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New York Times:
H.P. Is Said to Have Studied Spying on Newsrooms — Hewlett-Packard conducted feasibility studies on planting spies in news bureaus of two major publications as part of an investigation of leaks from its board, an individual briefed on the company's review of the operation said yesterday.
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Washington Post:
Extensive Spying Found At HP — Feb. Report Sent to 4 Senior Executives — The Hewlett-Packard Co. spying effort that has sparked criminal investigations was wide-ranging and included physical surveillance, photographs and spyware sent via e-mail, and it also targeted wives and other relatives …
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Microsoft:
Microsoft Security Advisory (925568) — Vulnerability in Vector Markup Language Could Allow Remote Code Execution — Microsoft has confirmed new public reports of a vulnerability in the Microsoft Windows implementation of Vector Markup Language (VML) Microsoft is also aware of the public release …
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Official Google Base Blog:
Redesign of the Google Base homepage — by Ellen Beldner, User Experience Designer — As part of our ongoing effort to make Google Base easier to use, we launched a redesign of the Base homepage today. This doesn't change any functionality, but will make Base easier to understand.
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Joel Spolsky / Joel on Software:
Amazing X-Ray Glasses from Sprint! — Over the last six months, Sprint has been trying to get bloggers (like me) to write about their new Power Vision Network by sending us free phones and letting us download music and movies and use the phones for free. — That's rather nice of them …
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Glenn Fleishman / Wi-Fi Networking News:
Panasonic May Relaunch Connexion — Connexion is shutting down, but Panasonic's avionics division may step in: This is not a sale of assets, but rather Panasonic Avionics Corporation may use Connexion by Boeing's general approach in a way that would allow airlines that have already deployed Connexion …
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Nik Cubrilovic / TechCrunch:
Yahoo! Launches Better Video Content — On a day that saw it's stock take a hit, Yahoo! has teamed up with Current TV to launch Yahoo! Current Network, a video site with a mix of profesional and user submitted videos arranged in channels. Current TV is a cable and sattelite channel backed …
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Eric Bangeman / Ars Technica:
Napster hangs "for sale" sign in front window — Napster is evaluating the possibility of a sale by hiring of an investment bank. Citing "recent third party interest," the company has asked UBS Investment Bank to explore strategic partnerships or an outright sale of the company.
Gary Gentile / Associated Press:
Disney Sells Films Through iTunes Store — Walt Disney Sells 125,000 Digital Copies of Films Through iTunes Store in Less Than a Week — LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Walt Disney Co. has sold 125,000 digital copies of films through Apple Computer Inc.'s iTunes store in less than a week …
Om Malik / GigaOM:
Yaho-ouch! — GigaTeam was visiting GooglePlex today, meeting with a few executives. If there was anyone at Google who was worrying about an online advertising slowdown, we did not run into them! Jokes aside, the sharp decline in Yahoo's stock, about 13% for the day …
Tony Ruscoe / Google Blogoscoped:
Google's Internal Subdomains — As many of you will already know, I like to investigate new Google subdomains to try and guess what they might be working on next. Having already compiled a list of Google's publicly accessible subdomains (which is no doubt still incomplete) …
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Kotaku:
TGS06: Live Blogging Xbox 360 Media Briefing — And our 2006 Tokyo Game Show coverage officially kicks off this afternoon with Microsoft Japan's Media Briefing at Shibuya's super swish Cerulean Tower hotel. Press continue to filter in, and we've got our seats front and center (well, not center center, but centerish).
Gizmodo:
Sony Intros HVR-V1U HDV Pro Camcorder, Filmmakers Ogle Its 24p-ness — Sony's HVR-V1U HDV camcorder was on display at a special touchy-feely roll-out event in New York this afternoon, and Gizmodo was there for a quick hands-on. Sony presented a refined HDV camcorder that mid-level video production pros …
Fred / A VC:
Positively 10th Street RIP — It was a good run. But it ended in apathy and rebellion (from the kids). — We had a lot of fun doing it and I hope those of you who checked in now and then enjoyed listening. — Here's where I come out on podcasting: — It's a fun thing to do for a while.
Nancy Stauffer / web.mit.edu:
Engine on a chip promises to best the battery — MIT researchers are putting a tiny gas-turbine engine inside a silicon chip about the size of a quarter. The resulting device could run 10 times longer than a battery of the same weight can, powering laptops, cell phones, radios and other electronic devices.
Reuters:
AOL gains more new customers after going free — NEW YORK (Reuters) - Time Warner Inc. on Tuesday said a strategy to offer most of online unit AOL's services for free was making faster-than-expected progress in attracting new Internet users and cutting costs.
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