screwball crevice: February 2013

Wednesday, February 27, 2013

Ronaldo leads Madrid past Barca to make Copa final

Real's Cristiano Ronaldo from Portugal, from left, Alvaro Arbeloa and Sergio Ramos celebrate after scoring during a Copa del Rey soccer match between FC Barcelona and Real Madrid at the Camp Nou stadium in Barcelona, Spain, Tuesday, Feb. 26, 2013. (AP Photo/Manu Fernandez)

Barcelona's Lionel Messi, from Argentina, left, escapes Real Madrid's Gonzalo Higuain, also from Argentina, during the Copa del Rey soccer match between FC Barcelona and Real Madrid in Barcelona, Spain, Tuesday, Feb. 26, 2013. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)

El jugador del Barcelona, Jordi Alba, se tapa el rostro en un partido contra el Real Madrid por las semifinales de la Copa del Rey el martes, 26 de febrero de 2013, en Barcelona. (AP Photo/Manu Fernandez)

El jugador del Real Madrid, Cristiano Ronaldo, festeja un gol contra el Barcelona en las semifinales de la Copa del Rey el martes, 26 de febrero de 2013, en Barcelona. (AP Photo/Manu Fernandez)

BARCELONA, Spain (AP) ? Cristiano Ronaldo got the better of Lionel Messi on Tuesday, scoring twice to lead Real Madrid to a 3-1 win at Barcelona and a spot in the Copa del Rey final.

After salvaging a 1-1 draw in the first leg, Madrid neutralized Barcelona's passing game and counterattacked to perfection at the Camp Nou to hand its archrival its first home loss in any competition since last April.

"We played a great game," Ronaldo said. "We faced the game with a serious attitude, played better and scored three goals, which is tough to do."

It was also a second straight cup setback for the Catalan club, which is running away with the Spanish league but lost 2-0 at AC Milan in the first leg of its Champions League last-16 matchup.

While Messi had a quiet night, Ronaldo scored for a sixth straight visit to Camp Nou when he earned and converted a penalty in the 13th minute. Ronaldo hit again on the break in the 57th before Raphael Varane got his second goal of the series in the 68th to turn a convincing win into a rout.

Defender Jordi Alba scored late for Barcelona, but it was much too late to prevent Madrid from advancing 4-2 on aggregate. Madrid will play either Atletico Madrid or Sevilla in the Copa del Rey final on May 18.

After struggling in his first encounters with Barcelona, Ronaldo has become a nemesis for the Catalan club by scoring goals that have directly contributed to them losing titles the past three seasons.

Besides ending Barcelona's cup defense this campaign, Ronaldo scored here to dethrone Barcelona as league champions last season ? after also netting the winning header against Barcelona in the 2011 cup final.

"Ronaldo is our reference. He's vital for us," said Madrid captain Iker Casillas, who in a rare move spoke in place of coach Jose Mourinho, even though the goalkeeper sat out because of a broken hand. "He has shown how good he is not just today but in other 'clasico' matches. He is on a great run right now and we have to try and get the most out of it."

While Ronaldo put on one of his most memorable performances since joining Madrid, Messi couldn't keep up as the opposing defense again surrounded him and his teammates never picked up the slack.

A victory in the cup for Madrid would go some way toward salvaging what could be Jose Mourinho's last season with the club, after seeing its defense of the Spanish league title stutter and crumble.

With another "clasico" looming on Saturday at Madrid in the league, that title is firmly in Barcelona's grasp as it has a 12-point lead in the standings, with Mourinho's team another four points back.

That means Madrid can turn its attention to next Tuesday's Champions League match at Manchester United, following a 1-1 home draw in the first leg of their last-16 series.

Since being thrashed 5-0 in his first game in charge of Madrid in 2010, Mourinho has a record of four wins, six draws and six losses against Barcelona. And Madrid has come a long way with only one loss in their last seven contests.

For Barcelona, it was their worst defeat at the hands of its fierce rival since losing 4-1 in the Santiago Bernabeu in 2008.

The two cup losses also indicate that Barcelona is sorely missing coach Tito Vilanova, who is still undergoing treatment in New York after having a second tumor in two years removed from his throat in December.

Barcelona, which was again led by assistant coach Jordi Roura, has five wins, three draws and three losses since mid-January.

"This is a hard loss to accept but we have to pick ourselves up quickly," Barcelona midfielder Cesc Fabregas said. "We had our chances but they get out on the break so easily and we left too many spaces open. We need to learn from our mistakes (and) remember that we still have two titles to fight for."

Associated Press

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Egypt: Hot Air Balloon Crashes Near Luxor, Killing 19 Tourists

CAIRO, Feb 26 (Reuters) - A hot air balloon crashed near the Egyptian town of Luxor on Tuesday, killing 19 tourists who were aboard, a spokesman for companies that operate balloon flights in the area told Reuters.
Ahmed Aboud added that one tourist and the balloon pilot had survived the accident, which happened after a gas explosion at 1,000 feet (300 metres). He said the tourists were from a variety of countries but did not immediately have information on their nationalities.
"There were 20 passengers aboard. An explosion happened and 19 passengers died. One tourist and the pilot survived," he said by telephone. Aboud is the representative of eight companies that operate balloons in Luxor. (Reporting by Tom Perry; editing by David Stamp)

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Tuesday, February 26, 2013

'Argo' Wins Best Picture Oscar

Ben Affleck gets his Academy Award as a producer on the CIA thriller.
By Amy Wilkinson

Ben Affleck at the 2013 Oscars
Photo: Christopher Polk/ Getty Images

Source: http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1702527/ben-affleck-oscars-argo-best-picture.jhtml

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Stocks decline as investors follow Italian vote

Trader Thomas McCauley, center, works on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange Monday, Feb. 25, 2013. Stocks are opening higher on Wall Street, following the first weekly decline in the S&P 500 index this year. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)

Trader Peter Costa, center, works on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange Monday, Feb. 25, 2013. Stocks are opening higher on Wall Street, following the first weekly decline in the S&P 500 index this year. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)

Specialist Robert Canzani, right, works at his post on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange Monday, Feb. 25, 2013. Stocks are opening higher on Wall Street, following the first weekly decline in the S&P 500 index this year. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)

NEW YORK (AP) ? Stocks turned lower Monday following signs that Italy could be headed for political gridlock, potentially undermining the country's efforts to reform its economy and rekindling the region's debt crisis.

The Dow Jones industrial average was down 74 points, or 0.5 percent, to 13,926 as of 2:18 p.m. EST. The Standard & Poor's 500 fell 10 points, or 0.7 percent, to 1,505 and the Nasdaq composite dropped 14 points, or 0.4 percent, to 3,148.

Stocks had rallied in the early going as exit polls showed that a center-left coalition in Italy that favored economic reforms in the euro region's third-largest economy was leading in the polls. That gain evaporated after another poll showed that the elections could result in a stalemate in the country's legislature.

"The Italian elections have implications for the credit markets," said Quincy Krosby, market strategist at Prudential. "The ultimate worry is that the credit markets start reacting."

Investors sold Italian government bonds and erased most of an early rally in Italy's stock market as the camp led by former premier Silvio Berlusconi appeared more likely to take control of Italy's Senate, threatening the country's reform efforts.

The yield on Italy's 10-year government bond edged up to 4.43 percent from 4.40 percent. The country's benchmark stock index, the FSTE MIB, rose 0.7 percent, giving up an early gain of 4 percent.

Investors worry about the outcome of Italy's election because it could set off another crisis of confidence in the region's shared currency, the euro. Financial markets in both Europe and the U.S. have swooned at the prospect of Italy or Spain being dragged into the region's government debt troubles, which have led to bailouts of Greece, Ireland and Portugal.

On the New York Stock Exchange, Barnes & Noble rose $1.39, or 10 percent, to $14.90 after founder and chairman Leonard Riggio told the bookseller he is going to try to buy the company's retail business. Hertz advanced $1.12 to $19.85, despite posting a fourth-quarter loss, after the rental car company said that pricing improved, volume rose and it cut costs.

The Standard & Poor's 500 had its first weekly decline of the year last week. Investors sent stocks plunging after minutes from the Federal Reserve's latest policy meeting revealed disagreement over how long to keep buying bonds in an effort to boost the economy.

Fed chairman Ben Bernanke will testify before the U.S. Senate's banking committee Tuesday and again before Congress on Wednesday. Investors will watch to see if he gives any further indications about how long the central bank intends to keep providing stimulus to the economy.

Several reports about consumer confidence and the housing market, scheduled to be published Tuesday, will give investors more information about the state of the economy. Optimism that the housing market is maintaining its recovery have helped underpin a rally in stocks this year.

Many analysts say the Fed's bond-buying program and the resulting low interest rates have been a big driver behind this year's stock rally. The Dow has gained 6.3 percent this year and the S&P 500 5.6 percent, pushing both near record levels. The Dow's record close is 14,164, reaching in October 2007 and the S&P closed as high as 1,565 in the same month.

European stocks also advanced, but gave back much of their early gains. Benchmark indexes rose 0.4 percent in France, 1.5 percent in Germany and 0.8 percent in Spain. Britain's index was up just 0.3 percent after Moody's stripped the country late Friday of its triple-A credit rating.

The yield on the U.S. 10-year Treasury note, which moves inversely to its price, fell five basis points to 1.91 percent.

Among other stocks making big moves:

? Southwestern Energy rose 51 cents to $34 after Goldman Sachs added the company to its conviction buy list, saying that the company's shale returns are poised to improve.

? Drugmaker Affymax plunged $14, or 85 percent, to $2.49 after the company recalled its anemia drug following severe allergic reactions and the deaths of some kidney dialysis patients.

?Mead Johnson fell $2.60 to $76.33 after the company said that a new regulation in Hong Kong could affect the company's sales there as well as in mainland China.

Associated Press

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PRESS DIGEST - Wall Street Journal - Jan 26

Feb 26 (Reuters) - The following are the top stories in the

Wall Street Journal. Reuters has not verified these stories and

does not vouch for their accuracy.

* Former Goldman Sachs Group Inc director Rajat Gupta

will have to reimburse the investment bank for more than $6.2

million in legal fees and expenses it paid in connection with

his insider-trading case, a federal judge ruled on Monday.

* Next week, lawyers for Barclays Plc, Royal Bank

of Scotland Group, UBS AG and more than a

dozen other banks still under investigation are expected to ask

a federal-court judge to throw more than 30 lawsuits filed by

borrowers, lenders and other plaintiffs, which seek class-action

status.

* The Deepwater Horizon trial began on Monday with a flurry

of finger pointing, as lawyers for BP Plc, Transocean Ltd

, Halliburton Co, the U.S. federal government,

Gulf Coast states and local businesses traded barbs over who is

to blame for the deadly 2010 explosion and oil spill.

* Hewlett-Packard Co's board is investigating the

company's flawed $11 billion acquisition of software firm

Autonomy Corp Ltd, and has set up an informal

committee to provide strategic advice to Chief Executive Meg

Whitman.

* India's tax authorities are seeking billions of dollars

from some of the world's biggest multinational companies, such

as Royal Dutch Shell Plc and Vodafone Group Plc

saying that they haven't properly valued transactions with their

Indian subsidiaries.

* Faced with public anger over immigration and high living

costs, the Singapore government announced tighter curbs on the

growth of its foreign workforce, pressuring businesses to cut

their reliance on overseas labor and boost citizens' wages.

* Swedish furniture giant IKEA was drawn into

Europe's growing horse-meat scandal after food inspectors in the

Czech Republic found traces of horse meat in a batch of IKEA's

signature meatballs.

* Samsung Electronics Co Ltd and Google Inc

together have stemmed Apple Inc's dominance in

smartphones, but there is new tension in their partnership.

Google executives worry that Samsung has become so big that it

could flex its muscle to renegotiate their arrangement and eat

into Google's lucrative mobile-ad business, people familiar with

the matter said.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/press-digest-wall-street-journal-jan-26-070530659--sector.html

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The Ego! Smartmouse Combines Hardware Authentication With A Mouse That Doubles As A Motion Controller

A new Kickstarter project called the Ego! Smartmouse blends together some recent trends in computing, including hardware identity authentication and 3D motion control to come up with a unique input device that wears many hats. The Ego! is a mouse in the traditional sense, allowing you to control your desktop or laptop computer, and it also has on-board file storage, can work as an authentication device for various services, and features built-in acceleration and motion detection to work like a Wiimote for controlling games.

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Pa. gov's filing defends antitrust suit vs. NCAA

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) ? Gov. Tom Corbett argued in a court document filed late Monday that the NCAA has been trying to use his antitrust lawsuit against it over the Penn State penalties in the Jerry Sandusky child sex abuse scandal to combat what he describes as a groundswell of public criticism.

Corbett said the judge should not grant the NCAA's request to dismiss the case, saying college sports' governing body made a factual error when it said the penalties were voted on by the university's trustees.

Corbett, who as governor is a trustee, said the NCAA's motion to dismiss the lawsuit he filed in early January "appears to have been written more to advance the NCAA's broader agenda, and to combat the recent groundswell of public criticism against the embattled organization, than to raise legal issues appropriate to a motion to dismiss."

NCAA spokeswoman Emily Potter offered no immediate comment on the latest filing.

The Republican governor's lawsuit asks the judge to throw out all the penalties, including a $60 million fine, a four-year bowl ban and the loss of football scholarships. He claims the consent agreement has harmed students, business owners and others.

"The NCAA wrongly claims that its arbitrary decimation of the PSU football program is no different than its enforcement of rules regulating player eligibility or uniforms ? which do enhance collegiate competition ? although PSU was not found to have violated a single NCAA rule and the NCAA's own president insisted that the consent decree was not an enforcement action," Corbett's lawyers wrote.

The NCAA has said the penalties are unrelated to regulation of economic activity so antitrust law doesn't apply.

Sandusky, a former defensive coordinator at the college football powerhouse, was convicted last summer of sexually abusing several boys, some on campus. He is serving a 30- to 60-year state prison sentence. He is appealing and maintains his innocence.

The consent agreement between the NCAA and Penn State was signed a few weeks after Sandusky was found guilty of 45 criminal counts. Penn State is not a party to Corbett's antitrust lawsuit or to the NCAA's lawsuit filed last week against Corbett and three state officials over a newly enacted state law that is designed to keep the $60 million within the state.

Associated Press

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MetroPCS rakes in $1.3 billion for Q4 2012 thanks to 2.2 million new LTE customers

Over a quarter of MetroPCS' customer base is now on LTE (26 percent), and the company made $1.3 billion in revenue for Q4 and $5.1 billion total in 2012 as a result, it said. Though revenue was down for Q4 over last year to $122 million compared to $215 million for Q4 2011, profits were up year-over-year by 10 percent to $824 million, and the company said it made a record $1.5 billion EBITDA (before taxes, etc.) The company attributes that in part to a 2.2 million LTE subscriber bump, an increase of 117 percent over Q3 2012, but indicated that it lost 93 thousand subscribers total over the same period. It added that churn (customers leaving to other carriers) fell to 3.4 percent, its lowest level ever. Meanwhile, the carrier said it's proposed Deutsche Telecom-backed merger with T-Mobile is moving along swimmingly with a definitive proposal filed yesterday. It anticipates "closing the transaction in early April" ahead of schedule, which it says would make MetroPCS "the leading value wireless carrier in the United States."

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Sunday, February 24, 2013

Ahead of Apple's Annual Shareholder Meeting, Einhorn Claims a Victory

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"Google adds fee-based support services for cloud platform customers: Users of products like App Engine, Compute Engine and Big Query will be able to purchase access to a variety of technical support services"?IDG News Service?2/22
"Chrome 25 Adds Voice Support, Devs Get App Launcher"?PC Magazine?2/22
"Google patches Chrome browser, bans stealth add-ons"?PCWorld?2/22
"Conan can't resist making an ass of Google Glass"?CNET News?2/22
"Nokia to fight rivals with cheaper models -sources"?Reuters?2/22
"Samsung Wants to Be a Media Giant. Meet the Guy in Charge of Getting Them There."?AllThingsD?2/22
"Samsung Copies the BlackBerry Playbook"?WSJ.com [Paid Membership Required]?2/22
"Combes Named to Lead Alcatel-Lucent Through Troubled Time"?New York Times [Free/Paid Registration Required]?2/22


Publications/Podcasts

"Gene Steinberg meets tech writer Kirk McElhearn, and Laptop magazine's Avram Piltch, this week on The Tech Night Owl LIVE!"?The Tech Night Owl LIVE?2/22
"An Apple watch, PS4, security and bug fixes, cheap iPhone and slippers"?Insanely Great Mac?2/22



"Apple to launch completely redesigned iPad 5 tablet in September?"?T3?12:22 PM
"Smartwatch with Flexible Display; Apple Scores Patent"?DeviceMAG?7:04 AM
"Apple patent application hints at flexible touchscreen watch"?TG Daily?6:55 AM
"New iPad 5 Case Consistent with Rumored Mini-Style Redesign"?MacRumors?2/22
"Apple Hiring 'Maps Ground Truth Data Specialist' in Australia"?MacRumors?2/22
"iWatch-y Patent Greases the Gears of Concept Designers: There's been much ado about the possibility that an iWatch is in the works, and the buzz was fueled this week by the publication of a patent application Apple filed back in 2011. More than a few renderings of possible designs have been circulating on the Web as well: and one of them in particular seems more Apple-ish than the rest."?MacNewsWorld?2/22
"Apple releases iOS 6.1.3 beta with passcode bug fix in tow"?CNET News?2/22
"Smartphone by Manufacturer - FixYa Report"?FixYa?2/22
"Apple's iPhone Tops Smartphone Reliability Ratings"?ReadWrite?2/22
"iPhones are 3X more reliable than Samsung smartphones, Fixya says"?VentureBeat?2/22
"Apple v. Samsung: What are the most reliable smartphones on the market?"?ZDNet?2/22
"FixYa Study Finds Apple Smartphones to be the Most Reliable"?MacRumors?2/22
"Leaked iPad Mini Images Hint at Retina Display"?PC Magazine?2/22
"AU Optronics reportedly started mass producing iPad mini 2 Retina panels"?iDownload Blog?2/22
"Supposed 2nd-Gen iPad mini Images Surface with Blue Logo"?PadGadget?2/22
"GIS expected to bump up touch panel lamination shipments for iPad mini"?DigiTimes?2/22
"Is A Retina Display Coming To The MacBook Air In Q3 Of 2013?"?Apple'n'Apps?2/22
"Apple working on techniques for presenting sound effects on a portable device"?AppleDailyReport?2/22

Price Trackers/Deals

"Munch Time HD For iPhone and iPad Is Temporarily Available For Free (Normally $1.99)"?Apple Sliced?10:34 AM
"Doptrix For iPhone and iPad Is Free Right Now (Previously $0.99)"?Apple Sliced?10:34 AM
"Little Tribes For iPhone Is Free Today (Was $0.99)"?Apple Sliced?10:33 AM
"Today's Apps Gone Free: ABBYY CardHolder, Blux Camera, Link That Gugl And More"?App Advice?6:08 PM
"Doors&Rooms[PLUS] For iPhone and iPad Is Temporarily Available For Free (Normally $0.99)"?Apple Sliced?2/22
"Nuclien For iPhone and iPad Is Free Right Now (Previously $0.99)"?Apple Sliced?2/22
"FLASHOUT 3D For iPhone and iPad Is Free Today (Was $2.99)"?Apple Sliced?2/22
"15" MacBook Pro Prices & Sales"?MacPrices?2/22
"13" MacBook Pro Prices & Sales"?MacPrices?2/22

"MacBook Pro Prices -15 Inch Models -$1,300 to $3,049 -Best Deals, Reviews & Information"?MacReviewZone?2/22
"MacBook Pro Prices -13 Inch Models -$1,019 To $2,194 -Best Deals, Reviews & Information"?MacReviewZone?2/22
"MacBook Air Prices -$600 To $1,599 -Best Deals, Reviews And Information"?MacReviewZone?2/22
"PadGadget Daily App Deal ? 11 iPad Apps on Sale"?PadGadget?2/22
"Mac Games: Assassins Creed, $7.49; Civ V, $7.49; More"?FairerPlatform?2/22

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Reviews

"Review: Olloclip For iPhone 5"?Macgasm?5:24 PM
"Secure your iPad to your desk with the Soft Touch Flex holder (review)"?ZDNet?12:22 PM

"Chromebook Pixel vs. MacBook Air"?Gizmag?2/22
"HTC One vs iPhone 5 camera duel: Ultrapixel tech tested"?Crave @ CNET?2/22
"Which To Choose (Take Two): 27-inch iMac with GTX 675MX GPU? or with GeForce GTX 680MX?"?Bare Feats?2/22
"Hands-on: Logitech Bluetooth Easy-Switch Keyboard, Mac, iOS"?Electronista?2/22

"Logitech UE Mobile Boombox"?iLounge?2/22
"Reviews: Apogee Electronics MiC Studio Quality Microphone"?iLounge?2/22
"Four Speck cases for the iPhone 5"?Macworld?2/22
"Review: SmartFlex View for iPhone 5"?Macworld?2/22
"Review: CandyShell Grip for iPhone 5"?Macworld?2/22
"Review: SmartFlex Card for iPhone 5"?Macworld?2/22

"Review: Delano Case for iPad Mini, Nexus 7, Kindle Fire, Kindle, And Other 7' Tablet"?Run Around Tech?2/22

iPad/iPhone/iPod touch Apps

"The Phrasal Verbs Machine: An iPad App with an Unusual Approach to Grammar"?eXtensions?10:43 AM
"Let's create! Pottery HD for iPhone and iPad review"?iMore?7:04 AM
"Postcardly Postcards for iOS review: Only a few steps, and your postcard is in the mail"?CNET Reviews?2/22
"Review: Aerofly FS ? A Realistic, Easy-to-Learn Flight Simulator for iOS"?MacTrast?2/22
"Mailbox for iPhone Eases Email Triage but Lacks Key Features"?TidBITS?2/22
"Furnish for iOS taps augmented reality to transport IKEA and Crate & Barrel furniture to your home"?The Next Web?2/22
"Comparing iPad weather apps at a glance"?iMore?2/22
"Built For Entrepreneurs And Investors, Simplr For iPhone Sorts And Prioritizes Your AngelList Feeds"?TechCrunch?2/22
"Yahoo updates Flickr iPhone app with tagging, faster uploads, volume shutter and more"?Digital Trends?2/22



"Vector Graphics Geeks Will Fall for B?zier ? iPad App Review"?PadGadget?2/22
"Met Someone New? Say, 'Hello.' Then, Use iPhone's Evernote Hello To Remember The Details (it's free)"?Mac 360?2/22
"Appidemic: Worm Run for iPhone, iPad and iPod touch"?AppleTell?2/22

"'Backflip Madness' Review - The Worst Game I Can't Stop Playing"?Touch Arcade?2/22

How-To/Tutorial

"How To Take a Screenshot of Your iPad"?Macinstruct?4:52 PM
"How To Zoom Into Images, Save Captions, And More In Official Instagram App For iPhone"?Redmond Pie?1:49 PM

Tips

"Study Smarter ? Take Notes And Highlight Text Within iBooks [iOS Tips]?Cult of Mac?2/22
"Automatically backing up photos via cellular data Article"?iLounge?2/22

"How could Apple make a cheap iPhone Mini?"?ZDNet?5:30 PM

"Why the Apple iWatch and Google Glass Don't Matter"?Cult of Mac?2:29 PM

"Will Apple Scare Pandora and Sirius XM This Week?"?Forbes?12:21 PM

"The Macalope Weekly: People hate clowns"?Macworld?10:03 AM

"Rumor: iPad 5 Cases Show New Design"?AppleBitch?8:10 AM

"Apple Loop: Considering iPrefs, Patenting The iWatch, Living In A 'Weird' Post-Jobs World"?Forbes?2/22

"Judge tells Apple and Samsung to narrow their new patent case"?Ars Technica?2/22

"Samsung's outrageous VoiceOver suit against Apple stayed in Germany"?iDownload Blog?2/22

"The iPad Can Be a True Mac Alternative"?Shawn Blanc?2/22

"Why the iPad still can't be a true Mac replacement"?Macworld?2/22

"Why I bought a MacBook Air"?ZDNet?2/22

"Chromebook Pixel Validates Microsoft's Touch Strategy, Could Force Apple's Hand"?Benzinga Insights?2/22

"How China Mobile Could Get the iPhone"?TheStreet?2/22

"How Apple Is Better At 'Planned Obsolescence' Than Any Other Technology Company"?Mac 360?2/22

"Why Every Analyst Is In Love With The Siren Song Of The Low-Cost iPhone"?TechCrunch?2/22

"Why An iPhone Mini Is Key For Apple Continuing To Grow"?Cult of Mac?2/22

"Apple's Innovation Problem"?Forbes?2/22

"More Support For A Low Cost iPhone"?Apple Bitch?2/22

"Brazil lawsuit claims iPad 3 made intentionally obsolete"?iDownload Blog?2/22

"Will Apple Exist 3 Years From Now? How Much Will It Be Worth?"?Seeking Alpha?2/22

"Steve Job's Financial Planning Advice: You Are Already Naked"?Forbes?2/22

"Why iOS won't become Apple's 'Windows XP'"?ZDNet?2/22

"Risk Averse: Will iOS Become Apple's Windows XP?"?ReadWrite?2/22

"Apple Patent For Solar Watch Could Fire Up Stock Again"?Forbes?2/22

"Wearable computing devices ? like, say, an 'iWatch,' could exceed 485 million annual shipments by 2018"?AppleDailyReport?2/22

"Apple's iWatch Concept Is Real - And Here's How It Might Work"?ReadWrite?2/22

"Apple 'slap wrap' patent fuels iWatch rumour"?ZDNet?2/22

Non-Apple

"iPad mini vs. Galaxy Note 8.0 hands on!"?iMore?9:29 PM

"It's Not Email That's Broken, It's You"?TidBITS?8:03 PM

"Google laptop shows Apple a thing or two: Google's Chromebook Pixel has two killer features that MacBooks don't. Maybe it's time for Apple to rethink the MacBook concept."?CNET News?5:29 PM

"How Google Stole Apple's Thunder And Became Everyone's Favorite Tech Company Again"?San Francisco Chronicle?5:28 PM

"Weighing In on Sensor Size"?New York Times [Free/Paid Registration Required]?2:06 PM

"How Much Interest Is There, Really, in PlayStation 4?"?Forbes?7:01 AM

"Google Glass Isn't Very Good Yet, And It Gives People Headaches, Says VC Who Played With Them"?Business Insider?2/22

"I miss removable batteries"?ZDNet?2/22

"6 ways to speed an old computer"?USA Today?2/22

"Even Sony isn't sure what PS4 will look like"?Mashable?2/22

Source: http://www.macsurfer.com/redirr.php?u=764663

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Alcatel One Touch Fire joins the Firefox OS cuddle party, we go hands-on (video)

ZTE may have had a head start in the Firefox OS race ahead of MWC, but Alcatel's also got something similar to ride on the waves of some "500 million Mozilla users." Suitably dubbed the One Touch Fire, this entry-level phone is basically a rehash of the budget One Touch T'Pop announced back at CES, packing a 3.5-inch HVGA TN display, a 1GHz processor, 256MB RAM, 512MB storage and a 3.2-megapixel camera. There are also the usual bunch of radios: WiFi 802.11b/g/n, Bluetooth 3.0, GPS, FM radio and UMTS 900/2100 and 850/1900/2100 (up to 7.2Mbps for download and 5.76Mbps for upload). Underneath the removable 1,400mAh battery you'll find a microSD slot that'll take anything up to 32GB (a 2GB card is included), as well as a slot for an old-school Mini-SIM card.

We got the chance to play with the Fire earlier today and while the glossy plastic body -- in either orange or pink -- felt solid enough, the performance wasn't quite there yet: the touch and software response were significantly sluggish, as you'll see in our hands-on video after the break. On the brighter side of things, the surprisingly large loudspeaker on the back produced some punchy bass, but don't expect too much from its audio quality. Alcatel has a few more months to grease up the phone before its June launch across Latin America and Europe, so we'll be able to give it a proper score then. Press release after the break.

Gallery: Alcatel One Touch Fire hands-on