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March 15, 2012, 1:10 AM

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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?

More: eWeek, The Loop, Telegraph, Bloomberg, New York Times, Macworld, Business Insider, Pocket-lint, Business Insider, Business Insider, CNET, Fox News, Redmond Pie, The Next Web, USA Today, SlashGear, CNBC.com Links List Headlines and VentureBeat

Tweets: @parislemon and @fromedome

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.

More: The Verge, GigaOM, VentureBeat, CNET, Business Insider, TechCrunch, Washington Post, DailyTech, Gotta Be Mobile, Mashable!, IntoMobile, iDownloadBlog.com, MobileSyrup.com, MacNN and iClarified

Tweets: @blam and @om

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 …

Tweets: @gruber

Arnold Kim / MacRumors:

3rd Generation iPad Reviews: Retina Display “Stunning”, LTE Speeds Impressive

More: Business Insider, Gizmodo, everythingiCafe and TUAW

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.

More: CNET, 9to5Google, Domain Name Wire, Digits, The Verge, Wall Street Journal, Digits, Electronista and Ubergizmo

Ellis Hamburger / The Verge:

Sparrow takes flight: how a startup built the Gmail app Google couldn't — Hoà and Leca set out to build something they'd use every day, a desktop email client that works seamlessly with Gmail and its variety of nuances like labels, Stars, and “Send And Archive” buttons. First, the app needed a name.

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 …

More: The Next Web, Electronista, The Verge, iPhone in Canada Blog, 9to5Mac, The Next Web and iDownloadBlog.com

Tweets: @flyosity and @adamjackson

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.

More: Gizmodo, The Loop, Mashable!, Macworld and iDownloadBlog.com

MG Siegler / TechCrunch:

The New Apple TV Will Finish What The Mac Started: Killing Off Discs

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 …

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.

Tweets: @mikasalmi and @garrytan

Iljitsch van Beijnum / Ars Technica:

1080p video smackdown: iTunes vs. Blu-ray — Ars was recently able to conclude that the newly launched iTunes movies encoded in 1080p do, in fact, look better than the same content encoded in 720p, despite the modest increase in file size. That's good news for iTunes customers.

More: Computerworld, Redmond Pie, iPhone, Macgasm, App Advice, iPhone in Canada Blog, iDownloadBlog.com, SlashGear, MacRumors, Engadget, 9to5Mac, TUAW, Lifehacker and iClarified

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 …

More: The Verge, Technology Review, VatorNews, Internet Evolution, Digital Trends, VentureBeat and paidContent. See also Mediagazer

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 …

More: VatorNews, AllThingsD, Social Markets, Venture Capital Dispatch, Business Insider, PE Hub Blog and Reuters

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.

More: Ars Technica, CNET, Hillicon Valley, TechEye and Slashdot

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 …

More: Bloomberg Tech Blog, Business Insider, VentureBeat, PC Magazine, CNET, The Verge, AllThingsD and TechCrunch

Tweets: @ourielohayon, @rafat, @fromedome, @dondodge, @dondodge, @kn0thing, @spolsky, @aaronmcdonald and @oinkapp

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.

More: BGR, The Verge, WMPoweruser, PhoneArena, Techie Buzz, IntoMobile and TechCrunch

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 …

More: Ars Technica, PC Magazine, Gizmodo, Wired, Dennis Fisher, SlashGear, VentureBeat and Slashdot

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.

Matt Galligan:

Why “More Bars in More Places” means s**t for nothing now — Years ago we heard AT&T's pitch: “more bars in more places”. Their campaign was to let everyone know that they had the best signal around. Sure, that may have mattered then, but the definition of signal is even variable.

Tweets: @joestump

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).

More: LiveSide.net, Techie Buzz and WMPoweruser

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.

More: PandoDaily, VatorNews, BetaKit, GigaOM and Erick Schonfeld. Thanks:@emmastarks

Ryan Heise / The Verge:

Canada looks to bolster mobile competition with 700MHz spectrum auction and more foreign investment — The Canadian government has announced two significant moves in hopes of improving the nation's telecom market: an auction for the 700Mhz spectrum and the lifting of foreign investment restrictions for smaller telcos.

More: Bloomberg, Globe and Mail, Electronista and Wall Street Journal

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 …

More: AllThingsD, WebProNews, The Verge, MacNN, iClarified and PC Magazine

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 …

More: Google+ and 9to5Google

Pamela Parker / Search Engine Land:

Google Opens Kimono (Slightly) On AdWords Screening Measures — Followers of news about Google AdWords know that problematic errors — instances in which ads that violate the company's own advertising standards slip by — come up quite regularly. — Most recently, Google …

More: The New Persuaders, The Next Web, Xconomy and Google Public Policy Blog

Ari Levy / Bloomberg:

Twitter Backer Sacca Raising Second Fund for Internet Startups — Chris Sacca, the former Google Inc. executive turned Twitter Inc. investor and venture capitalist, is seeking investors for a new fund focused on startups, two years after creating his debut fund.

More: VatorNews

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