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| Jonny Evans / Computerworld: |
Collected video: the whole world wants an iPad in its hand — The new Apple [AAPL] iPad briefly hits store shelves across ten countries this morning and the video evidence shows thousands are rushing to get hold of the new device, demand for which is “off the charts”.
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| Shira Lazar / What's Trending with Shira Lazar: |
EXCLUSIVE: Steve Wozniak in Line for iPad 3 at Apple Store (VIDEO) — It has become a tradition to capture Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak waiting in line for the next big Apple product. Tonight, Wozniak checked in on Foursquare at the Westfield Mall in Century City, California.
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Gizmodo, CNET, Engadget, PhoneArena, Pocket-lint, Appolicious Advisor and Mashable!
| AppleInsider: |
Customers, press amass for launch of Apple's new iPad — The launch of Apple's new iPad has once again drawn massive crowds and a blitz of media attention as customers — including Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak — queued up to buy the third-generation device.
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Bits, Fortune, The Register, AllThingsD, MacRumors, MacDailyNews, Associated Press, TechCrunch, Unboxing Asia Blog, App Advice and Softpedia News. Tweets: @scobleizer
| 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.
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BGR, Recent Teardowns, AnandTech, TUAW and VR-Zone
| 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 …
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| Brian Caulfield / Shiny Objects: |
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| Chris O'Brien / SiliconBeat: |
Hiring of Kevin Rose by Google sends all the wrong signals to Silicon Valley — “Embrace failure” is the first thing anyone will tell you is the secret to Silicon Valley's success. There are other things of course, but that's likely the first thing that will pop out of people's mouths.
| Liz Gannes / AllThingsD: |
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Thanks:@rajupp| 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 …
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Ars Technica, Inquirer, Ed Bott, CNET, Business Insider, Mashable!, Law Blog and Gizmodo UK
| 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.| Matt Brian / The Next Web: |
Confirmed: Sprint pulls the plug on LightSquared 4G contract, repays $65 million — Reports suggested it was imminent but today Sprint has officially confirmed that it has pulled the plug on its LTE 4G contract with LightSquared, which will return $65 million in repayments to the struggling wireless company.
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AllThingsD, Sprint Newsroom, TechCrunch, The Verge, Engadget, IntoMobile, PhoneNews.com and SlashGear
| Greg Bensinger / Wall Street Journal: |
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| 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 …
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iPhone Alley, PadGadget, Mashable! and Yukari Iwatani Kane
| Quentin Hardy / Bits: |
Better Economic Forecasts, From the Cloud — GT Nexus used shipment data to track countries' import-export balance in 2008, left, and 2011. The diagonal line represents balanced trade. — Someday soon, the Federal Reserve may be dead, at least for economic information.| 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.
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CNET, Computerworld, Reuters, TUAW, The Loop, PhoneArena and Electronista
| Bobbie Johnson / GigaOM: |
Groupon UK told to clean up after record complaints — Over the last year, the U.K. arm of Groupon has been the subject of a record number of complaints about the way it advertises deals to users, makes claims about products on sale and treats users. — Now the company has been told … | 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 …
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Inquirer, AppleTell, Help Net Security, Associated Press, PC World, Macgasm, The Next Web, Gizmodo UK, LumberBlog, O'Reilly Radar, AppleInsider, GigaOM, Business Insider, App Advice, Mashable!, Global Nerdy, dailywireless.org, Internet2Go, Wired, Know Your Cell, Digital Trends, Android Community, Techland, PC Magazine, the Econsultancy blog, VatorNews, Android Phone Fans, SlashGear, Between the Lines Blog, MacStories, Betabeat, MarketingVox News & Trends, TechCrunch, MacNN, TechCrunch and TUAW. Tweets: @paulcarr. Thanks:@paypal
| Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
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| Sean Hollister / The Verge: |
Lenovo will be ‘first to market’ with a Windows 8 tablet, says source — Michael Dell said that he would offer an enterprise tablet “on the exact day” that Windows 8 ships to customers, but his company may have some competition right out of the gate: We've learned that Lenovo is internally planning …
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| 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 … | MG Siegler / TechCrunch: |
The Retina iPad Apps To Test Tonight And Tomorrow — The new iPad nears. Apparently Walmart will be selling them in just a few short hours, well before Apple itself does tomorrow morning. Meanwhile, the first direct-to-consumer shipments should be hitting anytime now.| Business Week: |
Anarchy in the App Store — Path bills itself as a social network that cares about privacy. For a while it was also an App Store outlaw. When iPhone users downloaded it through Apple's popular storefront, the software surreptitiously sent a user's entire contacts list—including e-mail addresses …
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New York Times, AppleInsider, MacNN, SlashGear, MacRumors, The Next Web and 9to5Mac
| Matt Lynley / Business Insider: |
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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.
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“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).
“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).Who's Hiring In Tech?
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