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Jeremy Horwitz / iLounge:
iPad with Wi-Fi + 3G - Our Pre-Review Findings (Updated: Battery + 3G Results) — Our full review of the iPad with Wi-Fi + 3G is still a little ways off, but since the device will officially be on store shelves at 5:00PM tonight, we wanted to post some early findings that might help you decide whether to buy in or not.
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Alexander Vaughn / App Advice:
iPad 3G Streaming Restrictions Explained — Alright, so you went with the iPad 3G for that ubiquitous Internet connection? Well, it's there now, but there are some limitations. For example, while Netflix and Youtube will work over 3G (in low res however), ABC still requires a WiFi connection.
Taimur Asad / Redmond Pie:
Jailbroken iPad 3G Can Send SMS Text Messages [Video] — Wow! There is some great work being done in the jailbreaking community for the newly released iPad 3G. The infamous iPhone Dev Team has managed to send SMS text messages from iPad 3G using command line terminal.
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Brad McCarty / The Next Web:
Google acquires BumpTop. Freeform desktop coming to Android OS? — Another feature of the Chrome or Android OS? Might very well be. — The Wellington Financial Blog is reporting that Google has acquired BumpTop for an as yet undisclosed amount, but the guess is around $40 million.
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Mark McQueen / Wellington Financial Blog:
Google acquires BumpTop — Exits are exciting, and particularly when they involve Google on the buyside. — Although no one involved will talk about it, it sounds as though the owners of BumpTop sold their baby to Google over the past two weeks. One is able to deduce this, in part …
Daeng Bo / I' Been to Ubuntu:
Lead OGG Dev Responds to Jobs' Jabs — Xiph's Gregory Maxwell, the designer and lead dev of the OGG container and the Vorbis audio and Theora video codecs, had a few choice words for Steve Jobs over his recent suggestion that OGG Theora would soon be in court over patent infringement.
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John Sullivan / Free Software Foundation:
FSF responds to Jobs's “Thoughts on Flash” — Apple's use of proprietary software and recommendation of an explicitly patent-afflicted standard (H.264) are inconsistent with the free web. — Ars Technica has published our response to Steve Jobs's “Thoughts on Flash”:
Ernesto / TorrentFreak:
Twitter Suspends Accounts of Torrent Sites — The popular micro-blogging service Twitter has had a love/hate relationship with BitTorrent during the first few months of the year. — Early February Twitter attributed a phishing attack to an unnamed torrent site script …
Eugenia Loli-Queru / OSNews:
Why Our Civilization's Video Art and Culture is Threatened by the MPEG-LA — We've all heard how the h.264 is rolled over on patents and royalties. Even with these facts, I kept supporting the best-performing “delivery” codec in the market, which is h.264. “Let the best win”, I kept thinking.
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Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
H.264 Already Won—Makes Up 66 Percent Of Web Videos
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TechCrunch:
A TC Teardown: What Makes Groupon Tick — Editor's note: Group buying sites are growing like mushrooms. In this teardown, guest author Steven Carpenter goes through a detailed teardown of the largest social commerce site, Groupon, and its competitors to see what exactly is going on here.
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Facebook, The App Store, And The Sound Of Inevitability — “That is the sound of inevitability...” — I'm reminded of this quote from The Matrix as I read headline after headline around the blogosphere about how Facebook and Apple and their (at least relatively) closed ecosystems …
Brian X. Chen / Gadget Lab:
Adobe CEO, Ex-Adobe Engineers Weigh In on Jobs' Flash Attack — In an open letter published Thursday, Steve Jobs outlined a half dozen reasons why Apple is not supporting Flash on its mobile platform. Adobe's CEO has defended Flash in response to Jobs, but some ex-Adobe employees interviewed …
Natasha Singer / New York Times:
Slipstream: Consumer Tracking Outstrips Protections — IT'S called behavioral tracking: — Cameras that can follow you from the minute you enter a store to the moment you hit the checkout counter, recording every T-shirt you touch, every mannequin you ogle, every time you blow your nose or stop to tie your shoelaces.
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