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From Fortune: Two thirds of the way through a 3,000-word essay on This Apple-HTC Patent Thing, Daring Fireball’s John Gruber quotes a tweet by John Siracusa that gets to the heart of the matter: “To me, the Apple patent suit smells like nothing more than a manifestation of Jobs’s own sense of injustice.” Read the rest of this story

From CNET: The good news for Microsoft is that all the PCs powering the Olympics are running Windows. The bad news: it’s the older Windows XP operating system. Continue reading at CNET

Barcelona’s Mobile World Congress came and went, and didn’t amount to much in the way of US cellphones. The rest of the world got some seriously nice gear, though. Here’s the best of the best of the out of reach. Check out the awesome phones you can’t have > Join the conversation about this story

A year ago, Lauren Leto and Ben Bator started anonymously publishing their friends’ text messages. Since then, their site, Texts From Last Night has received over 3 million texts messages. Courtesy of Lauren Leto and Ben Bator Texts from Last Night founders Lauren Leto and Ben Bator The Michigan-based friends from college just released a new TFLN book. Like the site, it chronicles the digital dispatches of those unforgettable nights most would rather not remember. We caught up with Lauren and Ben about ditching law school, quarter-life crises and lessons they’ve learned from culling through America’s text messages. WSJ: Where did the idea for Texts From Last Night come from? Ben Bator: Our friends used to send us text messages that were too good not to share.

Steve Jobs might not like Google wading into his phone business, but consumers should love it. It’s going to make Apple and Google try harder to beat each other by offering better products . Apple is said to be releasing an “A+” update for the next version of the iPhone , according to Arnold Kim at MacRumors. Read the rest of this story