Techmeme: iPad 2 line watch: the few, the proud, the soaking wet (updating) (Joanna Stern/Engadget)

4:40 AM ET, March 12, 2011

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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!

Discussion: VentureBeat, 9 to 5 Mac, AppleInsider, Examiner, Product Reviews, Engadget, TiPb, 9 to 5 Mac, GigaOM, Geek.com, Edible Apple, LiewCF.com, Erictric, CrunchGear, MobileWhack, BGR, Ubergizmo, DisplayBlog, TUAW, Shiny Objects, Liliputing, iClarified, Electronista, Gizmodo, everythingiCafe and Technabob

Eric Slivka / MacRumors:

iPad 2 Teardown: A5, ‘Neat and Tidy’ Interior, Massive But Thin Battery — The iPad 2 has only been out for about an hour, but the folks at iFixit already have a 16 GB Wi-Fi model in hand and are tearing it down to see just what's inside the revamped version of Apple's popular tablet device.

Discussion: PC Magazine, CrunchGear and Shiny Objects

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 …

Discussion: Ars Technica, Taptivate, The Next Web, Engadget, paidContent, Techie Buzz, WPCentral.com, Pocket-lint, @carnage4life, ReadWriteWeb, @twitterapi, @dracos, BetaNews, @fredericl, @jason, Joel Housman, Stowe Boyd, Oaggle and Pulse2

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.

Discussion: MacStories, @m242, internetnews.com, GigaOM, @timbray and Threat Level

Jesse Stay / Stay N' Alive:
Twitter is Finally Doing the Right Thing

Discussion: TechnoBuffalo, Thanks:jesse

Jolie O'Dell / Mashable!: Twitter to Devs: Don't Make Twitter Clients... Or Else

Joanna Stern / Engadget:

iPad 2 line watch: the few, the proud, the soaking wet (updating) — Last night you couldn't walk down the street in New York City without becoming seriously soaked and breaking your umbrella, but you didn't really think that would stop those crazy Apple fans, did you?

Discussion: AppleInsider, TechCrunch, Mashable!, AppleInsider, VentureBeat, GeekWire, Shiny Objects, CNET News, techblog.dallasnews.com and Macworld

Josh Ong / AppleInsider:
Impressive lines suggest first day iPad 2 sales could hit 500k, analyst says

Discussion: Macworld, Electronista, GigaOM and Bloomberg

Katie Marsal / AppleInsider:
Online iPad 2 orders from Apple estimated to ship in 2-3 weeks [u]

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 …

Discussion: Geek.com, CrunchGear, DisplayBlog, Teching It Easy, Gearlog and GigaOM

Tim Hornyak / CNET News:

Twitter, Facebook vital as Japan cell networks jam — Japanese are using social networks like Twitter, Facebook, and Mixi as cell phone networks are jammed following the 8.9-magnitude earthquake and subsequent tsunami that struck northern Japan on Friday, killing at least 300 and leaving nearly 500 missing.

Discussion: Computerworld, The Register, internetnews.com, All Facebook, GeekWire, Boing Boing, @r and NBC Bay Area

Lucas Mearian / Computerworld:
Japan quake could hit semiconductor production, prices

Discussion: Electronista, IEEE Spectrum Online and Tech Trader Daily

Matt Hamblen / Computerworld:
‘Massive damage’ from Japan quake hits communications

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 …

Discussion: VentureBeat and SAI

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.

Discussion: The Atlantic Online, Gadget Lab, Electronista, Techland, Examiner, Pulse2, TUAW, 9 to 5 Mac, Pocket-lint, Fast Company, SAI, Geek.com, GottaBeMobile, TiPb, CNET News, Fonehome, Redmond Pie, Apple Bitch, MacStories, AppleInsider, Ubergizmo, Phones Review, thinq_, everythingiCafe, PhoneArena, Gadgets DNA, MacHackPC and Edible Apple

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 …

Discussion: Soshable, Epicenter and GigaOM

Jeff Jarvis / BuzzMachine:

Tweeters: I want a witness tag — A proposal: — It would be terribly useful if there were a separate convention for tweets from witnesses to major events so their reports can be separated from the discussion that follows. How about !jpquake for witnesses vs. #jpquake for discussion?

Discussion: Doc Searls Weblog, techPresident and Faster Forward, more at Mediagazer »

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.

Discussion: Tech Daily Dose and Inside Google, Thanks:ethanklapper

Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft Blog:

Nokia: Transition to Windows Phone to take about two years — Nokia filed on March 11 a form 20-F with the Securities and Exchange Commission which mentions a number of new tidbits about Nokia's smartphone-centric partnership with Microsoft. — The document confirms that Microsoft …

Discussion: GigaOM, InfoWorld, ThinkMobile, SAI, Internet2Go, MobileTechWorld, WMPoweruser.com, WinRumors, The Next Web, TechSpot, Neowin.net, Computerworld, WPCentral.com and Pulse2

Declan McCullagh / CNET News:

DOJ wins access to WikiLeaks-related Twitter accounts — A federal judge in Virginia today granted federal prosecutors access to WikiLeaks-related Twitter accounts, including information about what Internet and e-mail addresses are associated with them. — The 20-page ruling represents …

Discussion: Electronic Frontier Foundation, Mashable!, Agence France Presse, Post Tech, @tedr and NewEnterprise

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).

Discussion: keionline.org, DSLreports, The Register and Slashdot

Nate Anderson / Ars Technica:
Son of ACTA: meet the next secret copyright treaty

Discussion: Michael Geist Blog, PlagiarismToday and Electronista

Matt Rosoff / SAI: Silicon Alley Insider:

Big Money For Google Execs In 2011 — Four Google senior vice presidents will each collect more than $5 million in bonuses in 2011, according to a new filing with the SEC. — The big winners: — Nikesh Arora, chief business officer: $20 million in stock and $2.7 million cash.

Discussion: paidContent

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 and a half months.

Discussion: WMPoweruser.com, My Nokia Blog, WPCentral.com and Windows Phone Thoughts.com

Daniel Cawrey / thechromesource:

Chrome VP: No More Cr-48s, Chrome OS Devices This Summer — Google has been very tight-lippped about the supply of Cr-48s, who they are going to and when shipments will stop. But in a tweet sent out by VP of Product Management Sundar Pichai, the shipment of Cr-48s to users is over …

Discussion: Fortune, PC World, Gadgetell, Geek.com, Techie Buzz, ZDNet, Pulse2, Electronista and CrunchGear

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 …

Discussion: SAI, Search Engine Land and Screenwerk

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