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| Walter S. Mossberg / AllThingsD: |
New iPad: a Million More Pixels Than HDTV — Apple's iPad could be described as a personal display through which you see and manipulate text, graphics, photos and videos often delivered via the Internet. So, how has the company chosen to improve its wildly popular tablet?
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| Joshua Topolsky / The Verge: |
iPad review (2012) — The moment Tim Cook took the stage and announced the new iPad on March 7th in San Francisco, I immediately started brainstorming on my review for the device. There are clear challenges in comparing generational, iterative products like the iPad — especially when the devices themselves look nearly identical.| John Gruber / Daring Fireball: |
iPad (3) — Pixels pixels pixels. Battery battery battery. Speed speed speed. — That's the new iPad, a.k.a. (for comparison's sake) the iPad 3. The retina display, significantly faster graphics, and the potential for startlingly fast cellular networking — all with the same renowned battery life …
| Britannica Blog: |
Change: It's Okay. Really. — That big print set will pass into history, but the future it gives way to will be bright. — For 244 years, the thick volumes of the Encyclopaedia Britannica have stood on the shelves of homes, libraries, and businesses everywhere, a source of enlightenment …
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| Federico Viticci / MacStories: |
Sparrow for iPhone Review — Back in 2006, when Apple was still rumored to be working on a revolutionary mobile phone, many wondered if such device would be able to do core tasks like email and messaging as well as RIM's BlackBerry. Months later, when the iPhone was officially announced at Macworld …
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| Ellis Hamburger / The Verge: |
| Joshua Topolsky / The Verge: |
Apple TV review (2012) — After endless speculation and debate, Apple's latest event came and went with nary a mention of a Cupertino-made television set. But Apple's little set-top box did get a refresh, bringing some oft-requested upgrades and improvements to the $99 device.
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| Andrew Chen / @andrewchen: |
Why I doubted Facebook could build a billion dollar business, and what I learned from being horribly wrong — Facebook, early 2006 — Sometimes, you need to be horribly, embarrassingly wrong to remind yourself to keep an open mind. This is my story of my failure to understand Facebook's potential.
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| Mario Aguilar / Gizmodo: |
Aereo Hands-On: Watch Broadcast TV Wherever and Whenever You Want — The new cloud-based, broadcast TV recording service Aereo just went live in New York City. It was sued by major broadcasters even before it was available, and with good reason: We took the service for a spin and it's … | Patrick Thibodeau / Computerworld: |
White House CIO's first 40 days included ‘worst day’ ever — Colangelo started his job the same day as President Obama, found IT assets ‘in pretty bad shape’ — PHOENIX - Here are two facts about Brook Colangelo's job as the CIO of the Executive Office of President.
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| Matthew Panzarino / The Next Web: |
Kevin Rose's Milk shutters its first app Oink after just over 4 months — After just over four months, Oink, the first app from Digg founder Kevin Rose's new company Milk, will close its doors. The app was described as a ‘way to rate and rank the things around you,’ and billed itself …
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| Amir Efrati / Wall Street Journal: |
Google Gives Search a Refresh — Google Inc. is giving its tried-and-true Web-search formula a makeover as it tries to fix the shortcomings of today's technology and maintain its dominant market share. — Over the next few months, Google's search engine will begin spitting out more than a list of blue Web links.
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| U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission: |
SEC Announces Charges from Investigation of Secondary Market Trading of Private Company Shares — The Securities and Exchange Commission today charged two managers of private investment funds established solely to acquire the shares of Facebook and other Silicon Valley firms with misleading investors …
| Florian Mueller / FOSS Patents: |
Samsung suffers second and even more important FRAND defeat to Apple in the Netherlands — Dutch website Webwereld.nl reports that the Rechtbank 's-Gravenhage (the District Court of The Hague, Netherlands) just handed Apple — and the concept of FRAND standards, which is more important …
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| Andreas Udo de Haes / Computerworld: |
| Om Malik / GigaOM: |
Yahoo-Facebook patent fight: more than meets the eye — It has been an interesting day to say the least. The news of Yahoo suing Facebook for infringing its patents has drawn sharp reactions from some of the more measured voices in our industry. Here is a small sampling of reactions:| Paul Sloan / CNET: |
| John Paczkowski / AllThingsD: |
Verizon Will Double LTE Footprint by Year's End — Verizon currently operates the largest 4G LTE network in the United States, and it has no plans to relinquish that title any time soon. — The carrier said today that it plans to double its 4G LTE footprint in 2012, extending it to some 400 markets by year's end.| Greg Bensinger / Dow Jones Newswires: |
| Dan Polivy / Bing: |
A New Look for Pushpins, Popups, and Transit — We've just rolled out some exciting new updates to www.bing.com/maps that make it easier for you to find information on the map, explore the layouts of over 850 venues, as well as get to where you're going with public transit (or transport).
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| Christopher Soghoian / slight paranoia: |
FBI seeks warrant to force Google to unlock Android phone — Today, I stumbled across a recent FBI application and accompanying affidavit for a search warrant ordering Google to unlock a screen-locked Android phone. The application asks Google to: “provide law enforcement with any and all means …
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PC Magazine, Dennis Fisher, Ars Technica, Wired, SlashGear, VentureBeat and Slashdot
| Damaster / LiveSide.net: |
Windows Phone “Tango” officially launches in China on March 21 — Microsoft China has recently sent out invitations to media outlets for their Windows Phone 7.5 launch event. This will mark the official entrance of Microsoft's Windows Phone operating system into the mainland Chinese market.
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The Verge, WMPoweruser, PhoneArena, IntoMobile, Techie Buzz and TechCrunch
| Devindra Hardawar / VentureBeat: |
Personal Capital brings its financial smarts to iPad, make sense of your stock options — Financial advice startup Personal Capital is finally making its way to the iPad after emerging from stealth last August. And good news for startup workers: the company has added a new feature that will help to demystify your stock options.| Brittany Darwell / Inside Facebook: |
Facebook adds recommendations box to Timeline pages associated with locations — Pages that switch to the new Timeline format will now display user recommendations in a box beneath friend activity and include a prompt for people to write their own recommendations.| Aaron Souppouris / The Verge: |
New iPad apps up to five times larger than their predecessors — Apple's iPad versions of its iLife and iWork apps will be up to five times as large as their predecessors due to the ultra-high resolution of the new iPad. Vietnamese site Tinhte has spent some time with the new iPad and made an interesting observation on app sizes:
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| BBC: |
Cyber-attack on BBC leads to suspicion of Iran's involvement — The BBC is not providing detail of the timing or nature of the cyber-attack — A “sophisticated cyber-attack” on the BBC has been linked to Iran's efforts to disrupt the BBC Persian Service.| Joe Pollicino / Engadget: |
Google+ updated with photo album organizer, batch delete and sorting functionality in tow — Suffice it to say, if you're still using Google+ you've probably noticed that it hasn't exactly had an expansive feature set for organizing photo albums. According to Isaac Sparrow, a self-described …
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