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7:00 AM ET, March 16, 2010

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Biz / Twitter Blog:
@anywhere  —  When we designed Twitter, we took a different approach—we didn't require a relationship model like that of a social network.  Keeping things open meant you could browse our site to read tweets from friends, celebrities, companies, media outlets, fictional characters, and more.
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Kim-Mai Cutler / VentureBeat:
Twitter launches “At Anywhere” platform, integrates tweets, profiles across the web  —  Twitter CEO Ev Williams demonstrated a new platform that will spread the microblogging network's profiles, tweets and possibly advertising across the web.  It's taking the hovercards it launched …
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Uh Oh.  Not Another “Don't Be Evil” Company  —  Long ago Google unofficially abandoned the Don't Be Evil mantra and replaced it with, no kidding, an “evil scale.”  Sometimes you have to chose between the lesser of two weevils, as Patrick O'Brian would say.  And frankly, just staying this side of decent is enough for most companies.
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Daniel Terdiman / CNET News:
Lackluster Twitter CEO keynote leads many to bail  —  AUSTIN, Texas—It's hard to believe, given the power Twitter wields at the South by Southwest Interactive (SXSWi) festival here, but not half an hour into his keynote address, people are walking out on Twitter CEO Evan Williams.
Nilay Patel / Engadget:
Confirmed: HTC HD2 will not be upgraded to Windows Phone 7 series  —  Bad news, HTC HD2 owners: Microsoft has finally come right out and confirmed our suspicions that the mighty HTC HD2 won't be upgraded to Windows Phone 7 Series.  Joe Belfiore just told us that the HD2 is …
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Chris Ziegler / Engadget:
Netflix prototyped for Windows Phone 7 Series  —  We just got a quick at Netflix for Windows Phone 7 Series, one of the third-party apps Microsoft's showing off here at MIX10, and it looks... well, very Netflixy — it's red to the bone.  Unlike other mobile Netflix apps …
Nilay Patel / Engadget:
Confirmed: Marketplace will be the only way to get apps on Windows Phone 7 Series  —  We just got out of a meeting with Microsoft's Todd Biggs, who dropped a little bombshell on us: the only official way to get apps on a Windows Phone 7 Series device will be to download them from the just-detailed Windows Phone Marketplace.
Brian X. Chen / Gadget Lab:
Like iPhone, Windows Phone 7 Won't Fully Multitask
Discussion: IntoMobile and eWeek
Nilay Patel / Engadget:
Microsoft announces Windows Phone 7 Series dev partners and details …
Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
PayPal Launches Revamped iPhone App, Teams With Bump For Phone-Tapping Money Transfers  —  PayPal has just launched an upgraded iPhone application that adds new features and includes a facelift that's meant to help instill a greater sense of security.  And it also brings with it big news …
Reuters:
China warns Google to obey rules even if it pulls out  —  (Reuters) - Google should obey Chinese government rules even if it decides to retreat from the country over hacking and censorship complaints, a Chinese government spokesman said on Tuesday.  —  Investors have sold off Google Inc shares …
David Flynn / APC:
EXCLUSIVE: Samsung to release ‘slate’ PC  —  Samsung is working on a slate-based device with desktop docking, which it says will have enough processing muscle to become the “primary device” for many people.  —  A senior Samsung executive has confirmed that the company will release a ‘slate’ PC in the second half of this year.
Chris Foresman / Ars Technica:
40% of Blackberry users willing to trade in for an iPhone  —  BlackBerry users may be ready to move on to other smartphone platforms, suggesting that RIM isn't keeping up with consumer demand in its efforts to combat growing encroachment from the likes of iPhone and Android.
Alex Wilhelm / The Next Web:
Hacker News Just Banned Google And Every Other Search Engine  —  Talk about making a point, Hacker News (a service of YCombinator) has just blocked every search engine from indexing their website.  Want proof?  Take a look at this:  —  By blocking robots spidering their website, Google …
NexusOne News:
Google runs into a problem with Nexus One trademark application  —  Google filed an application for the Nexus One trademark back on 10th December 2009 for use in connection with mobile phones.  It would appear however that whoever handled the filing didn't spend a lot of time on the initial …
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Hitwise says Facebook Most Popular U.S. Site  —  New data released from analytics service Hitwise today names Facebook the largest website in the U.S. with 7.07% of all U.S. visits.  Google is second at 7.03%.  Yahoo Mail is third with 3.8% and Yahoo is fourth at 3.67% …
Mark Gurman / 9 to 5 Mac:
Delays hit iPad accessories, more shortages to come?  —  Over the past few days, Apple has altered some of the shipping times on their branded iPad accessories.  First we noticed the iPad case making a slight shift from April 3rd to Mid-April.  Today we notice Apple has delayed the iPad Keyboard Dock.
Discussion: App Advice and Go Rumors
Jon Brodkin / Network World:
60% of virtual servers less secure than physical machines, Gartner says  —  As virtualization adoption grows, so do security risks  —  Sixty percent of virtual servers are less secure than the physical servers they replace, the analyst firm Gartner said in new research Monday.
Liz Shannon Miller / NewTeeVee:
The Reality of A YouTube Front Page Feature  —  UPDATED: So we were on the front page of YouTube on Saturday!  That was pretty fun, though a bit surprising to the ten web series creators we featured, whose inboxes that morning were quickly flooded with subscription notifications and comments.
Jennifer Johnson / HotHardware News:
Universal 3DTV Glasses Coming This Summer From Xpand  —  3D TV may be the wave of the future, but the technology definitely has some hurdles to overcome first.  For one, the cost of the 3D glasses that are typically sold separately from the television add a chunk of change to the overall price of 3D entertainment.
Kevin Cho / Bloomberg:
Hynix's Creditors Sell a 6.7% Stake in the Chipmaker for $814 Million  —  Hynix Semiconductor Inc. creditors sold a 6.7 percent stake in the world's second-largest maker of computer-memory chips for 923.2 billion won ($814 million), main lender Korea Exchange Bank said.
Joe Wilcox / BetaNews:
Apple's HTC patent lawsuit is a bluff  —  Now that buzz about Apple's patent lawsuit against HTC has quieted a bit, I'm ready to pipe in with some contrarian analysis.  I agree with other pundits suggesting that the lawsuit is competition by litigation, where Apple hopes to scare off mobile manufacturers from licensing Android.
Patricia Cohen / New York Times:
Emory University Saves Rushdie's Digital Data  —  Among the archival material from Salman Rushdie currently on display at Emory University in Atlanta are inked book covers, handwritten journals and four Apple computers (one ruined by a spilled Coke).  The 18 gigabytes of data they contain seemed …
Seth Weintraub / Computerworld:
Apple hires ‘Senior Prototype Engineer’ for work on wearable computing  —  Richard DeVaul's Linkedin status changed last month from Founder & President at AWare Technologies to Senior Prototype Engineer at Apple computer.  This is a significant hire for Apple and one that shows the company …
 
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Frederic Lardinois / ReadWriteWeb:
Digital Activism in China: A Discussion Between Ai Weiwei …
Priya Ganapati / Gadget Lab:
New Phones Still Sold With Old Versions of Android
Alex Wilhelm / The Next Web:
Cheapest iPad Outselling Most Expensive Version More Than Two To One
Discussion: Appletell and Apple Gazette
Mike Shields / Mediaweek:
TubeMogul Expands Into Ad Sales
Alexei Oreskovic / Reuters:
Google sees mobile ad rates passing PC rates
Eric Engleman / TechFlash:
‘Enriched’ e-books: Will they fly?
Discussion: Seattle Times
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Justin.TV Turns To Law Professor Eric Goldman As It Battles Live Video Piracy
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Neil Vidyarthi / SocialTimes.com:
ICQ Is Back And It Uses Facebook and Twitter
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Enigmax / TorrentFreak:
File-Sharing and Link Sites Declared Legal in Spain
Joseph Galante / Bloomberg:
PayPal to Introduce Cheaper Way to Process Small Transactions
Discussion: the Econsultancy blog
Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
Ning CEO Gina Bianchini to Step Down-Becomes an EIR at Andreessen Horowitz
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Shawn Musgrave / The Intercept:
A federal court rejects OpenAI's effort to toss a lawsuit by The Intercept, which argued that the DMCA prevents OpenAI from stripping a story's title or byline

 
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