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9:30 AM ET, April 7, 2010

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Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
Apple Announces Mobile Ad Plans Thursday, and Google Can't Wait to Tell the FTC  —  Apple is likely to introduce its mobile ad platform Thursday at its iPhone developer event, say sources familiar with the company's plans.  Expect to hear a loud cheer from Google, Apple's former ally and current competitor.
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Tom Krazit / CNET News:
FTC circling the lawyers on Google-AdMob
Paul Harris / Guardian:
I'll stop Google taking our news for nothing, says defiant Rupert Murdoch  —  News Corp boss hails iPad as potential saviour of newspapers, but says industry must stand up for itself and charge for content  —  Rupert Murdoch has launched a spirited defence of putting up paywalls around …
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
How “Dirty” MP3 Files Are A Back Door Into Cloud DRM  —  All the big music sellers may have moved to non-DRM MP3 files long ago, but the watermarking of files with your personal information continues.  Most users who buy music don't know about the marking of files, or don't care.
Eric Savitz / Tech Trader Daily:
Will FCC Choose “The Nuclear Option” In Net Neutrality Fight?  —  Today's decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals to strike down the FCC's authority to order Comcast (CMCSA) not to throttle down traffic from BitTorrent and other file-sharing services poses a fundamental challenge to the government ability …
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Dan Gillmor / Mediactive:
Net Neutrality Has Always Been Up to Lawmakers: Will They Pay Attention Now?
Owen Thomas / VentureBeat:
Yahoo buying Foursquare for $100 million?  Let's check in.  —  A report surfaced today that Yahoo is considering buying Foursquare for $100 million.  The story, put out by Silicon Alley Insider, seems pretty preposterous, considering Foursquare is the hottest name in location-based services …
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Todd Lappin / Laughing Squid:
A 2.5 Year-Old Uses an iPad for the First Time  —  My iPhone-savvy 2.5 year-old daughter held an iPad for the very first time last night, and it turned out to be an interesting user-interface experiment.  —  As you can see, after geeking out on my Sutro Tower homescreen, she took right to it …
Paul Miller / Engadget:
Fusion Garage JooJoo review  —  We're not sure what's harder to believe: the fact that after months and months of the soap-opera-like drama that the JooJoo (formerly known as the CrunchPad) has finally landed in our hands, or that within just a few days there are now two capacitive touchscreen …
Stuart Miles / Pocket-lint:
UK iPad users blocked from App store  —  No UK iPad store means you'll need American friends to download apps  —  Apple iPad fans about to import an iPad?in the UK won't be able to access the UK app store Pocket-lint has learnt.  —  The news will no doubt come as a surprise …
Andy Plesser / Beet.TV:
The Problems with the iPad and Streaming Video  —  While the iPad may be a marvelous and elegant new kind of computing device, and our show looks very nice on it indeed, the inconsistent WiFi connection and subsequent buffering is insufferable for consuming streaming video.
Discussion: BBC, Silicon Alley Insider and Lost Remote, Thanks:beet_tv
The Technium:
How to Thrive Among Pirates  —  Shangri-La is the official name of a small Chinese town in a mountainous valley on the edge of the Tibetan plateau.  Formerly called Zhongdian, the town was renamed Shangri-La by local businessmen with the blessings of the national government in order to spur tourism.
Discussion: open
Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:
Say What?  Yes, You Heard Right - Zynga Could Be Worth $5 Billion  —  Zynga, the leading social-gaming company behind Facebook hits such as Farmville and Mafia Wars, would likely be worth as much as $5 billion if it were publicly traded instead of privately held, according to SecondShares.com …
Geoffrey A. Fowler / Wall Street Journal:
In the Search for a Hot Job Title, Enter the Ninja  —  These Silicon Valley Warriors Write Computer Code; ‘Guru Is So Web 1.0’  —  Nicole Sullivan's job used to involve promoting the latest technology, so her résumé described her as an “evangelist.”
Marco Tabini / Macworld:
Apple confirms iPad Wi-Fi issues, suggests fixes  —  If you feel like your brand-new iPad isn't working with wireless networks the way you think it should, the problem may not be in your head.  Apple's support forums contain a number of comments from frustrated users who are experiencing problems …
Staci D. Kramer / paidContent:
AOL Admits Bebo To Be Sold Or Shut Down; Memo Sets May Target For Decision  —  AOL (NYSE: AOL) told employees today that it may sell or shut down social network Bebo this year after deciding it would take too much additional investment to make keeping it worthwhile.  Here's the memo from AOL Ventures EVP Jon Brod...
Joanna Stern / Engadget:
Lenovo C200 brings NVIDIA Ion 2 stateside for $499  —  If you've been patiently waiting on a low-cost NVIDIA Ion 2 system it looks like today is your lucky day since it looks like Lenovo has scored an early lead in unleashing the wrath of the new Atom / GeForce combo.
Jay Yarow / Silicon Alley Insider:
Here's The Real Story Behind Apple, Newsweek, Dan Lyons, And Steven Levy  —  Earlier today, we covered a flare up between Steven Levy of Wired and Dan Lyons, a.k.a. Fake Steve Jobs, tech columnist at Newsweek.  —  Over the weekend, Dan had appeared on CNN and said that Apple's head of PR …
Rosa Golijan / Gizmodo:
How to Turn an iPhone Into a Wireless iPad Camera  —  The iPad doesn't have a built-in camera, but you can give it something better.  By putting an app onto each an iPad and an iPhone, you can connect the two via bluetooth and have a wireless camera for your iPad.
Kevin Rose / Digg Blog:
Digg: The Digg iFrame Toolbar is Dead / Unbanning Domains  —  Here are a couple updates regarding the DiggBar (iFrame toolbar) and banned sites.  Note: These changes will not take place until the launch of Digg v4, sign up for the beta here.  —  DiggBar:  —  Framing content with an iFrame is bad for the Internet.
Nick Kallen / The Twitter Engineering Blog:
Introducing Gizzard, a framework for creating distributed datastores  —  An introduction to sharding  —  Many modern web sites need fast access to an amount of information so large that it cannot be efficiently stored on a single computer.  A good way to deal with this problem is to “shard” …
Discussion: ReadWriteWeb, Thanks:atul
Laurie Sullivan / MediaPost:
Yahoo Readies Launch Of iPad Advertising Model  —  Inspired by video game development, Yahoo has been working on a new advertising model for tablets, such as Apple's iPad, to provide another option for brands to tap its ad network.  The strategy for the new screen moves more toward product placement similar …
Thanks:steverubel
Adam DuVander / ProgrammableWeb:
How Twitter's 1 API Gave Birth to 43 New APIs  —  While Twitter mashups continue their tremendous growth, there's another area we're also noticing blossom: APIs that are based on the Twitter API.  It's a growing trend, and we now have 43 Twitter-derived APIs in our directory.
Thanks:atul
Camille Ricketts / VentureBeat:
Venture capital fundraising up 41% in Q1, trumping private equity  —  Venture capital funds in the U.S. raised $4.1 billion across 34 funds in the first quarter of 2010 — a 41 percent jump from the same period in 2009.  The figures, collected by Dow Jones LP Source, suggest a promising year …
Electronista:
OmniVision cameras seen likely for next-gen iPhone, iPad  —  OmniVision executives today gave JP Morgan analyst Paul Coster hints that they may have deals for cameras in next-generation Apple devices.  After a discussion, Coster understood that ‘top-tier smart phone companies’ would move …
Google Mobile Blog:
Gmail for mobile integrates with Google Buzz  —  When Google Buzz for mobile launched in February, we created the mobile web app at buzz.google.com so you could post buzz on the go.  Depending on your inbox integration settings buzz gets sent to your Gmail inbox when people @reply you …
 
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Jessica E. Vascellaro / Digits:
Gdgt Raises New Financing with New Concept
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Brian Stelter / New York Times:
Conan O'Brien Ventures Onto the Web to Promote His Tour
Thanks:rawmeet
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Launch: OpenSky Wants To Turn Bloggers Into Sellers Without Sacrificing Their Souls
Discussion: Bits and VentureBeat, Thanks:andrewpbrett
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Trulia Enters The Real Estate Rental Market And Starts Collecting Location Ratings
Ryan Lawler / NewTeeVee:
Redbox Could Take On Netflix in Streaming
Bruce Schneier / Schneier on Security:
Privacy and Control  —  In January, Facebook Chief Executive …
Discussion: MediaPost
Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
Zynga Mafia Wars Addicts Can Now Whack Their Rivals With An SMS Message
Discussion: mocoNews, Inside Social Games and 901am
 Earlier Items: 
Dave Winer / Scripting News:
Is iPad a game-changer?  —  If you're old enough to remember …
Discussion: Technovia and Daring Fireball
Associated Press:
Verizon CEO has told Apple of iPhone interest
Dan Frommer / Silicon Alley Insider:
The Reason No One Is Bragging About iPad App Sales: The Numbers Are Too Small (AAPL)
Discussion: eHomeUpgrade
Electronista:
Nintendo: Apple isn't “viable” gaming platform