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Netscape Navigators Revealed — Netscape has raised some eyebrows with their pending paid social news editors aka "Netscape Navigators"and now they've finally revealed them. Netscape just added the section on the right hand side of their main page. — Here is a list of the hired guns with pictures:
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Jason Calacanis / The Jason Calacanis Weblog:
The first 10 Navigators: We've hired three of the top 12 DIGG users, the #1 user from Newsvine, the #1 user from Reddit, and a bunch of Weblogs, Inc. folks. — The word is getting out about the first 10 Netscape Navigators (people who took "the offer" to become paid bookmarkers).
Brian Krebs / Security Fix:
Hijacking a Macbook in 60 Seconds or Less — If you want to grab the attention of a roomful of hackers, one sure fire way to do it is to show them a new method for remotely circumventing the security of an Apple Macbook computer to seize total control over the machine.
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Joris Evers / CNET News.com:
Apple fixes 26 Mac OS flaws — Apple Computer issued on Tuesday updates for its Mac OS X operating system to fix 26 security flaws, some serious. — Several of the vulnerabilities affect the way in which Mac OS X handles images and the file-sharing capabilities of the software, according to an Apple security advisory.
Black Voices:
Important AOL Announcement — Frequently Asked Questions About the New AOL — Where's the Catch? — When Can I Get AOL for Free? — Does This Mean I Can Stop Paying for AOL? — Will There Be a Service Disruption if I Choose the Free AOL Option?
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David Berlind / Between the Lines:
Buyer Beware: Verizon Wireless and Sprextel disabling features on handsets they sell — In response to yesterday's post about how Verizon Wireless' newest phone — the LG Chocolate — is an shining example of not only how Digital Rights Management technology is finding its way into everything we own …
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Robert McMillan / InfoWorld:
Researcher creates net neutrality test — Software can tell if computers are treating some types of TCP/IP traffic better than others — A Seattle-based security researcher has devised a way to test for net neutrality. Dan Kaminsky will share details of this technique …
David Berlind / Between the Lines:
What is Red Hat's achilles heel? No, it's not SuSE, Windows, or Solaris. Ubuntu anyone? — By way of Slashdot comes this interesting editorial at FreeSoftwareMagazine.com by Tony Mobily who makes a case for why Linux server success is connected to Linux desktop usage …
Ryan Block / Engadget:
iChat Mobile: is it the iPhone (part forty bajillion)? — Ok everybody, alright, get it all out of your systems now. WWDC's in a few days, and the predominant rumor is that the iPhone is what we're going to get from it. Apple knows we want it, and we know they're working on it.
Katie Fehrenbacher / GigaOM:
Voice-over-GoogleFi — GoogleFi, Google's Mountain View network, may be good for data connections, but is it good enough for making voice calls? In order to find out answers, I headed down to Mountain View to conduct some first hand tests, and well, make some VoIP calls.
Matt Marshall / SiliconBeat:
Silicon Valley roundup: Khosla debunked?, Pincus censored, YouTube ain't that big, more — Here's the latest news for Silicon Valley tech-money crowd: — The Dead 2.0 blog — In case you haven't seen it yet, here's the Dead 2.0 blog, we've seen referenced a few times. It says we let Jobster off the hook.
Joe Beaulaurier / Download Squad:
Yahoo! Music Engine gets new features and new name — Yahoo! Music Engine is now called Yahoo! Music Jukebox (haven't I heard that name before?). This name change coincides with the roll out of new features and a premium "Plus" version. — According to the press release, Yahoo! Music Jukebox will be enhanced with:
Larry Gordon / Los Angeles Times:
UC May Join Google's Library Project — The firm would gain access to 34 million volumes in its effort to offer digitized books. — In a move with major significance for the worlds of academic research and publishing, the University of California is in talks to join Google's controversial project …
Nate Anderson / Ars Technica:
Plasma is a girl's best friend? — What do women want? Plasma televisions, apparently. A new study (Word .DOC) by US TV network Oxygen ("The New Girls Network") debunks the myth that "the only women interested in technology are urban trendsetters" and finds that three-quarters of American women …
Chris Thompson / East Bay Express:
Publishers vs. the Censorbot — As Google becomes more crucial to the revenues of online news sites, its practice of withholding ads from edgy stories threatens Web journalism. — Google has entered that rarefied tier of corporations whose services or products are indispensable to American life.
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Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols / DesktopLinux.com:
Articles & white papers about Linux on the desktop ... Keywords: Match: Sort by: — An early look at Freespire — In two weeks, Linspire Inc. will release Freespire, its community Linux distribution. This new distribution isn't just another Linux distro.
Brian Oberkirch / Like It Matters:
beyond adsense: a business model checklist 02aug06 — This great post by Peter Rip has me off the dime to make a list I've wanted to make for a while: a checklist of the various business models available to developer of live Web apps & services. During a podcast with Lane Becker …
Official Google Blog:
It's all about the photos...on a Mac — I'm happy to tell you about the release of Picasa Web Albums Uploaders (beta, of course) for Mac OS X. Picasa Web Albums makes it simple to share photos with friends and family, and now we've made it even easier on the Mac.
WindowsServer / Windows Server Division WebLog:
WINDOWS SERVER 2003 AND XP X64 EDITIONS SERVICE PACK 2 — There have been a few articles floating around on the Internet since we released the private beta of Windows Server 2003 SP2 a couple of weeks ago. To remove any mystery or speculation about what this Service Pack 2 is about …
