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HP CEO Allowed 'Sting' of Reporter — Hewlett-Packard Co. chief executive Mark V. Hurd approved an elaborate "sting" operation on a reporter in February in an attempt to plug leaks to the media, according to an e-mail message sent by HP Chairman Patricia C. Dunn.
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Matt Richtel / New York Times:
H. P. Investigators Sought Meeting With Top Leaders — Investigators at Hewlett-Packard sought a meeting last January with the chief executive and the chairwoman to describe internal efforts to trace news leaks and get their leaders' advice, according to e-mail exchanges between the investigators and a senior company lawyer.
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Peter Waldman / Wall Street Journal:H-P's Dunn Was Closely Involved In Leak Probe
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Mark Hachman / PC Magazine:
Alarm.com Signs VOIP Deal; Looks Next To ISPs — Alarm.com has signed its second VOIP partnership deal, with SunRocket. Executives said they're looking ahead to partnerships with ISPs, providing yet another tier of service to existing "triple play" relationships.
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Garrett Smith / Smith On VoIP:
Alarm over IP - Giving VoIP Pure Plays "Triple Play" Potential? — Alarm.com has struck another deal with a prominent Voice over IP provider to offer residential security service and Voice over IP service bundles. Fresh off a deal with Vonage, Alarm.com announced today that SunRocket …
Robert McLaws:
Mary Jo Foley: The Exit Interview — Alright, I admit it. I knew what was going on all along. Mary Jo Foley dropped a bombshell this afternoon, announcing she was leaving MicrosoftWatch to branch out on her own after 11 years at ZiffDavis. What are her plans for the future?
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Saskia Scholtes / Financial Times:
Market gossip goes high-tech — Market gossip is to take on a more high-tech form thanks to a new automated system that will trawl through more than 40m internet sources - from blogs to regulatory filings - on behalf of hedge funds. — Due for an official launch early next year …
Kevin Poulsen / 27B Stroke 6:
ATM Hack Uncovered — A security expert in New York has learned how to get free money from some ATMs by entering a special code sequence on the PIN pad. — Last week, news reports circulated about a cyber thief who strolled into a gas station in Virginia Beach, Virginia, and …
Elizabeth Judge / Times of London:
Tiscali and AOL units targeted in broadband shake-up — THE winners and losers in the shake-up of the broadband market were becoming clear last night as bidders began circling Tiscali's UK division and BSkyB and Carphone Warehouse went head-to-head in the bidding for AOL's UK arm.
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Bruce Schneier / Wired News:
Lessons From the Facebook Riots — Earlier this month, the popular social networking site Facebook learned a hard lesson in privacy. It introduced a new feature called "News Feeds" that shows an aggregation of everything members do on the site, such as added and deleted friends …
Cory Doctorow / Boing Boing:
Open PVR from Neuros: cash money to owners who hack it — Neuros, makers of the coolest video-recording toys in the world, have just released their OSD, a fully open set-top box. Neuros already made history with its Neuros Recorder 2, a device the size of a deck of cards that turned …
Saul Hansell / New York Times:
Al Gore's Current TV Joins With Yahoo for a Video Venture — Yahoo said yesterday that it was creating an online video programming venture with Current TV, the media company founded by former Vice President Al Gore. The service will combine professional and user-generated video clips.
Luke Smith / 1up.com:
Gran Turismo HD: Two Versions, Tons Microtransactions — Famitsu reports a brand new model for Gran Turismo on PS3. — There's horse armor and then there's the kind of microtransactions that Famitsu is reporting (via: Beyond3D and the vitriolic NeoGAF). According to the Famitsu inteview …
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USBCELL: Batteries That Recharge Through USB — USBCELL: Batteries That Recharge Through USB — I love innovation - who doesn't? That said, my tastes lie specifically in the kind which make my life simpler and easier. We're talking email over post, wireless over wired …
Jay Rosen:
Journalism goes pro-am — Today I am announcing at Comment is free and PressThink, my blog, that Reuters is giving $100,000 to NewAssignment.Net. That's the experiment I plan to launch next year with others who think there is something to the idea of open source journalism …
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
YouTube's Magic Number - $1.5 Billion — I spoke with NYPost writer Sam Gustin for a few minutes last night as he was preparing an article on YouTube. His article is now up - you can see it here. The most interesting part of the conversation was when Sam told me that a source …
Brian Bremner / Business Week:
Will Nintendo's Wii Strategy Score? — If the Japanese company attracts new gamers with its innovative but not quite cutting-edge console, it could alter the industry — Killer processing power, high-definition graphics, WiFi connectivity, massive storage capacity—when it comes to game consoles …
