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March 24, 2012, 8:45 PM

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Joshua Schnell / Macgasm:

Former Apple TV Engineer: ‘Those New Apple TV Designs Were Tossed Out 5 Years Ago’ — An interesting tweet by Michael Margolis, a former Apple TV engineer at Apple Inc., popped up in our Twitter feed this evening, and we thought it was worth passing on. According to Margolis …

More: The Next Web, Gizmodo, PC Magazine, MacRumors, 9to5Mac, VentureBeat, The Next Web, AppleInsider, CNET, iDownloadBlog.com, Pulse2 Technology …, The Verge, Redmond Pie, Business Insider, TechnoBuffalo and MacNN

Tweets: @yipe, @yipe and @stroughtonsmith

Cody Fink / MacStories:

Regarding Apple's Edge and the new Apple TV Interface — Alongside a hardware update that supports 1080p playback, the new Apple TV introduced a brand new grid-like interface that draws upon influences from iOS. Where previous Apple TV interfaces were more or less clickwheel-iPod inspired …

Matt Brian / The Next Web:

Instagram opens registration for its new Android app — We knew that Instagram was coming to Android, it was just a matter of when. Today, the company has opened registration for Android device owners, providing them with the chance to be ‘first in line’.

More: ZDNet, Marketing Land, TechCrunch, The Verge, Android Community, Electronista, SlashGear and Android Police. Tweets: @instagram. Thanks:@m4tt

Eric Eldon / TechCrunch:

Pair Is A Path For The Two Of Us — Let's say you're in a serious relationship, but you work all the time and you're long-distance. How do you stay close to the other person? I've personally had this situation for the last year and a half. My girlfriend and I use Skype, email, our phones …

More: Ubergizmo and Mashable!. Tweets: @chrissaad, @kump and @libbybrittain

Technology Review:

Twitter Not So Good At Predicting Box Office Revenues After All — A new study of tweets about movies suggests they are not necessarily a good predictor of box office revenues, say computer scientists — The online social network Twitter has recently gained a reputation for a certain degree of clairvoyance.

More: arXiv.org e-Print archive, Wall St. Cheat Sheet, Mashable! and AllTwitter

Ben Fritz / Company Town:

Internet to surpass DVD in movie consumption, not revenue — Consumers will watch more movies online than on DVDs in 2012 for the first time, but will spend far less doing so, according to a new report. — The number of movies rented or bought online from outlets like Netflix and iTunes …

More: PC Magazine, Bloomberg, Geekosystem, TechnoBuffalo, Sky News Australia and Inquirer

Darren Murph / Engadget:

Sony VAIO VCC111 Chromebook passes through FCC, Chrome OS flies its flag — Wondering if Chrome OS has a future? Wonder no more. After Samsung and Acer ushered out Chromebooks of their own following Google I/O 2011, it looks as if Sony's planning to usher in one of its own prior to this year's gala.

More: laptopreviews.com, netbooknews.com, Softpedia News, GSMArena Blog, Gotta Be Mobile, SlashGear, 9to5Google, The Verge and TechCrunch

Jeffrey Zeldman / Jeffrey Zeldman Presents …:

Why I am letting my Google IO invitation expire — Hi, [REDACTED]. Thanks for writing to express your concern about my failure to redeem my Google IO promo code. It's kind of a funny story. — I received a Google IO invitation (copied and pasted below) but didn't follow …

More: parislemon. Tweets: @michaelasmith

Kevin Fitchard / GigaOM:

Is Apple planning its own mobile voice service? — Light Reading has dug up some very interesting job postings on the Apple's Website. Apple is looking for telephony software engineers to work on iOS. Judging by the list of experience requirements in the postings, Apple is looking to add voice-over-IP …

More: SlashGear, AppleInsider, MacNN, PadGadget, PhoneArena, App Advice and DSLreports

Ernesto / TorrentFreak:

Microsoft Censors Pirate Bay Links in Windows Live Messenger — The place where breaking news, BitTorrent and copyright collide — Microsoft Censors Pirate Bay Links in Windows Live Messenger — The Pirate Bay is not only the most visited BitTorrent site on the Internet, but arguably the most censored too.

More: Geekosystem

Tom Warren / The Verge:

Microsoft Store swapping rival smartphones for Windows Phones in latest ‘Smoked’ challenge — Microsoft is turning its $100 “Smoked by Windows Phone” campaign into a $1,000 challenge at its retail stores across the US this weekend. Visitors can walk into a Microsoft Store between noon …

More: Pulse2 Technology …, BGR, Softpedia News and WMPoweruser

Donald Melanson / Engadget:

US Army debuts app marketplace prototype: iOS first, Android coming soon — The promise of an Army app store has been bandied about for quite a while now, but it looks like it's slowly becoming a reality. The US Army has today officially announced a prototype of the Army Software Marketplace …

More: army.mil, AppleInsider, Android Phone Fans, Pulse2 Technology … and The Verge

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