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March 4, 2012, 1:40 AM

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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: CNET. Tweets: @scottbeale, @hunterwalk, @scobleizer and @semil. Thanks:@semil

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.

Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:

Google's Plan To Compete With Apple's Multi-Platform Siri? Google “Assistant” — The tech world woke up today to reports of an imminent Apple TV, as Apple works to solidify deals with content providers. The rumored television product could indeed be ground-breaking, not just for television, but for computing as a whole.

More: The Verge, bub.blicio.us, Android Phone Fans, SlashGear, Pulse2 Technology …, Electronista, PhoneArena, WinBeta, PC World, Android and Me and WebProNews

Matt Rosoff / Business Insider:

REVEALED: How Giant Patent Troll Intellectual Ventures Does Business — Two researchers say they have uncovered a bunch of new information about the world's largest patent “aggregator,” Intellectual Ventures. — Founded by former Microsoft chief technology officer Nathan Myhrvold about a decade ago …

Tweets: @lukejduncan, @watermarkiam and @johnolilly

Joshua Topolsky / The Verge:

Exclusive: Valve said to be working on ‘Steam Box’ gaming console with partners, could announce at GDC — Recently there's been chatter that Valve — the company behind the massively popular gaming service Steam — has been considering getting into the hardware business.

More: CNET, Digital Trends, Electronista, TechCrunch, Pulse2 Technology …, PC Magazine, Joystiq, Forbes, VentureBeat, Kotaku, gameinformer.com, VG247, Blue's News, MCV: Home Stream, GeekWire and Slashdot. Tweets: @joshuatopolsky

Jeff Roberts / paidContent:

Court Filings Suggest Google Fighting Feds Over Megaupload Emails — A pair of cryptic court filings surfaced in Virginia this week that suggest Google (NSDQ: GOOG) is in a fight with the federal government over Megaupload, the file-sharing site that was shut down in a dramatic raid in January.

Thanks:@jeffjohnroberts

Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac:

iPad 3 prices and features matrix revealed — iPad 3 price matrix will be the same as iPad 2, above — One of the remaining mysteries ahead of the iPad 3 launch next week are the prices and configurations. If you don't like surprises we have good news.

More: M.I.C. Gadget, The Next Web, Softpedia News, App Advice, PC Magazine, Pulse2 Technology …, iDownloadBlog.com, Forbes, The Verge, PhoneArena, everythingiCafe, Geek.com, Gotta Be Mobile, OS X Daily, PadGadget, Electronista, CNET, The TechBlock and MacRumors

Eric Slivka / MacRumors:

iPads Running iOS 6.0 at Apple's Campus Showing Up in Web Logs

More: Softpedia News, Phones Review, Digital Trends, Wired, Mashable!, The Verge, Macgasm, Business Insider, iDownloadBlog.com, PC Magazine, Know Your Cell, OS X Daily and Computerworld. Tweets: @marshallk

Electronista:

Intel Ivy Bridge said still on track for late April — Intel Ivy Bridge delay seen much shorter — Intel's own claims that its Ivy Bridge platform had been moved back to June might have been unintentionally conservative. New leaks on Saturday to Digitimes had the 22-nanometer processors shipping …

More: DigiTimes and TUAW

Henry Blodget / Business Insider:

Hey, People Buying YELP At $25 A Share, What On Earth Are You Thinking? — The king of online local restaurant reviews, Yelp, went public this morning. — Its stock is now trading at $25 a share, ~70 percent above the price institutional investors paid for it last night.

More: Real Dan Lyons

Wall Street Journal:

Yelp IPO Renews Web Boom

More: bub.blicio.us, TechCrunch, Venture Capital Dispatch, DealBook, CNNMoney.com, Business Insider, AllThingsD, Associated Press, The Tech Trade, NBC Bay Area, MarketBeat, TechCrunch, GigaOM and Wired

Horace Dediu / asymco:

When will tablets outsell traditional PCs? — I truly believe, and many others in the company believe, that there will come a day that the tablet market in units is larger than the PC market. Tim Cook Discusses Q1 2012 Results - Earnings Call Transcript - Seeking Alpha Question is when?

More: GigaOM

Rick Falkvinge / Falkvinge on Infopolicy:

How Microsoft Pays Big Money To Smear Google In European Parliament — Transparency: I spent this week in the European Parliament in Brussels. One of the seminars I attended was advertised as being a seminar on privacy, big data, profiling, and online identities. As interesting as it sounded, it was anything but.

More: The Embedded Citizen and Babbage

Drew Olanoff / The Next Web:

Google+ adds new mask effects for Hangouts, so go turn yourself into a cat — I'm a huge fan of Google+ Hangouts and I think that the company is really onto something when it comes to interaction over video. It beats the absolute crap out of a Skype conversation, and has fun effects like Apple should be creating for Facetime.

More: Pulse2 Technology … and ReadWriteWeb. Thanks:@thatdrew

Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:

Twitter & Facebook share a problem: Proving social ads work — There's a been a big focus recently on the advertising strategy at both Twitter and Facebook, with two in-depth profiles of Twitter in the Wall Street Journal and BusinessWeek that spent a lot of time talking about the company's ad model …

More: PandoDaily and Wall Street Journal

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