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AppleInsider:
Teardown of iPad 3G shows Apple using LCD frame as an antenna — Apple's iPad 3G, which went on sale in the U.S. on Friday, reveals a new approach to achieving optimal wireless reception and some interesting differences internally when compared to its Wi-Fi-only sibling, according to a new tear-down analysis.
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Matt Buchanan / Gizmodo:
iPad 3G Test Notes — The iPad 3G is the iPad I've been waiting for. It's got two things the regular iPad doesn't: 3G internet from AT&T and assisted GPS. The results we got from testing might surprise you, I think. — 3G Speed Tests — The real story with iPad 3G isn't the numbers, which you can probably predict.
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
H.264 Already Won—Makes Up 66 Percent Of Web Videos — Earlier this week, Steve Jobs kicked the debate about the need for Flash into high gear, especially for Web video. As he explained, Apple products like the iPhone and iPad don't support Flash because although 75 percent of video on the Web is in Flash …
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Tim / Electronic Frontier Foundation:
Facebook's “Evil Interfaces” — Social networking companies don't have it easy. Advertisers covet their users' data, and in a niche that often seems to lack a clear business model, selling (or otherwise leveraging) that data is a tremendously tempting opportunity.
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Fast Company
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.
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 …
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Andy Greenberg / The Firewall:
Encryption Can't Stop The Wiretapping Boom — As encryption technologies have outpaced the mathematical methods of breaking crypto schemes, law enforcement has feared for years that scrambled messages between evildoers (or law-breaking activists) would thwart their snooping.
Olga Kharif / Business Week:
A Russian Star Rises in Silicon Valley — Yuri Milner's DST has quietly acquired 10% of Facebook — Yuri Milner keeps a telescope in his office on the 57th floor of Moscow's Nabarezhnaya Tower to check out what's happening across the city. Judging by his investment portfolio, you'd think it was trained on Silicon Valley instead.
Nick Saint / Silicon Alley Insider:
Why Is Twitter More Popular With Black People Than White People? — New data confirms that Twitter's population is disproportionately black. — According to Edison Research's annual report on Twitter, black people represent 25% of Twitter users, roughly twice their share of the population in general.
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The Digital Letter
Eric Engleman / TechFlash:
Amazon targets federal cloud — As Google, Microsoft and other technology companies talk up their ability to provide cloud computing services to federal agencies, another tech giant, Amazon.com, is quietly positioning itself to be a major government cloud provider as well.
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Zee / The Next Web:
Facebook's just made it easier to share what you're going to do — Feeling that Facebook events aren't currently used enough for spontaneous events, the worlds largest social network has released a feature to make future plans easier to share. — Events can now be created direct from an events box on your home page in a single step.
Janko Roettgers / NewTeeVee:
YouTube Store Still Tanks, Despite Oscar Fare — Consumers still aren't warming up to YouTube's video rentals, even with the site offering critically acclaimed movies like Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire, Reservoir Dogs and 3:10 to Yuma as paid streams.
