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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, Digital Trends, RazorianFly, Examiner, MacRumors, I4U News, Electronista, 3anime.com, PadGadget, iClarified, SlashGear and Edible Apple
Jack Purcher / Patently Apple:
Apple in the Sky with Diamonds: A Cloud Based Safe Deposit Box — With OS X nearing its launch this summer, we just might have gotten a glimpse at either a Time Machine or MobileMe upgrade in one of this week's patents. Apple wants to beef up sensitive document security for average consumers …
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Electronista, 9 to 5 Mac, MacRumors and RazorianFly
Horace Dediu / asymco:
The lives and deaths of mobile platforms — When Stephen Elop said that Nokia and Microsoft sought to create a “three horse race” he implied that there were only two viable mobile ecosystems today. With that statement he sought to deprecate or declare “end of life” two platforms …
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
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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Mark Suster / Both Sides of the Table:
Twitter, I love you man, but ...
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TechCrunch, @dickc, Why does everything suck?, @raulsantaella, Victus Spiritus and @msuster, Thanks:pkedrosky
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 …
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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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p2pnet, ArabCrunch, Security Watch, thinq_, @mattcutts, ReadWriteWeb, VentureBeat, Aljazeera, L.A. Times Tech Blog, Guardian, The Huffington Post and Friending Facebook Blog
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Quora:
What will happen to http://bit.ly links when Gaddafi shuts down the Internet in Libya due to protests?
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@jason, ...My heart's in Accra, SAI, @borthwick, Domain Name Wire, Mashable! and CenterNetworks
Agence France Presse:
Nokia head swaps Microsoft shares for own firm: report — HELSINKI — Nokia chief executive and former Microsoft executive Stephen Elop, who has sealed a tie up deal with the US giant, this week swapped all of his Microsoft shares for Nokia stock, reports said Friday.
Hannah Seligson / New York Times:
Jilted in the U.S., a Site Finds Love in India — IN 2008, three young guys in Manhattan started Ignighter.com, a dating Web site focused on twentysomethings. They sought to set themselves apart by enabling members to set up group dates: One member, serving as a point person …
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
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
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”?
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The Feast
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, Technology Liberation Front, Digits, hsgac.senate.gov and PC World
