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May 6, 2014, 11:45 AM

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Joel Rosenblatt / Bloomberg:

Samsung to Fight Apple Smartphone Trial Verdict: Lawyer — Samsung Electronics Co. (005930) will challenge a jury's $120 million award to Apple Inc. in a patent-infringement verdict that was “unsupported by evidence,” a lawyer for the Suwon, South Korea-based company said.

More: AppleInsider, MacDailyNews and Electronista

Kurt Eichenwald / Vanity Fair:

The Great Smartphone War: Apple vs. Samsung — For three years, Apple and Samsung have clashed on a scale almost unprecedented in business history, their legal war costing more than a billion dollars and spanning four continents. Beginning with the super-secret project that created the iPhone …

More: Business Insider, MacRumors, PhoneArena, Daring Fireball, TechnoBuffalo, The Mac Observer, iDownloadBlog.com, iPhone in Canada Blog, iMore and Fortune

Tweets: @ia, @whatthebit, @wikichen, @thelancearthur, @jamesallworth, @jyarow, @fmanjoo and @lessien

Ina Fried / Re/code:

Apple-Samsung Jury Recalculates Verdict, but Leaves Intact Original $119 Million Award

More: TechEye, Inquirer, Digital Trends, CNET, TUAW, Electronista, VentureBeat, Reuters, IntoMobile, InfoWorld, App Advice, iPhone Hacks, The Mac Observer, MacNN, Cult of Mac and Neowin. Tweets: @josh

Ina Fried / Re/code:

Apple-Samsung Jurors Say Google's Role Intriguing, but Didn't Determine Outcome

More: Wall Street Journal, 9to5Google, iPhone, App Advice, Cult of Mac and AppleInsider

Sean Hollister / The Verge:

Microsoft will hold a ‘small’ Surface event on May 20th — Microsoft has reportedly been working on a miniature version of its Surface tablet for nearly two years, but the wait may be over. The company has just sent out invitations to a Microsoft Surface event on May 20th, with the tagline “Join us for a small gathering.”

Brad Sams / Neowin:

Surface Mini: 8in, ARM, pen support and coming in June — Microsoft's Surface mini has been a bit of an elusive tablet; having been rumored for over a year and then not arriving in the fall when many expected it to show up on retail shelves, we finally have a press event for the new device.

More: ZDNet, PC World, WindowsITPro and PC Pro

Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch:

Google Wallet Is Coming To Glass — Google Wallet is coming to Glass soon. According to a source close to the company, Google is currently testing a way for Glass users to send money to their friends through Wallet by simply using their voices to ask Glass to “send money.”

More: PC Magazine, USA Today, TechHive, Marketing Land, Neowin, Android Central, Glass Almanac, CNET News, SlashGear, 9to5Google, Phandroid, Pocketnow and Android and Me

Reed Albergotti / Wall Street Journal:

After Facebook Deal, Moves App Changes Privacy Policy — Moves, the fitness-tracking app recently acquired by Facebook, has changed its privacy policy to allow broader sharing of user data, including with Facebook. — As recently as Friday, Moves's privacy policy said the company did not …

More: PandoDaily, Guardian, TechSpot, Neowin, BuzzFeed and Constant & Endless

Tweets: @caseynewton and @laurengoode

Larry Seltzer / ZDNet:

Google experimenting with hiding URLs in Chrome — Summary: In an effort to make phishing attacks more evident to the user, Chrome Canary is taking a tip from iOS Safari, emphasizing the domain and hiding the rest of the URL. — Jake Archibald, a “developer advocate” for Chrome at Google …

More: Jake Archibald, Disconnected, VentureBeat, PC World, Geek.com, Mashable, SC Magazine, Ubergizmo, The Register, VentureBreak and Liliputing

Brian Fagioli / BetaNews:

Lenovo announces two new 11.6-inch Chromebooks: the N20 for $279 and the N20p starting at $329 — Lenovo announces N20 and N20p Chromebooks — I think it safe to say that the Chromebook movement has exceeded all expectations. What first seemed like a silly Google experiment has blossomed into a legit Windows threat.

More: Engadget, SlashGear, Mashable, The Verge, TechEye, Computerworld, Electronista, Android Central, ZDNet, Gigaom, LAPTOP Magazine, Re/code and Gizmodo

Reuters:

Twitter shares fall over 10% to all-time low as lock-up period for 470M shares expires — Twitter shares fall as stock lock-up expires — (Reuters) - Shares of Twitter Inc (TWTR.N) fell more than 10 percent in early trading on Tuesday after the expiration of a six-month “lock-up” …

More: Wall Street Journal, Guardian, Re/code, CNBC and Bloomberg

Tim Cushing / Techdirt:

US government begins testing national online ID system in Michigan and Pennsylvania — US Government Begins Rollout Of Its 'Driver's License For The Internet' — An idea the government has been kicking around since 2011 is finally making its debut. Calling this move ill-timed would be the most gracious way of putting it.

More: Engadget, GCN, Ecumenical News, SlashGear and VentureBeat

Tweets: @hornokplease, @scottesposito and @alanbleiweiss

Dan Goodin / Ars Technica:

Infecting DVRs with Bitcoin-mining malware even easier than you suspected — The dialog that appears when users want to manually change the default password on their EPCOM Hikvision S04 DVR. — Sans Institute — It took just one day for a low-end, Internet-connected digital video recorder …

More: SANS ISC

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:

@WalmartLabs Buys Adtech Startup Adchemy, Its Biggest Talent Deal Yet — @WalmartLabs, the retailer's Silicon Valley-based innovation lab and R&D center, has now made its twelfth acquisition with the purchase of e-commerce technology company Adchemy, its biggest deal yet in terms of people.

More: Walmart Labs, Search Engine Land, Re/code, AdExchanger, bizjournals, ZDNet and Wall Street Journal. Tweets: @nicolastorzec

Rene Ritchie / iMore:

Apple is aware of iOS 7 mail attachment bug, working on a fix — A bug has been discovered in iOS 7 that causes email attachments to not be encrypted. Before anyone panics, however, in order for an attacker to exploit the bug they'd need to a) steal your device and, b) …

More: Andreas Kurtz, Globe and Mail, VentureBeat, Daily Mail and iPhone Hacks

Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac:

Security researcher: iOS 7 stores email attachments unencrypted even when data protection is on

Joshua Ho / AnandTech:

Pros and cons of three key materials used to make smartphones: plastic, glass, and metal — A Discussion on Material Choices in Mobile — Within the past four years, the smartphone market has changed drastically. Displays have dramatically increased in quality. Battery life has increased.

More: Gizmodo

Harrison Weber / VentureBeat:

Tumblr rolls out in-app themes, finally becomes a mobile company — What's next in mobile? Find out at MobileBeat, VentureBeat's 7th annual event on the future of mobile, on July 8-9 in San Francisco. Register now and save $400! — “It's not just our mobile app any more. It is Tumblr.”

More: The Verge, Gigaom, 9to5Mac, Gizmodo, iMore, Co.Design, Tumblr Staff, Android Community, Phandroid, Mashable and VBProfiles. Tweets: @pkafka. See also Mediagazer

Larry Dignan / ZDNet:

EMC acquires Flash startup DSSD — Summary: EMC takes out stealth startup DSSD and plans to operate the Flash systems company as a standalone unit. — EMC said Monday that it has acquired DSSD, a stealth Flash storage system provider. — DSSD has developed a rack scale storage tier …

More: Computerworld, VentureBeat, Wall Street Journal, ZDNet, Tech Trader Daily and The Register

Kara Swisher / Re/code:

With Alibaba IPO Filing Set to Arrive Tomorrow, Here's Why It Does Matter to Silicon Valley — As Re/code has reported several times, the sure-to-be-blockbuster IPO filing for China's mega-Internet giant Alibaba Group is now set to drop this week. Sources said that the documents …

More: Quartz, Wall Street Journal, Tech.eu and TechCrunch. Tweets: @dmac1

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