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Jacqueline Marshall / About Skype:
Skype announces unlimited long-distance calls to over a third of the world's population — Luxembourg, 21st April, 2008 - Skype announced unlimited* calling today to over a third of the world's population with the launch of its new calling subscriptions. The new subscriptions signal …
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Hints of iGoogle Turning Into Its Own Social Network — Google has long used its personalized homepage, iGoogle, as a launching point for its foray into social-networking applications. Any developer who builds an OpenSocial app, for instance, can make it work as a widget (er, gadget) on iGoogle.
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Developer sandbox for iGoogle launches — Today, we're excited to open up a developer sandbox for iGoogle. The sandbox includes support for OpenSocial, a common API designed to let you easily build social applications that run on a growing number of web containers.
Mark Sweney / Guardian:
Google is named world's most powerful brand by Millward Brown research — Google has topped a list of the world's most powerful brands, with new research estimating its value to be $86bn (£43bn). — WPP-owned research company Millward Brown puts Google at number …
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Adrian Kingsley-Hughes / Hardware 2.0:
It's official! Windows XP SP3 goes RTM today — The moment that Windows XP users have been waiting for. Today Windows XP Service Pack 3 (SP3) goes RTM. — What's in SP3? — Here's what you can expect from XP SP3: — All previously released Windows XP updates, including security updates and hotfixes.
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Jason Hiner / Tech Sanity Check:Prediction: Microsoft will leapfrog Vista, release Windows 7 early …
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Colin Devroe / Hi, I'm Colin:
Twitter is definitely down, sorta — Over the past few days the number of Twitter statuses popping up from those I follow on Twitter have been scarce. At first I thought it was because I was beta testing the latest version of Hahlo. Then, I thought it was a problem with the API and so Twitterrific would also have the issue.
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MG Siegler / ParisLemon:
Twitter FAIL Day 3: Communications Breakdown — Quite a few of you saw my post from last night about Twitter's failure. Quite a few of you have noticed that it's still going on. We're about to enter day 3 of Twitter FAIL and still aren't getting a whole lot from Twitter about it.
Larry Dignan / Between the Lines:
Smartphones out of stock across the board — Looking for a good smartphone? Good luck. Out of stock smartphones abound. — According to a research note by Tavis McCourt, an analyst at Morgan Keegan, there are “an increased number of Out of Stock (OOS) situations involving Palm, RIM, and Apple.”
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Tom Krazit / One More Thing:RIM, Palm also seeing smartphone shortages?
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Anil Dash / Six Apart News & Events:
At Your Service: The Next Evolution of Six Apart — Five years ago this week, we announced one of the biggest milestones in our company history, including the creation of TypePad and our transformation from two bloggers with a powerful platform to a company dedicated to bringing the power of blogging to the world.
Brian Stelter / New York Times:
Web Metrics and Grains of Salt — Perhaps Internet metrics should come with a warning label: “handle with care.” — Stock in the measurement firm comScore slid in after-hours trading on Thursday after Google reported surprisingly strong first quarter earnings. Why the decline?
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Stephanie Clifford / New York Times:
A Web Shift in the Way Advertisers Seek Clicks — Tyler Townsend, a digital media manager who plans online advertising for travel clients at Ypartnership, an agency in Orlando, had $150,000 to spend on behalf of a Caribbean island's visitors bureau. And this client did not care about branding — it wanted action.
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Search Engine Watch Blog, WebGuild, Internet Marketing …, WebProBlog and John Battelle's Searchblog
Los Angeles Times:
Sony to launch online video service for PlayStation 3 — VIDEO: Sony's service would be provided through the online PlayStation Network. Above, a tech show in Singapore in March. — The company is attempting to stage a comeback in digital entertainment distribution.
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Silicon Alley Insider, Engadget, Mashable!, TG Daily, GamePro.com, PS3 Fanboy, Reel Pop and Digg
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Chinese Hackers Take Down SportsNetwork — The SportsNetwork, a privately held sports website located in Hatboro, PA, has been under attack from hackers for about 24 hours. Early Sunday the site was defaced with “Tibet was, is and will always be part of China” messages.
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Ryan Naraine's Security Watch
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Jemima Kiss / Guardian:
The industry's battle with downloaders has damaged trust — Ongoing battles between the entertainment industry and illegal downloaders are contributing to a damaging fall in consumer trust, according to new research from the PR agency Edelman. The number of UK consumers who said they trusted …
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Larry Dignan / Between the Lines:
Forrester: Social networking will be biggest enterprise 2.0 priority by 2013; Smaller businesses reticent — Enterprise 2.0 will become a $4.6 billion industry by 2013 and social networking tools will garner the bulk of the money, according to a report by Forrester Research.
Jeff Muskus / New York Times:
New Wii Games Find a Big (but Stingy) Audience — Nintendo sits atop the home video-game market. Its Wii, though less technologically advanced than Microsoft's Xbox 360 or Sony's PlayStation 3, continues to outsell those machines and is now in more than 20 million homes.
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CNET News.com, SuperSite Blog, Kotaku, GoNintendo, Joystiq, michael parekh on IT and Digg
Darren Waters / BBC:
Ubuntu ‘reaping Linux dividend’ — The public perception of open source software is changing fast, said Mark Shuttleworth, who leads distribution of the Ubuntu operating system (OS). — A new version of Ubuntu, a version of the Linux OS, is released on Thursday.
