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Today's Dilbert comic is opportune.

An ingenious idea, and probably the fastest way to create a working prototype.

Lukas Mathis:

What can I say about the iPad mini that hasn't already been said?

If you live in the UK and use Safari, this extension redirects your Google searches to google.co.uk.

Don Lehman analyses the ramifications of Apple's recent management changes:

Matthew Panzarino on Google's relationships with mobile phone networks and why that's the reason the Nexus 4 doesn't have LTE:

Brent Ozar shares his experiences with the Surface.

The Surface is partially for Microsoft’s world of denial: the world in which this store contains no elephants and Microsoft invented the silver store with the glass front and the glowing logo and blue shirts and white lanyards and these table layouts and…

Bruce Schneier on the convictions of six Italian scientists over a 2009 earthquake in L'Aquila:

Steve Ballmer told the BBC: "Is it fair to say we're going to do more hardware?

New iMacs and MacBook Pros

The best Twitter app for the Mac is out on the Mac App Store.

Loren Brichter is back:

Amazon’s goal should be for Kindle typography to equal print typography.

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Motorola had promised owners of the Photon, Electrify, and Atrix an upgrade to to Android 4.0, known as Ice Cream Sandwich, which would bring a host of new features and security updates.

Not quite CoffeeScript, but Microsoft's new TypeScript language claims to be a superset of JavaScript that complies to JavaScript.

It seems like Google is adding stuff to Chrome just to add it.

Do no evil?

John Paczkowski on the reasoning behind Apple using their own mapping service in iOS 6:

Anyone who has used Netflix knows how great it is.

DisplayMate analyses the iPhone 5's screen:

Now, I'm not disputing that Maps does give a lot of strange results to a lot of people all around the world, but for a large, large number of people, iOS 6 Maps has been a huge improvement over Google Maps.

A common complaint I've seen is "I don't want to install (company)'s shitty app in order to get their storecard on my phone".

Windows clients can't connect to an Airport Extreme network with an Emoji name, this could be a useful feature.

Sam Biddle at Gizmodo:

Google effectively bought Motorola to use as its personal patent troll.

The thing to remember is that UI design is like selling a restaurant, where you can’t just serve up good food in order to run a restaurant.

FOSS Patents has an insightful article about the Apple vs Samsung verdict:

Some years ago, executives at a Houston airport faced a troubling customer-relations issue.

Marco Arment on Twitter's blocking of Tumblr "find friends" access

Dave Winer being right again about tent.io:

Gruber delves deep into the abyss of iPad mini rumours.

I'm sure Mike Daisey is already at the Samsung factory gates.

Swampash explains why Apple has to take Samsung to court:

Tesco demonstrating why you shouldn't let your customer service team make sweeping statements on Twitter about your websites security.

Bad news:

I wonder how you're supposed to use Google Earth without an internet connection.

I was going to write a post about Sparrow's talent acquisition by Google, but Rian van der Merwe did it for me:

BoingBoing gets it.

I don't think anyone saw this coming:

Not really, but the proliferation of "vintage" effects for photo apps is starting to make every photo on the internet look the same.

Matt Alexander posts his thoughts on Windows Phone:

Matthew Panzarino speculates that Apple will drop the iPhone 4 rather than the iPhone 3GS when "the new iPhone" is released later this year.

Former Yahoo engineering manager Sriram Krishnan has some unsolicited advice for Yahoo's new CEO:

I like the new look of Office 2013 and the "cloud" integration, but as The Verge reports:

Better sharpen your knives.

I can't believe ReadWriteWeb let Antone Gonsalves write a follow-up post to his piece on the MacBook Pro with Retina Display.