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March 29, 2012, 7:55 AM

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Jay Yarow / Business Insider:

OH NO: Apple TV Isn't Coming Until 2013, Says Research Group — Most analysts say Apple will release an Apple TV this year. — Not Asian research group CLSA, which said in a note this morning that it thinks it comes out in 2013. — We don't have the full note, just a brief of what they said, which is included below.

More: Guardian, The Apple Core Blog, T3 News, CNET, MacRumors and Edible Apple

Jack Purcher / Patently Apple:

The Foxconn-Sharp Alliance is all about Apple's Coming HDTV — Yesterday, Apple was granted a very interesting and important patent regarding a very specific TV Display technology. The patent basically related to Apple's advancement of a little known technology called Fringe Field Switching (FSS).

More: Reuters, Business Week, Bloomberg, AppleInsider, Social Media and Gizmodo UK

Luke Plunkett / Kotaku:

The Next PlayStation is Called Orbis, Sources Say. Here are the Details. — While the official reveal of Sony's next home console could still be months away, if not longer, Kotaku has today learned some important details concerning the PlayStation 3's successor.

Ellis Hamburger / The Verge:

Paper: the next great iPad app, from the brains behind Courier — Georg Petschnigg throws his hands into the air as he traces thousands of years of human evolution that led us to develop the fragile wrists we need to use tools. Petschnigg locks his wrist into place and pretends to scribble …

More: App Advice. Tweets: @jonfingas

Mark McDonald / New York Times:

Zuckerberg in China: Let the Rumors Begin — HONG KONG — Mark Zuckerberg was spotted walking around Shanghai on Tuesday, which naturally led to a spike in online speculation about Facebook entering the Chinese market. — He said he was just on vacation with his girlfriend, Priscilla Chan.

More: Agence France Presse

Chris Gallagher / Reuters:

Star-struck Japan PM befriends Facebook's Zuckerberg

More: Associated Press

Reuters:

Face time with Facebook CEO stirs concerns on Wall Street

More: Mercury News, Reuters, Business Insider, Friending Facebook Blog and Forbes

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:

House Shoots Down Legislation That Would Have Stopped Employers From Demanding Your Facebook Password — Well, that didn't take long. A proposed Facebook user protection amendment introduced yesterday in the U.S. House of Representatives has already been shot down.

More: Gizmodo, The Verge, PC Magazine, Friending Facebook Blog, CNET, WebProNews and The Register. Thanks:@alexia

Matthew Kauffman / Investigative Reporting:

Claim Check: Employers Asking for Facebook Passwords

Tweets: @adrianchen and @ddarlin

Bloomberg:

Apple's Tim Cook Visits Foxconn IPhone Plant in China — Apple Inc. (AAPL) Chief Executive Officer Tim Cook visited Foxconn Technology Group's newly built manufacturing facility for the iPhone in Zhengzhou, China, as the U.S. company seeks to improve working conditions.

More: Fast Company, Fortune, ZDNet, Computerworld, The Verge, Xinhua News Agency, The Register, The Next Web, M.I.C. Gadget, AppleInsider, Business Insider, 9to5Mac and AllThingsD

Agam Shah / PC World:

Dell Ends Smartphone Sales in the US — Dell has stopped selling smartphones in the U.S. as it tweaks its mobile strategy to focus more on emerging markets and higher-margin products. — Dell has nixed its last standing Venue and Venue Pro smartphones and no replacements have been announced.

More: Electronista, CNET, Ubergizmo, Phones Review, Engadget, PhoneArena, IntoMobile, The Verge and WMPoweruser

Dan Graziano / BGR:

Google's $199 Nexus tablet may pressure vendors to cut prices — It is widely believed that Google will entere the tablet market in 2012 with an own-branded 7-inch Android tablet. The search giant has reportedly partnered with ASUS to build a $199 device that will compete against Amazon's Kindle Fire.

More: DigiTimes, Tech Trader Daily, PadGadget and New York Post

Ben Popper / VentureBeat:

Turn your tweets into toilet paper with the new startup, S**tter — What if you could take all those tweets you blast out during the day and ruminate on them in a place where your mind is free to wander and relax. Introducing S**tter, a new startup that, for just $35, will turn your tweet stream into four rolls of toilet paper.

More: Laughing Squid, SlashGear, The Next Web, AllTwitter, everwas, Examiner, Business Insider, Paints The Future, memeburn, Ubergizmo and WebProNews

Tweets: @howardlindzon, @evelynrusli, @jbruin and @benpopper

Jodi Gralnick / CNBC:

iPod Nation: Half of US Homes Own Apple Products — Half of all U.S. households own at least one Apple product, according to CNBC's All-America Economic survey. — That's more than 55 million homes with at least one iPhone, iPad, iPod or Mac computer. And one-in-10 homes that aren't currently …

More: The Verge, TUAW, iPhone Hacks, PhoneArena, Techie Buzz, Digital Trends, GamesIndustry International, WebProNews, GeekWire, T3 News, SlashGear, everythingiCafe, Macgasm, VentureBeat, CNET, Techland, Mashable!, GamePolitics blogs, App Advice, iClarified, iLounge, Mobile Marketing Watch and 9to5Mac. Tweets: @dannysullivan. Thanks:@aneelb

Matt Brian / The Next Web:

Tumblr hits 20 billion posts, nears 50 million hosted blogs — New York City-based sharing service Tumblr continues to grow at an incredible pace, hitting 20 billion posts on Monday night, doubling in size in just over 6 months. — Understated in its response to the milestone, the Tumblr team posted a tweet to notify its followers:

More: Business Insider, Mashable!, Daily Dot and Softpedia News

Andreas Tuerk / The Official Google Blog:

Giving you more insight into your Google Account activity — Every day we aim to make technology so simple and intuitive that you stop thinking about it—we want Google to work so well, it just blends into your life. But sometimes it's helpful to step back and take stock of what you're doing online.

IDC:

Nearly 1 Billion Smart Connected Devices Shipped in 2011 with Shipments Expected to Double by 2016, According to IDC — FRAMINGHAM, Mass., March 28, 2012 -The universe of smart connected devices, including PCs, media tablets, and smartphones, saw shipments of more than 916 million units …

More: Techie Buzz, AppleInsider, CNET, The Register, Telecompetitor, TechCrunch, Engadget, PhoneArena, Between the Lines Blog and MacNN

Mazhar Mohammed / Windows Phone Blog:

Marketplace arrives in 13 new countries — Let the downloading begin. I'm happy to report that today we're opening 13 new storefronts around the world for Windows Phone apps and games. — The new Marketplaces are Bulgaria, Costa Rica, Croatia, Estonia, Iceland, Latvia, Lithuania …

More: The Verge, IntoMobile, Softpedia News, All About Windows Phone, BGR, PhoneArena, Nokia, Engadget, Nokia Conversations, Tip Desk, WMPoweruser and Windows Phone Developer Blog

Frederic Lardinois / SiliconFilter:

Google Releases Version 1 of its Go Programming Language — Go, the increasingly popular programming language Google first announced in late 2009, is now available in its first stable version. This release also marks the first time that a native support for Go is available to Windows users.

More: Computerworld, The Go Programming …, Google Open Source Blog, Google App Engine Blog, WebProNews, eWeek and The Next Web

Roger Cheng / CNET:

AT&T promises biggest launch ever for Lumia 900 — Nokia and AT&T's Lumia 900. — (Credit: CNET) — AT&T and Nokia are bringing out the big guns when they launch the Lumia 900 next month. — “At all levels, this is a notch above anything we've ever done,” AT&T device head Jeff Bradley …

More: AllThingsD, The Next Web, WMPoweruser, Examiner, Macgasm, My Nokia Blog, 9to5Mac, iPhone, PhoneArena, everythingiCafe, IntoMobile and MacNN

Bloomberg:

Facebook Said to Halt Secondary-Market Share Trading This Week — Facebook Inc. (FB) is halting the trading of its shares on secondary markets by the beginning of April as it prepares for an initial public offering, two people with knowledge of the matter said.

More: The Verge, Los Angeles Times, Wall Street Journal, Business Insider, All Facebook, BGR, Fortune, VatorNews, SlashGear, Washington Post, StreetInsider.com, Reuters, Friending Facebook Blog, Between the Lines Blog and PE Hub Blog

Leena Rao / TechCrunch:

Zynga Prices $515M Secondary Offering At $12 Per Share — As reported previously, social gaming giant Zynga is holding a secondary offering of its shares. The company just announced the pricing, which is $12 per share, for 42,969,153 shares. All of the shares will be sold by existing stockholders …

More: CNET, VentureBeat, Yahoo! Finance, AllThingsD and Social Markets

Greg Sandoval / CNET:

MegaUpload lawyer claims the feds are impeding its defense — The U.S. government has refused to allow the MegaUpload defendants access to information on their servers, which in turn is impeding their ability to defend themselves, the company's lawyer told CNET. — MegaUpload founder Kim DotCom.

More: WatchingTV Online

Jack Halprin / Google Enterprise Blog:

Google Apps Vault Brings Information Governance to Google Apps — Today we're announcing the availability of Google Apps Vault (Vault) for Google Apps for Business customers. Vault is an easy-to-use and cost-effective solution for managing information critical to your business and preserving important data.

More: Business Insider, Computerworld, Between the Lines Blog, TechCrunch, 9to5Google and WebProNews

Kara Swisher / AllThingsD:

Third Point's Loeb to Yahoo About Board Rejection: “Illogical Alice-in-Wonderland World” — Third Point's Dan Loeb, the activist Yahoo shareholder, fired back at the company today about recent board appointments that ignored his alternate slate of directors, in yet another colorful letter …

More: Reuters

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