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4:05 PM ET, April 21, 2008

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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 …
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Scott Moritz / Techland:
EBay looks for Skype payoff
Discussion: PC World
John Paczkowski / Digital Daily:
Skype Announces Unlimited Polish Grandmother-Connect
Discussion: eWeek
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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Google Code Blog:
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.
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 …
Discussion: GigaOM
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.
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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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?
Discussion: STARTUP CHATTER and Contentinople
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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.”
Discussion: Electronista and Digital Daily
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Tom Krazit / One More Thing:
RIM, Palm also seeing smartphone shortages?
Discussion: localmobilesearch.net
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.
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.
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.
Peter Kafka / Silicon Alley Insider:
No One Likes The Music Labels.  Who Cares?  —  Newsflash, courtesy of PR agency Edelman: Young people don't feel warmly about the music industry, presumably because they are harshing their mellow and trying to stop them from pirating music.  Leave aside the dubiousness of a PR agency telling …
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Jemima Kiss / Guardian:   The industry's battle with downloaders has damaged trust
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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Christine Lu:
The Sports Network brought down by Chinese Hackers
Discussion: Andrew Lih and Shanghaiist
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.
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.
Thomas Ricker / Engadget:
3G iPhone confirmed in Italy without revenue sharing?  —  We've been avoiding the 3G iPhone rumor mongering as much as possible recently.  After all, we know it's coming as both AT&T and Apple have confirmed.  Now this: one of Italy's most respected newspapers, La Repubblica …
 
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Jamie Hunter / AndroidGuys:
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Paul Mutton / Netcraft:
Hacker Redirects Barack Obama's site to hillaryclinton.com
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Elinor Mills / CNET News.com:
New security blog on cloud computing
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Business Wire:
Nearly 20% of Mid- and High-End Mobile Devices Will Run a Linux …
John Morris / The Core Truth:
AMD can't get to 45nm fast enough. A 12-core package?
Discussion: The Tech Report
Ansley Berrones / Yanko Design:
The Future of Books  —  With everything turning towards technology …
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Melissa J. Perenson / PC World:
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Mark Hendrickson / TechCrunch:
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Dan Nystedt / IDG News Service:
Asustek to Launch Eee PC With 10-inch Screen
Dan Goodin / The Register:
Microsoft: Finding flaws on our website is OK
Rafe Needleman / Webware.com:
OpenID getting more usable, a tiny bit at a time