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10:40 AM ET, April 30, 2008

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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 …
Discussion: Rough Type and rexblog.com
Jack Schofield / Guardian Unlimited:
Web still in its infancy at 15, says Sir Tim Berners-Lee
Discussion: BBC NEWS
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 …
Margaret Kane / CNET News.com:
Time Warner to split off cable service  —  Time Warner is splitting off its cable services division, the company said Wednesday.  —  Time Warner currently owns around 84 percent of Time Warner Cable.  The media giant, which has been struggling of late, has been rumored to be discussing an AOL partnership with Yahoo.
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Business Wire:
Time Warner Inc. Reports First-Quarter 2008 Results  —  NEW YORK—(BUSINESS WIRE)—Time Warner Inc. (NYSE:TWX - News) today reported financial results for its first quarter ended March 31, 2008.  —  Chief Executive Officer Jeff Bewkes said: “Our results this quarter, particularly …
Discussion: IP Democracy and Digital Daily
Larry Dignan / Between the Lines:
AOL's ad revenue growth stalls  —  Time Warner's AOL unit delivered results in line with expectations Wednesday, but revenue in the first quarter was $1.3 billion, down 23 percent from $1.46 billion and operating profit fell 74 percent to $284 million from $1 billion a year ago.
Discussion: Silicon Alley Insider
Tim Arango / New York Times:
Time Warner Spinning Off Cable Unit
Discussion: Engadget
Nancy Gohring / IDG News Service:
Microsoft Helps Law Enforcement Get Around Encryption  —  The growing use of encryption software — like Microsoft's own BitLocker — by cyber criminals has led Microsoft to develop a set of tools that law enforcement agents can use to get around the software, executives at the company said.
Discussion: TechSpot and ZDNet Government
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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.
Elinor Mills / CNET News.com:
Google diving into 3D mapping of oceans  —  We've got Google Earth and Google Sky.  Next up will be a map of the world below sea level—Google Ocean.  —  The company has assembled an advisory group of oceanography experts, and in December invited researchers from institutions around the world to the Mountain View, Calif., Googleplex.
Discussion: Search Engine Land and Compiler
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 …
Villu Arak / Skype Blogs:
Skype 3.8 for Windows goes public with audio improvements, other tweaks  —  Beta-friendly users have been running Skype 3.8 for Windows since April 2.  But with the usual beta imperfections now sanded off, this audio-focused iteration of Skype is ready for public release.
Discussion: jkOnTheRun and Download Squad
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Om Malik / GigaOM:
New Skype For Windows Released, Fixes Video Bugs …
Discussion: VoIP & Gadgets Blog
Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
MicroHoo: How to Talk Without Moving Your Lips  —  While it is true, as we and everyone else have posted, that Yahoo and Microsoft still have not entered into or even scheduled any formal talks, even after the software giant's threat to launch a hostile bid came and went over the weekend without action …
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InfoWorld:
Tibco backing Microsoft Silverlight  —  Tibco Software is throwing its support behind Microsoft's new Silverlight browser plug-in technology for rich Internet applications and also is offering users of Microsoft Web services technology an alternative message platform.
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.
Julian Sanchez / Ars Technica:
Is Lessig's Free Culture just a modern Das Kopyright?  —  April appears to be shaping up as National Slag Lawrence Lessig Month.  Last week, there was RedState's ill-starred effort to turn the Stanford legal scholar (and Barack Obama supporter) into the next Jeremiah Wright.
 
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Larry Dignan / Between the Lines:
SAP confirms Business ByDesign delay
Nancy Gohring / IDG News Service:
Sony Ericsson Combines Java and Flash
Discussion: Phone Scoop
Cade Metz / The Register:
US Department of Justice banned from Wikipedia
Caroline McCarthy / Webware.com:
The artsy side of Google: Designers and innovators create iGoogle themes
VELOCIX:
Velocix Announces the World's First Free Content Delivery Network
Joseph Weisenthal / paidContent.org:
Earnings: IAC Q1 Revs Up 8 Percent; ‘New IAC’ …
Joseph Weisenthal / paidContent.org:
United Online To Acquire Floral Company FTD For $800 Million; Guides Up For Q1s
Richard Wray / Guardian:
BBC iPlayer launched on Virgin Media
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David Chartier / Ars Technica:
First look: Wigix puts eBay in online marketplace crosshairs
Discussion: Rev2.org
Microsoft:
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Strike Two: DataPortability Workgroup Logo Challenged, Again
Discussion: FaceReviews
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Mint Moves Into Investment Tracking
Discussion: alarm:clock
Bill O'Brien / Computerworld:
Performance showdown: Flash drives versus hard disk drives
Hugh D'Andrade / Electronic Frontier Foundation:
MSN Music Pulls the Plug on Customers
The Boy Genius Report:
T-Mobile flipping the 3G power switch May 1st in NYC?
 

 
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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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