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10:10 PM ET, May 1, 2010

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AppleInsider:
Teardown of iPad 3G shows Apple using LCD frame as an antenna  —  Apple's iPad 3G, which went on sale in the U.S. on Friday, reveals a new approach to achieving optimal wireless reception and some interesting differences internally when compared to its Wi-Fi-only sibling, according to a new tear-down analysis.
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Matt Buchanan / Gizmodo:
iPad 3G Test Notes  —  The iPad 3G is the iPad I've been waiting for.  It's got two things the regular iPad doesn't: 3G internet from AT&T and assisted GPS.  The results we got from testing might surprise you, I think.  —  3G Speed Tests  —  The real story with iPad 3G isn't the numbers, which you can probably predict.
Discussion: PC World
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
H.264 Already Won—Makes Up 66 Percent Of Web Videos  —  Earlier this week, Steve Jobs kicked the debate about the need for Flash into high gear, especially for Web video.  As he explained, Apple products like the iPhone and iPad don't support Flash because although 75 percent of video on the Web is in Flash …
Olga Kharif / Business Week:
A Russian Star Rises in Silicon Valley  —  Yuri Milner's DST has quietly acquired 10% of Facebook  —  Yuri Milner keeps a telescope in his office on the 57th floor of Moscow's Nabarezhnaya Tower to check out what's happening across the city.  Judging by his investment portfolio, you'd think it was trained on Silicon Valley instead.
Nick Saint / Silicon Alley Insider:
Why Is Twitter More Popular With Black People Than White People?  —  New data confirms that Twitter's population is disproportionately black.  —  According to Edison Research's annual report on Twitter, black people represent 25% of Twitter users, roughly twice their share of the population in general.
Discussion: The Digital Letter
Dan Frommer / Silicon Alley Insider:
Top Secret ‘People-Powered’ Search Engine Slangwho.com Launching Soon (GOOG, MSFT)  —  A new, top secret, “people-powered” search engine named Slangwho — being built in New York — appears to finally be launching in a few weeks.  —  We've been hearing buzz about Slangwho for months.
Zee / The Next Web:
Facebook's just made it easier to share what you're going to do  —  Feeling that Facebook events aren't currently used enough for spontaneous events, the worlds largest social network has released a feature to make future plans easier to share.  —  Events can now be created direct from an events box on your home page in a single step.
Discussion: Facebook Blog, Mashable! and CNET News
Eric Engleman / TechFlash:
Amazon targets federal cloud  —  As Google, Microsoft and other technology companies talk up their ability to provide cloud computing services to federal agencies, another tech giant, Amazon.com, is quietly positioning itself to be a major government cloud provider as well.
Tim / Electronic Frontier Foundation:
Facebook's “Evil Interfaces”  —  Social networking companies don't have it easy.  Advertisers covet their users' data, and in a niche that often seems to lack a clear business model, selling (or otherwise leveraging) that data is a tremendously tempting opportunity.
Discussion: Fast Company
Janko Roettgers / NewTeeVee:
YouTube Store Still Tanks, Despite Oscar Fare  —  Consumers still aren't warming up to YouTube's video rentals, even with the site offering critically acclaimed movies like Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire, Reservoir Dogs and 3:10 to Yuma as paid streams.
Rosa Golijan / Gizmodo:
Racing Game Turns iPad Into iPhone-Controlled Gaming Console  —  With Padracer you can pretend that you're playing a racing game on a gaming console that consists of an iPad as a display and iPhones as controllers.  Heck, you can even make the obligatory vroom-vrooom-eeeeek sounds.
Nick Bilton / Bits:
iPhonegate: Q.&A. With Mark D. Rasch, Computer Security Expert  —  The iPhone-lost-in-a-bar story raises all sorts of legal questions.  To explore them further, I spoke with Mark D. Rasch who is the former head of the United States Department of Justice computer crime unit …
 
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Heather Timmons / New York Times:
India Tells Mobile Firms to Delay Deals for Chinese Telecom Equipment
Discussion: Tech Trader Daily
Bloomberg:
FTC Staff Said to Press For Challenge to Google's Acquisition of AdMob
Natalie Zmuda / AdAge:
Ann Taylor Investigation Shows FTC Keeping Close Eye on Blogging
Discussion: Mashable!
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 Earlier Items: 
Christopher Mims / Technology Review:
Blog: Why Twitter Is the Future of News
Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
Hard Labor: Adobe Rebuilds Its Wired Magazine App to Fit Apple's Flash-Free Agenda
Discussion: App Advice and MacStories
CNET News:
Free Android phones coming to Adobe employees
Discussion: Neowin.net, AppleInsider and PC World