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John Gruber / Daring Fireball:

iOS 7.1 to ship in time for next week's iTunes Festival, will be needed to stream event — iOS 7.1 and the iTunes Festival at SXSW — Apple's first iTunes Festival in the U.S. starts a week from today at SXSW in Austin. Apple is going to stream the performances to iOS devices using an app …

Alexei Oreskovic / Reuters:

Yahoo to stop user access of services with Facebook, Google IDs — (Reuters) - Yahoo Inc will stop letting consumers access its various online services, including Fantasy Sports and photo-sharing site Flickr, by signing-in with their Facebook Inc or Google Inc credentials.

More: Re/code, Engadget, The Verge, ZDNet, The Next Web, Ubergizmo, SlashGear, Electronista and Android Central

Tweets: @amir and @lexnfx

Matt Brian / Engadget:

Hands-on with Apple's CarPlay: when Siri met Ferrari (video) — Apple's in-car infotainment system has been a long time coming. After it was announced at the company's annual WWDC conference in June last year, “iOS in the Car” flew under the radar, only to undergo a rebrand and launch publicly yesterday under a new moniker: CarPlay.

More: iMore, AppleInsider, iMore, 9to5Mac, Global Nerdy, CITEworld, Ubergizmo, iPhone in Canada Blog, iDownloadBlog.com …, Cult of Mac, eWeek, MacRumors, Computerworld, BGR, TechCrunch, Gotta Be Mobile, New York Times, MacStories and Breaking Apple News …. Tweets: @ryan

Tim Stevens / CNET:

2014's battle for dashboard supremacy: Apple's CarPlay vs. Google's OAA vs. MirrorLink — Cars have been getting smarter and smartphone connectivity is better than ever, but 2014 should be a quantum leap forward for smartphone connectivity. Join us as we look at the main contenders.

Alvin Wong / UnleashThePhones:

Video shows setup process for Cortana on leaked build of Windows Phone 8.1 — Exclusive: Cortana Voice Assistant on Windows Phone 8.1 [VIDEO] — Building on the videos showing off various brand-new features in the upcoming Windows Phone 8.1 update that we have brought you …

Dan Goodin / Ars Technica:

Critical crypto bug leaves Linux, hundreds of apps open to eavesdropping — Hundreds of open source packages, including the Red Hat, Ubuntu, and Debian distributions of Linux, are susceptible to attacks that circumvent the most widely used technology to prevent eavesdropping on the Internet …

More: OStatic blogs, The Register, InfoWorld and ZDNet

Tweets: @kiwinerd, @auntysarah, @teamcymru, @jbrodkin, @sirsean and @vowe

Ina Fried / Re/code:

Pitching Security, FreedomPop to Offer Modified Galaxy S II With Encrypted Calling and Texting — With all the attention on the vulnerability of cellphone communications to snooping, a number of players are pitching more secure options. — They range from messaging app Wickr to Silent Circle …

More: TechCrunch, The Next Web, Engadget, Wall Street Journal and SlashGear

IDC:

IDC Expects PC Shipments to Fall by -6% in 2014 and Decline Through 2018 — Worldwide PC shipments fell by -9.8% in 2013, slightly better than a projected decline of -10.1%, but still the most severe contraction on record, according to the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly PC Tracker.

More: CNET, CITEworld, Bloomberg, Reuters, TechCrunch, GeekWire, Business Insider, BGR, Wall Street Journal, Engadget, ZDNet and Tech Trader Daily

Peter Bright / Ars Technica:

Weeks before expiration date, Windows XP still has 29% OS market share — In February we saw the usual small movements in the browser market. More significantly, however, we didn't see any significant movements in the operating system market. For the second month in a row …

More: InfoWorld, SC Magazine, The Register, TechCrunch, BGR, Softpedia News and WMPoweruser

Mark Scott / New York Times:

Steven Ballmer Reflects on Missteps and Ponders the Future of Microsoft — OXFORD, England — A month after stepping down as Microsoft's chief executive, Steven A. Ballmer hasn't lost any of his energy. — In front of a packed crowd at the University of Oxford, Mr. Ballmer hooted …

More: Wall Street Journal, ZDNet, VentureBeat and CNET. Tweets: @pkedrosky

Stacey Higginbotham / Gigaom:

Comcast expands its low-cost internet program to 1.2M people — In hopes of making it's proposed merger with Time Warner Cable sweeter for regulators to swallow, Comcast is extending its low-cost broadband access program and announcing that 300,000 households have signed up.

More: Comcast Voices Blog, CNET, New York Times, Light Reading, Comcast Press Releases, Computerworld, SlashGear, Re/code and The Verge

Russell Brandom / The Verge:

After initial rejection, Cryptocat finally launches on iOS — The encrypted chat app Cryptocat is launching today for iOS, after an initial rejection in December. Previously available as a desktop app and browser plugin, the program uses the OTR model to offer strong encryption and forward secrecy …

More: Cryptocat Blog, Lifehacker, iPhone Hacks, MacRumors and App Advice

Tim Peterson / AdAge:

Yahoo Tests App Install Ads In Hopes of Jump Starting Mobile Business — How to Integrate Social Media Into Your Marketing Strategy … Yahoo hopes to jump-start its mobile ad business the same way Facebook did. — The Sunnyvale, Calif.-based portal has begun testing new mobile ads …

More: Marketing Pilgrim, Business Insider, ExchangeWire.com, Gigaom Research and ReadWrite. Tweets: @mattlynley

Leena Rao / TechCrunch:

Google Capital Pours $50M Into Real Estate Marketplace Auction.com At A $1.2B Valuation — FreedomPop Announces The Privacy Phone, A Fully-Encrypted Smartphone For $10 A Month — Fresh of its public debut last week, Google Capital is putting more money to work this week with the announcement …

More: Wall Street Journal, GeekWire and Re/code

Bloomberg:

Dish's plans for internet TV could cost $20-$30 a month, sources say — Dish Takes Lead in Race to Offer Streaming TV to Rival Cable — In the race to deliver television over the Internet, Charlie Ergen's Dish Network Corp. (DISH) is pulling ahead. — With a groundbreaking agreement yesterday …

More: Gizmodo, Gigaom, Re/code, SlashGear and dailywireless.org …. Tweets: @waltbtig. See also Mediagazer

Terrence O'Brien / Engadget:

Roku's new Streaming Stick works with most TVs, drops price to $50 — When Roku released its first Streaming Stick in late 2012, it was a tough sell. It cost $99 (as much as the highest-end Roku box), only worked with TVs that were certified as “Roku Ready,” and it didn't even ship with a remote.

More: The Official Roku Blog, Business Insider, Re/code, BetaNews, AppleInsider, MacRumors, San Francisco Chronicle, dailywireless.org, Ars Technica, TechCrunch, Gizmodo, Gigaom and The Next Web. See also Mediagazer

Emil Protalinski / The Next Web:

BlackBerry confirms sponsored content in BBM Channels, promises no ads in BBM chats and to respect user privacy — BlackBerry recently started to push sponsored content to some of its external beta testers, but after users started to notice, the Canadian company has decided to set the record straight.

More: Inside BlackBerry, MobileSyrup.com, iPhone in Canada Blog and CrackBerry.com

Parmy Olson / Forbes:

Inside The Facebook-WhatsApp Megadeal: The Courtship, The Secret Meetings, The $19 Billion Poker Game — “Get together?” — The subject line of the e-mail was like every other come-on that hit Jan Koum's in-box in the spring of 2012. He was pounded daily by investors who wanted a piece of his company, WhatsApp.

Tweets: @gerstenzang, @parmy, @sfiegerman, @sarahfrier and @jonfortt. Thanks:@parmy

Matt McGee / Marketing Land:

Twitter shares first “impressions” metrics for Oscars: 3.3B tweets viewed worldwide in 12 hours — Twitter Moves Beyond The Tweet, Shares First “Impressions” Metrics For Oscars — As the race for second screen dominance continues, Twitter is changing how it reports its own TV-related reach.

More: The Twitter Blog, Forbes, The Technology Chronicles, Mashable and PandoDaily. See also Mediagazer

Wall Street Journal:

DocuSign Raises $85 Million at $1.6 Billion Valuation — DocuSign, an electronic-signature software company, has raised $85 million from institutional investors, according to two people briefed on the matter. The fundraising values the company at roughly $1.6 billion, another person briefed on the matter said.

More: Business Wire, Gigaom, PE Hub Blog, VatorNews, Xconomy, Re/code, GeekWire, bizjournals and TechCrunch

The Econonomic Times:

Walmart to expand in e-retailing in India, planning marketplace model akin to Amazon, eBay — NEW DELHI: Months after it put its brick-andmortar expansion plans in India in deep freeze, Walmart Stores is quietly readying a major e-retailing push in India with an electronic marketplace business model akin …

More: TechCrunch, MediaNama and NextBigWhat

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:

Backed By $10 Million, Flyby Messenger Is The First Consumer App To Use Image Recognition Tech From Google's “Project Tango” — Flyby, a new messaging application that lets you share text and recorded videos attached to objects in the real world, is the first consumer-facing app to use …

More: Inside Mobile Apps

Emil Protalinski / The Next Web:

Microsoft rolls out Xbox One March update with improvements to party chat, multiplayer, friends, and more — Following the February update, Microsoft today began rolling out the Xbox One March update, which features “many new features and improvements, most significantly to our party and multiplayer systems.”

More: Xbox Wire, Xbox Live's Major Nelson, WinBeta, gameinformer.com, gameinformer.com, Engadget, CNET, VG247, The Verge, SlashGear and Search Blog

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