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Samsung Galaxy S IV live web broadcast: Watch it here on Thursday, March 14

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March 14, 2013
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10 top Google Reader alternatives

The tech world in general, and tech media in particular, greeted the announcement of Google Reader's upcoming demise with widespread frustration and angst. While we can't do anything about the July 1 shutdown of Google's popular RSS reader, we can at least point you in the direction of some possible ways to fill the void.

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4. Microsoft: Botched firmware update set off Outlook.com outage

5. Apple's Schiller criticizes Android: The pot calls the kettle black

6. GoDaddy drops the .com, alienates businesses

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Samsung Galaxy S IV live web broadcast: Watch it here on Thursday, March 14

Our colleagues at IDG News Service will provide a live web broadcast of the Samsung Galaxy S IV (or S 4) launch on Thursday, March 14 from New York's Radio City Music Hall. The event is scheduled to begin at 7 pm EDT. The feed should be live by 6:45 or as early as possible. (Up until the feed goes live, there will be a pre-recorded loop of IDGNS videos.) Here's recent coverage: Galaxy S IV rumors:... READ MORE

5 questions about VMware's new virtual networking platform

VMware made news this week, announcing that technology it acquired from virtual networking company Nicira last year will be integrated into the company's existing networking technology. READ MORE

Startup brings digital rights mgmt. to iPhone, iPad, Android and Windows Phone

Startup Watchful Software says it's reviving the technology known as digital rights management (DRM) by expanding it beyond traditional platforms like Microsoft Windows PCs and bringing it to mobile devices such as iPhone, iPad, Android and Windows Phone. READ MORE

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Microsoft: Botched firmware update set off Outlook.com outage

The Outlook.com partial outage lasting 16 hours on Tuesday and Wednesday morning was caused by a firmware update gone awry that triggered a temperature spike in a Microsoft data center, resulting in automatic safeguards that made a large number of servers inaccessible. READ MORE

Apple's Schiller criticizes Android: The pot calls the kettle black

Apple's senior vice president of marketing Phil Schiller tried to make the case last night to the Wall Street Journal that Android users "suffer in part because different elements come from multiple companies." Really Phil? READ MORE

GoDaddy drops the .com, alienates businesses

In a somewhat surprising move last week, the provocative domain name registrar GoDaddy.com has decided to drop the .com from its logo and become just "GoDaddy." READ MORE

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28 facts about pi that you probably didn't know

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Pi Day sales: Well, it's not quite Black Friday, but....

The marketing geniuses are starting to catch on to international Pi Day, the annual March 14 (3.14...get it?) celebration of the the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter. [10 Awesome Ways to Celebrate Pi Day] Among the 3.14-related steals you can get today: READ MORE

US NIST's vulnerability database hacked

A U.S. government computer vulnerability database and several other websites at the National Institute of Standards and Technology have been down for nearly a week after workers there found malware on two Web servers. READ MORE

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10 awesome ways to celebrate Pi Day 2013

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