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Eric Savitz / The Tech Trade:
Apple Plots Move To Expand iPhone's Market Share — Apple (AAPL) continues to plot new moves in its campaign to conquer the world. — In a research note this morning, Bernstein Research analyst Toni Sacconaghi reports on a meeting he had last week with Apple COO Tim Cook, CFO Peter Oppenheimer and VP of Internet Services Eddy Cue.
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Jay Yarow / SAI: Silicon Alley Insider:
Apple COO Hints At Cheaper iPhone, Saying, We Don't Want To Be For “Just The Rich” — Apple COO Tim Cook strongly suggested we will see a cheaper iPhone in the near future in an interview with Bernstein analyst Toni Sacconaghi. — Cook says Apple is doing “clever things” to attack the prepaid market …
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Eric Slivka / MacRumors Page 2:
New ‘iPad 2’ Image Almost Certainly Fake — Earlier today, BGR posted an image it had received from a source claiming that it was a rear view of the second-generation iPad. The image has of course received a fair bit of traction on Apple-focused sites this morning, but it is almost certainly fake.
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Jonathan S. Geller / BGR:
Is this Apple's next iPad? — We have been sent an image that looks very convincing. A tipster has shot us over what could be — and appears to be — an image of the back of Apple's next generation iPad. The rear-facing camera, redesigned speaker, and flat back with tapered edges are all visible.
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Peter / The Mac Security Blog:
Black Hole RAT is Really No Big Deal — iThreats published information about a new remote administration tool recently, and other sites are presenting this as a serious new threat to the Mac. Actually, this is hardly a threat at all. This tool, BlackHole, is something that needs to be installed on a Mac …
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Naked Security / Sophos:
Mac OS X backdoor Trojan, now in beta?
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Seth Weintraub / Fortune:
Gmail outage passes 24 hours for some (updated)
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Lauren Dugan / mediabistro.com:
Texas Governor Rick Perry Blocks Media from his Twitter Account, Twitter Reacts — In a move that runs counter to the open nature of Twitter, Texas Governor Rick Perry has blocked several members of the Texas media from accessing his Twitter account. — Twitter has been a difficult beast for many politicians to tackle.
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Scott Moritz / TheStreet:
Verizon iPhone Clears 1 Million-Sold Mark — NEW YORK, (TheStreet) — Verizon's(VZ) Apple(AAPL) iPhone sales, while deceptively slow, still managed to fly past the 1 million-sold milepost. — Dan Mead, Verizon Wireless chief, told media outlets this weekend that 60% of the company's iPhone sales were preorders.
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Devindra Hardawar / VentureBeat:
Motorola bringing Atrix-like Webtop docks to all high-end smartphones — Motorola will be bringing its Webtop apps and their corresponding docks to all of its high-end smartphones in the second half of this year, CEO Sanjay Jha told investors today. — That means Motorola's Atrix …
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
How Chris Sacca And J.P. Morgan Acquired 10% Of Twitter Via Huge Secret Secondary Fund — Lots and lots of buzz today in all the major newspapers about how J.P. Morgan is trying to buy 10% or so of Twitter for $450 million. — As far as I can tell, all of the stories are wrong.
Declan McCullagh / CNET News:
Facebook plans to resume address, phone sharing — Despite congressional criticism, Facebook is planning to resume the aborted rollout of a feature that allowed the optional sharing of addresses and mobile phone numbers. — Facebook said in a letter (PDF) released today …
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Josh Halliday / Guardian:
European customs ordered to seize PlayStation shipments in legal dispute — Confiscations ordered after Asian electronics giant LG wins preliminary injunction against Sony in acrimonious patent battle — European customs officers have been ordered to seize shipments of Playstation 3s …
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Leon Erlanger / InfoWorld:
Motorola's big plans to fix Android's security woes — Execs confirm plans to develop APIs for the missing capabilities, letting Android devices match the security level of BlackBerrys and iPhones — It's official: Motorola Mobility execs have confirmed to InfoWorld that the smartphone maker …
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Oliver Chiang / SelectStart:
Facebook Investor Peter Thiel: Palantir Is The Next Facebook Or Google — Who isn't looking for the next big tech company? — For a FORBES magazine story I recently wrote on cyber-security software-maker Palantir Technologies, I spoke with billionaire Facebook investor Peter Thiel …
Seth Weintraub / 9 to 5 Mac:
Apple targets SMBs with JointVenture — Apple laid the first stages of JointVenture out to Apple Retail staff today and as West Coast employees exit the meetings we are getting our first information on the new small business program. JointVenture will be launched on Tuesday and Wednesday this week.
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Richard Lawler / Engadget:
Official DirecTV App for iPad now available, brings touch controls to your satellite box — Apparently that “coming soon” teaser page meant only a few days, as the aptly named DirecTV App for iPad popped up on the iTunes store this morning. The features were pretty well detailed on the website preview …
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Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Khosla Ventures Leads $5.6 Million Funding For MyLikes; Buchheit Joins Board — Khosla Ventures likes social advertising startup MyLikes. The VC firm is leading the startup's $5.6 million Series A financing. Lightspeed Partners also invested and Metamorphic Ventures …
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Nick Bilton / Bits:
Hearst's Manilla Aims to Handle Household Bills — There are many to manage your finances online, but many of them handle only the paying of run-of-the-mill bills. A site starting in beta-test mode on Monday, called Manilla, is aiming for something broader.
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Jennifer Martinez / The Politico:
ICE chief defends website seizures — The director of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency is pushing back against complaints about government seizures of web sites, saying his aim is to protect U.S. industry and not regulate the Internet. — “Often we get the criticism …
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Sean Hollister / Engadget:
HTC Trophy spotted in the wild, sporting Verizon logo — If you had any remaining doubts whether the HTC Trophy would be playing for Team Red, you can leave them at the door — a tipster just sent us a high-res version of the above image, and says it's running the latest version of Windows Phone 7, complete with copy/paste support.
Kit Eaton / Fast Company:
U.S. Army iPhone App Lets Soldiers Blog From Anywhere — The Army, desperate to acquire more recruits, has launched a new iPhone app that embraces both the hot-to-trot social media trend and booming smartphone sales. — According to Army press notes, the new app is a …
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Sean Hollister / Engadget:
AdvanceTC's 4.8-inch tabletphone runs Windows 7 on a 1.6GHz Atom CPU — It may not sound like the most practical combination, but we've got to hand it to AdvanceTC — it's shoehorned telephony into a Windows 7 tablet, fulfilling our dark desire for a spiritual successor to the xpPhone.
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BBC:
London Stock Exchange site shows malicious adverts — The infection kicked off warnings from a fake security program — Booby-trapped adverts that hit visitors with fake security software have been discovered on the London Stock Exchange (LSE) website. — Analysis of the LSE site suggests …
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Ryan Kim / GigaOM:
SocialEyes Taps Facebook Social Graph For Video Chatting — SocialEyes, a new start-up co-founded by RealNetworks chairman Rob Glaser, is launching today at DEMO with the promise of making video chat truly social by leveraging Facebook Connect. The San Francisco company is building …
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Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft Blog:
Microsoft's Windows Intune cloud-management service to go on sale March 23 — Microsoft plans to make its Windows Intune cloud-management service available for trial or purchase on March 23 in 35 countries, company officials disclosed on February 28. — Windows Intune (codenamed “Florida” …
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