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Joris Evers / CNET News.com:
Homeland Security: Fix your Windows — In a rare alert, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security has urged Windows users to plug a potential worm hole in the Microsoft operating system. — The agency, which also runs the United States Computer Emergency Readiness Team (US-CERT) …
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dhs.gov:
DHS Recommends Security Patch to Protect Against a Vulnerability Found In Windows Operating Systems — The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is recommending that Windows Operating Systems users apply Microsoft security patch MS06-040 as quickly as possible.
Mary Jo Foley / Microsoft Watch:
Microsoft to Tighten the Genuine Advantage Screws — In a further expansion of its anti-piracy program, Microsoft is building more 'Genuine' checks directly into Windows Vista, and is expanding the program to target not just consumers, but PC makers and system builders.
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Bob Parsons / Hot Points:
GoDaddy pulls its IPO filing! Why I decided to pull it. — We just finished our best quarter - ever! — This decision comes after the best quarter in the company's history. During this 2nd quarter The Go Daddy Group Inc. had GAAP revenue of $56,985,000, a net accounting loss of $733,000 …
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USA Today:
Children less likely to encounter online predators — Despite the rise of social networking sites such as MySpace, a smaller percentage of young people are being sexually solicited online than five years ago. — But children ages 10 to 17 are being increasingly bombarded with online porn …
Om Malik / GigaOM:
Asterisk Creator Gets Venture Backing — Digium, the company that spawned open source PBX and telephony software, Asterisk, has received $13.8 million in Series A funding from Boston-based telecom specialist venture fund, Matrix Partners. — Digium is the latest amongst a growing list …
Om Malik / GigaOM:
Update, Reload & Party — Folks - we are going to be relaunching our site shortly, and what this means is that there will be moments of high anxiety and major service disruptions. Well, anxiety for us at least. And I apologize in advance for service disruption.
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Matt Marshall / SiliconBeat:
Is Bay Partners falling apart? Maybe, maybe not — There is a story by Private Equity Week today that says Bay Partners, the Silicon Valley venture capital firm that has invested in companies like Riya, Wallop and Xactly, has lost half its six partners. — It says the firm's investors …
Howard W. French / New York Times:
Chinese Tech Buffs Slake Thirst for U.S. TV Shows — For the past year and a half, said Ding Chengtai, a recent university graduate, friends have wondered why he seems to have disappeared. — Mr. Ding, 23, an Internet technology expert for a large Chinese bank, chuckled at the thought.
Rocky Mountain News:
Sony Fights to Define the PSP — The PlayStation Portable was born a thing of entertainment convergence, a portable gaming device that would let people play games, watch movies, listen to music and surf the net. — But somewhere on the way from announcement to the hands of gamers, the PSP dropped the multimedia ball.
Long Zheng / istartedsomething:
Vista speech recognition screencast: It works! — Surprise surprise. Windows Vista speech recognition actually works. Contrary to what MSNBC criticize as a 'wreck', the speech recognition technology is well developed and highly usable. I got my hands on the July CTP build (5472) …
Sara Kehaulani Goo / Washington Post:
Google Says Worries About Click Fraud Are Overblown — Google Inc. released a report yesterday criticizing independent consultants and researchers who have raised questions about click fraud, a growing concern of online advertisers worried that they are being overcharged for illegitimate clicks on their ads.
InfoWorld: Top News:
Leopard's top-secret secrets — (InfoWorld) - When you watch a Steve Jobs keynote from home, you only get about two-thirds of the value. For one, there's usually complimentary orange juice and danish on the way into the hall. For another, you get to go hyper-nerd obsessive on every observable detail.
Michael Sippey / Everything TypePad:
Introducing TypePad Mobile — Today we're excited to announce the release of TypePad Mobile, a free application for your Palm, Windows Mobile or Symbian Series 60 smartphone that lets you post photos and entries to your TypePad blogs and photo albums with just a few clicks.
Ryan Block / Engadget Mobile:
The BlackBerry Pearl: 8100 gets a name — What was once known as the BlackBerry Stealth, then as the BlackBerry 8100, is now known as the BlackBerry Pearl. That's right, RIM's first cameraphone with media capabilities and external storage is coming to T-Mobile on September 18th.
Declan McCullagh / CNET News.com:
AOL gives out free .com domains to anyone who asks — AOL has just announced that it will give a free domain name to anyone who asks for one. — There's a catch. You don't own the domain name; AOL does. What you can do is use is use that domain as your e-mail address and your home page starting in September.
Jason Calacanis / The Jason Calacanis Weblog:
Hard times at AOL right now. — Ted checks in on what people are calling the "data Valdez." It so nice having Ted blogging, sometimes I feel like I'm alone on the front lines. I wish other senior executives would start blogging at AOL (hint, hint)—or at least commenting …
Michael Calore / Wired News:
Flash Turns 10 — Flash, the premiere platform for presenting audio and video on the web, turns 10 years old Tuesday. Over the last decade, the technology has grown from a simple sketch tool to a near-ubiquitous rich media application used by sites like MySpace.com, YouTube and Google Video …
