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March 4, 2012, 1:50 PM

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Steve Lo / M.I.C. Gadget:

Hands-on with iPad 3 Front Glass, Rear Shell, and Cases (video) — Keeping you, our dear M.I.C. readers updated, we have some very interesting news for you. Despite the rumors that Apple would be having no home button on their next-generation iPad, we have gotten our hands on the parts through our sources …

More: CNET, Hardware 2.0 Blog, TekGoblin, Edible Apple, Gotta Be Mobile, MacRumors, WebProNews, Electronista, The Next Web, Redmond Pie, iDownloadBlog.com, everythingiCafe and App Advice

Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac:

iPad 3 prices and features matrix revealed

Eric Slivka / MacRumors:

iPads Running iOS 6.0 at Apple's Campus Showing Up in Web Logs

More: eWeek, Softpedia News, Phones Review, Digital Trends, Wired, Mashable!, The Verge, Macgasm, Business Insider, iDownloadBlog.com, PC Magazine, Know Your Cell and OS X Daily. Tweets: @marshallk

Ernesto / TorrentFreak:

Anonymous, Decentralized and Uncensored File-Sharing is Booming — The avalanche of negative file-sharing news over the past weeks hasn't gone unnoticed to users and site operators. — From SOPA to Megaupload, there is a growing uncertainly about the future of sharing.

More: WebProNews and Slashdot

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

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.

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 …

More: The Verge

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.

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

Jeff Roberts / paidContent:

Court Filings Suggest Google Fighting Feds Over Megaupload Emails — A pair of cryptic court filings surfaced in Virginia this week that suggest Google (NSDQ: GOOG) is in a fight with the federal government over Megaupload, the file-sharing site that was shut down in a dramatic raid in January.

More: Gizmodo. Thanks:@jeffjohnroberts

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

Electronista:

Intel Ivy Bridge said still on track for late April — Intel Ivy Bridge delay seen much shorter — Intel's own claims that its Ivy Bridge platform had been moved back to June might have been unintentionally conservative. New leaks on Saturday to Digitimes had the 22-nanometer processors shipping …

More: DigiTimes and TUAW

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