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Adam Satariano / Bloomberg:
Apple May Sell 600,000 IPad 2s in Debut, Outpacing First Model — Apple Inc. (AAPL) may sell 600,000 of the second version of the iPad when it debuts this weekend, extending the device's lead in a crowding market. — The iPad 2 goes on sale on Apple's website at 4 a.m. New York time …
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Sarah Rotman Epps / Forrester Blogs:
Why iPad 2 Won't Have Much Competition In 2011—Unless It's From Amazon — Forrester published a new report today making the call that the iPad challengers that have been announced so far—Android Honeycomb tablets from Motorola, Toshiba, and others, as well as the BlackBerry PlayBook and HP TouchPad …
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Inquirer, Music Ally, Cult of Mac, Appolicious Advisor, 9 to 5 Mac, Fortune, eWeek, AppleInsider, Mobile Entertainment, SAI, GigaOM and FierceWireless
Larry Dignan / Between the Lines Blog:
Tokyo earthquake, tsunami puts data centers, cloud services at risk — Japan was reeling after an 8.9 magnitude earthquake and tsunami that slammed into Tokyo at midday local time. As a result, much of the Pacific Ocean is under a tsunami warning. The disaster comes as many tech giants …
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@google:
Google Person Finder available after earthquake in Japan to help you get information about loved ones. http://goo.gl/rlR07
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Fast Company, Fortune, Engadget, CNN, Search Engine Land, Mashable!, GottaBeMobile, Neowin.net, Gearlog, WebProNews, Faster Forward, @googleearth, @youtube, Tnooz, The Huffington Post and Boing Boing
Martin Bryant / The Next Web:
Apple iPad 2 now available online in the US — A little ahead of the advertised official 1am PT launch time, Apple's iPad 2 has gone live today on the company's US store. — There are no surprises here of course - if you're after the wi-fi only model, it's $499 for the 16GB model …
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9 to 5 Mac, BGR, TUAW, App Advice, GottaBeMobile, GeekSmack and TechCrunch
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Katie Marsal / AppleInsider:
Online iPad 2 orders from Apple estimated to ship in 2-3 weeks [u] — Apple on Friday began accepting orders online for the iPad 2, and the first buyers were told to expect the tablet to ship within two to three weeks [updated]. — While initial orders were said to ship in two to three days …
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Network World, Gearlog and GottaBeMobile
Instapaper Blog:
Instapaper 3.0 is here! — Instapaper 3.0 for iPhone and iPad is now available in the App Store, and I've updated the Instapaper website to include many of its new features as well. This is the biggest update Instapaper has ever had in one version, and I'm proud to finally show it to you.
Connie Loizos / PE Hub Blog:
Disqus to Facebook: “We Aren't Shaking In Our Boots” — Last night, reading a TechCrunch profile of the weeks-old startup Zaarly, it was possible to imagine that the company — whose mobile app connects people with things that they don't have the time or resources to secure themselves - could be the next Foursquare.
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Ashlee Vance / Business Week:
Apple's Jobs Razzes Chip Partner Samsung — The South Korean conglomerate makes the speedy chips in Apple's mobile devices but can't create a hit of its own — Steve Jobs likes to poke bears. The Apple (AAPL) chief executive officer has ribbed the likes of IBM (IBM), Google (GOOG), Adobe (ADBE), and Microsoft (MSFT).
Andrew Orlowski / The Register:
Why Nokia failed: ‘Wasted 2,000 man years’ on UIs that didn't work — For want of a nail, the Kingdom was lost? — When Nokia CEO Stephen Elop announced that Nokia was abandoning its development of its own smartphone platforms and APIs, and betting the farm on somebody else's, many people asked why it was necessary.
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MobileCrunch and My Nokia Blog
Robin Schriebman / Gmail Blog:
Click to call phone numbers — With the ability to call phones built right into Gmail, you no longer have to get out your phone and retype a number anytime someone send you one in an email or chat message. Starting today, you'll see that phone numbers appear as links, like this:
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Screenwerk, Marketing Pilgrim, Lifehacker, Ubergizmo, Techie Buzz and Examiner
Joe Mullin / paidContent:
Amazon Ditches Illinois Affiliates (Including Roger Ebert) To Avoid Web Tax — Illinois Governor Pat Quinn signed a bill into law Thursday that will require Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) and other internet retailers that use “affiliates” in the state to start paying the state's 6.25 percent sales tax.
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SAI, Examiner, Post Tech, Direct Match Media, Taxing Matters, CNET News, Wall Street Journal, GeekWire, The Next Web, Peter O'Kelly's Reality Check and Xconomy
Nick Bilton / Bits:
If You Bought Apple Stock Instead of Products — Let us pretend for a moment that the year is 1997 and you're in the market for a new laptop computer. You want the top-of-the-line product at the time, so you opt for the newly released Apple Computer PowerBook G3 250 laptop.
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TechCrunch, TUAW, VatorNews, CNET News, Gizmodo, Electricpig.co.uk, NBC Bay Area and SAI
The Official Google Blog:
Hide sites to find more of what you want — Over the years we've experimented with a number of ways to help you personalize the results you find on Google, from SearchWiki to stars in search to location settings. Now there's yet another way to find more of what you want on Google by blocking the sites you don't want to see.
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Frederic Lardinois / NewsGrange:
Google Now Lets You Block Sites You Don't Like Directly from Your Search Results
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Digital Trends, L.A. Times Tech Blog, Fortune, AdExchanger.com and GigaOM
Ryan Naraine / Zero Day Blog:
Charlie Miller wins Pwn2Own again with iPhone 4 exploit — VANCOUVER — Charlie Miller kept his Pwn2Own winning streak intact with another successful hack of an Apple product. — Miller (right), renowned for his work breaking into MacBook machines with Safari vulnerabilities and exploits …
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The Register, Redmond Pie, PalmAddicts, Softpedia News and Neowin.net
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Ryan Naraine / Zero Day Blog:
Pwn2Own 2011: BlackBerry falls to WebKit browser attack
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Business Week:
China's Facebook Syndrome — Censorship hinders access to China's online markets — Since 2009, China has blocked Facebook, the world's largest online social media network. This year, Renren, one of China's largest social networks, plans to raise $500 million on the New York Stock Exchange (NYX).
Arik Hesseldahl / NewEnterprise:
Dell's Number Two In The PC Market Again, Thanks To The iPad — Having languished in third place behind Hewlett-Packard and Acer for some time, Dell finally scrambled its way back to the PC market's number two spot during the fourth quarter of 2010, a new survey by research firm iSuppli says.
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Inquirer, iSuppli, SlashGear, Softpedia News, Softpedia News and The Tech Report
Stu Woo / Wall Street Journal:
E-Book Lending Takes Off — New Online Clubs That Let Readers Share Have Drawbacks but Worry Publishers — Electronic-book lending isn't just for friends anymore. — In the past few months, online clubs with such names as BookLending.com and Lendle.me have proliferated.
Rafael Rivera / Within Windows:
Yahoo fixes their implementation of IMAP, finally — Back in January, I wrote about a Yahoo Mail issue that affected smartphones such as Windows Phone and the iPhone. To quickly summarize, whenever a smartphone checked for new Yahoo mail, the server would transmit more information than needed.
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GigaOM, eWeek, The Register, Windows Phone Secrets, InfoWorld, Electronista, Engadget, GeekWire, Softpedia News, O'Grady's PowerPage, PhoneArena, Ubergizmo, Mobilized, Download Squad, ThinkMobile, pocketnow.com, All about Microsoft Blog, WinRumors, WMPoweruser.com and WPCentral.com, Thanks:withinrafael
Cade Metz / The Register:
Google contradicts own counsel in face of antitrust probe — Admits existence of search algorithm whitelists — Google has admitted that it uses whitelists to manually override its search algorithms, more than a year after its European corporate counsel denied the existence of whitelists …
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Search Engine Land, Search Engine Watch, State of Search, SEO Book.com and Post Tech
Tim Robbins / NaviGadget:
FCC has had enough with GPS and cell jammers — Did you know US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) in February announced [pdf] that they were going to step up their enforcement against GPS jammer devices? They want everyone to know that marketing, sale, and use of cellphone and GPS jammers is illegal.
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GPS Tracklog, Digital Trends, PhoneArena and Engadget
Chris Davies / SlashGear:
Flash Player 10.2 for Motorola XOOM due March 18 — Adobe has announced that the Flash Player 10.2 update for Android 3.0.1 Honeycomb tablets such as the Motorola XOOM will be released on March 18. Made available through the Android Market, as with the current Flash Player 10.1 release …
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Adobe Flash Player Team Blog, ZDNet, The Toybox Blog, AndroidGuys, Droid Life and Liliputing
Cecilia Kang / Post Tech:
Apple changes purchases policy to protect kids on iPad, iPhone games — Apple said Thursday that it changed its policy for how purchases can be made within applications on the iPhone and iPad, an attempt to protect users, particularly children, from accidentally racking up iTunes charges.
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The Toybox Blog, Geek.com, Gadgetell, Edge Online, Nicke's shared items …, Ars Technica, Engadget, TG Daily, MacRumors, ITProPortal, Examiner, RazorianFly, TidBITS, MobileWhack, 9 to 5 Mac, paidContent, TiPb, PhoneArena, iClarified, App Advice, MacStories, Erictric, SlashGear, Pulse2, CrunchGear, AppleInsider, MobileCrunch, iLounge, SAI, Hillicon Valley and Phone Scoop
Evelyn M. Rusli / DealBook:
Beyond Facebook, SecondMarket Opens Its Doors to Thousands — The marketplace for private Internet companies is about to get a bit more crowded. — SecondMarket, an exchange for alternative investments, will introduce a new trading platform on Friday that will integrate social media …
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Robin Wauters / TechCrunch:
After Amazon, Masterobjects Takes Google To Court Over Instant Search Patent — Yesterday, I broke the story of a small search software outlet named Masterobjects taking on Amazon.com in a notable patent infringement lawsuit. — The patent-in-suit, US patent no. 7,752,326 …
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Marketing Pilgrim, GeekWire and TechFlash
Farhad Manjoo / Slate:
Why we need to get rid of anonymous comments. — Once or twice a week, I get a letter taking me to task for Slate's commenting policy. The reader wants to tell me that I suck, but he doesn't want to log in to Slate's comment system using his credentials for Facebook, Google, Yahoo, or Twitter.
