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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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PC World, App Advice, TUAW, MacStories, Gizmodo, Edible Apple, MacGazette.net, Electronista, @bestbuy and GottaBeMobile
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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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SAI, Geek.com, Technologizer, Engadget, 9 to 5 Mac, TechCrunch, Geekosystem, Gizmodo Australia, @grahams, DailyFinance, Engadget and AppleInsider
Apple:
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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Apple, Fast Company, Gizmodo, Fortune, The Apple Core Blog, Phones Review, Engadget, PC Magazine, Digital Inspiration …, Webomatica, MediaPost, @joehewitt, Stage Two, The Toybox Blog, Engadget, Podcasting News, broadstuff, AllNewsMac, MacRumors, Examiner, everythingiCafe, @dannysullivan, Hardware 2.0 Blog, Macworld, PE Hub Blog, eHomeUpgrade, FierceWireless, Reuters, Internet2Go, Between the Lines Blog, Digital Daily, TechFlash, @scobleizer and Laughing Squid
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
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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Twittercism
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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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mocoNews, @jack, Gizmodo, MacStories, Pulse2, SAI, VatorNews, @josh_smith, Erictric and @fromedome
Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
March Madness Comes to the iPad, for Free — Big sports events generally shy away from the Web, because they're still worried-with good reason-about trading analog dollars for digital dimes. — One exception to the rule has been the annual March Madness NCAA college basketball tournament …
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SAI, WPCentral.com, Switched and GigaOM, more at Mediagazer »
Ingrid Lunden / mocoNews:
Nielsen: Apple And RIM, Not Android, Are Winning The U.S. Smartphone Race — Google's Android OS is leading the pack for smartphone market share in the U.S., but when it comes to the largest smartphone manufacturer, RIM (NSDQ: RIMM) and Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) are neck-in-neck for the top position.
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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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Between the Lines Blog, @carnage4life, Computerworld, SAI, BetaNews, Gadgets DNA, Pocket-lint, GottaBeMobile, Edible Apple, Phones Review and LAPTOP Magazine
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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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Post Tech, Fast Company, Epicenter, The Next Web, SAI, @danprimack, PE Hub Blog and Reuters, Thanks:srikardhanakoti
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, DSLreports, Between the Lines Blog, SlashGear and Phones Review
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, Geek.com and PhoneDog.com, 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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Softpedia News, Gadget Lab, App Advice and Macworld
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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TechEye, topics.scmp.com, IntoMobile, textually.org and Slashdot
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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The Register, BBC, Guardian, TG Daily, PC Pro, Daily Mail and TechEye
Desire Athow / ITProPortal:
Exclusive : Nvidia Confirms Samsung Tegra 2 Design Win — Semiconductor giant Nvidia has confirmed to ITProPortal that Samsung will use the Nvidia Tegra 2 system on chip on some of its smartphones but, strangely enough, will not apparently differentiate between the two variants.
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SlashGear, Android Community, Engadget, PhoneArena, Android Phone Fans, Electronista, Softpedia News, Fonehome, IntoMobile and Phones Review
Florian Mueller / FOSS Patents:
Microsoft and Google jointly sue GeoTag Inc. in order to invalidate a patent asserted against more than 300 entities — Google and Microsoft have joined forces to take down a Texas company's geotagging patent that they claim has been used in lawsuits against more than 300 entities, many of which are customers of the two companies.
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TechCrunch, Inquirer and TechEye
The Scholarly Kitchen:
The Battle for Control — What People Who Worry About the Internet Are Really Worried About — Posted by Kent Anderson under Authority, Authors, Controversial Topics, Historical, Nostalgia, Social Role, Technology, Tools, World of Tomorrow — Over the past few years …
Mike Butcher / TechCrunch Europe:
Disney acquires gaming engine startup to build HTML5 games outside of App stores — Disney has acquired an HTML5 gaming engine startup called Rocket Pack, based out of Helsinki, Finalnd. A Disney spokesperson told us today, exclusively: “We can confirm that The Walt Disney Company has acquired Rocketpack …
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SAI, Thanks:mikebutcher
Electronista:
AT&T to get iPhone Personal Hotspot with iOS 4.3 on March 11 — AT&T on Wednesday night confirmed with Electronista that it would start supporting the Personal Hotspot feature in sync with the launch of iOS 4.3. Subscribers will have the same support as Verizon customers when the update pushes out to the GSM iPhone 4 on March 11.
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MacNN, Thanks:diggretweets
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Nilay Patel / Engadget:
Apple releases iOS 4.3 with iPad 2, includes new AirPlay features and FaceTime
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Apple, Softpedia News, App Advice, VentureBeat, SFWeekly, AppleInsider, Engadget, PC World, Pulse2, PSFK, BetaNews, BGR, BGR, @jasonkincaid, @sgtdag, Zatz Not Funny!, TechCrunch, Guardian, iThinkDifferent, MacStories, Inquirer, Macworld, IntoMobile, internetnews.com, Phones Review, Gizmodo, Mobilized and Gizmodo
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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The Register, Gizmodo, PC World, @aplusk, Technically Incorrect, Twittercism, Geekosystem, @aplusk, @bill_gross, SAI, Gawker, The Huffington Post and Gizmodo Australia
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
Pradeep / WMPoweruser.com:
Microsoft Resumes Windows Phone 7 Update To Samsung Devices — Microsoft pushed a small update last week to the Windows Phone 7 devices which improved the update process itself. The update process was successful for over 90% of the devices whereas some devices had problems.
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PC World, Hardware 2.0 Blog, Inquirer, DailyTech, Engadget, GeekSmack, SlashGear, WinRumors, The Next Web and Neowin.net
Andy Greenberg / The Firewall:
Documents Reveal TSA Research Proposal To Body-Scan Pedestrians, Train Passengers — A sample streetside scan image from American Sciences & Engineering. — Updated with the TSA's response below, which denies implementing airport-style scans in mass transit.
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Gawker and Threat Level
