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March 16, 2012, 9:20 AM

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iFixit:
iPad 3 4G Teardown  —  Our CXO flew to the Telstra store in Melbourne, Australia and was first in line to get the iPad 3 for our deconstructive pleasure.  A big thanks to Macfixit Australia for letting us use their facility for the teardown!  Tech Specs: Dual-core Apple A5X processor 9.7 inch LED backlit …
Brooke Crothers / CNET:
Evidence of Apple chip design change in iPad teardown  —  Apple needs some serious silicon to drive that gorgeous, pixel-dense display.  —  (Credit: Apple)  —  Apple has changed the design of the main chip in the new iPad with tweaks to accommodate a higher-performing chip, according to teardown analysis.
More: BGR, VR-Zone and AnandTech
Liz Gannes / AllThingsD:
Exclusive: Kevin Rose Will Join Google  —  Digg founder Kevin Rose has been hired by Google, according to sources close to the situation.  —  Rose's mobile app incubator Milk yesterday announced it was shutting down its only product, Oink.  —  Google is not outright buying or “acqhiring” …
David Marcus / The PayPal Blog:
Introducing PayPal Here: The Future of Commerce for Small Business  —  PayPal has a long history of helping small businesses.  For 14 years we've provided the tools and services that have allowed millions of small businesses to grow by solving the complex and critical task of processing payments securely …
Julia Angwin / Wall Street Journal:
Google in New Privacy Probes  —  Regulators in the U.S. and European Union are investigating Google Inc. for bypassing the privacy settings of millions of users of Apple Inc.'s Safari Web browser, according to people familiar with the investigations.  Google stopped the practice last month …
Sean Hollister / The Verge:
The new iPad is a beautiful reminder of how stupid data plans are  —  Apple's new iPad is magnificent.  The screen is superb, the processor is fast, and despite its newfound LTE cellular connectivity, the battery life lasts.  And yet, I'd never, ever recommend you buy an LTE tablet …
James Bamford / Wired:
The NSA Is Building the Country's Biggest Spy Center (Watch What You Say)  —  The spring air in the small, sand-dusted town has a soft haze to it, and clumps of green-gray sagebrush rustle in the breeze.  Bluffdale sits in a bowl-shaped valley in the shadow of Utah's Wasatch Range to the east and the Oquirrh Mountains to the west.
More: The Awl, Betabeat and The VergeTweets: @anonymousirc
Paul Thurrott's / SuperSite for Windows:
Microsoft Office 15 Preview  —  Forget the rumors.  Here's what it's really like to use the Office 15 Technical Preview, which Microsoft recently made available only to a select group of customers under non-disclosure agreement.  I was able to get my hands on a copy, and while it's …
Florian Mueller / FOSS Patents:
Mannheim court halts Apple's second slide-to-unlock case against Samsung  —  It's taking Apple and Samsung time to win any decision against each other in Mannheim.  Two weeks ago, Samsung lost its third 3G/UMTS-related case in a row and Apple saw the first one of its two German slide-to-unlock cases against Samsung thrown out.
Darrell Etherington / BetaKit:
YouMail Lets Users Permanently Block Calls on Android  —  YouMail, an Irvine CA-based startup founded in 2007 that focuses on delivering value-add services to smartphone users, is debuting a new feature today in its Android applications.  It's one that users will likely flock to …
More: IntoMobile

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Channel 9:
Defrag Tools: WPT - Command Line  —  Andrew Richards, Chad Beeder, and Larry Larsen continue walking you through the Windows Performance Toolkit (WPT).
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:
Love, Magic, & APIs  —  I will confess, I am old enough to remember my GeoCities page.  Don't hate.  It was amazing, it was... this transformative moment in which I took real, actual information, and transformed it into something visible and memorable.
Hortonworks » Blog:
Hadoop, Hadoop, Hurrah!  HDP for Windows is Now GA!  —  Today we are very excited to announce that Hortonworks Data Platform for Windows (HDP for Windows) is now generally available and ready to support the most demanding production workloads.
Unison's blog:
“Yammer sucks”  —  Not to be mean to Yammer, or anything — it's a very good tool for some use cases — but that's what a customer told me recently (and others feel the same way).
 

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