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Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Fortune:
Piper Jaffray: iPad 2 totally sold out, 70% to new buyers — By Sunday, Gene Munster's team couldn't find an Apple tablet for sale at any retail outlet — Apple Fifth Avenue Store Friday afternoon. Photo: PED — Gene Munster's team at Piper Jaffray walked the iPad 2 lines in New York City …
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Reuters:
Apple sold close to 1 million iPad 2s in weekend: analysts — (Reuters) - Analysts expect Apple Inc to have sold close to a million iPad 2 tablet computers on its debut weekend — significantly more than the first iPad, which went on sale last April. “We would not be surprised …
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Nick Clark / The Independent:
Apple rejects ‘wave and pay’ for new iPhone — Apple will not include “wave and pay” chips in the new iPhone to be released later this year, dashing industry hopes that a universal standard for the technology would be adopted in 2011. — Sources at several of the largest mobile operators …
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DSLreports:
Exclusive: AT&T To Impose 150GB DSL Cap, Overages - Notices To Go Out This Week, Capping Begins May 2 — Broadband Reports has learned, and has confirmed with AT&T, that the company will be implementing a new 150GB monthly usage cap for all DSL customers starting on May 2.
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Brian Womack / Bloomberg:
Facebook Plans to Test Groupon-Inspired Service That Offers Discount Deals — Facebook Inc. is planning to test a service that will let consumers buy discounted one-time offers as it looks for new ways to boost sales and attract local business customers. — The service will let people …
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Thomas Ricker / Engadget:
AT&T makes calling Japan free until the end of March — We imagine that many of you, like us, have been making frantic calls to friends and family in Japan over the last few days without regard to the costs. Now, in the face of otherwise devastating news, we have some good news to share courtesy …
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Emily Steel / Wall Street Journal:
Twitter's Biz Stone to Advise AOL — Internet company AOL Inc. said Twitter Co-Founder Biz Stone will become a “social impact” strategic adviser for the company, as part of its broader integration with online news site the Huffington Post. — Mr. Stone will work on cause-based initiatives …
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Arianna Huffington / The Huffington Post:
Biz Stone and the Power of Giving Back
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Social Is Too Important For Google To Screw Up With A Big Launch Circus — Google will launch a “major new social network” imminently at the SXSW conference, said Read/Write Web early this morning. They were stupendously wrong on timing - Google told us and others that there was absolutely nothing launching …
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Darren Murph / Engadget:
Apple's Phil Schiller confirms: white iPhone to be available ‘this spring’ — Whoa, Nelly. Ready for another round? The elusive white iPhone — spotted only in the hands of Woz and occasionally in those of our own Richard Lai — may ship after all. After hearing from Apple …
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Taimur Asad / Redmond Pie:
BREAKING: Apple iPad 2 Has Been Jailbroken ! [Video] — Yes you read that right ! The famous iPhone developer and hacker Comex, who previously released userland jailbreaks such as Spirit and JailbreakMe, has done the magic yet again ! … In the image attached above, you can clearly see a jailbroken iPad 2 running Cydia.
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Anthony Ha / VentureBeat:
4chan founder: Zuckerberg is “totally wrong” about online identity — Christopher Poole, the founder of controversial online image board 4chan, outlined his vision for Web-based community today at the South by Southwest Interactive conference — and yes, his ideas are in pretty sharp contrast …
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Matt Burns / CrunchGear:
The Four Big Steps To Cutting The Cord — Do it! Cut the cord and free yourself from the tyranny of the cable mafia. The movement is slowly gaining traction but the whole task is daunting. What do you do next? Where does your TV content come from? What are the options?
Marco Arment / Marco.org:
Moving on from iPad “office productivity” apps — In the last decade, Apple introduced their first line of notebooks that didn't have dial-up modems built in, because dial-up modems were on their way out and most people didn't need them anymore. But for the few that still did, they offered a little USB modem to ease the transition:
Robin Wauters / TechCrunchIT:
Intel Buys Egypt-Based SySDSoft To Boost Its 4G LTE Efforts — Intel, through stand-alone subsidiary Intel Mobile Communications, today announced that it has acquired most of the assets of SySDSoft, a Cairo, Egypt-based software company to accelerate its 4G LTE efforts.
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Zee / The Next Web:
Twitter explains why developers shouldn't build new clients — Ryan Sarver, a member of Twitter's platform/api team, took a few minutes today to address concerns about the Twitter ecosystem and in particular its announcement on Friday that developers shouldn't develop new twitter clients.
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