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March 5, 2013, 1:25 AM

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Brian X. Chen / NYT Bits:
Samsung's New Smartphone Will Track Eyes to Scroll Pages  —  Samsung's next big smartphone, to be introduced next month, will have a strong focus on software.  A person who has tried the phone, called the Galaxy S IV, described one feature as particularly new and exciting: Eye scrolling.
Aaron Souppouris / The Verge:
Samsung posts first teaser video for Galaxy S 4  —  Samsung has just posted a teaser video for the upcoming launch of its new flagship smartphone, the Galaxy S 4.  The clip shows a young boy, apparently “the secret messenger” of Samsung Unpacked 2013, taking delivery of a secret package.
Ina Fried / AllThingsD:
White House: It's Time to Legalize Cellphone Unlocking  —  The White House on Monday came out in support of a consumer's right to unlock their cell phone once they have fulfilled the terms of the contract.  —  Responding to a petition on whitehouse.gov, the executive branch stated …
Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Fortune:
The rise and fall of Andy Zaky  —  How an Internet-trained Apple analyst lost tens of millions of other peoples' money  —  FORTUNE — In the late 1990s, an ad agency creative director I'll call Joe Smith to protect his privacy bought several hundred shares of Apple (AAPL) at $60 apiece.
More: Business Insider and Daring FireballTweets: @9to5mac and @jlgolsonThanks:@philiped
Sam Byford / The Verge:
Twitter discontinuing iPhone, Android, and Air versions of TweetDeck  —  Twitter has announced that it will be discontinuing several TweetDeck apps in favor of the web client.  The Android, iPhone, and Air-based desktop clients will all be affected; the apps will be removed from their stores in early May …
TechCrunch:
Fitness And Health Tracker Fitbit Is Raising $30M At A $300M-Plus Valuation  —  Fitness technology and hardware startup Fitbit is raising north of $30 million in growth capital at a $300 million-plus valuation, according to multiple sources.  The company last raised $12 million in January 2012 …
Carl Franzen / The Verge:
The Pirate Bay's move to North Korea is probably more satire than fact  —  The Pirate Bay published a blog post today claiming that it has relocated to a “new provider” in North Korea after being invited by the totalitarian country's leadership “to fight our battles from their network.”
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:
Google, Microsoft Dominate Forbes' List Of Tech Billionaires; Zuckerberg, Moskovitz Are The Youngest  —  Forbes has today published its annual list of the world's richest people — and once again tech and its related tentacles continue to lead the top of the list.
Harry McCracken / TIME:
How an 83-Year-Old Inventor Beat the High Cost of 3D Printing  —  If there were an award for Emerging Gadget Most Likely to Change Everything, it might well go to the 3D printer.  These devices, which turn digital blueprints into physical objects made out of plastic or other materials …
Jeff Blagdon / The Verge:
Verizon considering LTE-only phones in 2014 in push to lower subsidies  —  Soon after Verizon transitions to Voice over LTE for ordinary telephone calls around the end of the year, it could start selling phones without CDMA chipsets, reducing costs and associated subsidies, said the company's CFO Fran Shammo.
Kara Swisher / AllThingsD:
Former Top Yahoo Ad Exec Sues Yahoo, Accusing It of Trying to “Cheat” Him Over Acquisition Compensation  —  Michael Katz, a former high-profile advertising exec at Yahoo who sold Interclick to the Silicon Valley Internet giant, has filed a lawsuit claiming the company tried to …
More: Reuters
Donna Tam / CNET:
Facebook adds VoIP to Android messaging app for Canadians  —  Android users — at least those in Canada — can now try out actual voice calls through Facebook thanks to an update to the Messenger app.  —  Facebook's Messenger app for Android will now include free VoIP calls for its Canadian users.
Matthew Panzarino / The Next Web:
Amazon introduces Mobile Ads API, offering in-app advertising to U.S. viewers of any Android app  —  Amazon has today announced its Amazon Mobile Ads API for developers, allowing them to offer display ads inside their apps.  The new program serves in the U.S. only, though …
More: GeekWire
Arik Hesseldahl / AllThingsD:
IBM Makes a Big Bet on OpenStack in the Cloud  —  The open source software for running cloud computing installations just got a big new name in its camp: IBM.  —  Big Blue announced today that all of its cloud services and software will be based on an open cloud architecture.

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