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11:35 AM ET, March 26, 2010

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Elinor Mills / CNET News:
Web traffic redirected to China in mystery mix-up  —  Workers at Internet network operation centers around the world are trying to figure out why traffic to sites such as YouTube, Twitter, and Facebook was redirected to servers in China this week, giving Web surfers around the globe a glimpse …
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Robert McMillan / Computerworld:
China's Great Firewall spreads overseas
BBC:
Times and Sunday Times websites to charge from June  —  The Times and Sunday Times newspapers will start charging to access their websites in June, owner News International (NI) has announced.  —  Users will pay £1 for a day's access and £2 for a week's subscription.
Eric Slivka / MacRumors:
Best Buy Preps for April 3rd iPad Launch  —  Consumer electronics retailer Best Buy has reportedly begun preparations for the launch of Apple's Wi-Fi iPad models on April 3rd, providing its retail store employees with details of events leading up to the launch.
Bill / PadGadget:
Apple Leaks Approved iPad Apps  —  PadGadget did some digging in the iTunes database last night and it looks like Apple has already approved and listed several iPad apps in the App Store.  You won't find any of these iPad titles using your standard iTunes browser, you need to use Apple's …
Naoko Komura / Wikimedia blog:
Wikimedia gets ready for some big changes  —  In April, the Wikimedia Foundation is rolling out the first of several significant changes to the user experience of Wikipedia as part of our usability and user experience program.  — We are changing our default look to a new theme we call …
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Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:
New Wikipedia Redesign Is Coming Soon
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Facebook To Release A “Like” Button For the Whole Darn Internet  —  There will be lots of news leaking about Facebook's product announcements at their upcoming F8 Developer Conference in April.  That's because they're already starting to test out a lot of the new stuff with third party developers …
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Check.in Is A Potentially Brilliant Remedy For Check-In Fatigue  —  Last week, I wrote about check-in fatigue.  While there is a lot of excitement right now surrounding location-based apps, and particularly the ones where you “check-in” places, trying to use all of them can be exhausting, as I found out at SXSW.
Discussion: Silicon Alley Insider
Todd Bishop / TechFlash:
What Microsoft learned from Jerry Seinfeld and Bill Gates  —  Having followed Microsoft for a few years now, I like to think that I've figured out some of its mysteries, but there's a big one that I've just never been able to crack: What in the heck was the company trying to accomplish …
Discussion: MediaMemo and Technologizer
Will Richmond / VideoNuze.com:
Here's How Google TV Will Work - And What It Might Mean  —  Last week, the NY Times shared some details of “Google TV,” the new set-top box Google is developing in partnership with Intel and Sony.  The article provided a good outline, and now, based on additional information I've gathered …
Alexander Vaughn / App Advice:
George Hotz Is Back With Untethered Jailbreak For Every iDevice (iPad Too?)  —  The incredible iPhone genius George Hotz has just announced on his blog that he has managed to develop an untethered jailbreak for the iPhone and iPod touch.  It will allow all of you who couldn't live …
Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
Exclusive: Facebook Poaches Yet Another Major Googler-This Time, Ad Exec David Fischer  —  David Fischer-who was VP of Global Online Sales & Operations for Google and more recently was heading up its local efforts-is taking a job at Facebook as VP of Advertising and Global Operations, according to sources.
Kristen Schweizer / Bloomberg:
Spotify Music Site Sees U.S. Start in Third Quarter; Plans BlackBerry App  —  Spotify, a virtual digital jukebox and Europe's largest legal online music site, aims to start U.S. operations in the third quarter.  —  The Stockholm-based company, which has 7 million users in Europe …
Discussion: Silicon Alley Insider and TG Daily
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Congress On China: Google Gets A Big Wet Kiss.  Microsoft Is “Enabling Tyranny”  —  This is why I have a strong dislike of government and our system of lobbyists.  Many people in the tech community are becoming increasingly skeptical of Google's motives in partially pulling out of the Chinese markets …
Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
Nokia Buys Mobile Web Browser Company Novarra  —  Nokia has acquired Novarra, an Illinois-based company that develops mobile web browser technologies.  Terms of the acquisition were not disclosed.  —  The acquisition makes sense, considering that Nokia builds its own browser.
Julian Assange / WikiLeaks:
U.S. must stop spying on WikiLeaks  —  Over the last few years, WikiLeaks has been the subject of hostile acts by security organizations.  In the developing world, these range from the appalling assassination of two related human rights lawyers in Nairobi last March (an armed attack …
Susie Pan / DigiTimes:
Apple reportedly shifts orders for iPad touch panels from TPK to Wintek  —  Taiwan-based TPK Touch Solutions has seen Apple shift orders for iPad-use projected capacitive touch panels to fellow maker Wintek because of TPK's delayed shipments, according to industry sources in Taiwan.
Tricia Duryee / paidContent:
Android's Secret Sauce?  Google's Little-Known Advertising Rev-Share Deals With Carriers  —  In just 18 months, the number of Google (NSDQ: GOOG) Android phones being shipped has soared to 60,000 a day, and over that period countless new devices have been released by handset makers for sale by carriers worldwide.
Louis Gray:
Twitter Highlighting “Clever Accounts” @cleveraccounts  —  A common aspect of any Web-centric company looking to break out of an early adopter niche to more mainstream acceptance is the highlighting of customers who have been brave enough to take the plunge first.
Discussion: ReadWriteWeb and Clever Twitter Accounts, Thanks:atul
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Four VC Firms Battle For Foursquare, Valuation Goes Stratospheric  —  What do Accel Partners, Andreessen Horowitz, Khosla Ventures and Redpoint Ventures have in common?  Besides being tier one venture capitalists, at least one thing: They are all fighting furiously to be the lead investor in Foursquare's next venture round.
Ronny Kerr / VatorNews:
Wordpress profiles powered by Gravatar  —  Automatically granting its users fancier profiles, WordPress could be incubating a social network  —  WordPress, probably the most well-known open source blog publishing application, is turning to Gravatar, a little-known service …
Ubergizmo:
WePad Details and Plans Revealed  —  We've talked about a few technical details of the WePad before, but now we have all the specifications, along with a table (partially in German) that compares it with the iPad (click on the title to head to the full post).
Discussion: Gearlog and Go Rumors
Nick O'Neill / All Facebook:
Facebook Insights To Take On Google Analytics  —  While we've previously written about Facebook's need to provide a more reliable insights tool, the company's latest JavaScript libraries suggest that the company is preparing to roll out Insights beyond Facebook.
Rik Myslewski / The Register:
Apple display patent enslaves sun  —  Or cute little umbrellas  —  An Apple patent application published Thursday describes a variety of techniques for capturing light from external sources to either replace or supplement traditional backlighting of electronic-device displays.
Marguerite Reardon / CNET News:
James Cameron: Innovation trumps digital piracy  —  (From left to right) CNBC Anchor Michelle Caruso-Cabrera, “Avatar” director James Cameron, U.S. CTO Aneesh Chopra, and Twitter co-founder Biz Stone discuss technology at the CTIA wireless tradeshow here.  —  LAS VEGAS- Oscar-winning director …
Mike Masnick / Techdirt:
Will The Authors Guild Freak Out About Text To Speech On The iPad?  —  When the second generation Kindle ebook reader launched with a text-to-speech functionality, the Authors Guild freaked out, claiming that this violated a totally made up on the spot aspect of copyright law.
 
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Jay Hathaway / Download Squad:
Miro updates Internet TV app to version 3, launches Video Converter
Discussion: Miro
Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:
Adknowledge launches Cambyo payment gateway to monetize free goods
Peter Sayer / PC World:
GSMA Launches SMS Spam Reporting Service
Discussion: The Register and Phone Scoop
John Paczkowski / Digital Daily:
Confirmed: Intellectual Ventures Owns Smartphone Motion-Control Patent
Discussion: CNET News and Edible Apple
Yahoo! Search Marketing Blog:
CTIA Video: Yahoo! Sketch-a-Search Demo
Paul Miller / Engadget:
OpenPeak's OpenTablet 7 hands-on: Moorestown has found a friend
Discussion: jkkmobile and Gizmodo
R. Scott MacIntosh / New York Times:
Portable Real Estate Listings — but With a Difference
Chris Ziegler / Engadget:
Bitbop hands-on: is this the Hulu of mobile?
 Earlier Items: 
Nicholas Kolakowski / eWeek:
Sprint Faces Long Road with HTC Evo 4G, Suggest Analysts
Discussion: Business Week
Robert Scoble / Scobleizer:
Malleable social graphs and mini-mobs: why Facebook could destroy …
Discussion: TechCrunch, Thanks:atul
Eliot Van Buskirk / Epicenter:
Eye-Tracking Tablets and the Promise of Text 2.0
Discussion: CrunchGear
Washington Post:
Anti-counterfeiting agreement raises constitutional concerns
Discussion: Techdirt
Liz Gannes / GigaOM:
Gravity Launches Public Beta: Former MySpace Execs' Take on Forums
Discussion: The Next Web and ReadWriteWeb
Bruce Houghton / hypebot:
Pandora By The Numbers  —  At a recent NYC Pandora listener …
Seth Weintraub / 9 to 5 Mac:
Amazon's iPad page pops up
Discussion: Kindle Review
Alexander Vaughn / App Advice:
Exclusive: iPad iBooks Features The Gutenberg Project Catalog - 30,000 Free eBooks