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Marshall Kirkpatrick / ReadWriteWeb:
Google to Launch Major New Social Network Called Circles, Possibly Today — We believe that Google will preview a major new social service called Google Circles at South by Southwest Interactive today. If what we've heard is correct, the service will offer photo, video and status message sharing.
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Search Engine Land, CNET News, Gizmodo, @timoreilly, WebProNews, Neowin.net and @carnage4life
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Liz Gannes / NetworkEffect:
Google Denies Social Network Called Circles Will Debut Today, Despite Report — Google has reportedly built a social network called Google Circles intended to help users share photos, videos and status messages with only the most appropriate people. Marshall Kirkpatrick at ReadWriteWeb …
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VentureBeat, @marshallk and The Next Web
Thomas Ricker / Engadget:
Is your iPad 2 backlight bleeding? (video) — Now that many of you have collected and used your second generation iPad tablets for a few hours, we're starting to see the inevitable reports of defects. Thus far, two issues have bubbled to the surface. The first issue …
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Apple Bitch, DisplayBlog, RazorianFly, MacRumors, CNET News and iClarified
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Arn / MacRumors:
iPad 2: GPU Benchmarked with Impressive Gains — Anandtech has determined the iPad GPU to be the PowerVR SGX543MP2, a more advanced dual-core version of the PowerVR GPU found in the original iPad and iPhone 4. … They found that the new graphics processor offered over 3-5x the speed in simple geometry tests over the original iPad.
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LAPTOP Magazine, AnandTech, AnandTech, AnandTech, VentureBeat, Engadget, RazorianFly, Touch Arcade, GeekSmack, 9 to 5 Mac, SlashGear, TiPb, AppleInsider, MacNN and CNET News
Joshua Topolsky / Engadget:
Hello, I must be going — It's hard to believe that I'm currently writing the words I seem to be writing, though a casual stock-taking of my senses dictates that it must be true. Here I am, at my computer, typing letters one by one into a plain text document, rolling along through …
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Edible Apple, Nilay Patel, @reckless, @joshuatopolsky, @libbybrittain, WebProNews and @ryan
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Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
Exclusive: Engadget's Top Editors Topolsky and Patel Exit From AOL's Giant Tech Site — Josh Topolsky, the editor-in-chief of Engadget, is leaving the AOL-owned property, which one of the largest tech news sites on the Web. — Also departing is Managing Editor Nilay Patel, said sources.
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VentureBeat, @blam, PC Magazine, Digital Trends, Neowin.net, SAI and Gawker
Jon Evans / TechCrunch:
The Walled Garden Has Won — Ten days ago Google discovered that apparently innocuous Android apps were in fact infested with “DroidDream” malware that included an Android rootkit, with the apparent intent of creating a smartphone botnet. It infected more than a quarter of a million devices before Google intervened.
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Jesus Diaz / Gizmodo:
How to Activate the Best Secret Feature In Your iPad — How to Activate the Best Secret Feature In Your iPad Your new iPad—and old too, with iOS 4.3—has a new hidden feature that Apple doesn't want you to know about: Extra multi-touch gestures that completely changes the iPad experience …
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Examiner, MobileWhack, RazorianFly and LAPTOP Magazine
Kellex / Droid Life:
WiFi-only Galaxy Tab Launching April 4 for $399? — One of our posse members was hanging out at a technology fair today and it just so happened to include a Samsung rep who was quick to hand out the flyer above which shows that the wifi-only Galaxy Tab version should be out by April 4.
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SlashGear, X-bit labs, Engadget, mobilesguruji.co.cc, Neowin.net, PhoneArena, Gizmodo, CrunchGear, BGR, LAPTOP Magazine, DisplayBlog, Softpedia News, Gadgetell, Techie Buzz and AndroidSPIN
Robert McMillan / ITworld:
With hacking, music can take control of your car — Remote-controlled car hacking is a real possibility, researchers say - About 300 years ago, the English playwright William Congreve wrote, “music has charms to soothe a savage breast, to soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak.”
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Thomas Hawk / Thomas Hawk Digital Connection:
Flickr Cites “Community Guidelines” For Censorship of Egyptian Blogger's Photos
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3arabawy and TechCrunch
Michael Oryl / MobileBurn.com:
iSuppli estimates Apple iPad 2 3G component costs at $325 — Research firm iSuppli is working on its teardown of the new Apple iPad 2 tablet computer and has provided preliminary component cost estimates to All Things Digital. According to iSuppli, AT&T's iPad 2 3G has about US$326.60 worth of parts …
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Dare Obasanjo / @carnage4life:
Sickest HTML 5 hack yet. Got Chrome? Play Katamari on web pages: http://goo.gl/fwkk9 /via @mattcutts
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giantbomb.com and @mattcutts
Mark Gurman / 9 to 5 Mac:
Apple now taking Red Cross donations through iTunes for Japan relief fund — Apple has opened up a new portal in the iTunes Store to take donations for the Japan earthquake and tsunami relief fund. Users who wish to donate can donate in $5, $10, $25, $50, $100, and $200 increments.
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Examiner, TUAW, Microsoft, RazorianFly, ringtonia.com, MacStories, paidContent and VentureBeat, Thanks:mbywalec
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Ingrid Lunden / mocoNews:
Mobile Giving: A List Of Shortcodes To Donate To Japan
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Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:
Zynga Enables Donations To Tsunami Relief Through In-Game Purchases
Thanks:danidudeck
Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:
Why Twitter Should Think Twice About Bulldozing the Ecosystem — In another shot fired across the bow of the Twitter ecosystem — or another volley in the ongoing Twitter wars of 2011 — the company has come out with new terms on which all developers must operate, which makes it clear …
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MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
From “Businesses” To “Tools”: The Twitter API ToS Changes
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Technology Liberation Front, Techie Buzz, @cdixon, PC Magazine and @roosto
