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Scott Moritz / Techland:
AT&T to cut the price of Apple's new iPhone — AT&T (T) is planning to put some extra shine on the even sleeker new Apple (AAPL) iPhone. — When the 3G iPhone is introduced this summer, AT&T, the exclusive U.S. iPhone sales partner with Apple, will cut the price by as much as $200, according to a person familiar with the strategy.
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Saul Hansell / Bits:
The $199 iPhone? Something's Missing from the Picture — Fortune reports that AT&T is preparing to offer a $200 subsidy for buyers of the next-generation iPhone, widely expected to be introduced this summer. It writes that since the new, presumably faster models will start …
Darren Waters / BBC:
Web in infancy, says Berners-Lee — The world wide web is “still in its infancy”, the web's inventor Sir Tim Berners-Lee has told BBC News. — He was speaking ahead of the 15th anniversary of the day the web's code was put into the public domain by Cern, the lab where the web was developed.
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Professor Nigel Shadbolt / BBC:
Future web — Exactly 15 years ago the directors at the lab where the web was first developed signed a document which said the technology could be used by anyone free of charge. — That decision was instrumental in making the web truly world wide. BBC News talks to some of the leading figures …
Joel Hruska / Ars Technica:
New Microsoft law enforcement tool bypasses PC security — Microsoft revealed its development of a digital forensic analysis toolkit at a security conference yesterday as part of a wider discussion of how technology can be used to fight crime. The Computer Online Forensic Evidence Extractor …
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Benjamin J. Romano / The Seattle Times:Microsoft device helps police pluck evidence from cyberscene of crime
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Oh. My. God. Marvel Moves To Shut Down Our Iron Man Screening — Marvel has sent us a cease and desist letter demanding that we cancel the Iron Man event tomorrow at the AMC Metreon in San Francisco. We are not canceling the event yet - stay tuned as our lawyers work this out.
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Om Malik / GigaOM:
As Broadband Growth Slows, Expect Speed Boosts — The demand for broadband in the U.S., after growing at an explosive rate for almost two years, has started to slow, largely due to high market penetration rates and a struggling economy. UBS Research forecasts that the number …
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Google Relaunching Measure Map — Those of you who remember MeasureMap are long time readers of this blog. It was a blog-centered analytics service that first surfaced in August 2005. The service was created by San Francisco based Adaptive Path. The first details emerged in October 2005.
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Ready To Rumble: Here's Who Microsoft Will Bring To a Hostile Fight Over Yahoo — Microsoft does not like to be rushed. Everyone is waiting for its next move, now that the deadline it set for Yahoo to accept its takeover bid expired last Saturday. And everyone can keep waiting.
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Apple:
Java for Mac OS X 10.5 Update 1 adds support for Java SE 6 — This update provides Java SE 6 version 1.6.0_05. — This release does not change the default version of Java. This release is only for Mac OS X v10.5.2 and later, and should not be installed on earlier versions of Mac OS X …
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Jason Calacanis / The Jason Calacanis Weblog:
Social media focus groups — People have told me over the past year that I'm obsessed with Twitter and that my obsession should be on Mahalo. Of course, I see Twitter as akin to breathing and talking for business—essential. What's the point of having over 20,000 followers on Twitter folks have asked me.
Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft:
XP SP3 not generally available yet, after all — Microsoft has decided not to release Windows XP Service Pack (SP) 3 to Windows Update and the Microsoft Download Center as planned on April 29. The reason? A last-minute compatibility issue with a Microsoft application — Microsoft Dynamics Retail Management System (RMS).
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
End Of Speculation: The Real Twitter Usage Numbers — Speculation about Twitter's new round of financing is leading everyone to speculate on Twitter's actual penetration into the “mainstream,” or lack thereof. — Hitwise says web visits have increased 8x in the last year, albeit from a minuscule base.
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Mint Moves Into Investment Tracking — Silicon Valley-based startup Mint, which provides a service that lets users manage their checking, savings and credit card accounts online, will launch a new product on May 6 that let's users track virtually any type of investment account as well.
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John Markoff / New York Times:
Race Is on to Advance Software for Chips — PALO ALTO, Calif. — In the computer world's equivalent of “The Amazing Race,” three rival teams of computer researchers are working on new types of software needed to better use computer chips that can process many tasks at the same time.
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Sam Ramji / Port 25:
Managing Towards Open — I have the exciting—and humbling—privilege of interacting almost every day with technical and business experts who are creating the future of software—including both core engineering teams at Microsoft and thought leaders across the full spectrum of diverse open source communities.
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Electronic Arts / EA-Land Blog:
EA-Land Drawing To A Close — It is with mixed emotions that today we are announcing the EA-Land experiment will soon draw to a close. Since 2002, EA-Land / TSO has attracted a very special group of players (of which you are one) and we certainly appreciate your participation in the EA-Land community.
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