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March 18, 2012, 5:20 PM

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Nick Bilton / Bits:

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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?

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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.

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Liz Gannes / AllThingsD:

Great App-pectations: When Innovation Leapfrogs Phone Capabilities

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

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 …

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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

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.

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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 …

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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

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

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: SlashGear, Android Phone Fans and MacNN

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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