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Tim Stevens / Engadget:
Still need an iPad 2? Head to Best Buy on Sunday, Sunday, Sunday — Well now, this is interesting. We've been hearing a lot of chatter about Best Buy and the iPad 2, rumors that the company was sitting on a giant pile of tablets ahead of some great event.
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9 to 5 Mac, Digital Trends, The Toybox Blog, App Advice, The Business Insider, PadGadget, AppleInsider, Electronista, Edible Apple, IntoMobile, TUAW, wirelessgoodness.com, TiPb and CrunchGear
Robert Scoble / Scobleizer:
Photo tour of Facebook's new datacenter — Today I was very fortunate to have gotten a tour of Facebook's new datacenter up in Prineville, Oregon (map). This datacenter is the most energy efficient in the world and only a handful of press got a look. We'll have a video up after editing it …
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Associated Press and Silicon Forest, Thanks:scobleizer
Henry Blodget / SAI:
GOOGLE'S LARRY PAGE DOES EXACTLY THE RIGHT THING: Says “Whatever” To Wall Street — In some people's minds, Google's Larry Page just committed the cardinal sin: He offended Wall Street. — Wall Street has reacted to the first quarter in the Page regime by tossing the stock overboard.
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SAI, eWeek and The Business Insider
Chris Foresman / Ars Technica:
Adobe throws in towel, adopts HTTP Live Streaming for iOS — Adobe previewed some new streaming video capabilities of its Flash Media Server at the 2011 National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) trade show, including new compatibility with iOS devices like the iPad.
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TiPb, Appletell and AppleInsider
Mark Gurman / 9 to 5 Mac:
White iPhone 4 shows up in Verizon's inventory — It's real this time. After several false hopes along the way, Apple will finally release the white iPhone 4 very soon. We've been expecting an AT&T version since summer 2010 and reports of a Verizon version of the white model being in the works emerged earlier this week.
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App Advice, Gizmodo, Apple Bitch, Edible Apple, TUAW, MobileCrunch and Electronista
Steve Green / Las Vegas Sun Blogs:
After Righthaven defies judge, observers question company's motives — Some Righthaven LLC watchers are wondering if the Las Vegas company is plotting to have the judge handling all of its Colorado copyright lawsuits disqualified from presiding over those cases.
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paidContent, Ars Technica, paidContent and Techdirt
Glyn Moody / open:
Why Google Should Buy the Music Industry — Rumours about Google's music service have been swirling for a while now, but they certainly seem to be reaching a new stage with stories like this: … When there are rumours that you're about to give up on a project, you know it must be real.
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PR Newswire, Beyond Search, MediaMemo and Slashdot
Reuters:
UAE to curb BlackBerry usage for individuals: report — (Reuters) - The United Arab Emirates will stop individuals and small businesses accessing the most private data services offered by BlackBerry, a newspaper said, but email and web access will not be disrupted, said the government.
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Electronista, Associated Press, IntoMobile and emirates247.com
Evan Blass / pocketnow.com:
HTC Preparing 16-Megapixel Windows Phone 7? (Video) — HTC is working on a Windows Phone 7 model with an unprecedented 16-megapixel camera, according to the ad embedded below. Such a handset would double the pixel count of the company's highest-resolution devices, which currently top out at eight megapixels.
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WMPoweruser.com and WPCentral.com
Frank Michlick / Domain Name News:
.XXX Goes Live in the Root Servers — Earlier today IANA added the .XXX Top Level Domain to the root nameservers. While the registry operator Afilias is still in their setup process for ICM registry, the zone is currently propagating. While a number of registrars have already …
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NewsGrange, The Next Web, Slashdot and DomainIncite
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Google Kills Tags In Favor Of Boost — Google is killing Tags, an advertising product for local businesses which allowed them to enhance their Google Maps or Places listings. For a flat $25 monthly fee, local merchants could make their their natural listings stand out a bit with a yellow tag …
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Google Small Business, Search Engine Watch, WebProNews, Screenwerk and Understanding Google …
The White House:
Administration Releases Strategy to Protect Online Consumers and Support Innovation and Fact Sheet on National Strategy for Trusted Indentities in Cyberspace — WASHINGTON, DC - Today, the Obama Administration released the National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace (NSTIC) …
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
LivingSocial Financials Exposed: $2.9 Billion Valuation, $50 Million In Revenue Per Month — There's nothing like full disclosure during the negotiating process in an acquisition deal. LivingSocial acquired SocialMedia for just $3 million in stock, we reported earlier today.
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Screenwerk, VentureBeat, Pulse2, GigaOM, Fortune and SAI
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