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March 4, 2012, 3:30 PM

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Steve Lo / M.I.C. Gadget:

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Ernesto / TorrentFreak:

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Eric Eldon / TechCrunch:

Foursquare And Glancee Are Cool, But Here's Why I'm So Excited About Using Highlight At SXSW — The crowds and hype of South By Southwest make the massive Austin tech and media conference the perfect place for launching, well, any sort of app that needs crowds and hype to break out of tech circles and into the mainstream.

More: bub.blicio.us and CNET. Tweets: @semil, @scottbeale, @scobleizer and @hunterwalk. Thanks:@semil

Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:

Highlight Needs To Let You Switch Off ‘Friend Of Friend’ Notifications Before SXSW — Ambient location app Highlight is a big deal. Eldon likes it, Scoble likes it, MG and Mike like it and Grindr fan Charlie Cheever likes it. More importantly, I like it.

Nicholas Carlson / Business Insider:

SURPRISE: Silicon Valley Hero Marc Andreessen Is Backing Romney — Silicon Valley has a reputation for leaning left. — Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg and Google exec Marissa Mayer have hosted big fundraisers for Democratic candidates. — Ex-Google CEO Eric Schmidt is a huge Obama booster.

More: WebProNews and Communications …. Tweets: @danprimack

Aaron Levie / TechCrunch:

Google Drive And The Cloud Wars — Editor's note: Aaron Levie is co-founder and CEO at Box. Follow him on Twitter @levie. — For the past six years, any startup touching the cloud storage space has lived in anticipation and fear of Google's entry into the market.

Marco Arment / Marco.org:

Frequent, Intense Mature and Suggestive Themes — I've recently heard from a few developers that the “unfiltered-internet apps must be rated 17+” rule is being intermittently enforced again by Apple's app reviewers. — Effectively, apps that have embedded webviews that potentially …

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Robert McMillan / Wired:

The Little White Box That Can Hack Your Network — Easy to overlook, the PwnPlug offers a tiny back door to the corporate network. Photo: Ariel Zambelich/Wired — When Jayson E. Street broke into the branch office of a national bank in May of last year, the branch manager could not have been more helpful.

Jeff Roberts / paidContent:

Court Filings Suggest Google Fighting Feds Over Megaupload Emails — [Update: Australian paper The Age reported that US prosecutors have drawn up a secret indictment against Wikileaks' founder Julian Assange; it is possible that Wikileaks, not Megaupload, is the subject of the Google (NSDQ: GOOG) dispute.]

More: Gizmodo. Thanks:@jeffjohnroberts

Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:

Google's Plan To Compete With Apple's Multi-Platform Siri? Google “Assistant” — The tech world woke up today to reports of an imminent Apple TV, as Apple works to solidify deals with content providers. The rumored television product could indeed be ground-breaking, not just for television, but for computing as a whole.

More: VentureBeat, Redmond Pie, The Verge, bub.blicio.us, PhoneArena, SlashGear, WinBeta, Android Phone Fans, Pulse2 Technology …, Electronista, Android and Me, WebProNews and PC World

Douglas MacMillan / Business Week:

The Rise of the ‘Brogrammer’ — Danilo Stern-Sapad writes code for a living, but don't call him a geek. He wears sunglasses and blasts 2Pac while programming. He enjoys playing Battle Shots—like the board game Battleship, but with liquor—at the office.

More: John Graham-Cumming

Matt Rosoff / Business Insider:

REVEALED: How Giant Patent Troll Intellectual Ventures Does Business — Two researchers say they have uncovered a bunch of new information about the world's largest patent “aggregator,” Intellectual Ventures. — Founded by former Microsoft chief technology officer Nathan Myhrvold about a decade ago …

Tweets: @lukejduncan, @watermarkiam and @johnolilly

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