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Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Fortune:
Piper Jaffray: iPad 2 totally sold out, 70% to new buyers — By Sunday, Gene Munster's team couldn't find an Apple tablet for sale at any retail outlet — Apple Fifth Avenue Store Friday afternoon. Photo: PED — Gene Munster's team at Piper Jaffray walked the iPad 2 lines in New York City …
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SAI, Between the Lines Blog, MobileBurn.com, blogs.forbes.com and The Loop, Thanks:philiped
Liz Gannes / NetworkEffect:
False Alarm: Google Circles Not Coming Now-and Probably Not Ever — After a report emerged this morning of a new social network focused on nuanced sharing called Google Circles, the company said it was not launching anything this week at the high-profile South by Southwest Interactive event in Austin, Texas.
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PC World and @marshallk
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Marshall Kirkpatrick / ReadWriteWeb:
Google to Launch Major New Social Network Called Circles, Possibly Today (Updated) — We believe that Google will preview a major new social service called Google Circles at South by Southwest Interactive today. If what we've heard is correct, the service will offer photo, video and status message sharing.
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NetworkEffect, @googlesxsw, The Next Web, @timoreilly, broadstuff, WebProNews, CNET News, Gizmodo, VentureBeat, Search Engine Land, Neowin.net and @carnage4life
DSLreports:
Exclusive: AT&T To Impose 150GB DSL Cap, Overages - Notices To Go Out This Week, Capping Begins May 2 — Broadband Reports has learned, and has confirmed with AT&T, that the company will be implementing a new 150GB monthly usage cap for all DSL customers starting on May 2.
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Engadget, DailyTech, blogs.chron.com, PhoneNews.com and GigaOM
Anthony Ha / VentureBeat:
4chan founder: Mark Zuckerberg is “totally wrong” about online identity — Christopher Poole, the founder of controversial online image board 4chan, outlined his vision for Web-based community today at the South by Southwest Interactive conference — and yes, his ideas are in pretty sharp contrast …
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ReadWriteWeb, Guardian, Examiner and Metagamer
Zee / The Next Web:
Twitter explains why developers shouldn't build new clients — Ryan Sarver, a member of Twitter's platform/api team, took a few minutes today to address concerns about the Twitter ecosystem and in particular its announcement on Friday that developers shouldn't develop new twitter clients.
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@joestump, @rsarver and Technologizer
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Dare Obasanjo / @carnage4life:
r @rsarver good intentioned or not, telling devs certain types of Twitter apps are “bad business” sounds threatening. Let the market prevail
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@rsarver
Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:
Why Twitter Should Think Twice About Bulldozing the Ecosystem
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Technology Liberation Front, @cdixon, @joestump, Mark Evans Tech, Techie Buzz and TechCrunch
Darren Murph / Engadget:
Apple's Phil Schiller confirms: white iPhone to be available ‘this spring’ — Whoa, Nelly. Ready for another round? The elusive white iPhone — spotted only in the hands of Woz and occasionally in those of our own Richard Lai — may ship after all. After hearing from Apple …
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VentureBeat, @pschiller, PhoneDog.com, Product Reviews, 9 to 5 Mac, everythingiCafe, iClarified, MobileWhack, MacStories, RazorianFly and GeekSmack
Taimur Asad / Redmond Pie:
BREAKING: Apple iPad 2 Has Been Jailbroken ! [Video] — Yes you read that right ! The famous iPhone developer and hacker Comex, who previously released userland jailbreaks such as Spirit and JailbreakMe, has done the magic yet again ! … In the image attached above, you can clearly see a jailbroken iPad 2 running Cydia.
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Engadget, @chpwn, 9 to 5 Mac, MacHackPC, Gizmodo, iJailbreak, iPhoneHeat and BlogsDNA, Thanks:taimurasad
Tim-o-tato / Droid Life:
Staples Ad For WiFi-only XOOM Shows March 27th Release? — So as was mentioned previously, it was looking like Staples was going to be selling the wifi-only XOOM some time in early April, but from the flyer above it looks like it may be sooner on March 27th.
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Electronista, Examiner, Engadget, PhoneNews.com, mobilesguruji.co.cc, MobileWhack, Gizmodo and Android Phone Fans
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
5 Years Later, Jack Dorsey Tweets About Twitter's Beginning — @jack — 5 years ago today we started programming Twitter ("twttr" for short). 8 days later the first tweet was sent: http://t.co/Vi5ii5A #twttr — about 1 hour ago via Twitter for iPhoneRetweetReply
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SAI, ReadWriteWeb, NBC Bay Area, L.A. Times Tech Blog and Jack's
Marco Arment / Marco.org:
Moving on from iPad “office productivity” apps — In the last decade, Apple introduced their first line of notebooks that didn't have dial-up modems built in, because dial-up modems were on their way out and most people didn't need them anymore. But for the few that still did, they offered a little USB modem to ease the transition:
