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CNET News.com:
Reporters' records hacked in HP probe — update Two CNET News.com reporters' personal telephone records were accessed by a contractor hired by Hewlett-Packard to uncover the source of boardroom leaks to the media, according to the California attorney general's office.
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Bob Sullivan / MSNBC:
HP investigators hacked reporters' phone data — 'Pretexting' scandal at high-tech firm extends outside board room … CNBC TV — Bob Sullivan — In an effort to track down the source of information leaks by Hewlett-Packard Co. insiders, private investigators working …
Bruce Schneier / Wired News:
Quickest Patch Ever — If you really want to see Microsoft scramble to patch a hole in its software, don't look to vulnerabilities that impact countless Internet Explorer users or give intruders control of thousands of Windows machines. Just crack Redmond's DRM. — Security patches used to be rare.
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Ed Burnette's Dev Connection, Techdirt, Paul Colligan's …, InsideMicrosoft, Boing Boing, digg and Slashdot
David Lawsky / Reuters:
Microsoft hints at delay of Vista in Europe — BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Microsoft raised the possibility on Thursday that it might delay the introduction of its new Vista Windows operating system in Europe, saying it depended on the European Commission's antitrust requirements.
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Marshall Kirkpatrick / TechCrunch:
Amazon Unbox goes live — Amazon's movie download site, called Unbox, appears to have gone live today. There's no link yet on the front page of Amazon, but the direct link at unbox.com works. We covered early previews of the site last month. Shows may be purchased or rented.
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Wall Street Journal:
New Facebook Features Have Members in an Uproar — Facebook.com, the popular social-networking Web site for students, is suddenly getting the cold shoulder on campus. — On Tuesday, in an effort to make it easier for users to keep track of their friends, the fast-growing site rolled out two new features …
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Business Wire:
AOL to Launch AIM Phoneline Developer Initiative — Will Show Examples of New APIs for Call Personalization, Untethered — Devices and Incoming Call Management at Fall VON 2006 (Booth #449) — Call for Entries: Open AIM Phoneline Developers' Challenge Invites
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Jason Calacanis / The Jason Calacanis Weblog:
YouTube yearly revenue potential: Fred says $150M a year, I say $20M. — Fred does a great post on YouTube's revenue potential. He takes the premise that if you put a 10 second pre-roll video on every video at a $15 CPM and split the earnings in a Google Adsense way you would wind up with a $150M a year business.
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Fred / A VC:YouTube's Potential Revenue
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Yuriko Nakao / Newsweek:
Such Were the Joys — How do I love thee, Vodafone 905SH? Let me count the ways. — The Vodafone 905SH — We're back from a summer in Japan, with fond memories of new friends, shopping bags full of cheap plastic Gundam action figures and several bottles of fine sake.
Oliver / MobileCrunch:
Treemo Launching Today: New Mobile Content Network Opens Public Beta — Treemo, a new mobile content network with a socially responsible twist has officially come online with their public beta. — Much like Mobango which I profiled in early August, Treemo lets you upload music or ringtones …
Bob Sullivan / MSNBC:
FTC fines Xanga for violating kids' privacy — $1 million penalty against social networking site is largest under 1998 law — Xanga.com, a rival to the popular MySpace.com, allegedly permitted creation of 1.7 million accounts by users who submitted birthdays indicating they were under 13.
MacNN:
Apple files Multi-functional hand-held device patent application — On September 7, the US Patent & Trademark Office published Apple's patent application titled "Multi-functional hand-held device" originally filed in March 2006. — In light of Apple's September 12th "Showtime" media event …
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Engadget, CrunchGear, Gizmodo, Good Morning Silicon Valley, VoIP & Gadgets Blog and The Digital Music Weblog
Ryan Singel / Wired News:
Veni, Vidi, Wiki — Wikipedia has edited its way into the big time. — The massive user-driven site is now the biggest encyclopedia in the world. The mainstream media covers it extensively. It was recently lampooned by The Onion and Comedy Central. Soon, Wikipedia may also become familiar …
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Ryan Singel / Wired News:The Wiki That Edited Me — Journalists love to complain …
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Julie Bosman / New York Times:
Magazines Going to the Web to Get Students to Read — COLLEGE students are famous for their transient ways, moving frequently and rarely leaving a permanent mailing address for magazine publishers to send subscription solicitations to. — For now, some magazine publishers are settling for their e-mail address.
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JRuby Love — Charles Nutter and Thomas Enebo, better known as "The JRuby Guys", are joining Sun this month. Yes, I helped make this happen, and for once, you're going to be getting the Sun PR party line, because I wrote most of it. … Jacki DeCoster, one of our PR people …
David Pogue / New York Times:
In a Sea of Cellphones, a Pearl — EVERYONE knows that the perfect cellphone doesn't exist, and it's mostly because of physics. You know: You can't have a huge screen on a tiny phone, or a fat battery on a slim phone, or top-of-the-line construction at a rock-bottom price.
BBC:
Fastest supercomputer to be built — Computer giant IBM will build the world's most powerful supercomputer at a US government laboratory. — The machine, codenamed Roadrunner, could be four times more potent than the current fastest machine, BlueGene/L, also built by IBM.
