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February 29, 2012, 12:40 PM

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Kent Walter / The Windows Blog:

Introducing Windows 8 Consumer Preview — Moments ago in Barcelona, we announced the release of Windows 8 Consumer Preview, available to download now for anyone interested in trying it out. We've been hard at work for many months now, and while we still have lots more to do …

Tim Stevens / Engadget:

Microsoft Windows 8 Consumer Preview detailed impressions — The early days of Windows were inauspicious ones. Sitting on top of DOS, it was hardly a revolution in personal computing — instead it felt like a disjointed platform perched uncomfortably atop a command prompt, ready to come crashing down at any moment.

More: The Verge, ABCNEWS, Gizmodo, The Ed Bott Report Blog, The Verge, LAPTOP Magazine, TechCrunch, GeekWire, Xbox Live's Major Nelson, netbooknews.com, BGR, The Verge, Neowin.net and VG247. Tweets: @dannysullivan

Sean Hollister / The Verge:

Windows 8: system requirements for the Consumer Preview — You can download the Windows 8 Consumer Preview (read: public beta) right now, and while we're afraid you won't be able to install it on your ARM tablet, just about any x86 desktop, laptop, or slate in recent memory should be able to run the new OS.

More: Ars Technica, VentureBeat, Hardware 2.0 Blog, TechCrunch, BGR, Engadget, Business Insider, Geek.com, Gotta Be Mobile, DailyTech, Technically Personal!, The Next Web and Redmond Pie

Tweets: @drpizza and @longzheng

Ina Fried / AllThingsD:

Microsoft Won't Support Some Business Features on ARM, But Will Offer “Windows to Go” — While Windows for ARM-based processors will offer many of the same features as the version for traditional PC chips, the list of differences is growing. — Microsoft disclosed on Wednesday that Windows …

More: The Verge, CNET, Between the Lines Blog, VentureBeat, ZDNet, The Verge, Neowin.net and Softpedia News

Michael Arrington / Uncrunched:

Helpful Tips For Keeping Your Job As Editor Of Techcrunch — I rarely get writers block, but I've aborted multiple attempts to write about the leadership change at TechCrunch yesterday. So I'm going to keep it simple. — I'm exceptionally bummed that so many people have left TechCrunch.

More: TPM Idea Lab, Marketing Pilgrim, TechCrunch, paidContent and VentureBeat

Tweets: @eldon, @simonowens, @mathewi and @hnshah

Thanks:@bobcaswell. See also Mediagazer

Erick Schonfeld / TechStream:

PostCrunch

Tweets: @erickschonfeld and @hunterwalk

Josh Constine / TechCrunch:

Facebook Opens Timeline To All Biz Pages, Mandatory After 30 Days Of Curation — Facebook Pages around the world can now upgrade to Timeline, allowing businesses to express themselves more visually through a redesign consistent with what was pushed to user profiles this fall.

More: CNET, All Facebook, The Verge, The New Persuaders, Betabeat, GigaOM, VentureBeat, Mashable!, The Next Web, WebProNews, Facebook Newsroom and Marketing Pilgrim. Thanks:@joshconstine

Brittany Darwell / Inside Facebook:

Timeline for Facebook pages: a complete overview of new features

More: Marketing Land, TechCrunch, All Facebook and We Are Social

Davidw / Joho the Blog:

Apple blocking books that link to Amazon — Seth Godin reports that the Apple store is refusing to carry his new book: … Seth is properly nervous about imposing demands on private companies about what they will or will not carry. But he finds what I think is the right argument in this case. first …

See also Mediagazer

Seth Godin / The Domino Project:

Who decides what gets sold in the bookstore?

More: TechCrunch, GeekWire and Boing Boing

JP Mangalindan / Fortune:

Google's Susan Wojcicki: Where we're heading — Nearly all the company's revenues come from her products. Now, Google's Susan Wojcicki weighs in on what's next for advertising and what the search giant stands to learn from Google+. — FORTUNE — It's been said before, but it's worth saying again …

More: Search Engine Land

Richard Lawler / Engadget:

Raspberry Pi credit-card sized Linux PCs are on sale now, $25 Model A gets a RAM bump — The good news is that Raspberry Pi's highly anticipated teeny-tiny Linux computers are on sale now, just barely making the promised February launch window (good thing it's a leap year).

More: VentureBeat, AllThingsD, Guardian, Mashable!, Ars Technica, The Verge, Techland, BBC, Cult of Mac, GigaOM, TechEye, TeleRead, Inquirer, Softpedia News, Electronista and Guardian

Austin Carr / Fast Company:

Spotify Exec Ken Parks On “Windowing”: Mind-Boggling, Very Bad, Hostile — The biggest threat right now to subscription-based music services isn't coming from consumers or record labels—with millions of customers paying for monthly plans to Spotify and Rhapsody, all four majors see the services as major new sources of revenue.

More: Betabeat

John Paczkowski / AllThingsD:

Apple vs. Proview: We Lawyers Have a Word for Cases Like This, and It Starts With “Cluster” — The hearing that could determine ownership of the iPad trademark in China kicked off this morning with a broad rehash of the battle we've seen play out in the media the past few weeks …

Reuters:

China higher court hears Apple's iPad appeal

More: ZDNet, Bloomberg, PC World, 9to5Mac, SiliconANGLE, TUAW, China Real Time Report, The Register and Associated Press

Kevin C. Tofel / GigaOM:

Dolphin Browser adds Sonar: Useful voice search — Voice search on mobiles is becoming all the rage, and the folks behind the popular Dolphin Browser are adding more voice functionality in their latest version. Dolphin Sonar is part of the 7.4 release of Dolphin Browser for Android …

More: TechCrunch and VatorNews

Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft Blog:

Microsoft's Windows Azure has a meltdown — Summary: Customers on Microsoft's Azure cloud platform are reporting they've been down for hours. — Customers are reporting that Microsoft's Windows Azure cloud platform has been experiencing a major meltdown in geographies across the world.

More: InfoWorld, Seattle Times, the Econsultancy blog, Computer Business Review, The Register and Softpedia News

Josh Lowensohn / CNET:

eBay's iPad trade-ins up 10-fold from same time last year — eBay says 10 times the number of people traded in their iPads during February than did during the same time year. — Stack of iPads are piled up at the San Francisco Apple Store at the 2010 launch.

More: USA Today, IntoMobile, Techland, PhoneArena and Gotta Be Mobile

Enigmax / TorrentFreak:

Megaupload Founder Defeats US Govt Attempts To Put Him Back In Prison — On February 22nd, Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom was released on bail by North Shore District Court Judge Nevin Dawson. — Dotcom had been held in custody since an anti-terrorist police squad raided his Coatesville mansion …

More: Reuters, Associated Press, Inquirer, Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, Computerworld and Stuff.co.nz

Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica:

Feature: How Red Hat killed its core product—and became a billion-dollar business — A decade ago, Linux developer Red Hat faced a decision that would make or break the company: whether to stop producing the very product that gave Red Hat its name. The company was built on Red Hat Linux …

Thanks:@jbrodkin

Janko Roettgers / GigaOM:

Scoop: Less than 1M Google TV devices in use — It's widely known Google TV hasn't exactly been a success story. Early CE partner Logitech lost millions on the device, and consumer feedback was mostly negative after the first devices reached the market in late 2010.

More: BGR, the Econsultancy blog, DSLreports, SlashGear, fierceonlinevideo.com …, Softpedia News, Electronista and Business Insider

Nancy Gohring / ITworld.com:

Google once considered issuing currency — After discovering legal hurdles, it ditched the idea of ‘Google Bucks’ — Google once considered issuing its own currency, to be called Google Bucks, company Chairman Eric Schmidt said on stage in Barcelona at the Mobile World Congress Tuesday.

More: Computerworld, InfoWorld, Geek.com, IntoMobile, Inquirer, Gizmodo, Business Insider, PC World, dailywireless.org and Interactioned

Emil Protalinski / Friending Facebook Blog:

Facebook claims you're playing games you aren't playing — Summary: Facebook recommends games to you based on what your friends are playing. Unfortunately, the Discover New Games module is lying: it often claims your friends are playing games they aren't. — Facebook's “Discover New Games” algorithm is broken.

More: WebProNews. Thanks:@emilprotalinski

Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:

“Spreading Santorum” Drops At Google; New Site Keeps Anal Sex Definition At Number One — As Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum loses two primary races to rival Mitt Romney, perhaps he can console himself with, ironically, another loss. Spreading Santorum, the page defining …

Michael A. Prospero / LAPTOP Magazine:

What Timing! $529 Toshiba Excite 10 LE Hits March 6th, Day Before iPad Event — First shown off at CES, Toshiba has announced that its new ultraslim Android tablet, the Excite 10 LE, will be available on March 6 and will start at $529. Originally called the Excite X10 …

More: PC World, Engadget, CNET, The Verge, Computerworld, TechCrunch, Android Phone Fans and Gotta Be Mobile

Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:

Facebook Pitches Advertisers on a New Ad Model — Facebook sold $3 billion worth of ads last year, but it's still feeling its way around the ad business. — And the ad business still isn't sure what to make of Facebook: Grand new marketing paradigm, or a collection of 800 million people …

More: Jon Burg's Future Visions. See also Mediagazer

Tomio Geron / Social Markets:

Justin Kan Launches Exec For Real-Time Mobile Jobs — Justin Kan is back with a new startup and a new approach. — Kan was known as the guy who popped up around Silicon Valley with a camera on his hat, live-streaming his life online for all to see. Kan turned that idea into Justin.TV …

More: TechCrunch, VentureBeat, The Technology Chronicles, AllThingsD and GigaOM

Melanie Lee / Reuters:

Chinese relish crack in Great Firewall, log on to Facebook — (Reuters) - Some Chinese Internet users have this week been able to access blocked websites such as YouTube, Facebook and Twitter, relishing the newfound freedom although the reason for the breach in China's Great Firewall of censorship was a mystery.

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