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March 18, 2012, 4:50 AM

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Zach Epstein / BGR:

iPad launch day: Where are all the sell-outs? — iPad launch day is quite a fiasco. Apple Stores around the country see eager customers line up hours or even days ahead of the tablet's release, and people often wait hours before they finally make it into the store to purchase an iPad — if there are any left.

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Liz Gannes / AllThingsD:

Great App-pectations: When Innovation Leapfrogs Phone Capabilities — As comic Louis C.K. would say about technology: Everything is amazing and nobody is happy. — Nowhere is that more true as app developers push the possibilities of how to use our smartphones' location awareness and reach …

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Kim-Mai Cutler / TechCrunch:

Google Wallet's Founding Engineer, Product Lead Already at Work on Next Startup, Tappmo — More people leaving Google Wallet means more founders for mobile payments startups! — Jonathan Wall, a founding engineer on Google Wallet, and Marc Freed-Finnegan, its product lead …

Liz Gannes / AllThingsD:

Google Apps VP Dave Girouard Leaving to Start a Company

More: GigaOM, 9to5Google, WebProNews, Dave Girouard, VentureBeat and SiliconANGLE. Tweets: @eldon

Connie Loizos / PE Hub Blog:

Esther Dyson on the Angel Crowd: It's “Very Self-Referential” — If Ron Conway is the godfather of Silicon Valley, Esther Dyson might well be considered the godmother. — At least, Dyson has been actively angel investing in startups roughly as long as Conway, and her track record …

Greg Sandoval / CNET:

Paperwork goof may mean Kim DotCom can reclaim assets — New Zealand authorities may be forced to return Kim DotCom's cash and cars as a result of a procedural error. — (Credit: Screen shot by Greg Sandoval) — Authorities in New Zealand have acknowledged making a procedural error prior …

More: Gizmodo and New Zealand Herald

Eric Eldon / TechCrunch:

Rejoice, Twitter Power Users: “Next Generation” Tweetdeck Apps Coming For Android And iOS — The big Twitter redesign at the end of last year seemed to mean that the company was ditching power users to get more mainstream. The website and the mobile apps added “Connect” and “Discover” …

More: Android Phone Fans, SlashGear and MacNN

Barry Schwartz / Search Engine Land:

Too Much SEO? Google's Working On An “Over-Optimization” Penalty For That — Google's Matt Cutts announced that Google is working on a search ranking penalty for sites that are “over-optimized” or “overly SEO'ed.” — Matt announced this during a panel Search Engine Land's Editor-In-Chief …

More: VentureBeat, CNET, Neowin.net, 9.blog and Search Engine Roundtable

Andrew Rassweiler / iSuppli:

New iPad 32GB + 4G Carries $364.35 Bill of Materials — The new iPad, equipped with 32 Gigabytes (GB) of NAND flash memory and 4G Long Term Evolution (LTE) wireless capability, carries a bill of materials (BOM) of $364.35. When the $10.75 manufacturing costs are added in, the cost to produce the new iPad rises to $375.10.

More: MobileSyrup.com, CNET, PhoneArena, VentureBeat, blogs.ft.com and AllThingsD

Alex Dobie / Android Central:

CyanogenMod 9 makes root access an option, not the default — Since the earliest days of unofficial Android ROMs, root access and custom firmwares like CyanogenMod have gone hand in hand. However, future versions of CyanogenMod will take a step back from always-on root …

More: CyanogenMod, Examiner, The Verge, Techie Buzz, Softpedia News, Engadget, Android Phone Fans, Android Community and Geek.com

Elinor Mills / CNET:

Privacy suit filed against Path, Twitter, Apple, Facebook, others — Thirteen individuals have filed a lawsuit against more than a dozen mobile app makers—including Path, Twitter, Apple, and Facebook—who were accused of automatically uploading user address books without permission.

More: VentureBeat, FierceMobileContent and MobileBurn.com

Florian Mueller / FOSS Patents:

Apple loses final ITC ruling against Motorola Mobility: preliminary finding of no violation affirmed — On January 13, an Administrative Law Judge (ALJ) at the ITC made an initial determination (a recommendation for a decision) that didn't hold Motorola Mobility to infringe three Apple patents.

More: Engadget, TechnoBuffalo, TUAW, fosspatents.blogspot.de and AppleInsider

Manan Kakkar / Techie Buzz:

Apple Copies Zune Tagline For iTunes — This is too good to not be reproduced. Looks like the photocopiers at Cupertino are working overtime. Perhaps, the artists at Cupertino are out of innovation. Use any of the many smart retorts by the loud Apple fans over the years against Microsoft and reverse the company names.

More: iFans, Zunited and Softpedia News

Tweets: @theromit, @manan and @edbott

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