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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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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.
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.
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 …
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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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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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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 …
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 …
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.
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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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.
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