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9:00 AM ET, March 4, 2011

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Joshua Topolsky / Engadget:
It's Apple's ‘post-PC’ world — we're all just living in it  —  On Wednesday, Apple introduced the world to the iPad 2.  A beautiful device, to be sure.  Feature packed?  You bet.  Soon to be selling like hotcakes?  Absolutely.  But the introduction of an iteration on an already existing product …
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John Gruber / Daring Fireball:
The Chair  —  Even the chair on the stage was the same.  —  Yesterday's iPad 2 introduction felt like a repeat of last year's event for the original iPad.  Same place.  Same pace and structure for the presentation: a brief prelude of statistics showing how well Apple is doing company-wide …
Joe Wilcox / BetaNews:
iPad 2 wasn't Apple's big March 2nd announcement
Discussion: Gartner, Guardian and MacGazette.net
Bloomberg:
Apple Said to Negotiate Unlimited Downloads of Music Purchases  —  Apple Inc. (AAPL) is in talks with record companies to give iTunes customers easier access to music they've purchased across multiple devices, said three people with knowledge of the plans.  —  Apple is negotiating …
Bloomberg:
Microsoft Is Said to Plan Windows Release for Tablets in 2012  —  Microsoft Corp., the world's largest software maker, won't release a competitor to Apple Inc. and Google Inc.'s tablet operating systems until the 2012 back-to- school season, people with knowledge of the plans said.
Thomas Catan / Wall Street Journal:
Web Video Rivalry Sparks U.S. Probe  —  The Justice Department is investigating whether a group representing some top technology firms is unfairly trying to smother a free rival technology for delivering online video that is backed by Google Inc., according to people familiar with the matter.
Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:
Video: Inside Google's Self-Driving Cars  —  At the TED 2011 conference this week, Google has been giving extremely rare demos of its self-driving cars.  TED attendees have even been allowed to travel inside them, on a closed course.  Below, some video of the action.  —  Google's Robot Cars
Larry Dignan / Between the Lines Blog:
AOL Tim Armstrong: After HuffPo deal closes ‘no way around’ layoffs  —  AOL CEO Tim Armstrong and Huffington Post chief Arianna Huffington have finalized their integration plans and layoffs are on tap as the acquisition nears the finish line.  —  The news isn't unexpected.
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Lacey Rose / Hollywood Reporter:
CEO Tim Armstrong, Arianna Huffington Reveal AOL's Ambitious Hollywood Strategy
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Chrome OS Get A Big Update — Two Words: Trackpad Fixes  —  A couple weeks ago, Google rolled out the beta of Chrome 10, the latest version of their web browser.  Today they're bringing it to Chrome OS too — and it contains more goodies.  Most importantly, Google is touting trackpad fixes …
Charlie Sorrel / Gadget Lab:
Just How Bad Is the iPad 2 Camera?  —  The iPad 2's camera shoots at less than one megapixel.  Jon Snyder/Wired.com  —  It seems impossible for Apple to put a decent camera into anything but the iPhone, and despite many hopes, both cameras in the iPad 2 are about as rudimentary …
Ragavan Srinivasan / Mozilla Labs:
First developer release of Web Apps Project  —  We are excited to announce the availability of the first milestone release of Mozilla's Web Application project.  Web Apps are applications that run on any device, and can be distributed through any store or directly by the developer.
Dan Frommer / SAI: Silicon Alley Insider:
CHART OF THE DAY: 99.7% Of People Still Haven't Bought A Tablet Yet  —  Apple's iPad tablet is probably the fastest-selling new consumer electronics device ever, but the potential for growth in the tablet market for Apple, Google, RIM and others is still massive.
Discussion: Gizmodo and broadstuff
David Kirkpatrick / Vanity Fair:
Twitter Was Act One  —  Considering that he invented Twitter and is about to launch another potential game changer with his new company, Square, Jack Dorsey has one of the lowest profiles in tech.  But from his childhood obsession (city maps) to his dream job (mayor of New York City) …
Discussion: eMoney, Twittercism, @tedr and TechCrunch
Michael Joseph Gross / Vanity Fair:
A Declaration of Cyber-War  —  Last summer, the world's top software-security experts were panicked by the discovery of a drone-like computer virus, radically different from and far more sophisticated than any they'd seen.  The race was on to figure out its payload, its purpose, and who was behind it.
Discussion: SAI
Fred / A VC:
Techmeme vs Hacker News  —  My two favorite tech news aggregators are Techmeme and Hacker News.  I visit both multiple times per day for a quick scan of what is going on in techland.  —  They are very different and you can see that in action this morning.  —  Here is the above the fold Techmeme right now (9am eastern):
Nate Anderson / Ars Technica:
Illegal TV streamers, here's how the feds will hunt you down  —  When the US government decides to take down a website offering access to free TV streams over the Internet, it doesn't mess around.  Newly unsealed court documents show that Brian McCarthy, the 32-year old alleged operator …
Discussion: TorrentFreak
Vlad Savov / Engadget:
Samsung finds parts of Galaxy Tab 10.1 ‘inadequate’ compared to iPad 2, reconsiders pricing  —  Whether you love or loathe Apple, you have to be happy with the company's aggressive upgrade of the iPad.  It has led to Samsung, purveyor of an Android 3.0 tablet by the name of Galaxy Tab 10.1 …
Kellex / Droid Life:
WiFi-only Motorola XOOM Headed to Sam's Club, Possibly Priced at $539  —  Been a lot of talk about a wifi-only Motorola XOOM lately and thanks to our friends at Sam's Club, we think it may be closer than anyone imagined and with a better-than-previously-advertised price tag.
Steven Levy / Epicenter:
The ‘Panda’ That Hates Farms: A Q&A With Google's Top Search Engineers  —  LONG BEACH - Last week Google announced a new update to its search engine that addressed the growing complaint that low-quality content sites (derisively referred to as content farms) were ranked higher than higher-quality sites …
Richard Lawler / Engadget:
Netflix for iPad updated with a new custom UI but loses features like DVD queueing  —  While its page on iTunes doesn't show any change, HackingNetflix points out Netflix for iPad was updated today with a new version of the app that gives it a customized interface instead of just pulling …
Electronista:
Apple said shipping 12 million iPad 2s in spring alone  —  Apple could ship more than 10 million iPads a quarter for the first time in the spring, part suppliers claimed late Thursday.  The company is still on track to ship 6.5 million iPads before April, two to three million of which would be the iPad 2 …
Discussion: DigiTimes, AppleInsider and SlashGear
Garett Sloane / New York Post:
Facebook co-founder set to sell 10M shares  —  While deep-pocketed investors from New York to Beijing are clamoring to buy a piece of Facebook, news that a co-founder of the social networking giant is shopping around a portion of his stake is raising eyebrows on Wall Street, The Post has learned.
 
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Thomas Ricker / Engadget:
Updated Windows Phone 7 update isn't updating some Samsung phones for March update
Discussion: Inquirer, WinRumors and WMPoweruser.com
Bryan / Yelp Blog:
Yelp Business Accounts Become Multi-Lingual
Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
Vurve Raises Another $4.5 Million To Give Businesses “Advertising On Autopilot”
Kim Zetter / Epicenter:
TED 2011: Junk Food Algorithms and the World They Feed Us
Michael Lansu / Chicago Sun Times:
Groupon sued over deal expiration dates
Discussion: Techdirt
Bomi Lim / Bloomberg:
South Korea Says Government Websites Attacked, Issues Alert
Discussion: The Next Web and Fast Company
Douglas MacMillan / Business Week:
Google's Android Spurs More App Jobs Than iPhone
Discussion: Electronista
 Earlier Items: 
Cryptome:
Birgitta Jonsdottir Interview on Wikileaks
Marco Arment / Marco.org:
A rare disagreement  —  John Gruber:  —  The root cause …
Discussion: Daring Fireball
Gina Trapani / Smarterware:
The Case Against Drop-down Identities
Cecilia Kang / Post Tech:
Free messaging apps threaten wireless carriers' cash cow
Discussion: DSLreports and dailywireless.org
Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft Blog:
A low-tech Microsoft slate for the masses
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
The Twitter Story Fail