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5:05 PM ET, March 6, 2010

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Paul Miller / Engadget:
Microsoft shows off single game running on Windows, Windows Phone and Xbox  —  Guess we don't have to wait until MIX to have all our Windows Phone 7 Series questions answered!  Microsoft's Eric Rudder, speaking at TechEd Middle East, showed off a game developed in Visual Studio as a singular project …
Discussion: DigitalBattle.com, OSNews and Gizmodo
Seth Weintraub / 9 to 5 Mac:
Steve Jobs tells Swede that the iPad won't tether to the iPhone  —  Not content with answering tech questions from Americans, Steve Jobs this week answered a question from all the way over in Sweden.  —  The question was a good one, and one we've had on our minds as well: … Jobs' answer?
Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Brainstorm Tech:
Apple approaches $200 billion  —  With its record close Friday, it's now the 4th largest publicly traded U.S. company  —  With its stock trading at $218.95 a share when the markets closed Friday, Apple (AAPL) broke into the top five largest U.S. companies by market capitalization …
Discussion: Edible Apple and Tech Trader Daily
Adam Frucci / Gizmodo:
Israeli Raid Cancelled After Very Stupid Facebook Post  —  If you're in the military, here's a tip: don't put upcoming missions in your Facebook status.  You wouldn't think someone would need to tell you that, but here we are.  —  A raid on suspected militants in the West Bank …
Discussion: Gadgetell
Gabe Rivera / Techmeme News:
Techmeme now has a share button.  Read this post if you can't find it.  —  Frequent Techmeme readers may have heard of both “Facebook” and “Twitter”, up and coming social networking services where, among other activities, users tend to share links.  Sharing is in fact a core activity on these sites …
Chris Ziegler / Engadget:
AT&T announces slew of network investments for 2010  —  AT&T's preaching about the mucho dinero it's dropping into renovating its network to pretty much anyone who'll listen these days, and a veritable cornucopia of press releases this week start to go into detail on some of the upgrades we'll be seeing over the course of 2010.
Jenna Wortham / New York Times:
New York Isn't Silicon Valley.  That's Why They Like It.  —  THE two dozen or so people arranged around wooden tables, warming their hands and bellies with steaming mugs of coffee and plates of homemade biscuits, looked like just another Sunday brunch set in New York.
Nicholas Carlson / Silicon Alley Insider:
The Origins Of Facebook And Its Founder and CEO, Mark Zuckerberg  —  The following series of stories detail some of what happened in 2003 and 2004 after then Harvard-sophomore Mark Zuckerberg launched a site called theFacebook.com.  This site, of course, quickly grew into the dominant global site known …
Mark Hachman / Gearlog:
Ballmer: More Xbox Form Factors in the Future?  —  On Thursday, Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer spoke at the University of Washington supposedly on the topic of cloud computing.  But the conversation also wandered into other topics, one that might include the future of the Xbox.
Adam Overa / Tom's Hardware Guide:
Web Browser Grand Prix: The Top Five, Tested And Ranked  —  Table of contents  —  “The fastest browser on Earth.”  —  That's what the Opera homepage has said since Tuesday.  After five release candidates and two betas, the boys from Oslo just recently launched the final build of Opera 10.50.
Discussion: WebProNews
Agence France Presse:
China says no request yet from Google for talks  —  BEIJING (AFP) - China said Saturday it had not received any request for talks from Google, as the Internet giant insists it remains firm in its plan to end censorship on search results in the communist state.
Clark Wimberly / Android and Me:
Gowalla 1.0 finally hits the Android Market.  Nerds, bar goers rejoice  —  We've been following Gowalla for some time now.  And judging by the funding they've picked up and how quickly they are making progress we can't be the only ones.  For months now Gowalla has been available on Android via a webapp at m.gowalla.com.
Discussion: Download Squad, Mashable! and Pulse2
 
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Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security:
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Katie Scott / Wired.co.uk:
Archiving Britain's web: The legal nightmare explored
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Meet The New Foursquare. Same As The Old Foursquare — But Prettier.
Discussion: All Shook Down and ReadWriteWeb
Matt Buchanan / Gizmodo:
Microsoft Courier's Devolution
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Jason Snell / Macworld:
iPhone lessons from Google's Nexus One
Trefis / Great Speculations:
iPhone Could Overtake BlackBerry Market Share in 2011
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Andy Greenberg / Velocity:
Where Microsoft Censors Bing For “Sex”
Discussion: Technology Review
Tricia Duryee / mocoNews:
Yahoo Disbands Mobile Group As Part Of Reorganization
Discussion: Engadget Mobile, Thanks:mrinaldesai
John Furrier / SiliconANGLE:
Cisco Wants To Rule Your Living Room …
Discussion: Silicon Alley Insider
 

 
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Caitlin Huston / The Hollywood Reporter:
Internal memo: Hearst Magazines president announces layoffs as part of a decision to “reallocate resources” to “continue our focus on digital innovation”

Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica:
FCC Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel announced she will leave the agency on January 20; she was the first woman to be confirmed to lead the agency

Lachlan Cartwright / The Ankler:
Sources: MSNBC renewed Rachel Maddow's contract early this fall, but with a pay cut; MSNBC bosses' plan to shake up daytime and weekend programming

 
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