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March 18, 2012, 2:30 PM

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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.

More: TechCrunch and bub.blicio.us. Tweets: @stevejang and @antderosa

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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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 …

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

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: TorrentFreak, PC World, WebProNews, Gizmodo, New Zealand Herald 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

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

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, Neowin.net, CNET, 9.blog and Search Engine Roundtable

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 …

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