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| Federico Viticci / MacStories: |
Apple Schedules Conference Call To Announce Outcome of Cash Balance Discussions — Apple just issued a press release confirming a conference call scheduled for tomorrow, March 19th, to announce the outcome of discussions concerning the company's cash balance.
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| Eric Savitz / The Tech Trade: |
Apple Sets Monday A.M. Call On Cash Position; Dividend Coming? — Apple is about to answer the $100 billion question. — The company has announced that it will hold a conference call Monday morning at 9 a.m. Eastern - before the market opens, I would note - to discuss … | Matthew Yglesias / Slate: |
Why Tomorrow's Apple Conference Call Is A Really Big Deal … - How Do Undercover Cops Actually Train To Infiltrate a High School? - The Controversial Medical Treatment To Stop Severely Disabled Children From Growing - The Most Important Voting Bloc in 2012 Is Single Women … | Nick Bilton / Bits: |
Time to Review F.A.A. Policy on Gadgets — SAN FRANCISCO — On Monday morning I'm going to drive to the airport, check in for my flight to New York, then head to the airport bookstore for a stack of magazines to read on the plane. I'll do this reluctantly because I will carry both an Amazon Kindle …
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| Farhad Manjoo / PandoDaily: |
It's the battery, stupid: The looming 4G smartphone crisis — What's your favorite thing about your smartphone? Is it its minimalist design? Its pretty interface? How about the fantastic HD display, the apps, 4G networking, or great cloud backups? Or maybe it's all of those things?
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| Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch: |
The Real SXSW “Winner” Is The Mophie Juice Pack — So Highlight didn't “win” SXSW, as some tech bloggers had hypothesized, for many reasons. It did however have a close relationship to what eventually ended up winning, as its background GPS turns out to significantly strain iPhone battery life.| Liz Gannes / AllThingsD: |
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SUPPORT THE JOBS ACT — Urge the Senate to pass this important startup bill Startups are forbidden to: Publicly discuss that they are raising money Raise money through crowdfunding Receive services like standard docs from incubators and online platforms Stay private if they have over 500 shareholders …
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| Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Fortune: |
Apple and the Daisey affair — Why did the company keep its silence, when it knew a year ago what we know now? — Mike Daisey performing “The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs” — Mike Daisey began performing his off-Broadway monologue “The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs” in January 2011.
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This American Life Updates, New York Times, iPhone Savior, CNET, AllThingsD, Business Insider, BuzzMachine, Mobile and MacDailyNews. Tweets: @pkafka. Thanks:@philiped. See also Mediagazer
| Quentin Hardy / Bits: |
Cisco's Bold Networking Start-Up — Three of Cisco's top engineers with a strong record in building some of the company's most important products are in negotiations to create a new type of network switch for data centers, according to people with knowledge of the talks.
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Network World, Wired and Light Reading
| Eric Slivka / MacRumors: |
Teardown of New Apple TV Reveals Same 8 GB Flash Storage, Bump to 512 MB RAM — Following the release of the third-generation Apple TV late last week, one forum member at XBMC.org has performed a teardown of the device, revealing a number of details about its internals.
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National Business Review, VentureBeat, Engadget, iClarified and blogs.ft.com
| Greg Sandoval / CNET: |
Paperwork goof may mean Kim DotCom can reclaim assets — New Zealand authorities may be forced to return Kim DotCom's cash and cars as a result of a procedural error. — (Credit: Screen shot by Greg Sandoval) — Authorities in New Zealand have acknowledged making a procedural error prior …
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Ars Technica, TorrentFreak, New Zealand Herald, PC Magazine, The Register, PC World and Slashdot
| Jon Russell / The Next Web: |
China's new microblog rules bring confusion aplenty but no initial restriction for users — It's been more than two days since the Chinese government's deadline to introduce real-name regulations for microblogs passed, but users of the country's main service — Sina Weibo — are continuing on with no initial sign of restriction.
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