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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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LAPTOP Magazine, Network World, Hardware 2.0 Blog, Ubergizmo, Gadgetell, Product Reviews, VentureBeat, 9 to 5 Mac, TiPb, AppleInsider, LiewCF.com, Engadget, Geek.com, Erictric, TUAW, Examiner, CrunchGear, DisplayBlog, 9 to 5 Mac, MobileWhack, GigaOM, iClarified, BGR, Shiny Objects, Phones Review, Liliputing, Edible Apple, techeblog.com, Electronista, Gizmodo, Technabob and everythingiCafe
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Eric Slivka / MacRumors:
iPad 2 Teardown: A5, ‘Neat and Tidy’ Interior, Massive But Thin Battery
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9 to 5 Mac, IntoMobile, PC Magazine and CrunchGear
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 …
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MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Twitter Drops The Ecosystem Hammer: Don't Try To Compete With Us On Clients, Focus On Data And Verticals
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Ars Technica, Taptivate, The Next Web, Regular Geek, Softpedia News, Techie Buzz, Engadget, Stowe Boyd, WPCentral.com, BetaNews, Pocket-lint, @carnage4life, ReadWriteWeb, @twitterapi, @dracos, paidContent, Oaggle, Joel Housman, @fredericl, @jason and Pulse2
Jesse Stay / Stay N' Alive:
Twitter is Finally Doing the Right Thing
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TechnoBuffalo, Thanks:jesse
Dave Winer / Scripting News:
Twitter's new developer roadmap
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MacStories, internetnews.com, GigaOM, @m242, @timbray and Threat Level
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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Engadget, TUAW, CNET News, App Advice, Bloomberg, IntoMobile, Mashable!, PalmAddicts and AppleInsider, 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, VentureBeat, Macworld and Bloomberg
Om Malik / GigaOM:
Are You Ready for the New Peer-to-Peer Economy? — Unless you really don't give two hoots about the world of technology, it's highly unlikely you would have missed the big brouhaha between San Francisco-based startup Square and VeriFone, a payment processing services provider.
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
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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Techie Buzz, Ubergizmo, BlogsDNA, Softpedia News and Phones Review
Arik Hesseldahl / NewEnterprise:
Despite the Quake, Japan's Internet Connections Are Going Strong — While the damage and casualties in Japan are still being assessed one bit of good news concerning the events in that country is that one key piece of infrastructure has managed to stay up and running despite the massive earthquake and tsunami waves: The Internet.
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Renesys Blog and Wall Street Journal
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Lucas Mearian / Computerworld:
Japan quake could hit semiconductor production, prices
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NBC Bay Area, IEEE Spectrum Online, Electronista, Tech Trader Daily, Softpedia News, CNET News and Between the Lines Blog
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, GottaBeMobile, 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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LAPTOP Magazine, App Advice, Examiner, ITProPortal, Gadget Lab, The Atlantic Online, Techland, Electronista, Pocket-lint, Geek.com, GottaBeMobile, SAI, TiPb, CNET News, Fonehome, Pulse2, Apple Bitch, MacStories, AppleInsider, Redmond Pie, 9 to 5 Mac, thinq_, everythingiCafe, Ubergizmo, Phones Review, PhoneArena, Fast Company, Edible Apple, Gadgets DNA, MacHackPC and TUAW
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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MacNN, 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 …
Ted Samson / InfoWorld:
Apple vs. Microsoft: A tale of two mobile updates — You can learn a lot about the positives and negatives of Apple and Microsoft by the way they update their mobile platforms — It's remarkable how much you can learn about a company from something as seemingly simple as a point update to its mobile platform.
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The Windows Blog, PC Pro, LiveSide.net and Slashdot
