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Top Stories of the Day // February 27, 2013

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Today's Top Stories // Feb 27, 2013

Dropbox CEO Drew Houston Opens The Door To Samsung's Competitors: 'We'd Love To Work With You'

Drew Houston, the CEO of Dropbox, said that staying independent was a key part of Dropbox's strategy; and with mobile being the most important platform for... read more

Designer Imagines What An iPhone Phablet And iPhone Mini Might Look Like

Big screens are the talk of the town at MWC. Got nothing else to announce that makes your handset stand out from the crowd? Throw a huge screen on the sucker.... read more

Bug In Kindle Update For iOS Deletes Users' Entire Library, Amazon Warns Users Not To Update

Amazon yesterday updated its Kindle for iOS app, which works across iPhone, iPad and iPod touch, to version 3.6.1. The update was meant to fix a few bugs as... read more

Computer Science Education Had A Good Day In America

America's elite institutions came out in full force for computer science education. First, the House of Representatives voted to update its traditional students... read more

Pinterest For Products Wanelo Raises At North Of $100M

You wouldn't think that a Pinterest where you can buy stuff would be one of the hottest Series A deals of the quarter, but it was.... read more

Adobe Debuts Photoshop Touch For Phones, Bringing The Full Power Of The Tablet Version To Your Pocket

Adobe's mobile Photoshop strategy has so far kept more heavyweight editing capabilities to tablets with Photoshop Touch, and left the iPhone with Photoshop... read more

Leap Motion Controller Ships Pre-Orders May 13, Hits Best Buy Store Shelves May 19 For $79.99

Leap Motion today announced that its innovative motion controller for PCs will start shipping to pre-order buyers beginning May 13, and will launch in the U.S.... read more

Why Qualcomm Wants To Bring Ultrasound Transmitters To Smartphones And Tablets

Mobile chipmaker Qualcomm has a track record of pushing new capabilities into its chips faster than its competitors in a bid to carve out a bigger chunk of the... read more

Samsung Takes Note Of Apple's Passbook And Fires Back With Its Own Wallet App

I'm no great fan of Apple's Passbook, but it seems at least a few people at Samsung have taken a shine to the same general concept. Earlier today, Samsung... read more

Brightcove Introduces Native Video Players For iOS And Android, Will Discontinue HTML5-Based Hybrid Approach

Brightcove, one of the leading cloud content delivery providers in the world, today announced an end to a major experiment, and the start of something new for... read more

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