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iFixit:
iPad 2 Wi-Fi Teardown — We got our hands on Apple's newest tablet, the iPad 2 on March 11, 2011. Follow us on Twitter to get all the latest updates. Finally!!! The iPad has come back to iFixit! And this time, it has a 2 in front of its name, hence the iPad 2!
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Network World, Hardware 2.0 Blog, Ubergizmo, AppleInsider, VentureBeat, Gadgetell, Engadget, TiPb, Examiner, Geek.com, LiewCF.com, Erictric, Product Reviews, 9 to 5 Mac, TUAW, MobileWhack, CrunchGear, DisplayBlog, 9 to 5 Mac, Edible Apple, Liliputing, GigaOM, iClarified, Phones Review, BGR, Shiny Objects, Electronista, Gizmodo, Technabob, everythingiCafe and techeblog.com
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Eric Slivka / MacRumors:
iPad 2 Teardown: A5, ‘Neat and Tidy’ Interior, Massive But Thin Battery
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PC Magazine and CrunchGear
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Twitter Drops The Ecosystem Hammer: Don't Try To Compete With Us On Clients, Focus On Data And Verticals — For much of the past year, the Twitter ecosystem has been in a state of flux. Ever since Twitter bought Tweetie and turned it into their own native iPhone app, third-party developers …
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Ars Technica, Taptivate, The Next Web, Techie Buzz, Softpedia News, Engadget, BetaNews, WPCentral.com, Stowe Boyd, paidContent, Pocket-lint, @carnage4life, ReadWriteWeb, @twitterapi, @dracos, Joel Housman, @fredericl, @jason, Oaggle and Pulse2
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Jolie O'Dell / Mashable!:
Twitter to Devs: Don't Make Twitter Clients... Or Else — Pure play Twitter clients — apps like Echofon, Twidroyd and UberTwitter — got a sharp slap on the wrist today from Twitter platform chief Ryan Sarver. — In an API announcement post, Sarver finally made clear what third-party developers …
Dave Winer / Scripting News:
Twitter's new developer roadmap — Ryan Sarver works at Twitter. He just posted a new developer roadmap, a few minutes ago. In it are all the things I was expecting: — 1. If you make a Twitter client, you have a bit of time to get out of that business. If you were thinking about writing one, don't.
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MacStories, internetnews.com, GigaOM, @m242, @timbray and Threat Level
Jesse Stay / Stay N' Alive:
Twitter is Finally Doing the Right Thing
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TechnoBuffalo, Thanks:jesse
Jay Yarow / SAI: Silicon Alley Insider:
Kleiner Perkins Already Selling Its Twitter Stock — Kleiner Perkins is already selling some of the stock it bought in Twitter just last December, Henry Blodget reports. — We heard from a source that Kleiner has already unloaded some of its stock on private markets, quickly making a profit as Twitter's valuation has skyrocketed.
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Henry Blodget / SAI:
NO CONFLICT, NO INTEREST: John Doerr, Twitter, And The Rise Of Secondary Private Markets — Legendary venture capitalist John Doerr is said to have once described his investment philosophy as “no conflict, no interest.” — In other words, when Doerr and venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins …
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Softpedia News
Mark Gurman / 9 to 5 Mac:
Apple facing iPad 2 shortages, poor retail launch planning — Apple has been hyping up today's iPad 2 launch since its announcement last week with its numerous newsletters, video guided tours, etc. Now it's launch day and it could be fairly said that Apple disappointed a few.
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CNET News, TUAW, Bloomberg, IntoMobile, AppleInsider, Macworld and PalmAddicts, Thanks:markgurman
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Josh Ong / AppleInsider:
Impressive lines suggest first day iPad 2 sales could hit 500k, analyst says
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Electronista, TUAW, GigaOM and Bloomberg
Katie Marsal / AppleInsider:
Online iPad 2 orders from Apple estimated to ship in 2-3 weeks [u]
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Engadget, Mashable!, App Advice, L.A. Times Tech Blog, SlashGear, VentureBeat, GigaOM, 9 to 5 Mac, TUAW, Techmamas, SAI, Tech Sanity Check Blog, Electronista, CrunchGear, TUAW, MacNN, Network World, MacRumors, GottaBeMobile, Stage Two, Softpedia News, Digits, PC World, Between the Lines Blog, Examiner, Gearlog, Macworld, The Next Web and Pulse2
Larry Dignan / Between the Lines Blog:
Motorola Xoom sales tepid; Production cuts next? — With Apple launching the iPad 2 Friday, Motorola Mobility may be forced to scramble to bolster sales of the Xoom tablet. — Jefferies analyst Peter Misek on Friday argued that earnings estimates for Motorola Mobility are too high …
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Geek.com, CrunchGear, DisplayBlog, Teching It Easy, Gearlog and GigaOM
Arn / MacRumors:
iPhone 5 Design Images with Larger Edge-to-Edge Screen? — iDealsChina claims to have engineering diagrams of the new iPhone 5. The images look pretty much like an iPhone 4 with the exception of a larger screen which seems to take up a larger portion of the front face.
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App Advice, Examiner, Gadget Lab, The Atlantic Online, ITProPortal, Electronista, Techland, Pulse2, Pocket-lint, SAI, Geek.com, GottaBeMobile, TiPb, Fast Company, CNET News, Fonehome, TUAW, Apple Bitch, MacStories, Redmond Pie, AppleInsider, Ubergizmo, thinq_, Phones Review, everythingiCafe, 9 to 5 Mac, PhoneArena, Gadgets DNA, MacHackPC and Edible Apple
Lucas Mearian / Computerworld:
Japan quake could hit semiconductor production, prices — Lesser earthquakes have in the past affected manufacturing — Computerworld - Because Japan produces more than 40% of the world's NAND flash memory chips — and 15% of its DRAM — the 8.9-magnitude earthquake that hit today …
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Electronista, IEEE Spectrum Online and Tech Trader Daily
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Tim Hornyak / CNET News:
Twitter, Facebook vital as Japan cell networks jam
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iSuppli, Computerworld, The Register, internetnews.com, All Facebook, GeekWire, Boing Boing, @r and NBC Bay Area
Matt Hamblen / Computerworld:
‘Massive damage’ from Japan quake hits communications
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ftnnews.com, Mashable!, The Huffington Post, msnbc.com, TechCrunch, Geek Gestalt, mocoNews, MediaMemo, Googling Google Blog, Bloomberg, Softpedia News, Telegraph, Network World, CNET News, VentureBeat, Data Center Knowledge, Computerworld, Pulse2, textually.org, Geek.com, Between the Lines Blog, CNET News and @google
Jason Kottke / kottke.org:
Introducing Stellar — For the past several months, I've been working on a new web app/site called Stellar. Stellar helps you discover and keep track of your favorite things online. If you like playing around on Twitter or Flickr, you'll probably enjoy Stellar.
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NetworkEffect, The Sly Oyster, The Atlantic Online and Switched
Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
Sean Parker, Music Mogul? Facebook Billionaire Mulling Warner Music Bid — Sean Parker helped create Napster, which kicked off the long and steep decline of the big music labels. Soon he might own part of one. — The digital entrepreneur is considering putting his money into a consortium bidding …
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VentureBeat and SAI
Bloomberg:
Bloomberg Game Changers: Twitter — “Bloomberg Game Changers” profiles Twitter co-founders Jack Dorsey, Evan Williams and Biz Stone. This program features interviews with Twitter Chairman Jack Dorsey; Mike Maples, founder and managing partner of venture capital firm Floodgate; Tim O'Reilly …
Michael Joggins / AndroidSPIN:
Exclusive: Pics of Verizon HTC Incredible 2 — Well look what we managed to get our hands on today...pictures of the HTC Incredible 2. It is quite the device I must say. Rocking Android 2.3 with Sense, this is one smoking hot phone. Although we haven't gotten the chance to play …
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Ubergizmo, BlogsDNA, Softpedia News and Phones Review
Jacob Schulman / Engadget:
Windows Phone 7 Marketplace hits 10,000 apps, Microsoft WP7 updates still way outnumbered — It's a milestone in the life of any OS: the day you reach that magical 10,000 app number. Windows Phone 7 is the latest kindred soul to achieve the feat, accomplishing the task in just over four …
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WMPoweruser.com, WPCentral.com, My Nokia Blog and Windows Phone Thoughts.com
Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
Marissa Mayer: 40% Of Google Maps Usage Is Mobile (And There Are 150 Million Mobile Users) — Today at a SXSW talk, Google VP Marissa Mayer took the stage to talk about location — mobile location, in particular. The theme isn't a surprise since Mayer recently shifted her role …
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Softpedia News, Search Engine Land, Screenwerk and SAI
David Hatch / NationalJournal.com:
Google's Tarnished Chrome — The search and advertising company once seemed to do no wrong. Now members of Congress aren't so sure. — Reps. Edward Markey, D-Mass., and Joe Barton, R-Texas, cochairmen of the Bipartisan Privacy Caucus and longtime members of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, don't agree on much.
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Inside Google and Tech Daily Dose, Thanks:ethanklapper
Mike Masnick / Techdirt:
US Proposals For Secret TPP ‘Son Of ACTA’ Treaty Leaked; Chock Full Of Awful Ideas — We've mentioned a couple of times that now that ACTA is “complete”, if not yet approved, USTR negotiators have moved on to what many are calling the son of ACTA in the form of the Trans Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPP).
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p2pnet, Michael Geist Blog, keionline.org, DSLreports, The Register and Slashdot
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Nate Anderson / Ars Technica:
Son of ACTA: meet the next secret copyright treaty
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PlagiarismToday, Electronista and OSNews
