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Bloomberg:
Apple Said to Prepare March IPad 3 Debut With Sharper Screen, Faster Chip — Apple Inc. (AAPL)'s next iPad, expected to go sale in March, will sport a high-definition screen, run a faster processor and work with next-generation wireless networks, according to three people familiar with the product.
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Mike Masnick / Techdirt:
SOPA Delayed; Cantor Promises It Won't Be Brought To The Floor Until ‘Issues Are Addressed’ — Some late breaking news here: following Lamar Smith's announcement that the new manager's amendment for SOPA will remove DNS blocking (to be added back at a later date after it's been “studied") …
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Timothy B. Lee / Ars Technica:
Under voter pressure, members of Congress backpedal (hard) on SOPA — The public outcry over the Stop Online Piracy Act and Protect IP Act seems to have gotten so loud that even members of Congress can hear it. On Thursday we covered the news that Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-VT) was expressing second thoughts about SOPA's DNS provisions.
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Colleen Taylor / GigaOM:
Tim O'Reilly: Why I'm fighting SOPA — As the debate about the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) rages on from Silicon Valley to Washington DC, a number of the technology industry's most influential leaders have come out against the proposed legislation, which would give the government …
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Tim O'Reilly and TomsTechBlog.com
Eric Slivka / MacRumors:
Tim Cook's Email to Apple Staff Regarding Supplier Responsibility Report — Earlier today, Apple released its 2012 Supplier Responsibility Progress Report, an annual report that was supplemented for the first time by a public list of over 150 companies that supply components and manufacturing services to the company.
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MacGeneration, Examiner, Agence France Presse, iDownloadBlog.com, BGR, PC World, WebProNews, Macworld, 9to5Mac, Electronista, L.A. Times Tech Blog and Fast Company
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Brian Reed / This American Life Updates:
A response to the news from Apple — Producer Brian Reed writes: — There's news from Apple today, relating to some of the issues discussed in our program last week “Mr. Daisey and the Apple Factory.” — For the first time, Apple has released a list of companies that build its products around the world.
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New York Times and TUAW
Harrison Weber / The Next Web:
Apple becomes the first technology company to join the Fair Labor Association
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PR Newswire, Mashable!, PhoneArena and Daring Fireball
Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Fortune:
Apple factory inspections turn up scores of labor violations
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Harrison Weber / The Next Web:
Apple reveals a list of its suppliers for the first time
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Mike Maples / Roger and Mike's Hypernet Blog:
Technology Waves and Valuations: Are We in a Social Networking Bubble? — Note: This topic is partly related to the Hypernet but also related to where we are in the Social Networking cycle. It's an atypical post for this blog, but a lot of readers asked me about this and how it might relate to my prior post on Technology Waves.
Josh Lowensohn / CNET:
ITC: Motorola does not violate Apple patents — The U.S. International Trade Commission ruled that Motorola's Droid smartphones do not violate three Apple patents, dealing a blow to Apple's legal offensive against the Android smartphone ecosystem. — The ruling is preliminary …
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Daniel J. Wakin / New York Times:
Ringing Finally Ended, but There's No Button to Stop Shame — They were baying for blood in the usually polite precincts of Avery Fisher Hall. — The unmistakably jarring sound of an iPhone marimba ring interrupted the soft and spiritual final measures of Mahler's Symphony No. 9 at the New York Philharmonic on Tuesday night.
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Daring Fireball, msnbc.com, MacNN, Mobiledia, thousandfold echo, Betabeat, The Verge, CNET and Superconductor
Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Fortune:
Snapshot of the computer market, with and without iPad — If tablets are computers, Apple's share of the global market now dwarfs its competitors — Click to enlarge. Source: Deutsche Bank — Deutsche Bank's Chris Whitmore came away from this year's Consumer Electronics Show …
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Mashable!, TUAW, MacDailyNews and Daring Fireball
Dave Copeland / ReadWriteWeb:
Pinspire, The Hottest New Startup To Completely Rip Off The Hottest New Startup — It's no mistake that Pinspire.com is built on the same concept, has the same look, the same color scheme and even the same feel to its cursive logo as the hugely popular social bookmarking site Pinterest.
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@jason, Business Insider and @cdixon
Drew Olanoff / The Next Web:
Flickr to remove features including Google's Picnik, but promises big things in 2012 — In a blog post today, Flickr has promised that a big 2012 is in store for its users. The massive photo sharing community owned by Yahoo! has announced some “New Year's cleaning”, which includes the removal …
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Flickr Blog, Softpedia News, GeekWire, Thomas Hawk Digital Connection, @stshank and @theromit
Arnold Kim / MacRumors:
OnLive Desktop for iPad Now Available on App Store — OnLive's virtual Windows 7 / Office app for the iPad has arrived on the App Store. As we reported earlier this week, OnLive Desktop offers iPad users access to full-featured versions of Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint.
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Frederic Lardinois / SiliconFilter:
Hands-On With OnLive's Windows 7 iPad App: Nice Tech Demo, Not That Useful Yet
