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March 18, 2012, 7:35 PM

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Nick Bilton / Bits:

Time to Review F.A.A. Policy on Gadgets — SAN FRANCISCO — On Monday morning I'm going to drive to the airport, check in for my flight to New York, then head to the airport bookstore for a stack of magazines to read on the plane. I'll do this reluctantly because I will carry both an Amazon Kindle …

More: mocoNews, Ars Technica, PC Magazine, TeleRead, Business Insider, Mashable! and CNET. Tweets: @brainpicker

Farhad Manjoo / PandoDaily:

It's the battery, stupid: The looming 4G smartphone crisis — What's your favorite thing about your smartphone? Is it its minimalist design? Its pretty interface? How about the fantastic HD display, the apps, 4G networking, or great cloud backups? Or maybe it's all of those things?

More: parislemon, Android Phone Fans, Current Editorials, Daring Fireball, The Next Web and Telecompetitor

Tweets: @lizgannes and @cdixon

Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:

The Real SXSW “Winner” Is The Mophie Juice Pack — So Highlight didn't “win” SXSW, as some tech bloggers had hypothesized, for many reasons. It did however have a close relationship to what eventually ended up winning, as its background GPS turns out to significantly strain iPhone battery life.

More: TechCrunch, TechPinions, bub.blicio.us and RyanSpoon.com

Tweets: @stevejang and @antderosa

Liz Gannes / AllThingsD:

Great App-pectations: When Innovation Leapfrogs Phone Capabilities

More: parislemon and Tech Cocktail

Federico Viticci / MacStories:

Apple Schedules Conference Call To Announce Outcome of Cash Balance Discussions — Apple just issued a press release confirming a conference call scheduled for tomorrow, March 19th, to announce the outcome of discussions concerning the company's cash balance.

More: Business Insider, The Verge, The Next Web, The Apple Core Blog, The Tech Trade, MacRumors, BGR, TechCrunch, Engadget, Ars Technica, VentureBeat, 9to5Mac, Reuters, Apple, iDownloadBlog.com and gdgt

Tweets: @jvascellaro, @eghosao and @bajarin

AngelList:

SUPPORT THE JOBS ACT — Urge the Senate to pass this important startup bill Startups are forbidden to: Publicly discuss that they are raising money Raise money through crowdfunding Receive services like standard docs from incubators and online platforms Stay private if they have over 500 shareholders …

More: PandoDaily, Scripting News and TechCrunch

Tweets: @angellist, @stevecase, @ronconway, @cdixon and @cdixon

David Grant / Christian Science Monitor:

JOBS Act: Why are Democrats suddenly raising red flags? — No one wants to vote against jobs, but a wide swath of critics - ranging from the SEC, the AFL-CIO, and pension funds - worry that features in the proposed JOBS Act could hurt investors. — WASHINGTON

More: PC World and The Huffington Post

Jerry Neumann / @ganeumann:

Crowdsourced startup funding will last only until some con man raises $10mm for their bogus startup from the crowd. I give it three years.

Tweets: @bryce, @kazanjy, @hepworks, @bryce and @abrams

Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Fortune:

Apple and the Daisey affair — Why did the company keep its silence, when it knew a year ago what we know now? — Mike Daisey performing “The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs” — Mike Daisey began performing his off-Broadway monologue “The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs” in January 2011.

More: iPhone Savior, Letter from China, BuzzMachine, CNET, AllThingsD, Business Insider, TechCrunch, Mobile and MacDailyNews. Tweets: @pkafka. Thanks:@philiped. See also Mediagazer

Eric Slivka / MacRumors:

Teardown of New Apple TV Reveals Same 8 GB Flash Storage, Bump to 512 MB RAM — Following the release of the third-generation Apple TV late last week, one forum member at XBMC.org has performed a teardown of the device, revealing a number of details about its internals.

More: VentureBeat, Engadget, National Business Review, iClarified and blogs.ft.com

Quentin Hardy / Bits:

Cisco's Bold Networking Start-Up — Three of Cisco's top engineers with a strong record in building some of the company's most important products are in negotiations to create a new type of network switch for data centers, according to people with knowledge of the talks.

More: Network World, Wired and Light Reading

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: PC Magazine, The Register, TorrentFreak, New Zealand Herald, Deadline.com, PC World and Slashdot

Daniel Terdiman / CNET:

Parker, Fanning: Napster was still better than what we have now — Although new services like Spotify and Rdio offer users the ability to legally listen to vast collections of music at no cost, Napster's founders lament that music sharing today is still behind 1999. — Follow @GreeterDan

More: The Register and The Verge

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, 9.blog, The Next Web, MacNN, MobileBurn.com and FierceMobileContent

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