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Daniel Eran Dilger / AppleInsider:
iPad 3 with Retina display, new device sized between iPad and iPod in Apple's pipeline — While conflicting rumors have described both a larger screen and a smaller, cheaper iPhone model purportedly planned for this summer, one connected industry expert tells AppleInsider that Apple …
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Examiner, Digital Trends, MacRumors, PadGadget, I4U News, Electronista, 3anime.com, iClarified and SlashGear
James Cowie / Renesys Blog:
Libyan Disconnect — Renesys confirms that the 13 globally routed Libyan network prefixes were withdrawn at 23:18 GMT (Friday night, 1:18am Saturday local time), and Libya is off the Internet. One Libyan route originated by Telecom Italia directly is still BGP-reachable, but inbound traceroutes appear to die in Palermo.
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Quora:
What will happen to http://bit.ly links when Gaddafi shuts down the Internet in Libya due to protests? — Answer: Should Libya block Internet traffic, as Egypt did, it will not effect http://bit.ly or any .ly domain. — For .ly domains to be unresolvable the five .ly root servers …
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@jason, SAI, ...My heart's in Accra, @borthwick, Domain Name Wire, Mashable!, CenterNetworks and SAI
Ahmad F Al-Shagra / The Next Web:
Internet Restored in Libya After 6 hours Offline
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Mashable!, Fortune and ArabCrunch
Quora:
Why did Twitter suspend UberTwitter? — Answer (1 of 7): Twitter told us today that they suspended our applications for three reasons: — 1. Twitter said that in UberTwitter and Twidroyd we use a tweet-elongation service named tmi.me that allows people to write more than 140 characters …
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Scripting News, GigaOM, Mark Evans Tech, Gadgetell, @andrewbaron, Business Wire, Twittercism, PC World, @scobleizer, The Next Web, Neowin.net, TechCrunch, PC Magazine, Digital Trends and Guardian
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Mark Suster / Both Sides of the Table:
Twitter, I love you man, but ...
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@dickc, Why does everything suck?, Victus Spiritus, @raulsantaella, @msuster, Quora and ConversionRater, Thanks:pkedrosky
Alexis Madrigal / The Atlantic Online:
Should Employers Be Allowed to Ask for Your Facebook Login? — The American Civil Liberties Union has taken up the cause of a Maryland man who was forced to cough up his Facebook password during a job interview with the Department of Corrections in that state.
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Blog of Rights and Slashdot
Futurepaul / paul j. miller:
Leaving AOL — Today was my last day at Engadget. — I've been writing for Engadget for more than five years. What an insane thing to be able to say! In my time as Contributing Editor / Associate Editor / Senior Associate Editor / Pixel Density Enthusiast, I've written 1.5 million words on roughly 5,500 posts.
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WebProNews, p2pnet, Neowin.net, @peterrojas, SAI, VentureBeat and @mathewi, Thanks:lockergnome
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Brad McCarty / The Next Web:
The AOL Way claims its first victim: Engadget editor Paul Miller resigns
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@joshuatopolsky and @joannastern, more at Mediagazer »
Ryan Spoon:
Techmeme Figuring Out the Blend of Real-Time & Published News. — I had the following post written and in the my blog's queue (which is how I usually write / blog).... and then something happened: Twitter and UberTwitter tussled. — And as it broke on Friday, there was a mixture of real-time commentary …
Michael Stone / Examiner:
Anonymous delivers ultimatum to Westboro Baptist Church — Anonymous, a notorious collective of unnamed Internet activists, has put the Westboro Baptist Church on notice. Tuesday, the group Anonymous released an open letter to Fred Phelps' Westboro Baptist Church (WBC).
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Mashable!, Joe. My. God., p2pnet, Digital Trends and Slashdot
Ian King / Bloomberg:
Intel Plans to Build $5 Billion Chip Plant in Arizona — Feb. 18 (Bloomberg) — Intel Corp., the world's largest chipmaker, announced plans to build a $5 billion plant in Arizona and hire 4,000 employees in the U.S. this year. — The workers will focus on product development …
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Business Wire, Arizona Republic, Between the Lines Blog, Wall Street Journal and Electronista
Owen Thomas / VentureBeat:
What President Obama's Web-hipster beer hoax tells us — “Pics or it didn't happen,” the kids like to say on Internet discussion boards when confronted with an unlikely scenario that calls for photographic verification. — How about making that “Pics and it didn't happen”?
Mike Masnick / Techdirt:
More HBGary Federal Fallout: The Government Wants To Buy Software To Fake Online Grassroots Social Media Campaigns — The latest in the long line of revelations from the HBGary Federal email leak, is that HBGary Federal wanted to create software that could make it easy for staffers to create …
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p2pnet, Examiner, The Raw Story and Gawker
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Nate Anderson / Ars Technica:
Feature: Black ops: how HBGary wrote backdoors for the government
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Daily Kos
Declan McCullagh / CNET News:
Internet ‘kill switch’ bill gets a makeover — A Senate proposal that has become known as the Internet “kill switch” bill was reintroduced this week, with a tweak that its backers say eliminates the possibility of an Egypt-style disconnection happening in the United States.
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hsgac.senate.gov, PC World and Post Tech
Julie Bort / Network World:
Cerf: 2011 will be proving point for ‘InterPlanetary Internet’ — In a Q&A with Google's Chief Internet Evangelist, Vint Cerf discusses how 2011 will be a key year for a ‘disruption tolerant’ Internet that uses spacecraft for nodes — Vint Cerf takes his title of Chief Internet Evangelist for Google seriously.
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Popular Science and ITworld.com
