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March 9, 2012, 11:30 PM

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Brad Molen / Engadget:
Exclusive: Sprint iPad shows up in Best Buy's database  —  If you were keeping score during Apple's iPad keynote on Wednesday, you noticed AT&T and Verizon listed amongst the carriers that will get the new iPad, but what about Sprint?  It's going to be rockin' LTE in the not-too-distant future, after all.
Matt Thomas:
Something's Unraveling, Alright  —  Jolie O'Dell at VentureBeat: Apple's press conference showed a brand unraveling While today's Apple event unveiled a couple new improvements to an expected lineup of products, it also revealed a certain sloppiness that was absent from former, Steve Jobs-led launches.
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Paul Graham:
Frighteningly Ambitious Startup Ideas  —  One of the more surprising things I've noticed while working on Y Combinator is how frightening the most ambitious startup ideas are.  In this essay I'm going to demonstrate this phenomenon by describing some.  Any one of them could make you a billionaire.
John P. Holdren / White House Blog:
Todd Park Named New U.S. Chief Technology Officer  —  I'm very excited that President Obama today is appointing Todd Park as the new U.S. Chief Technology Officer, with the important task of applying the newest technology and latest advances to make the Federal government work better for the American people.
Ryan Tate / Gawker:
Twitter's Secret History As the World's Worst Tech or Media Business  —  Twitter Inc.'s been spinning quite a turnaround story in the press lately.  The microblogging service “has finally turned a corner,” declares the cover of Bloomberg Businessweek.  “It's a juggernaut,” a company executive tells the magazine.
Mika Mobile:
Our Future with Android  —  Some folks recently sent us news that the 50mb limit of Google's market has been lifted.  Here's the info straight from the horse's mouth:  —  http://android-developers.blogspot.com/ 2012/03/android-apps-break-50mb- barrier.html  —  Unfortunately, the same app size limit still exists.
Foursquare Blog:
Is it open?  Business hours are now on foursquare!  —  On the prowl for a late night snack?  Or a cafe that's open super early?  Or a place that's still serving brunch on a late Sunday afternoon?  —  Now when you're looking for great places to try, you'll see a business' hours …
Scott Gilbertson / Webmonkey:
Twitter Catches the ‘SPDY’ Train  —  Twitter has embraced Google's vision of a faster web and is now serving webpages over the SPDY protocol to browsers that support it.  —  SPDY, pronounced “speedy,” is a replacement for the HTTP protocol — the language currently used when your browser talks to a web server.
Jennifer Howard / Chronicle of Higher Education:
Google Begins to Scale Back Its Scanning of Books From University Libraries  —  Google has been quietly slowing down its book-scanning work with partner libraries, according to librarians involved with the vast Google Books digitization project.  But what that means for the company's long-term investment in the work remains unclear.
Jennifer Van Grove / VentureBeat:
Cha-ching!  Chegg raises $25M more for textbook and education platform  —  Textbook rental service Chegg has raised nearly $25 million in equity funding, according to a form D the company filed Friday with the Securities and Exchange commission.  —  “The funding is led by existing investors …
Quentin Hardy / Bits:
H.P. Attempts to Take On Amazon's Cloud Service  —  Within two months, Hewlett-Packard will offer a large and powerful cloud computing service similar to Amazon Web Services, but with more business-oriented features, according the head of the project.  —  “We're not just building a cloud …
Florian Mueller / FOSS Patents:
Apple brings in 73 Korean-American contract attorneys and 20 reviewers to sift through tons of Samsung documents  —  Apple is facing a huge challenge in dealing with truckloads of Korean-language documents produced by Samsung in two federal lawsuits in California and two ITC investigations.
More: MacNN
Barb Darrow / GigaOM:
New problem for Amazon: Sony defects to OpenStack  —  Updated: Sony's gaming arm is moving at least some of its workload from Amazon Web Services to the rival Rackspace OpenStack.  That move shows that, although AWS remains the leader in public cloud infrastructure, it faces increasing competition …
Agam Shah / Computerworld:
Intel aims for faster Thunderbolt with PCI-Express 3.0  —  Intel is working to boost data transfer speeds with a faster pipe on Thunderbolt, a high-speed connector technology that link computers with peripherals, the company said on Thursday.  —  Intel is working to boost data transfer speeds …
Ed Bott / The Ed Bott Report Blog:
Mozilla begins development of Firefox for Metro  —  Summary: Mozilla today announced that it has begun “a very large project” to build a Metro styled version of Firefox for Windows 8.  Can Firefox for Metro really be ready this summer?  —  Mozilla's Brian R. Bondy revealed today that development has begun on Firefox for Metro.
Kevin Shalvey / Investor's Business Daily:
SEC, Google Tussled On Phrasing, Timing Of Disclosure  —  A series of letters between Google (GOOG) and SEC lawyers detail tussles between the two sides over when Google should have warned stockholders about its $500 million settlement for Canadian pharmaceutical ads.
Zack Whittaker / Between the Lines Blog:
Anonymous leaks Symantec's Norton anti-virus source code  —  Summary: Anonymous has released what appears to be the source code from Norton Antivirus 2006, in what could be a seriously damaging exercise for Symantec.  —  Anonymous, for which LulzSec was distantly related to …
Rip Empson / TechCrunch:
Clouds & APIs: Mayor Lee Unveils The San Francisco Open Data Cloud  —  With 30,000 tech jobs already in town and more (hopefully) on the way, San Francisco has been making a big push to make its city as friendly as possible to entrepreneurs.  In January, we saw Mayor Ed Lee, Ron Conway …
Kim-Mai Cutler / Inside Mobile Apps:
Secrets of the acquisition process from EA and Zynga (straight from the horse's mouth!)  —  The corporate development folks over at Electronic Arts and Zynga shared some insider advice last night on how the acquisitions process works at both companies.  —  I've excerpted some advice from the panel …

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