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March 10, 2012, 9:50 AM

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Paul Graham:

Frighteningly Ambitious Startup Ideas — One of the more surprising things I've noticed while working on Y Combinator is how frightening the most ambitious startup ideas are. In this essay I'm going to demonstrate this phenomenon by describing some. Any one of them could make you a billionaire.

More: Brian Rue's Blog and Dustin Curtis. Tweets: @ericries, @thomashpark and @cdixon

Brad Molen / Engadget:

Exclusive: Sprint iPad shows up in Best Buy's database — If you were keeping score during Apple's iPad keynote on Wednesday, you noticed AT&T and Verizon listed amongst the carriers that will get the new iPad, but what about Sprint? It's going to be rockin' LTE in the not-too-distant future, after all.

More: 9to5Mac, Phones Review, AppleInsider, CNET, PhoneArena, WebProNews, Sprintfeed, Gotta Be Mobile, everythingiCafe and MacNN

Matthew Panzarino / The Next Web:

Apple has now completely sold out first online shipment of new iPads worldwide — Apple has run through its initial online shipment of the new model of iPad worldwide. The shipment dates on Apple's site have now slipped to March 19th from March 16th in the US.

More: Tech Shout!, VentureBeat, Edible Apple, Engadget, MacStories and The Verge

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 …

Mika Mobile:

Our Future with Android — Some folks recently sent us news …

More: GigaOM

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.

More: Business Wire, VentureBeat, TechCrunch, The Tech Trade, All Points Blog, Screenwerk, BetaKit and The Next Web

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.

More: WebProNews, ZDNet and ReadWriteWeb

Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac:

Tether launches $30/year web-based tethering service for iPhones, works around Apple's restrictions — Tether made news in November, 2011 when Apple seemingly accidentally accepted their application into the iTunes App Store. The $14.99 piece of iPhone software allowed anyone to simply download …

More: Tether.com, The Verge, App Advice, Gotta Be Mobile, Engadget, CNET, The Next Web, Electronista, iPhone Savior, MacRumors and everythingiCafe. Thanks:@markgurman

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 …

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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 …

More: Gizmodo, Telegraph, WebProNews, INFOdocket and army.mil

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 …

More: Cupertino City News and iPhone in Canada Blog

Josh Constine / TechCrunch:

Gundotra: Google+ Won't Let 3rd-Party Apps Post Because “Your Stream Could Easily Be Overwhelmed” — Today at his SXSW fireside chat, head of Google+ Vic Gundotra said “I am 100% to blame” for the social network lacking an API seven months after launch. The reason?

More: The Verge, ABCNEWS, CNET, Marketing Land, SiliconFilter and AllThingsD

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 …

More: Neowin.net, The Verge, Datamation.com and Business Insider

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.

More: blog.nielsen.com, USA Today and Fudzilla

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: Slate. Tweets: @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.

More: O'Reilly Radar, O'Reilly Radar, Pulse2 Technology …, PC Magazine, Computerworld, Mashable!, The Tech Trade, Engadget, FederalNewsRadio.com, Washington Post, WebProNews, Politico, ReadWriteWeb, AllThingsD and Slashdot

Telegraph:

Digital ‘map’ of the Titanic to be released for 100-year anniversary — Researchers have pieced together the first comprehensive map of the Titanic's debris field, saying they plan to release the new images next month to mark the 100-year anniversary of the ship's sinking. — The starboard side of the Titanic bow

More: Associated Press, Discovery News, Los Angeles Times, NY Daily News, The Sun, Boston Globe, SlashGear and Techland

Foursquare Blog:

Is it open? Business hours are now on foursquare! — On the prowl for a late night snack? Or a cafe that's open super early? Or a place that's still serving brunch on a late Sunday afternoon? — Now when you're looking for great places to try, you'll see a business' hours …

More: Pulse2 Technology …, App Advice, The Next Web, Tip Desk, VentureBeat and WebProNews

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.

More: New York Times

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.

More: Brian R. Bondy's Feed and Ars Technica. Thanks:@edbott

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