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9:55 AM ET, April 10, 2011

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Electronista:
Maine school district buys iPad 2s for every kindergartner  —  Young students in Auburn, Maine will be using cutting edge technology right from the start of their school experience: the district has bought 285 iPad 2s to use for each kindergartner and teacher in the classrooms.
Marco Arment / Marco.org:
Facebook's Open Compute Project  —  Facebook just released Open Compute Project, their now-public datacenter and server design, optimized for situations in which hundreds or thousands of servers are needed such as the biggest websites and web-hosting companies.
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Amir Michael / Facebook:
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Darren Murph / Engadget:
Israeli parody details the rise and fall of Apple's iBoy, humanity as a whole (video)  —  For those unaware, Eretz Nehederet is effectively the Israeli equivalent to The Onion, and on the 1st of April, they covered the hardest-hitting piece of Apple news to cross their news desk in quite some time.
Ohad Samet / TechCrunch:
Paypal Is About To Get A Bruising From Facebook And Square  —  Editor's note: Guest author Ohad Samet is an expert in managing fraud and other risks in payments systems.  He is a cofounder of Signifyd, and years ago was a senior manager at PayPal and blogs at As Risky As It Gets and Tweets at @ohadsamet.
Patrick Garratt / VG247:
Apple poaches top UK games PR from Nintendo, Activision  —  Apple is apparently making a serious play on the UK games PR space by hiring top men from both Nintendo and Activision.  —  MCV reckons Nintendo UK PR head Rob Saunders, who announced his departure after seven years earlier this week …
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Brian Caulfield / Forbes:
Apple: The Accidental Gaming Giant
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Jenna Wortham / New York Times:
Feel Like a Wallflower?  Maybe It's Your Facebook Wall  —  ONE recent rainy night, I curled up on my couch with popcorn and Netflix Instant, ready to spend a quiet night at home.  The peace was sweet — while it lasted.  Soon, my iPhone began flashing with notifications from a handful …
Discussion: The Next Web
Mike Elgan / Computerworld:
Larry Page's first blunder  —  The Google founder is now CEO, and already he's taken a wrong turn on social networking  —  Computerworld - Eric Schmidt is out at Google.  Larry Page is in.  I miss Eric already.  —  Page, who started as CEO on Monday, wasted no time changing the company's focus and direction.
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Brian Heaton / Government Technology News:
Mayor-Elect Discusses Open Source 311 for Chicago  —  Chicago Mayor-elect Rahm Emanuel intends to eventually open the city's 311 system to the public, he announced on Wednesday, April 6, during a tour of the Microsoft Chicago Technology Center.  —  In a statement on his blog …
Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
Ad.ly Versus Facebook: Something Doesn't Add Up  —  Earlier this week we heard whispers that Facebook was clamping down on Ad.ly and Crowdrally — two services that let users post sponsored updates to their Facebook Pages.  This is important, because the companies are monetizing Facebook Page feeds …
Discussion: Ad.ly
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Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
Facebook Gives Ad.ly's Celebrity Endorsement Business the Boot
Discussion: @jason and The Next Web
Ross Dawson / Trends in the Living Networks:
SEC opens the gates to crowdfunding and a new structure of capitalism  —  This is significant.  While talk doesn't necessarily lead to action, a significant shift in capitalism could be coming.  —  On Wednesday US SEC Chairman Mary Shapiro sent a letter to Rep. Darrell Issa, chair of the House Oversight Committee.
Sara Yin / PC Magazine:
‘Anonymous’ Plans Sony Boycott on April 16  —  Say you're a hacker trying to cripple a major electronics company for suing its own users: how do you launch a cyberattack without harming the people you're trying to protect?  —  In the case of hactivist group ‘Anonymous,’ which has spent …
Parks Associates:
Parks Associates sees social gaming on track to become $5 billion industry by 2015  —  Virtual goods and new advertising revenues to drive market growth  —  Parks Associates forecasts revenues in the social gaming market will increase by five times from 2010 to 2015, due in large part …
Greg Sterling / Internet2Go:
Tablets Cannibalizing PC and Laptop Usage  —  While there are dozens of forecasts out there, most of them with aggressive predictions of growth, no one knows really how big the tablet market will be.  Much of that will depend on pricing.  Regardless, tablets are not a fad and there's considerable evidence …
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