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1:25 PM ET, March 4, 2011

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Bloomberg:
Apple Negotiating Unlimited Usage of Music Downloads  —  Apple Inc. (AAPL) is in talks with record companies to give iTunes customers easier access to music they've purchased across multiple devices, said three people with knowledge of the plans.  —  Apple is negotiating …
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Stewart Meagher / thinq_:   Apple in talks over iTunes in the cloud
Vlad Savov / Engadget:
Samsung finds parts of Galaxy Tab 10.1 ‘inadequate’ compared to iPad 2, reconsiders pricing  —  Whether you love or loathe Apple, you have to be happy with the company's aggressive upgrade of the iPad.  It has led to Samsung, purveyor of an Android 3.0 tablet by the name of Galaxy Tab 10.1 …
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Krista Pappas / Bing:
Bing Welcomes KAYAK  —  Since the launch of Bing, our goal has been to create a new and different search experience focused on helping you make faster, more informed decisions.  We set out to do this by delivering great results, organizing the results in more visual and useful …
Bloomberg:
Microsoft Is Said to Plan Windows Release for Tablets in 2012  —  Microsoft Corp., the world's largest software maker, won't release a competitor to Apple Inc. and Google Inc.'s tablet operating systems until the 2012 back-to- school season, people with knowledge of the plans said.
Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
CBS Acquires TV Guide For Online Video Clicker, Jim Lanzone Named President Of CBS Interactive  —  CBS has acquired Clicker, a TV Guide for internet programming, according to a release just issued by the companies.  Clicker's CEO Jim Lanzone has been named President of CBS Interactive.
Joshua Topolsky / Engadget:
It's Apple's ‘post-PC’ world — we're all just living in it  —  On Wednesday, Apple introduced the world to the iPad 2.  A beautiful device, to be sure.  Feature packed?  You bet.  Soon to be selling like hotcakes?  Absolutely.  But the introduction of an iteration on an already existing product …
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John Gruber / Daring Fireball:   The Chair  —  Even the chair on the stage was the same.
Dan Frommer / SAI: Silicon Alley Insider:
AOL Buys Outside.In, Less Than $10 Million  —  AOL will announce today that it has acquired “hyper-local” blog aggregator startup Outside.In, an industry source tells us.  —  We don't know if AOL will announce how much it is paying for the company — probably not — but we're told that it is less than $10 million.
Thomas Catan / Wall Street Journal:
Web Video Rivalry Sparks U.S. Probe  —  The Justice Department is investigating whether a group representing some top technology firms is unfairly trying to smother a free rival technology for delivering online video that is backed by Google Inc., according to people familiar with the matter.
Dan Frommer / SAI: Silicon Alley Insider:
CHART OF THE DAY: 99.7% Of People Still Haven't Bought A Tablet Yet  —  Apple's iPad tablet is probably the fastest-selling new consumer electronics device ever, but the potential for growth in the tablet market for Apple, Google, RIM and others is still massive.
Discussion: Engadget, broadstuff and Gizmodo
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Kellex / Droid Life:
WiFi-only Motorola XOOM Headed to Sam's Club, Possibly Priced at $539  —  Been a lot of talk about a wifi-only Motorola XOOM lately and thanks to our friends at Sam's Club, we think it may be closer than anyone imagined and with a better-than-previously-advertised price tag.
Stephen Shankland / CNET News:
Google issues Android anti-fragmentation tool  —  Google has made good on a promise to release technology it hopes will curtail Android's fragmentation problem, a complication for programmers who want their software to run on a diversity of devices.  —  Yesterday, the company released a …
Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:
Video: Inside Google's Self-Driving Cars  —  At the TED 2011 conference this week, Google has been giving extremely rare demos of its self-driving cars.  TED attendees have even been allowed to travel inside them, on a closed course.  Below, some video of the action.  —  Google's Robot Cars
Charlie Sorrel / Gadget Lab:
Just How Bad Is the iPad 2 Camera?  —  The iPad 2's camera shoots at less than one megapixel.  Jon Snyder/Wired.com  —  It seems impossible for Apple to put a decent camera into anything but the iPhone, and despite many hopes, both cameras in the iPad 2 are about as rudimentary …
Larry Dignan / Between the Lines Blog:
AOL Tim Armstrong: After HuffPo deal closes ‘no way around’ layoffs  —  AOL CEO Tim Armstrong and Huffington Post chief Arianna Huffington have finalized their integration plans and layoffs are on tap as the acquisition nears the finish line.  —  The news isn't unexpected.
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Jesse Emspak / International Business Times:
Libya Blocks Internet Traffic  —  After slowly returning to the Internet, Libya has gone again.  —  At about 7 a.m. Eastern Time on Thursday Internet traffic coming in and out of Libya dropped to nearly zero, where it remains, according to Google's Transparency Report.
Klint Finley / ReadWriteWeb:
Chipping In to Pay the Man Who Helped Introduce the Internet to So Many of Us  —  If you used the Internet using Windows in the early to mid 90s, chances are you connected with a little program called Trumpet Winsock.  It was one of the only ways to get dial-up access using Windows 3.1.
David / TmoNews:
T-Mobile Preparing To Introduce New Broadband Plans, 20% Discount When Attached To Voice Accounts?  —  Based on information that just hit my inbox, T-Mobile is preparing to introduce new webConnect broadband rate plans some of which will qualify for a 20% discount when paired with a qualifying voice line.
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Chrome OS Get A Big Update — Two Words: Trackpad Fixes  —  A couple weeks ago, Google rolled out the beta of Chrome 10, the latest version of their web browser.  Today they're bringing it to Chrome OS too — and it contains more goodies.  Most importantly, Google is touting trackpad fixes …
Roger Capriotti / The Windows Blog:
Counting Down Internet Explorer 6 Usage Share  —  On this day a year ago, Aten Design Group hosted a funeral for IE6 in Denver, Colorado.  We heard about it and sent flowers.  While the funeral gave a strong indication of the desire to rid the world of IE6, the browser still has a presence.
Michael Joseph Gross / Vanity Fair:
A Declaration of Cyber-War  —  Last summer, the world's top software-security experts were panicked by the discovery of a drone-like computer virus, radically different from and far more sophisticated than any they'd seen.  The race was on to figure out its payload, its purpose, and who was behind it.
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Kim Zetter / Epicenter:
TED 2011: Junk Food Algorithms and the World They Feed Us
Michael Lansu / Chicago Sun Times:
Groupon sued over deal expiration dates
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Bomi Lim / Bloomberg:
South Korea Says Government Websites Attacked, Issues Alert
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