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Steve Lo / M.I.C. Gadget:

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Arnold Kim / MacRumors:

iPad 3 Parts Put Together on Video, iPad 2 Smart Cover Still Works — Although we've already seen many stories about possible iPad 3 part leaks over the past few weeks, MIC Gadget has been able to get its hands on the rumored parts for the iPad 3 Front Glass, Rear Shell, and 3rd party cases.

Ernesto / TorrentFreak:

Anonymous, Decentralized and Uncensored File-Sharing is Booming — The avalanche of negative file-sharing news over the past weeks hasn't gone unnoticed to users and site operators. — From SOPA to Megaupload, there is a growing uncertainly about the future of sharing.

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Douglas MacMillan / Business Week:

The Rise of the ‘Brogrammer’ — Danilo Stern-Sapad writes code for a living, but don't call him a geek. He wears sunglasses and blasts 2Pac while programming. He enjoys playing Battle Shots—like the board game Battleship, but with liquor—at the office.

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Eric Eldon / TechCrunch:

Foursquare And Glancee Are Cool, But Here's Why I'm So Excited About Using Highlight At SXSW — The crowds and hype of South By Southwest make the massive Austin tech and media conference the perfect place for launching, well, any sort of app that needs crowds and hype to break out of tech circles and into the mainstream.

More: bub.blicio.us and CNET. Tweets: @semil, @scottbeale, @scobleizer and @hunterwalk. Thanks:@semil

Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:

Highlight Needs To Let You Switch Off ‘Friend Of Friend’ Notifications Before SXSW

Aaron Levie / TechCrunch:

Google Drive And The Cloud Wars — Editor's note: Aaron Levie is co-founder and CEO at Box. Follow him on Twitter @levie. — For the past six years, any startup touching the cloud storage space has lived in anticipation and fear of Google's entry into the market.

Om Malik / GigaOM:

Naveen Selvadurai, Foursquare co-founder is leaving — Last week when I heard the news that Foursquare investors were buying up stock from current employees, it piqued my interest - who is Spark Capital buying stock from? For nearly three years, it has been one of my favorite apps and I keep close tabs on the company.

Tweets: @naveen. Thanks:@forrestkoba

Nicholas Carlson / Business Insider:

SURPRISE: Silicon Valley Hero Marc Andreessen Is Backing Romney — Silicon Valley has a reputation for leaning left. — Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg and Google exec Marissa Mayer have hosted big fundraisers for Democratic candidates. — Ex-Google CEO Eric Schmidt is a huge Obama booster.

More: WebProNews and Communications …. Tweets: @danprimack

Kara Swisher / AllThingsD:

Exclusive: Yahoo Labs Head Raghavan Departing to Google — Prabhakar Raghavan, Yahoo's well-respected head of its Labs unit and also recently its head of strategy, is leaving the company to take a job at Google. — The departure comes ahead of possibly deep cuts in his division …

Marco Arment / Marco.org:

Frequent, Intense Mature and Suggestive Themes — I've recently heard from a few developers that the “unfiltered-internet apps must be rated 17+” rule is being intermittently enforced again by Apple's app reviewers. — Effectively, apps that have embedded webviews that potentially …

More: The Verge

Jeff Roberts / paidContent:

Court Filings Suggest Google Fighting Feds Over Megaupload Emails — [Update: Australian paper The Age reported that US prosecutors have drawn up a secret indictment against Wikileaks' founder Julian Assange; it is possible that Wikileaks, not Megaupload, is the subject of the Google (NSDQ: GOOG) dispute.]

More: Gizmodo. Thanks:@jeffjohnroberts

Robert McMillan / Wired:

The Little White Box That Can Hack Your Network — Easy to overlook, the PwnPlug offers a tiny back door to the corporate network. Photo: Ariel Zambelich/Wired — When Jayson E. Street broke into the branch office of a national bank in May of last year, the branch manager could not have been more helpful.

Chris Ziegler / The Verge:

Android ‘Key Lime Pie’ comes after Jelly Bean — We've been tipped by a reliable source today that Google will be using the name “Key Lime Pie” for the version of Android that comes after Jelly Bean (in fact, the information comes from the very same source that tipped us to the Jelly Bean codename last year).

More: 9to5Google, Gizmodo, Android Phone Fans and Electronista

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