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3:50 PM ET, March 22, 2011

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Tricia Duryee / eMoney:
Now Open: Amazon Appstore Launches With 3,800 Apps for Android  —  Amazon has officially launched the Android Appstore, a potential iTunes equivalent for Android.  —  The company-whose roots are in e-commerce and not mobile-aspires to merchandise and sell apps better than Google does on its own platform.
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Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
Amazon's Android App Store Launches: Test Drive Apps Directly From Your Browser  —  This morning Amazon is officially launching its Android App Store — a storefront for apps that will compete directly with Google's official Android Market.  We first broke the news about the impending App Store …
Rahsheen / Black Web 2.0:
Amazon Appstore Launches with Daily Paid Apps for Free
Discussion: IntoMobile, Engadget and SAI
Apple:
iPad 2 Arrives in 25 More Countries This Friday  —  Available in Hong Kong, Korea & Singapore in April  —  Apple® today announced that iPad® 2, the second-generation of its third post-PC device, will go on sale in 25 additional countries this Friday, March 25. iPad 2 will be available …
Joanna Stern / Engadget:
Samsung Galaxy Tab 8.9 and new Galaxy Tab 10.1 hands-on: thinner than the iPad 2, dual-core power, TouchWiz 4.0  —  You know who took the iPad 2 launch pretty seriously?  Samsung, that's who.  Just as we had heard, the company's executives were impressed by Apple's ability to slim down its tablet and …
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Tricia Duryee / eMoney:
Samsung Introduces 8.9- and 10.1-Inch Galaxy Tabs Coming This Summer
Discussion: Inquirer, Crave, Engadget and Computerworld
Bloomberg:
Apple's Jobs Must Answer Questions in ITunes Antitrust Suit  —  A federal magistrate judge ordered Apple Inc. (AAPL) Chief Executive Officer Steve Jobs to answer questions in an antitrust dispute alleging the company operated a music-downloading monopoly.  —  Lawyers for consumers who filed …
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John Brownlee / Cult of Mac:
Steve Jobs To Undergo 2 Hours “Limited Questioning” on 2004 Apple/RealNetworks DRM Spat  —  Despite being on medical leave, Steve Jobs has been ordered by a US Magistrate to answer questions in court about the iTunes music store and Apple's supposedly monopolistic behavior, Bloomberg reports.
Sinead Carew / Reuters:
Verizon Wireless CEO says no interest in Sprint deal  —  (Reuters) - The chief executive of Verizon Wireless said he has no interest in buying Sprint Nextel Corp (S.N) even as the company stands to lose its top position in the U.S. wireless market because of a merger between AT&T Inc (T.N) and T-Mobile USA.
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Tom Krazit / mocoNews:
Sparks Fly Over AT&T-T-Mobile Deal As Wireless CEOs Trade Jabs
Arn / MacRumors Page 2:
iPad 2: Wife Says No, but Apple Says Yes  —  Apple is paying close attention to all iPad 2 returns during the first few weeks to make sure there are no major production defects.  This policy has led to an amusing story that we thought was entertaining enough to share.
The Mozilla Blog:
Mozilla Launches Firefox 4 and Delivers a Fast, Sleek and Customizable Browsing Experience to More Than 400 Million Users Worldwide  —  Mozilla, a global, nonprofit organization dedicated to making the Web better, is proud to release Mozilla Firefox 4, the newest version of the popular, free and open source Web browser.
Vlad Savov / Engadget:
Sprint makes EVO View 4G tablet official: 1.5GHz, WiMAX, 7-inch screen, and a stylus to boot  —  Sprint has stopped playing coy about one of the worst-leaked devices in recent memory and has at long last made it official.  The EVO View 4G is a 7-inch, 1024 x 600 Android tablet with a 1.5GHz processor …
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Todd Haselton / BGR:
Sprint's HTC EVO 3D hands-on!  —  Sprint just announced the HTC EVO 3D, its latest 4G WiMAX smartphone with a 3D-spin, and we had some time to sit down to check out the device first-hand.  In one word: Amazing.  The EVO 3D's 4.3-inch 3D display is incredible to look at while displaying 3D images and video.
Discussion: Engadget and Phones Review
Joshua Benton / Nieman Journalism Lab:
That was quick: Four lines of code is all it takes for The New York Times' paywall to come tumbling down  —  The New York Times paywall is costing the newspaper $40-$50 million to design and construct, Bloomberg has reported.  And it can be defeated through four lines of Javascript.
Discussion: Techdirt and SAI, more at Mediagazer »
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Tom Warren / WinRumors:
Windows Phone 7 “NoDo” update now available  —  Microsoft has started to distribute its first full Windows Phone 7 update.  —  The company began pushing out “NoDo” to devices on Tuesday after a number of device ROMs leaked to the Internet early.  Microsoft's first Windows Phone 7 platform …
Robin Wauters / TechCrunch:
RIM Reveals BlackBerry PlayBook Versions, Pricing (Starts At $499), Retail Partners  —  In case you were holding out for a BlackBerry PlayBook: good news.  Research In Motion this morning announced (expected) plans to make the tablet computer available in more than 20,000 retail outlets in the U.S. and Canada.
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Ina Fried / Mobilized:
RIM's Tablet to Go On Sale April 19, Pricing Borrows from the iPad's PlayBook
Discussion: Crave, TechSpot and BlackBerry Cool
Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
AOL Begins Culling Content Sites  —  AOL will begin rolling out its plans to overhaul its panoply of content sites as early as today, a key part of its integration with the Huffington Post, sources familiar with the situation said.  —  AOL CEO Tim Armstrong will be sending out an internal memo …
Bloomberg:
Apple Sues Amazon.com, Seeks Order to Stop Use of ‘App Store’ Trademark  —  Apple Inc. (AAPL) sued Amazon.com Inc., saying the online retailer is improperly using Apple's “App Store” trademark for a mobile software developer program.  —  Apple, in a complaint filed March 18 in California …
Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
Boom!  Professional Social Network LinkedIn Passes 100 Million Members  —  2011 has proven to be a monumental year so far for professional social network LinkedIn.  The company filed its S-1 for a public offering, released a number of data-focused products and unveiled a social news reader for professionals.
Caroline McCarthy / The Social:
Court rejects Google Books settlement  —  A New York federal district court has rejected the controversial settlement in a class-action suit brought against Google Books by the Authors' Guild, a publishing industry trade group.  —  “While the digitization of books and the creation …
Discussion: Associated Press and @hnfirehose
Chris Foresman / Ars Technica:
Sparrow for Mac finally gets general IMAP support, multitouch  —  Sparrow 1.1 is now available via the Mac App Store, finally bringing promised compatibility with IMAP accounts from MobileMe, Yahoo, and AOL in addition to any general IMAP server.  Developers Dominique Leca and Dihn Viêt Hoà …
Discussion: TechCrunch and PC World
Jessica Dolcourt / Webware.com:
Hands on Opera Mobile 11, Opera Mini 6  —  Opera Mobile 11 is optimized for tablets.  We tried it out on the Motorola Xoom.  —  Opera announced last week that it would launch two new mobile browsers at CTIA—Opera Mobile 11 and Opera Mini 6—but when it came to new and enhanced features, it mostly kept quiet.
Chris Dixon / cdixon's posterous:
Dropbox and why you should invest in people  —  It was reported today that Dropbox will generate $100M in revenue this year.  Whether or not those reports are right, it is certainly a great product, beloved by its customers and will almost certainly be wildly successful.
Discussion: SAI and Softpedia News
Mark Percival / Twitter Engineering:
Improving Browser Security with CSP  —  If you are using Firefox 4, you now have an extra layer of security when accessing mobile.twitter.com.  —  Over the past few weeks we've been testing a new security feature for our mobile site.  It is called a Content Security Policy, or CSP.
 
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Matt Rosoff / The Business Insider:
Google Gets An Absurd Patent For Its “Google Doodles”
Discussion: The H Open Source and GeekWire
Robert Quigley / Geekosystem:
Reddit Denies Rumors of Condé Nast Spinoff
Bill Ray / The Register:
BlackBerry users get free remote wipe, backup and location
Discussion: SlashGear
Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:
Open PaaS DotCloud Raises $10M From Benchmark And Trinity, Jerry Yang Joins Board
Edmund Lee / AdAge:
SocialVibe Closes $20 Million Funding Round
Darren Murph / Engadget:
Wi-Fi Alliance launches hotspot certification program, aims to ease cell-to-WiFi handoff woes
Stacey Higginbotham / GigaOM:
Bandwidth.com Launches a Better Broadband Map
 Earlier Items: 
Georgina Prodhan / Reuters:
Nokia's tablet path may exclude Microsoft: source
Discussion: Digital Daily
Matt Rosoff / SAI: Silicon Alley Insider:
Big Acquisitions Are Bad For Shareholders: A Look At The 10 Biggest Tech Mergers Ever
BBC:
China rejects Google claims of email interference
Discussion: Associated Press and Reuters
Seth Weintraub / Fortune:
Larry Page almost skipped web search for automated cars
New York Times:
China Tightens Censorship of Electronic Communications
Discussion: SAI
 

 
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Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette:
Ofcom rules that five GB News programs presented by Conservative politicians have broken its due impartiality rules and puts the channel “on notice”

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Todd Spangler / Variety:
YouTuber MrBeast announces a deal with Prime Video for Beast Games, a reality-competition show with 1,000 contestants, promising the winner a $5M cash prize

 
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