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Natalie Harrison / Apple:
Apple Sells Over 300,000 iPads First Day  —  Apple® today announced that it sold over 300,000 iPads in the US as of midnight Saturday, April 3.  These sales included deliveries of pre-ordered iPads to customers, deliveries to channel partners and sales at Apple Retail Stores.
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Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Brainstorm Tech:
Piper Jaffray survey of iPad buyers: 74% owned Macs; 66% had iPhones  —  Who were the device's first buyers, and what do they plan to do with it?  —  Photo: PED  —  Most of the people who lined up in New York and Minneapolis to purchase the iPad on Saturday were already committed Apple …
Mike Melanson / ReadWriteWeb:
Beach Bums & Bureaucrats: Where The iPads Early Adopters Live
Discussion: Chitika, Inc. and L.A. Times Tech Blog, Thanks:rwwmike
Ina Fried / CNET News:
Microsoft's mystery event revealed  —  Microsoft's mystery event is a mystery no more.  —  A source confirms I was on target with my prediction that the event will herald the introduction of Microsoft's long-awaited new phones for the always-connected crowd.
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Joshua Topolsky / Engadget:
Microsoft invites us to mystery event, April 12th!  —  Well... we don't know what to make of this one.  Microsoft just snail-mailed us a circular package with an invitation to an event on April 12th in San Francisco.  They also tell us that it's “time to share,” and apparently intend …
Phil McKinney / HP Voodoo Blog:
HP's Slate Device Delivers a Holistic Mobile Experience  —  Up to now, we've given you only tiny glimpses of the HP slate device coming out later this year.  You saw it first in a video we released during CES and most recently in videos demoing its Web experience and Adobe Flash and Air support.
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Joanna Stern / Engadget:
HP Slate reappears for 30 seconds, shows off camera, custom interface... and iTunes
Discussion: 9 to 5 Mac, Gizmodo and techeblog.com
Boy Genius Report:
Apple's iPhone 4.0 OS to be revealed Thursday  —  Uh oh... Apple just sent out invitations for press to get a sneak peak at their next generation iPhone OS, 4.0.  We can't wait for April 8th.
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Digg's Kevin Rose: “One Of Us Has To Leave”  —  Last summer we'd heard that the Digg board of directors was considering terminating Digg cofounder and CEO Jay Adelson.  But everything was fine, said senior Digg employees, and the fact that the company moved Adelson out to California from New York …
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Adam Ostrow / Mashable!:
Kevin Rose to Replace Jay Adelson as Digg CEO
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Trouble In Paradise: iPad Users Complain Of Wifi Issues  —  Just one day after launch and there are already scores of complaints on the Apple support site over faulty wifi on the iPad.  A typical complaint is that the iPad shows no wifi signal, or a very weak signal, where other devices pick it up just fine:
BBC:
Google rolls out privacy reset for Buzz social network  —  Google has said that it will begin to roll out a privacy reset for its controversial social network Buzz.  —  The search giant will ask all its users to confirm or change their privacy settings, starting on 5 April.
Noam Cohen / New York Times:
‘Suicide’ Query Prompts Google to Offer Hotline  —  As with any omniscient being, you can ask Google anything.  You just don't know what the answer is going to be.  —  That changed slightly last week when the Google search engine started automatically giving a suggestion of where to call …
Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
comScore: Android Market Share Continues To Gain On The iPhone  —  comScore has just released its latest report on smartphone marketshare, and the trend we saw last month has continued: Google's Android is gaining quickly on the iPhone, as Palm and Microsoft's shares continue to dip.
Stan Schroeder / Mashable!:
iPad Peek: See How Your Website Looks on the iPad  —  The iPad is finally available, and it's already residing in the hands of some 300,000 people who purchased it on launch day.  In a couple of months, the iPad user base will become big enough for web developers to start paying attention to how their websites look on the iPad.
James McQuivey / paidContent:
Why The iPad Actually Strengthens Amazon's Position  —  Round 1 goes to Apple (NSDQ: AAPL).  The iPad, as expected, has caused a big stir, and given people like Walt Mossberg reason to gush with enthusiasm about the death of laptops.  Throughout, as various members of the press have mused …
Nick O'Neill / SocialTimes.com:
Why I'm Returning My Apple iPad ($AAPL)  —  In the past 48 hours I've gone from boycotting the Apple iPad, to purchasing one, and this morning I'm bringing it back to the store.  While I can explain my initial justification for purchasing the device, I should state that I could just as easily justify …
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
MySpace Planning To Roll Out Facebook Connect ASAP (Or Not)  —  MySpace is preparing to add Facebook Connect features to its main service, we've confirmed from a source within MySpace.  This will be the first time MySpace will publicly conceded defeat to Facebook over ownership of the social graph …
Peter Bright / Ars Technica:
Why Microsoft did the right thing in ditching XP for IE9  —  I recently expressed a lack of surprise that Internet Explorer 9 will almost certainly not be supported on Windows XP.  In Redmond's words, a “modern browser” needs a “modern operating system,” and Windows XP doesn't qualify.
Discussion: Mashable!
Eric Eldon / Inside Facebook:
Citing Legal Risks, Facebook Restricts Employee Stock Sales  —  Facebook implemented a new policy against insider stock trading last Friday.  The point is to keep employees with stock to sell from getting in legal trouble, according to a source familiar with the matter.
Anand Lal Shimpi / AnandTech:
Apple's iPad A4 SoC: Faster than the Nexus One's Snapdragon?  —  Fresh out the frying pan and into the fire, I just finished my Nexus One review late last night only to have my iPad preorder show up early this afternoon.  I had been preparing for it's arrival not by downloading apps …
Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Brainstorm Tech:
The iPad and the failings of the computer industry  —  Steve Jobs' latest creation drew big crowds; why can't his competitors manage the same magic?  And isn't it time for Apple to show who can think big inside besides Jobs?  —  Can anyone copy Apple's commandments?
Zee / The Next Web:
Finally....A real test for the iPad.  Will it blend?  —  These tests, brought to you by Tom Dickinson at Blendtec, are almost as exciting as the wait for the actual product in my book.  Now, for the moment youâve (Iâm sure) all been waiting for.
Discussion: Pocket-lint
Cecilia Kang / Post Tech:
Gloves off, telecom giants to FCC: It's on!  —  It didn't take long for the gloves to come off.  —  Soon after the Federal Communications Commission released its national broadband plan a few weeks ago, the nation's biggest telecom companies began a battle against specific measures …
Charlie Sorrel / Gadget Lab:
World's First Android TV Comes from Sweden  —  A Swedish company will be the first to sell an internet-connected, Android-based TV set.  The TV, from the amazingly-named People of Lava, will also be the first television made in Sweden for decades.  —  The TV is set, fittingly …
Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
Reliance Buys 50 Percent Stake In British Game Developer Codemasters  —  Indian entertainment giant Reliance has acquired a 50 percent stake in UK game developer Codemasters along with existing investor Balderton Capital.  Zapak, Reliance's gaming division, will oversee the Codemasters investment.
Discussion: Zapak Blog, paidContent, Joystiq and Pulse2, Thanks:rawmeet
Chris Cameron / ReadWriteWeb:
Record Breaking Acquisition Data Suggests Venture-Backed Prosperity in 2010  —  New data released from the National Venture Capital Association shows further evidence of a rebounding acquisitions and IPO market for venture-backed companies in the first quarter of 2010.
Discussion: CNET News
Ubergizmo:
Blu-ray Discs Can Offer Up To 128GB Of Space, Thanks To The New BDXL Spec  —  Do you think that the 50GB capacity of Blu-ray discs just doesn't cut it when you're trying to archive your data at home?  In that case, you'll want to look forward to the new BDXL format, which is good enough …
 
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Cliff Kuang / Fast Company:
Exclusive: Facebook Whisperer Speaks About Why Facebook Threatened to Sue Him
Thanks:noahr
Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
Zapoint Acquires Social Job Search Site Jobster From Recruiting.com
Discussion: paidContent and TechFlash
Jeffrey Burt / eWeek:
PCs, Cell Phones Drive Semiconductor Sales Growth: SIA
Mike Masnick / Techdirt:
Online Communities Patented; Lawsuit Against Facebook Moves Forward
Cecilia Kang / Post Tech:
Another incident, another company withdraws, validating Go Daddy's move out of China
Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
eBay Launches One Stop Shop For All Things Fashion
Discussion: Business Wire
Seth Weintraub / 9 to 5 Mac:
Taiwanese Website says new MacBook Pros/Airs starting production this month
Discussion: Electronista
Amanda Fung / Crain's New York Business:
Silicon Alley isn't ‘back’; it never left. …
Discussion: NYConvergence
 Earlier Items: 
Digital Arts / Macworld:
Adobe brings Ideas to iPad
Discussion: TUAW
Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
Gowalla's Josh Williams Talks About Phony Geolocation “Wars” and More!
Telegraph:
Apple blocks app that warns users of radiation levels
Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
EMG Includes iPad In Patent Infringement Lawsuit Against Apple
Discussion: CNET News, Business Wire and BetaNews
Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
Meet the App Store Millionaires: The Brothers Behind Doodle Jump
Discussion: InfoWorld
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Source: Elevation Partners Got About 1% Of Facebook For $90 Million
Brian Stelter / New York Times:
At Snopes, a Quest to Debunk Misinformation Online
Discussion: Media Decoder and Gawker
 

 
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Mandy Dalugdug / Music Business Worldwide:
UMG, ABKCO, and Concord sue Believe and its subsidiary TuneCore for $500M+, alleging Believe built its business via “industrial-scale copyright infringement”

William Earl / Variety:
Heretic's directors say they put a message in the credits that “no generative AI was used in the making of this film” to warn Hollywood about the danger of AI

Christopher Palmeri / Bloomberg:
Sources: Shari Redstone does not plan to stay on the board of Paramount Global after the company completes its planned merger with Skydance Media

 
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