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 …

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” …

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.

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 …

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 …

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.

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 …

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 …

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.

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 …

Lame hacker tool or trojan delivery device?  Hands on with Anonymous-OS  —  On March 13, an anonymous benefactor announced the availability of Anonymous-OS, a new live-bootable Linux distribution tailored for a... particular class of user.  The package was posted on Sourceforge and downloaded …

Sprint to End Contract With LightSquared  —  Sprint Nextel Corp. will terminate a 15-year contract with billionaire Philip Falcone's LightSquared Inc. Friday and return $65 million in prepayments to the wireless start-up, according to people familiar with the plans.

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 …

19,000+ episodes of Indian TV on YouTube Shows  —  India is one of world's largest producers of TV shows.  With more than 400 terrestrial and local channels available, Indians often face the challenging question: What am I going to watch?  —  The good news is that we increasingly don't have to worry about when to watch.

Companies Pledge Not to Help Pakistan Filter the Web  —  Rivals at birth, India and Pakistan are now both struggling to manage the irrepressible Internet.  —  In India, Facebook, Google and several other American technology firms are in court on charges that they failed to block “objectionable” material that showed up on their sites.

How Y Combinator Started  —  Y Combinator's 7th birthday was March 11.  As usual we were so busy we didn't notice till a few days after.  I don't think we've ever managed to remember our birthday on our birthday.  —  On March 11 2005, Jessica and I were walking home from dinner in Harvard Square.