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3:45 PM ET, March 21, 2011

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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:

Complete Integration Of Google Voice And 50 Million Sprint Customers, Plus 4G Nexus S — This is the biggest news about Google Voice since the company behind it, previously called Grand Central, was acquired by Google in 2007. They've integrated with Sprint.

Discussion: The Register, Ars Technica, LAPTOP Magazine, Network World, Softpedia News, PC World, VatorNews, Macworld, AndroidGuys, IntoMobile, Electronista, Engadget, Android and Me and Mashable!, Thanks:robinwauters

Jacob Hesch / Google Voice Blog:

Sprint integrates Google Voice — Over time, we've worked to bring an integrated Google Voice experience to your mobile device by building mobile apps, introducing Google Voice Lite, and most recently Number Porting. But we felt that ultimately, the most simple solution would be to partner …

Andy Rubin / Google Mobile Blog:
Introducing Nexus S 4G for Sprint

Discussion: Internet2Go, PR Newswire, Smartphones …, GigaOM, @dannysullivan, ReadWriteWeb, mobiputing, Pulse2, Android Phone Fans, Android News, Rumours …, AndroidOS.in, Android Community, The Huffington Post, SlashGear, The Next Web and Electronista

Chris Ziegler / Engadget:
Google Nexus S 4G with WiMAX announced for Sprint: coming this spring for $200

Discussion: SlashPhone, VentureBeat and Android Community

Jonathan S. Geller / BGR:

Apple iOS 4.3.1 coming within one to two weeks? — We've just been given some info on Apple's next iOS release, 4.3.1, and from what we have been told, it will contain minor bug fixes. Here are the changes from iOS 4.3: — Baseband updates for the 3GS and iPad (original)

Discussion: AppleInsider, App Advice, Unwired View, mocoNews, ITProPortal, Geek.com, MacStories, IntoMobile, Softpedia News, SlashGear, Redmond Pie, The Next Web, MacHackPC, TUAW, BlogsDNA and thinq_

Michael Abbott / Twitter Engineering:

The Great Migration, the Winter of 2011 — If you look back at the history of Twitter, our rate of growth has largely outpaced the capacity of our hardware, software, and the company itself. Indeed, in our first five years, Twitter's biggest challenge was coping with our unprecedented growth and sightings of the infamous Fail Whale.

Discussion: CNNMoney.com

Biz Stone / Twitter Blog:

Happy Birthday Twitter! — It's easy to remember working with @jack, @ev, and our tiny team on a project we called Twitter like it was last week. Amazingly, it's five years ago today that the first tweet was sent. Over these years, Twitter has matured and made an impact in the areas …

Discussion: NewsGrange and L.A. Times Tech Blog

Ben Parr / Mashable!:

Twitter Launches New Website & Video To Celebrate Its 5th Birthday [VIDEO] — In celebration of its fifth birthday, Twitter has launched a new website and a new video featuring some of its most prominent users. — Twitter employees have started tweeting links to discover.twitter.com …

Discussion: ReadWriteWeb, AOL News, The Huffington Post, Mashable!, TechCrunch, Pulse2, Hollywood Reporter, LucaFiligheddu.com and The Next Web

Rob Waugh / Daily Mail:

How did a British polytechnic graduate become the design genius behind £200billion Apple? — Rob Waugh reports on the rise to near-mythical status of Jonathan Ive, the remarkable man from Chingford — Jonathan Ive (left) has helped turn Apple into the second biggest company in the world …

Discussion: AppleInsider, TUAW, TechEye, Neowin.net, TiPb, Edible Apple, Erictric, Fortune and MacRumors

Bruce Gottlieb / The Atlantic Online:

An Ex-Regulator's Take on AT&T Buying T-Mobile — Tear up your telecom policy scorecard for 2011, thanks to AT&T's decision to purchase T-Mobile for $39 billion. — The transaction will have to be reviewed by both the Federal Communications Commission and the Department of Justice …

Discussion: GigaOM, Wall Street Journal, Deal Journal, Mobilized, Geekosystem, I4U News, FierceWireless, SiliconANGLE and PhoneArena

Larry Dignan / Between the Lines Blog:
AT&T makes its T-Mobile case: Patriotism, spectrum crunch, mobile broadband

Discussion: forums.t-mobile.com, CNET News, SAI, Hardware 2.0 Blog and UberMobile Blog

Chris Ziegler / Engadget:
Confirmed: AT&T wants to use T-Mobile's AWS spectrum for LTE buildout

Discussion: Internet Evolution, dailywireless.org, Pulse2 and My Nokia Blog

Om Malik / GigaOM:
In AT&T & T-Mobile Merger, Everybody Loses

Jackie Cohen / All Facebook:

Facebook Adds Check-Ins To Events — Facebook has begun testing a check-in button for event pages accessed by iPhone users. — A spokesperson for Facebook explained in an email, “We're currently testing this and it will be available with the next iPhone release.”

Discussion: ZDNet, Fast Company, Inside Facebook, ReadWriteWeb, VentureBeat, WebProNews, Pulse2 and The Next Web

Horacio Gutierrez / Microsoft:

Microsoft Takes Legal Action Against Barnes & Noble, Foxconn and Inventec for Patent Infringement by Android Devices — Statement from Horacio Gutierrez, corporate vice president and deputy general counsel of Intellectual Property and Licensing — Microsoft Corp. today filed legal actions …

Discussion: Mobilized, @dinabass, GeekWire, Between the Lines Blog, Tech Trader Daily, TechNet Blogs, The Next Web and @dinabass

Kate Solomon / TechRadar:

Apple: UK iPad 2 launch still on track for 25 March — Despite a hefty dose of speculation that the iPad 2 launch will be delayed in the UK, an Apple spokesperson has confirmed to TechRadar it is still on for Friday. Many suspected that the launch of the skinny new Apple tablet would be pushed …

Discussion: SAI, 9 to 5 Mac, App Advice, CNET News, TiPb, MacRumors, CrunchGear, GigaOM, Electronista, Pulse2, The Next Web, ITProPortal and SlashGear

Henry Blodget / SAI:

SCUTTLEBUTT: Facebook Co-Founder Eduardo Saverin Dumps $500 Million Of Facebook Stock — We just heard the darndest thing: — We heard that Eduardo Saverin just sold $500 million of his Facebook stock on a private market. — We haven't been able to to confirm this …

David Carr / New York Times:

The Evolving Mission of Google — Today's quiz: What company derives 96 percent of its revenue from advertising, has a video platform that is currently negotiating with the National Basketball Association, a movie studio and various celebrities, and is developing a subscription service …

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Agence France Presse:

France fines Google 100,000 euros over Street View — PARIS — France's data privacy regulator said on Monday it had imposed a record fine of 100,000 euros ($142,000) on Google for having collected private information while compiling its panoramic Street View service.

Discussion: Deutsche Welle, paidContent, Inquirer, The Register, Engadget, Pulse2, CNBC, Search Engine Watch, NBC Bay Area, State of Search, Fudzilla, The Next Web, TechEye, Bloomberg and WebProNews

MG Siegler / TechCrunch:

Google's New Chrome Icon: Less Simon-Like, More Hurricane-Like; Easier To Draw — For a few weeks now, anyone using Chromium (the open source browser on which Google Chrome is built) will have noticed something: a completely new icon. It's simpler and cleaner, and overall looks a little bit less like a Simon.

Discussion: Google Chrome Blog and The Next Web

Sean Hollister / Engadget:

Samsung Galaxy S II Mini leaks out for Three, plus Nokia X7, Flyer and PlayBook release dates in UK — No, not the Galaxy Mini, that low-end Android sprout — this is Samsung's smaller alternative to the upcoming Galaxy S II superphone. We just got handed UK carrier Three's entire spring-summer lineup …

Discussion: ITProPortal, IntoMobile, Android Community, PhoneArena, Android Phone Fans, SlashGear and AndroidOS.in, Thanks:mansurehmad

Nick Bilton / Bits:

The Technology Behind Making Mobile Payments a Reality — It's only a matter of time before your mobile phone swallows up yet another piece of technology: your credit card. — In this not-too-distant future, rather than pay for gas or dinner with a piece of plastic that you slide through a machine …

Discussion: MacRumors, Edible Apple and MacStories

Sarah Lacy / TechCrunch:

Is Late Stage the New Early? Behind the Staggering Return of the $1B Venture Fund — In Silicon Valley it's not just who you invest in that matters- it's also when you invest in them. The earlier the investment, the riskier the bet. But the more jawdropping the returns if the company hits it big.

Discussion: Digits, Thanks:marklavine

Sebastian Anthony / Download Squad:

Firefox 4 now available to download, official release tomorrow — It isn't available from the official Firefox website yet, but Firefox 4 is now available to download from the Mozilla releases FTP server. Update: you can hit a random FTP mirror by using these links: Windows / Mac OS X / Linux.

Discussion: Hardware 2.0 Blog, The Next Web and TechSpot, Thanks:downloadsquad

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