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Apple Launches iPad 2 — All New Design is Thinner, Lighter & Faster with FaceTime, Smart Covers & 10 Hour Battery — Apple® today introduced iPad™ 2, the next generation of its magical device for browsing the web, reading and sending email, enjoying photos, watching videos …
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Joshua Topolsky / Engadget:
iPad 2 first hands-on! (update: even more video!) — Well there you have it folks — the absurdly thin new iPad 2. We just got our hands all over the next greatest tablet from Apple and it's... very much the same, save for that new body. There's no question that the industrial design is top notch …
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Daniel Eran Dilger / AppleInsider:
Apple kills fall iPad 3 rumors by calling 2011 “Year of iPad 2” — Apple has grounded speculation of a fall release of “iPad 3,” focusing its marketing message on the iPad 2 it will soon offer for sale by calling 2011 “the year of iPad 2.” — Apple's chief executive Steve Jobs noted …
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Technologizer, Engadget, TechCrunch, 9 to 5 Mac, @grahams, AppleInsider and Engadget
John Paczkowski / Digital Daily:
Apple's iPad 2 Event by the Numbers — The most important numbers by far at Apple's special event in San Francisco today were 2 (as in iPad 2) and 4.3 (as in iOS 4.3). But there plenty of others as well, each a testament to Apple's continuing dominance of the smartphone and tablet markets.
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SiliconANGLE and Mobilized
Seth Weintraub / 9 to 5 Mac:
iPad 2 will be at Best Buy at launch (Update: Sams Club+Walmart) — In case you want to sit in the parking lot of a Best Buy rather than the parking lot of an Apple Store: Best Buy will have iPad 2 at launch. Wooo! — Will the other usual suspects (Verizon, AT&T, Walmart) as well?
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App Advice, Gizmodo, SAI, Edible Apple and @bestbuy
Laura June / Engadget:
Apple slashes original iPad price to $399, iPad 2 not up for pre-order yet
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Computerworld, Open Source Blog, Geek.com, Gadgetell, Ubergizmo, TiPb, ZDNet, Phones Review, techeblog.com and newsfeed.time.com
Vlad Savov / Engadget:
iPad 2 vs. Motorola Xoom vs. HP TouchPad vs. BlackBerry PlayBook: the tale of the tape — You might recall we ran this comparison about a month back when HP's TouchPad was announced, but now we're back with a full set of 2011 devices as Apple's brand new iPad 2 has joined the fray.
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Computerworld, SAI, BetaNews, Gadgets DNA, GottaBeMobile, Pocket-lint, LAPTOP Magazine and Edible Apple
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Larry Dignan / Between the Lines Blog:
Apple's iPad 2: An incremental upgrade enough to kill the competition
Robert Scoble / Scobleizer:
No apps, no sale: iPad 2 vs. Motorola Xoom vs RIM Playbook vs HP TouchPad
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Erictric and @scobleizer, Thanks:scobleizer
Chris Barth / Invested Interest:
Charlie Sheen's TwitPics Are Worth 1000 Words, But Are They Worth $1000? — Making cash off of Charlie? — Charlie Sheen has taken the public by storm in an unparalleled media blitz; his past 48 hours have been a media explosion - from daytime television to web news publications.
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SFGate
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Edmund Lee / AdAge:
How Charlie Sheen Got His Twitter Account Verified So Fast — Ad.ly Helped Take Handle From Squatter — Only 24 hours after Charlie Sheen got started on Twitter with @CharlieSheen, he had amassed more than 900,000 followers, easily one of the fastest follower roll-ups the service has seen.
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Examiner, de.tech.ting, GQ.COM, TechCrunch, WebProNews, PE Hub Blog, Local Media Watch, The Atlantic Online, All Facebook, NBC Bay Area and PopEater, more at Mediagazer »
Chris Alexander:
Why iPad 2 doesn't have HDMI built in — One thing struck me, other than the inexplicable absence of a “retina” display in the new iPad model, about Apple's announcement today. Why did Apple not build HDMI into the iPad 2? — It's not for the lack of space.
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Engadget, MacStories, VentureBeat, IntoMobile and MobileCrunch, Thanks:chris_alexander
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Daniel Eran Dilger / AppleInsider:
Apple brings HDMI output to iPhone 4, iPad, iPad 2
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Gadget Lab, App Advice and Macworld
Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
Square Now Processing $1 Million In Mobile Payments Per Day — Mobile payments startup Square has reached a new milestone this week—the company is now processing $1 million in payments per day, co-founder Jack Dorsey just Tweeted. — Square was processing a few million in mobile transactions per week …
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VatorNews, @jack, Erictric, Pulse2, SAI, @josh_smith and @fromedome
Nilay Patel / Engadget:
Apple releases iOS 4.3 with iPad 2, includes new AirPlay features and FaceTime — Along with the iPad 2, Apple's releasing the final version of iOS 4.3, which features the Nitro Javscript engine from Safari on OS X, new iTunes Home Sharing features, and the suite of AirPlay features …
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Electronista:
AT&T to get iPhone Personal Hotspot with iOS 4.3 on March 11
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MacNN, Thanks:diggretweets
Tom Warren / WinRumors:
Man upgrades Windows 1.0 to Windows 7 [video] … One man has captured every install of Windows from 1.0 through to 7 and shared it with the world via YouTube. — The video details install processes and the UI for each version of Windows over the past 25 years and most importantly the upgrade process.
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Gizmodo, The Next Web and SlashGear
Francis Tan / The Next Web:
Beijing to track citizens with their cell phones — As if the Great Firewall is not enough, the Chinese government is now looking into monitoring the movement of 17 million cellphone users in Beijing, China by tracking the signal of their mobile devices. — Purportedly to improve Beijing's …
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topics.scmp.com, IntoMobile, textually.org and Slashdot
Alex Chitu / Google Operating System:
Google Profiles Has a New Interface — Google Profiles has a new user interface that emphasizes the profile photo, includes many new sections and uses encrypted connections. You can now click on a section of your profile to edit it, add “10 words that describe you best”, bragging rights …
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Social Web Blog, Pulse2, The Next Web, TechCrunch and louisgray.com
Reuters:
Exclusive: Twitter's Stone says no IPO or funding talks — (Reuters) - Biz Stone, the co-founder of popular microblogging site Twitter, denied a report that the firm was in talks to sell a $450 million stake of the company to a JPMorgan fund, reiterating that it was committed to remaining independent.
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SAI, The Next Web and Reuters, Thanks:srikardhanakoti
Jon Stokes / Ars Technica:
Alleged WikiLeaker could face death penalty — According to a new report from NBC News, Pfc. Bradley Manning, the soldier who allegedly put the “leaks” in WikiLeaks, could face the death penalty. On Wednesday, the US government filed 22 new charges against Manning, one of which—"aiding the enemy"—is a capital offense.
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msnbc.com, CBS News, Gawker, Boing Boing, Pulse2, Examiner, Guardian and The Next Web
Sydney Morning Herald:
The anti-social network: boys jailed for $26m ‘Crimebook’ scam — Nick Webber pictured on a Facebook page. — Two British schoolboys have been jailed for up to five years for running a $26 million Facebook-style website for criminals dubbed “Crimebook”. — Nick Webber, 19, and Ryan Thomas …
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Guardian, BBC, Daily Mail and TechEye
Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
Exclusive: Microsoft Mulls Legally Poking Facebook Over Ad Talent Raid — Microsoft-furious over a recent talent grab of its top advertising exec by Facebook-has been considering a wide range of options, including legal action to block the move, according to sources close to the situation.
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Pulse2, The Next Web and SAI
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
In With A Bang, Out With A Whimper: Calacanis Walks From TechCrunch Lawsuit — The PR stunt/blatant shakedown that so many tech journalists fell for is now apparently over. Just one business day after the conclusion of Jason Calacanis' Launch Conference he's filed a court document asking …
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Pulse2
Marshall Kirkpatrick / ReadWriteWeb:
Ashton Kutcher's Twitter Account Hacked at TED — TV star Ashton Kutcher may have more followers than all but 5 other people on Twitter (6,393,559) but he apparently has at least one snarky and politically minded adversary at the prestigious TED conference this week.
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Gizmodo, @aplusk, Technically Incorrect, Twittercism, @bill_gross, SAI, Geekosystem, @aplusk, Gawker, The Huffington Post, Gizmodo Australia and The Next Web
Walter S. Mossberg / Personal Technology:
A ‘Pear’ Gives Apple Devices an Easy Way to Control TVs — Watching television in the digital home today too often becomes a process of juggling multiple remote controls, trying to remember which “input” on the TV matches which set-top box you use, and peering at a long listing of channels that resembles a spreadsheet.
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CNET News
Zach Epstein / BGR:
AT&T says iPhone users aren't fleeing to Verizon faster than expected — Speaking to reporters on Wednesday, AT&T Mobility boss Ralph de la Vega said that iPhone users aren't defecting to Verizon Wireless any faster than the carrier expected. “We haven't seen any surprises …
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Wall Street Journal
Matt Rosoff / SAI: Silicon Alley Insider:
Steve Jobs: Tablets Are Not PCs And Our Competitors Don't Get It — The iPad is not a computer, and competitors who approach it like the PC market will fail, says Apple's Steve Jobs. — Like he did at last year's iPad introduction, Jobs closed today's iPad 2 event by talking …
