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March 10, 2012, 9:50 AM

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Steve Tenerowicz / Know Your Cell:
Popular mobile game developer Mika Mobile ending support for Android  —  Mika Mobile, developer of the popular games Battleheart and Zombieville USA, announced today that it will no longer be developing games for Google's Android mobile OS  —  Mika Mobile, developer of the hit Android games Zombieville USA …
Liz Gannes / AllThingsD:
Loopt's Sam Altman on Why He Sold to Green Dot for $43.4M  —  Mobile location start-up Loopt will be acquired by the banking company Green Dot, best-known for its prepaid cards.  —  The deal is worth $43.4 million in cash, though that includes $9.8 million set aside in retention payments for key Loopt employees.
Michelle Paulson / Wikimedia blog:
Transfer of Wikipedia sites from GoDaddy complete  —  After months of deliberation and a complicated transfer, the Wikimedia Foundation domain portfolio has been successfully transferred from GoDaddy to MarkMonitor.  The portfolio transfer was formally completed on Friday, March 9th, 2012.
Jonathan S. Geller / BGR:
AT&T's Nokia Lumia 900 launch delayed, now set to debut on April 22nd for $99.99  —  BGR exclusively reported this past January that the Nokia Lumia 900 will retail for a mind-blowing $99.99 with two-year agreement when it launches on AT&T. We also reported that the sleek smartphone was slated …
Devin Coldewey / TechCrunch:
Army Warns Of Danger Of Geotagging  —  While for an ordinary civilian the automatic geotagging of your photos or check-ins might be convenient, in the military it can be a lethal mistake.  In 2007, geotagged photos of a new fleet of helicopters allowed enemy forces to mortar the base …
Josh Ong / AppleInsider:
Apple provides additional details, renders for Cupertino campus project  —  The city of Cupertino released on Friday updated plans and renders for Apple's Cupertino campus project providing additional views of the proposed facility.  —  Late Apple co-founder Steve Jobs first unveiled plans …
Wall Street Journal:
How ‘Kony’ Clip Caught Fire Online  —  An Internet video seeking to draw attention to fugitive African rebel leader Joseph Kony now stands as the fastest-growing viral phenomenon in Web history, thanks to informal celebrity advocates and young viewers.  —  Posted online on Monday …
More: Forbes
Zack Whittaker / Between the Lines Blog:
Anonymous leaks Symantec's Norton anti-virus source code  —  Summary: Anonymous has released what appears to be the source code from Norton Antivirus 2006, in what could be a seriously damaging exercise for Symantec.  —  Anonymous, for which LulzSec was distantly related to …
Donald Melanson / Engadget:
Nielsen report finds 56 percent of US households have a modern game console, total gaming time up seven percent  —  Nielsen is out with its annual survey of video game use in the US today, and it's found that gaming continues to be on the rise across the board.
Matt Thomas:
Something's Unraveling, Alright  —  Jolie O'Dell at VentureBeat: Apple's press conference showed a brand unraveling While today's Apple event unveiled a couple new improvements to an expected lineup of products, it also revealed a certain sloppiness that was absent from former, Steve Jobs-led launches.
More: SlateTweets: @jamesdickson and @carnage4life
Scott Gilbertson / Webmonkey:
Twitter Catches the ‘SPDY’ Train  —  Twitter has embraced Google's vision of a faster web and is now serving webpages over the SPDY protocol to browsers that support it.  —  SPDY, pronounced “speedy,” is a replacement for the HTTP protocol — the language currently used when your browser talks to a web server.
Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
PayPal's New Digital Wallet Will Offer Personalized Deals, Flexible Payments, And More  —  We've been hearing recently about PayPal's in-store payments platform for large retailers (which will soon be rolled out to small businesses as well).  But we haven't seen PayPal do much in the past few months …
More: VentureBeat and GigaOM
Florian Mueller / FOSS Patents:
Apple brings in 73 Korean-American contract attorneys and 20 reviewers to sift through tons of Samsung documents  —  Apple is facing a huge challenge in dealing with truckloads of Korean-language documents produced by Samsung in two federal lawsuits in California and two ITC investigations.
More: MacNN
John P. Holdren / White House Blog:
Todd Park Named New U.S. Chief Technology Officer  —  I'm very excited that President Obama today is appointing Todd Park as the new U.S. Chief Technology Officer, with the important task of applying the newest technology and latest advances to make the Federal government work better for the American people.
Jennifer Howard / Chronicle of Higher Education:
Google Begins to Scale Back Its Scanning of Books From University Libraries  —  Google has been quietly slowing down its book-scanning work with partner libraries, according to librarians involved with the vast Google Books digitization project.  But what that means for the company's long-term investment in the work remains unclear.
Ed Bott / The Ed Bott Report Blog:
Mozilla begins development of Firefox for Metro  —  Summary: Mozilla today announced that it has begun “a very large project” to build a Metro styled version of Firefox for Windows 8.  Can Firefox for Metro really be ready this summer?  —  Mozilla's Brian R. Bondy revealed today that development has begun on Firefox for Metro.

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Cloud Foundry:
Static.com Adds Hadoop Support for Cloud Foundry  —  In this guest post, Jake Farrell, CTO for Static.com, explains how the major shift in the hosting industry towards platforms for high developer productivity …
Rackspace Blog:
DevOps: Improved Productivity, Higher Value  —  Those of us who have been aligned with DevOps for some time already know that the greater agility and closer collaboration it enables deliver real business value for our organizations.
Hortonworks » Blog:
Get Started with Hadoop on Hortonworks Data Platform 1.1 for Windows  —  We are excited to release the Hortonworks Data Platform 1.1 for Windows as a Generally Available product.
Unison's blog:
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