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March 8, 2012, 2:30 PM

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Wall Street Journal:

U.S. Warns Apple, Publishers on E-Book Pricing — Justice Department Threatens Lawsuits, Alleging Collusion Over E-Book Pricing — The Justice Department has warned Apple Inc. and five of the biggest U.S. publishers that it plans to sue them for allegedly colluding to raise the price of electronic books …

Jeff Roberts / paidContent:

The U.S. Threat To Sue Apple And Publishers: What It Means

More: Washington Post and Media Decoder

Bryan Bishop / The Verge:

Sources: Apple's new iPad makes the leap to 1GB of RAM — There were a lot of hardware specs bandied about at this morning's iPad event: an A5X processor with quad-core graphics, a 2048 x 1536 Retina Display, and LTE. One piece of information that wasn't mentioned, however, was RAM.

More: Computerworld, BetaNews, TechCrunch, MacStories, VentureBeat, Know Your Cell, Hardware 2.0 Blog, iPad in Canada Blog, CNET, The Next Web, TUAW, I4U News, Geekosystem, IntoMobile, Pulse2 Technology … and iPhone Alley

Jonathan S. Geller / BGR:

Apple sells out of multiple AT&T iPad models already [updated] — A quick glance at Apple's online store tells us that customers who want to place orders for an AT&T 4G iPad won't be receiving them at the same time the iPad makes its debut. Shipping times have already fallen to March 19th from March 16th …

More: The Next Web, MacRumors, CNET, TechCrunch, 9to5Mac, Android and Me, PadGadget, RazorianFly, PhoneArena and Softpedia News

Dan Frommer / ReadWriteWeb:

Why the New iPad is So Huge for Apple — Maybe it didn't seem like it, but today's new iPad introduction was Apple's most important event of the year. — Sure, the iPhone is still a bigger business for Apple, and probably will be for a while. But the iPhone is just Apple's small sliver of the giant phone market.

More: Tech Trader Daily, The Tech Trade, Fortune, Digital Book World, New York Times and MacDailyNews. See also Mediagazer

Rebecca Greenfield / The Atlantic Wire:

Ranking the New iPad Rumormongers

More: PC Magazine, WebProNews, Techland, Chip Chick, Mashable! and Bits. See also Mediagazer

Jonathan Bennett / OpenStreetMap Foundation:

Welcome, Apple! — Yesterday Apple launched iPhoto, its photo management app, for the iPad and iPhone... and we're rather pleased to find they're the latest to switch to OpenStreetMap. — The desktop version of iPhoto, and indeed all of Apple's iOS apps until now, use Google Maps.

Stephen Hackett / 512 Pixels:

iPhoto for iOS Not Using Google Maps [Updated]

Jay Greene / CNET:

Former Microsoft exec Ozzie: 'Of course we're in a post-PC world' — Speaking at the GeekWire Summit, Microsoft's former chief software architect also sheds little new light on his startup, Cocomo. — Ray Ozzie answers a question at the GeekWire Summit in Seattle

More: GeekWire, Reuters, Inquirer, VatorNews and Computerworld

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:

Post PC Indeed: Gartner Says 2012 PC Shipments Will Only Grow 4.4% To 368M Units

More: The Register, CNET, Tech Trader Daily, Seattle Times, AllThingsD, BGR, Between the Lines Blog, Baseline, Electronista and eWeek

Larry Dignan / Between the Lines Blog:

Nvidia on Apple's iPad A5X graphics claims: Show us the benchmarks — Summary: Apple's A5X allegedly has 4X the performance of Nvidia's Tegra 3 chip, but without benchmarks and footnotes the claims ring hollow. — Apple took direct aim at Nvidia's Tegra 3—a processor for a new batch of superphones—as it launched its latest iPad.

More: Android Phone Fans, AndroidGuys, Zatz Not Funny!, FierceWireless, SlashGear, DailyTech, The Verge, Gotta Be Mobile, IntoMobile, The Next Web, Pocket-lint, Softpedia News, Fudzilla and Know Your Cell

Josh Constine / TechCrunch:

Facebook Plucks At Twitter With Launch Of News Feed Interest Lists — Appealing to power users and Twitter loyalists, Facebook today lets users start creating and subscribing to “Interest Lists”. You can view updates from these collections of Pages and public figures in a dedicated news feed.

More: Inside Facebook, The Verge, All Facebook, Friending Facebook Blog, AllThingsD, newsroom.fb.com and MarketingVox News & Trends

Bloomberg:

Dell Seeks Edge Over IPad With Business-Friendly Windows Tablet — Dell Inc. (DELL) Chief Executive Officer Michael Dell said there's growing demand for tablet computers that can run the next version of Windows, which may help his company siphon away corporate customers from the iPad.

More: Pulse2 Technology …, SlashGear, Techie Buzz and MacNN

K. T. Bradford / Gotta Be Mobile:

Mobile Hotspot Included in Verizon's iPad 4G LTE Data Plan — As expected, Apple's new iPad 3rd generation tablet is available with sweet and speedy 4G LTE from Verizon Wireless and AT&T. Tim Cook also announced that customers will be able to use the tablet as a mobile hotspot as well — that's even better.

More: 9to5Mac, BGR, MacRumors, Gizmodo, Engadget, App Advice and iDownloadBlog.com

Cotton Delo / AdAge:

Twitter Plots Big Changes to Brand Pages — E-Commerce, Contests, Sweepstakes Among Features Planned for Advertisers — Big changes are coming to Twitter's “brand pages,” the landing pages it offers to some marketers that also spend ad dollars on the network.

More: Marketing Land, Mashable! and MarketingVox News & Trends. Thanks:@cottondelo

Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica:

Holey chip! IBM drills holes into optical chip for terabit-per-second speed — IBM researchers have built a prototype optical chip that can transfer a terabit of data per second, using an innovative design requiring 48 tiny holes drilled into a standard CMOS chip, facilitating the movement of light.

More: eWeek, Inquirer, IBM, The Verge, WebProNews, Wired, ExtremeTech, CNET, TechEye, SlashGear and Digits

Stephen Wolfram Blog:

The Personal Analytics of My Life — One day I'm sure everyone will routinely collect all sorts of data about themselves. But because I've been interested in data for a very long time, I started doing this long ago. I actually assumed lots of other people were doing it too, but apparently they were not.

Ben Sisario / Media Decoder:

Sequoia Capital Invests $10 Million in Songkick — Songkick, an online service that alerts fans about local concerts by their favorite artists, has been growing fast since it started in London in 2007. — The site is dedicated to the idea of making the concert-going process as easy …

More: Songkick Blog, GigaOM, The Next Web and AllThingsD

China Real Time Report:

Proview's Ominous Open Letter to Chinese iPad Vendors … Apple Inc.'s trademark dispute with a Chinese affiliate of Hong Kong-based Proview International Holdings over use of the iPad name took a confusing turn yesterday when a company claiming to represent Proview's state-run creditors …

More: Reuters, Associated Press, WebProNews, ITworld.com, PadGadget, The Next Web, The Register, SlashGear, Inquirer, Telegraph and Wall Street Journal

Liz Gannes / AllThingsD:

Yobongo Acquired by Mixbook; Will Shut Down and Become Mobile Team — Yobongo, a mobile social discovery app, will be acquired by the fast-growing photo book creation service Mixbook, the two companies announced today. — Yobongo had only tens of thousands of monthly active users …

More: ReadWriteWeb, blog.yobongo.com, TechCrunch, Mixblog, The Next Web and Pulse2 Technology …

Andy Greenberg / The Firewall:

With $1 Million On The Line, Chrome Finally Cracked In Hacking Competition — It took four years and possibly the biggest reward a software company has ever offered for information about its own security flaws, but Google finally found what it was looking for: A few hackers willing and able to dismantle its browser in public.

More: CNET, msnbc.com, Digital Trends, Help Net Security, PC Magazine, SlashGear, Naked Security, VentureBeat, Gizmodo, Geekosystem, Business Insider, The Verge and Ars Technica

Alyson Raletz / Kansas City Business Journal:

Missouri approves Google's request to set up video services in Kansas City … has the go-ahead to provide video services in Kansas City. — The Missouri Public Service Commission has granted Google Fiber Missouri LLC the authority to build a video service network along public rights of way, according to a March 1 order.

More: Los Angeles Times

Ernesto / TorrentFreak:

Hotfile As Bad As Megaupload, MPAA Tells Court — As one of the ten largest file-sharing sites on the Internet, Hotfile has become a prime target for Hollywood. — February last year the inevitable happened when the MPAA filed a lawsuit against the file-hosting service.

More: Ars Technica

Rafe Needleman / CNET:

From scooters to servers: The best of Launch, Day One — Rafe's top picks from the big startup conference include a service to help you get financial aid, one to get you in shape, and cloud storage company with no servers. — The Space Monkey storage pod lives in your house.

More: CNET, SlashGear, The Verge, GigaOM, PandoDaily, StartupStats, LAUNCH and PandoDaily

Peter Delevett / Mercury News:

Israeli President Shimon Peres mingles with tech up-and-comers at LAUNCH Conference

More: blogs.forbes.com/shelisrael and San Francisco Examiner

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