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10:00 AM ET, April 2, 2008

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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Google/Skype Acquisition or Partnership Imminent?  —  Something big is brewing between Google and Ebay's Skype, we've heard from multiple sources.  Actually, for weeks now there have been low level rumors of the two companies talking, but nailing down any details was difficult.
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Dave Greenfield / Team Think:
Google to Buy Skype?  —  Rumors are out again that Ebay's albatross. aka Skype, may soon be unloaded to Google.  The deal could be valued at as much as $6 billion: … Complaints with Skype isn't anything new.  Rumors have been ripe for sometime that Ebay had to do somthing with the P2P VoIP system.
furrier.org:
Breaking News: Google CIO Douglas Merrill Quits Becomes President of EMI  —  Posted by Furrier.org in Technology.  —  Update: People within EMI are saying that they are lining up mainstream media exclusives for tomorrow either NY Times or WSJ and want to kill all blog coverage.  —  More brain drain at Google.
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Elinor Mills / CNET News.com:
Google's CIO leaves search giant for job at EMI
Discussion: Outside the Lines and Mashable!
Michelle Quinn / Los Angeles Times:
A top Google techie joins EMI
Discussion: WebProNews
Miguel Helft / New York Times:
Senior Executive Leaving Google
iso.org:
ISO/IEC DIS 29500 receives necessary votes for approval as an International Standard  —  ISO/IEC DIS 29500, Information technology - Office Open XML file formats, has received the necessary number of votes for approval as an ISO/IEC International Standard.  —  Approval required at least 2/3 …
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Kelly Fiveash / The Register:
Official: OOXML approved as international standard
Discussion: Open Source and Matusow's Blog
Kevin J. O’Brien / New York Times:
Reversing Loss, Microsoft Wins Open-Format Designation
Discussion: IT News Digest and InfoWorld
Brian Caulfield / Forbes:
Why Apple Will Go Atomic  —  What will Steve Jobs do next?  —  Intel's plans may offer the best Rosetta stone for decoding the secretive Apple chief executive's intentions.  The latest clue came Monday in Shanghai at the Intel Developer Forum, where the chip maker detailed its new lineup of low-cost …
Discussion: CNET News.com
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John Markoff / New York Times:
Intel Makes a Push Into Pocket-Size Internet Devices  —  SAN FRANCISCO — Intel plans to proclaim Wednesday in Shanghai that the next big thing in consumer gadgets will be the “Internet in your pocket.”  —  The challenge for the giant chip maker will be to prove that it is not too late …
Darren Waters / BBC:
Children flock to social networks  —  More than a quarter of eight to 11-year-olds in the UK have a profile on a social network, research shows.  —  Most sites, such as Bebo, MySpace and Facebook, set a minimum age of between 13 and 14 to create a profile but none actively enforce the age requirement.
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Kelly Fiveash / The Register:
UK.gov demands 999 ads on social networking sites  —  $10,000 Panda Challenge - are you really protected?  —  Social networking websites could be forced to advertise the 999 emergency number under government plans to make the internet a safer place for kids to surf.
Duncan Riley / TechCrunch:
Amazon Launches SMS Buying Service  —  Amazon has launched Amazon TextBuyIt, a service that allows Amazon customers to purchase items via mobile phone text message.  —  To use the service, customers text the name of a product, its description, or its UPC or ISBN number to Amazon (262966).
Discussion: WebProNews and Mashable!
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Jessica Mintz / Associated Press:
Amazon launches text-message shopping
Discussion: mocoNews.net
Ben Hoyle / Times of London:
Internet book piracy will drive authors to stop writing  —  Book piracy on the internet will ultimately drive authors to stop writing unless radical methods are devised to compensate them for lost sales.  —  This is the bleak forecast of the Society of Authors, which represents …
Rubicon Consulting:
The Apple iPhone: Successes and Challenges for the Mobile Industry  —  Quick Facts  —  The Apple iPhone is easily the most publicized new mobile device in recent memory.  But despite all the discussion about the product, there's relatively little hard information available to the public on its impact.
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Sarah Perez / ReadWriteWeb:
Today's iPhone Users are Young, Rich, and Technically Savvy
Associated Press:
Police: Couple covered up theft with Craigslist post  —  MEDFORD, Ore. — It wasn't a hoax or revenge that cost a Southern Oregon man many of his belongings when people responded to a Craigslist posting and nearly emptied his rural home, officers say: It was a pair of thieves covering their tracks.
Discussion: CrunchGear, TechCrunch and The Raw Feed
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Todd Bishop / Todd Bishop's Microsoft Blog:
Microsoft Surface finds home in AT&T stores  —  Here's an advance look at a story I wrote for Wednesday's paper.  The news is slated to be announced Wednesday at the CTIA Wireless show in Las Vegas.  —  AT&T says it will start using Microsoft Corp.'s Surface computers in selected retail stores later …
Discussion: Forbes, CrunchGear and TechCrunch
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Microsoft:
AT&T First to Introduce Microsoft Surface in Retail Stores …
Discussion: Engadget Mobile and PalmAddicts
Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:
Some venture investors heading for the cellars, as larger economic problems loom  —  Despite a one-day rise in the stock market, the macro-economic outlook is stormy, and confidence is falling among venture capitalists and entrepreneurs.  —  Last fall's housing slowdown has led to turmoil among Wall Street banks.
Discussion: New York Times
Chris Ziegler / Engadget:
Video: Samsung Instinct UI walkthrough  —  One ultra-glossy phone plus a dozen or so overly ornate chandeliers is a recipe for video disaster, and indeed, we managed to capture the beautiful outline of said chandeliers in far more detail than we ever intended here.
Discussion: Engadget Mobile, Switched and Tech Blog
Kim Yoo-chul / The Korea Times:
Samsung Unveils Mobile Application for Second Life  —  Models show Samsung Electronics' phones equipped with the latest Second Life wireless solutions at the CTIA mobile convention in Las Vegas, Wednesday.  —  Samsung Electronics has introduced a wireless solution, which can help Samsung …
Mike Musgrove / Post I.T.:
Congress Goes Virtual in Online World Hearing  —  A Linden Labs worker put on her nicest black suit and her most formal pair of wings this morning, to help run a Congressional subcomittee hearing about online virtual worlds that was broadcast simultaneously in the company's own virtual world, Second Life.
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James Hohmann / Los Angeles Times:   House panel takes a whirl in virtual world
 
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Ina Fried / Beyond Binary:
Microsoft-Yahoo deal ‘preaction’
Discussion: CNET News.com
Larry Dignan / Between the Lines:
SAP sets succession plan; Apotheker named co-CEO
VIA Technologies Inc / VIA Technologies, Inc. News:
New VIA VX800 Series Chipsets to Extend VIA Leadership in Ultra Mobile Market
Thomas Ricker / Engadget:
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Blinkx Launches Yet Another Online TV Service
Sony:
The BRAVIA W4000-Series LCD TV: A New Standard In Picture Excellence
Reuters:
Motorola to stop Singapore mobile phone production
Dan Goodin / The Register:
eBay pulls Vista laptop pwned in hacking contest
Discussion: IDG News Service
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Mark Hendrickson / TechCrunch:
Magnify Gives Birth to VidyUp: First Release Based on YouTube's New APIs
Discussion: CenterNetworks and Mashable!
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Joi Ito Takes Lead At Creative Commons
Laura Marquez / ABCNEWS:
Going Topless to Office Meetings
Eric Savitz / Tech Trader Daily:
Apple Stores Out of iPhones, Piper Says; 3G Soon?
Darren Waters / BBC:
BT advert trials were ‘illegal’
 

 
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Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette:
Ofcom rules that five GB News programs presented by Conservative politicians have broken its due impartiality rules and puts the channel “on notice”

Todd Spangler / Variety:
YouTuber MrBeast announces a deal with Prime Video for Beast Games, a reality-competition show with 1,000 contestants, promising the winner a $5M cash prize

 
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