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Apple Announces (Again) the International Launch of iPad 2 This Friday 25 March / Best Buy Canada Sales Set for Friday at 5 PM Local Time / iPad 2 and Backlight Bleed: A Listener’s Tale / iPad 2 and Backlight Bleed: The Electronista Account / Electronista: Upcoming Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 Thinner Than iPad 2 / Engadget: Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 Matches 16GB and 32GB iPad 2s on Price / 7-Inch RIM PlayBook Set for Mid-April Launch at iPad 2 Prices / Wedge Partners Analyst Predicts Limited to No Success for RIM PlayBook / Amazon Appstore for Android Apps Goes Live / Apple Sends Cease-and-Desist to Adult-Novelties Store for Use of  Term “App Store” / Rumor: Thunderbolt Port and Sandy Bridge Processors for iMacs Around Beginning of May / Apple Issues Minor Update for Second-Gen Apple TV / Apple Issues Minor Update for Aperture / Robocast Sues Apple for Alleged Patent Infringement

Apple Says iPad 2 Still On-Track for 25 March International Launch / Electronista Says Czech Republic iPad 2 Page Now Shows 25 March Launch Date / Report: Best Buy Canada to Carry ipad 2 Starting Friday / Apple Releases Snow Leopard Updates / Problems Reported with Overheating Early 2011 MacBook Pros / Apple and Six Other Phone-Makers Sued Over Image Patents / Apple Sues Amazon.com Over “App Store” Trademark / Jobs Ordered to Answer Questions in Six-Year Old iTunes Antitrust Suit / Microsoft Sues Barnes and Noble, Foxconn, and Inventec in Continuing Campaign Against Google / The Apple Blog: Cases on Chinese Site Indicate Little Physical Change for Next iPhone / BGR: Unmentioned Source Says Minor iOS Update Coming Soon? / The Daily Mail: Source Says Ive Not Leaving Apple / Apple Reportedly Sends Man a Free iPad 2 After “Wife Said No”

AT&T Wants to Buy T-Mobile USA for $39-Billion in Cash and Stock / Get More Info on the Proposed AT&T-Mobile Merger at www.MobilizeEverything.com / Sprint Not Exactly Pleased by AT&T-Mobile Deal / Electronista Says AT&T-Mobile Could Hurt Android / AT&T Rooting Out Unauthorized Smarthphone Tethering / AT&T Drops Another Hundred Dollars from the Price of 1st Gen “Plus 3G” iPads / BMO Analyst Says Verizon iPhone Sales “Solid, But Not Spectacular” / Apple iPad 2 Site for Czech Republic Indicates 25 April Launch / Foxconn Says It Will Not See Components Shortages Despite 11 March Disasters in Japan / Rumor Redux: Foxconn Mulls Brazilian Plant for Apple Product Production / Rumors Resurface of Big Changes to MobileMe / CNET Looks at Potential for Sandy Bridge Processors in MacBook Air / Rumor: Sony Outing New VAIO to Target MacBook Air / Distimo Examines the Mac App Store Two Months In

Fortune Tears JMP Analyst a New One as Credit Suisse Initiates Apple Coverage with 500-Dollar Target / CLSA Analysts Dismiss JMP Downgrade (But Worry Over Short-Term Supply Issues Thanks to Disasters in Japan) / Piper Jaffray: Japan Disasters Short-Term Concern for Apple (Though Product Demand Stronger than Ever) / Pacific Crest Securities: Apple Should Weather Component Concerns in Wake of Japanese Disasters / Jobs Offers Emotional and Logistical Support to Apple Staff in Japan / iPhone Tops JD Power and Associates Survey / New iPhone Ads Seem to Acknowledge Android Lead Without Acknowledging Android / Forbes Tech Reporter Hears Rumors of NFC Technology for Upcomming iPhone / Authorities Say Gizmodophone Investigation Nearing Its End / Blaze Mobile Browser Tests Spark Controversy Then Flame Out / iLounge Tests Show Better Audio Recordings from WiFi Only iPad 2 Than from Plus 3G Models / Apple Forum Points to Problems Between MacBook Pro and iTunes Home Sharing / NYT Taking Content Behind Tiered Pay-Wall on 28 March 2011

JMP Analyst Downgrades Apple on Foxconn Slowdown / Oppenheimer Analyst Argues Against JMP Downgrade of Apple / Apple Reportedly Randomizing Order Numbers for iPad 2 / Motorola Mobility Launching WiFi-Only Xoom on 27 March

Ticonderoga Analyst: Lines Again Tuesday for too Few iPad 2s / New Orders for iPad 2 Via Apple Slip to 4 to 5 Weeks / TUAW: AT&T Offering One Month of Free 3G Data for Compatible iPads / Canalys Sees Increased Adoption of Tablets at Home and Work in 2011 / Apple Delays iPad 2 Launch for Japan / Apple Steps Up for Workers in Japan Post-Earthquake / Report: Verizon Nixing 35-Dollar Activation Fees for Xooms and Galaxy Tabs / Apple Updates Remote App for iThings / Software Fix for Apple TV Issues Said to be Coming Soon / Some iPod Touch Owners See Video Glitches After 4.3 Update / Netflix Tops in Streaming/Download Video in the States (Apple in Three-Way Tie for Third) / Apple, PayPal, and Victoria’s Secret Sued Over One-Click Shopping / Zune Honcho Issues Another Vague Statement on Future Zune Hardware

Apple Says First-Weekend Demand for iPad 2 “Amazing” / Three Analysts Sing Songs of Woe for Would-Be iPad Competitors / Apple Solicits “Old” iPad Donations for Teach for America / Wireless Carrier Three Set to Sell iPad 2 in UK in “Coming Weeks” / MacNN Says Users Can Re/Activate Multi-Touch Gestures in iOS 4.3 / Munster Sees Current Quarter Mac Sales at Low-End of Expectations / Apple Seeds Eight Build of Next Snow Leopard Update to Developers / Source for The Independent Says No NFC Technology for Next iPhone / Apple Inc. Seeks Ownership of Apple Corps’ Granny Smith Logos / Pew/Knight Foundation Study Says Internet Overtakes Newspapers for News Consumption / Blooomberg Source Says No More New Models of Microsoft Zune / Bon Jovi Blames Blames Steve Jobs for “Killing the Music Business”

iTunes Posts Red Cross Donation Page to Aid in Earthquake and Tsunami Relief / Lines Abound for iPad 2 on Day One / Macworld: iPad 2 Orders Slip from Days to Weeks / CNET: iPad 2 Orders Slip from Weeks to More Weeks / Piper Jaffray Analyst Says As Many as Half-a-Million iPad 2s Sold Friday / Creative Startegies, Gleacher and Co Call for Roughly Half-a-Million iPad 2s Sold Over Weekend / Ticonderoga Securities: Apple Could Sell One-Million iPad 2s Over Launch-Weekend / Munster Excited by Number of New Buyers of iPad / iFixIt Breaks an iPad 2 (for the Greater Good) / iSuppli Says Dell Regains 2nd Place in PC Sales from Acer Thanks to iPad / iPhone 4 Falls in Pwn2Own Competition (Not Updated to iOS 4.3) / Apple Pulls Post from Forum Calling for Continued Security Support for Older iOS Devices / Apple VP Schiller Rekindles Talk of White iPhone / Apple Opens Shop-in-a-Virgin Megastore in UAE This Wednesday 16 March / Virgin Founder Praises Apple CEO

Apple Reminds Planet that iPad 2 Goes On Sale in U.S. 11 March at 5 p.m. Local Time / iPad 2s Spotted on Thursday on Walmart Store Shelves (Though Not on Sale Then) / AT&T Selling iPad 2 Online Now / Rumor: Apple Opening Pop-Up Store in Downtown Austin, TX to for iPad 2 Sales for SXSW / ChangeWave Survey Shows 95-Percent Satisfaction Rating with First iPad / Reviews Out for iPad 2 (And They Seem to Be Good) / IDC Says Apple Will Continue to Dominate Tablet Market in 2011 / Forrester Analyst: Business Model for iPad Competitors “Fatally Flawed” / Apple Outs GarageBand for iPad and iMovie for iOS Update One Day Early / Some App Developers Drop Prices Ahead of iPad 2 Launch / iOS 4.3 Requires Re-Entering Password for In-App Purchases / Sophos Says 1st and 2nd Gen iPhones and iPod touches Officially Unprotected by Apple Security Updates

Apple Releases iOS 4.3 a Couple of Days Early / Security Issues Addressed in iOS 4.3 Update / Apple Updates Safari for Windows and Mac / TMO: Safari Update Plugs 62 Security Vulnerabilities / Safari Exploit Fells Mac in Five Seconds at Pwn2Own Competition / Apple Updates Software for Second-Gen Apple TV / Apple TV Software Update Addresses Some Security Issues / Apple Releases Xcode 4 (and Sells it to Anyone in Mac App Store) / Apple Updates iPhone Configuration Utility for Enterprise / Devs See Signs of A5 for iPhone 5 in iOS 4.3 Code / Apple Email Urges Customers to Get iPad 2 at Apple Retail / Apple Posts 14 iPad 2 Guided Tour Videos on its Site / Guinness Book of World Records Deems Microsoft Kinect for Xbox 360 Fastest Selling CE Device Ever / Acer Says It Cannot Currently Fill All of the Orders for its Tablets / Global Equities Analyst Issues Research Note Tearing Honeycomb Tablet OS to Shreds / Microsoft Says Apple Colored Outside the Lines in App Store Counter-Argument