

Huawei E5786 is world's fastest MiFi, offering 300Mbps 4G LTE

More: CNET. Tweets: @huaweidevice

Kara Swisher / Re/code:

Facebook Price for Having No Phone OS? $19 Billion. A Must-Have Apps Play? Priceless. — Everyone in a room I was in today dropped their jaws in disbelief when I told them the news that Facebook had forked over $19 billion to buy the global mobile messaging service WhatsApp.

More: The Verge, New Yorker, TechCrunch and Daring Fireball

Tweets: @delrey and @markpinc

Nicholas Carlson / Business Insider:

Facebook's WhatsApp acquisition should atone for a prank Zuckerberg played on Sequoia in 2004

More: I4U News, Guardian and Forbes. Tweets: @chrisjhorn

Jon Russell / The Next Web:

Dominant Asian chat apps Line and WeChat form a credible threat to WhatsApp internationally

Tweets: @jonrussell and @panzer

Yasha Levine / PandoDaily:

The problem with WhatsApp's privacy boasts: They're not true

Tweets: @nikcub

Brad Molen / Engadget:

Samsung Gear 2 smartwatches coming in April with Tizen OS and better battery life — Even in an industry known for evolving at an impossibly quick pace, it's rare for a product to be replaced in just five months. If you've read our review of Samsung's Galaxy Gear smartwatch, however …

Roger Cheng / CNET:

Tizen signs up new allies, but still no real phone

More: Re/code, ZDNet and iMore

Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch:

Mozilla's Partners Launch New Firefox OS Phones As It Looks To Expand To New Markets In 2014 — Just ahead of the start of the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Mozilla today announced a number of new Firefox OS smartphones from partners like ZTE, Huawei and Alcatel, as well as a $25 reference design from Spreadtrum.

More: Computerworld, ReadWrite, The Mozilla Blog, The Verge, The Next Web, Engadget, CNET, Engadget and The Mozilla Blog

Ina Fried / Re/code:

Mozilla Says New Chip Paves Way for $25 Smartphone

More: Ars Technica, BBC, Engadget, EE Times, CNET, Android Central and The Mozilla Blog

Eric Franklin / CNET:

Lenovo tries again with the Yoga Tablet 10 HD+ with improved specs, coming in April for $349 (hands-on) — CNET Editors' Take — The best thing about the Lenovo Yoga Tablet 8 and 10 were their impressively long-lasting batteries. As for performance and value, well let's …

More: PC World, LAPTOP Magazine, The Verge, Engadget, Android Central, SlashGear and Android Community

Alex Colon / Gigaom:

HP unveils business-focused ElitePad and ProPad tablets, TX1 POS system — HP is showing off two new tablets, as well as a new point-of-sale retail system, ahead of Mobile World Congress. Both the ElitePad and ProPad tablets feature Microsoft's Windows 8.1 and 64-bit compatibility for a focus on business …

More: The Verge, Engadget, LAPTOP Magazine, LAPTOP Magazine, PC World, Engadget and ZDNet

Roger Cheng / CNET:

Google, LG working on smartwatch to be unveiled in June — BARCELONA, Spain—Google and LG are about to jump into the smartwatch game together. — Google is set to unveil plans for its smartwatch-centric operating system in March, likely in a blog post, according to a person familiar with its plans.

More: TechCrunch, Digital Trends, 9to5Google, Gizmorati, NDTV Gadgets, SlashGear, Droid Report, I4U News, Pocket-lint, Business Insider, iDownloadBlog.com …, Examiner and TechnoBuffalo. Tweets: @evleaks

Joseph Menn / Reuters:

Apple promises fix “very soon” for Macs with failed encryption — (Reuters) - Apple Inc said on Saturday it would issue a software update “very soon” to cut off the ability of spies and hackers to grab email, financial information and other sensitive data from Mac computers.

More: Gizmodo, SiliconBeat, AppleInsider, iPhone Hacks, ZDNet, Softpedia News, Computerworld, iMore, SlashGear, The Register, PBS, MacRumors, The Register and Wired. Tweets: @grittygrease

John Gruber / Daring Fireball:

On the Timing of iOS's SSL Vulnerability and Apple's ‘Addition’ to the NSA's PRISM Program

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