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Digital Trends – There are plenty of reasonable possibilities for a widespread cell phone service failure, ranging from physical work being done on nearby cell towers to catastrophic-level world events. One scenario you might now consider, however, is breaking and entering. And yet that is exactly what Vodafone users in the United Kingdom are facing today.

PC World – As Android phones continue to outsell iPhones, Apple has been apparently getting some inspiration from Google’s mobile OS. A series of screenshots received by 9 To 5 Mac show Apple is using internally a version of the iOS lock screen with the gesture-based lock system found on Android phones (as pictured).

PC World – It looks like Nintendo’s 3DS isn’t having trouble finding buyers in Japan. According to Japanese newspaper Nihon Keizai Shimbun (via Andriasang) gamers essentially exhausted Nintendo’s initial shipment of 400,000 units. The 3DS launched in Japan Saturday to reports of lines and pre-order sellouts.

Mashable – Apple is testing a new type of lock screen on the iPhone, similar to the gesture-based lock screen on Android phones, 9to5Mac reports.

AFP – Organisers of an online campaign to pressure China’s government on Monday condemned Beijing’s tough security response to their call for weekly rallies nationwide and announced new action on March 6.

PC World – Groupon has finally launched its China site at GaoPeng.com, following weeks of reports and speculation on how the U.S. company was going to enter the country’s burgeoning Internet market.

Reuters – Daily-deals website Groupon goes live in China on Monday, bringing its popular brand of Internet retail to the world’s most populous nation.

Appolicious – Bloggers and journos have been buzzing this weekend about a technical flaw Consumer Reports reported in the Verizon Wireless (VZ) iPhone 4, and also about sales of the new smartphone.

Appolicious – Bloggers and journos have been buzzing this weekend about a technical flaw Consumer Reports reported in the Verizon Wireless (VZ) iPhone 4, and also about sales of the new smartphone.

Reuters – In a mashup of 12th-century weaponry and 21st-century technology, employees of an area Google Data Center triggered a 6-foot wooden siege weapon this weekend with an Android cell phone, a computer the size of a credit card and a Blue Tooth receiver.