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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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Computerworld, Examiner, Digital Trends, MacRumors, PadGadget, I4U News, Electronista, 3anime.com, iClarified, Edible Apple 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Libyan Disconnect — Renesys confirms that the 13 globally routed Libyan network prefixes were withdrawn at 23:18 GMT (Friday night, 1:18am Saturday local time), and Libya is off the Internet.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
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, Mark Evans Tech, Gadgetell, @andrewbaron, GigaOM, Business Wire, Twittercism, PC World, @scobleizer, The Next Web, Neowin.net, TechCrunch and PC Magazine
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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
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 …
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, more at Mediagazer », 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
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”?
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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Digital Trends, Digits, hsgac.senate.gov and PC World
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
