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4:50 PM ET, November 23, 2006

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Anick Jesdanun / Associated Press:
U.S. Copyright Office issues new rights  —  NEW YORK - Cell phone owners will be allowed to break software locks on their handsets in order to use them with competing carriers under new copyright rules announced Wednesday.  —  Other copyright exemptions approved by the Library of Congress …
Discussion: Engadget and Slashdot
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Mike / Techdirt:
DMCA Exemptions Announced; Nothing Much For Consumers
Andy / BoydCreative:
Google Integrating Blog Posts Into Search Results  —  Google have been so busy releasing beta after beta for the last while that their raft of services are far from integrated.  Try logging into your AdSense account, dow't work.nload an advanced report and try to open it in Google Spreadsheets.
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CNET News.com:
Mozilla's Firefox 2 and Microsoft's Internet Explorer 7 are vulnerable to a flaw that could allow attackers to steal passwords.  —  Dubbed a reverse cross-site request, or RCSR, vulnerability by its discoverer, Robert Chapin, the flaw lets hackers compromise users' passwords and usernames by presenting them with a fake login form.
Discussion: Techdirt
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info-svc.com:
CIS Finds Flaws in Firefox v2 Password Manager  —  Chapin Information Services (CIS) has discovered a new flaw in the Mozilla Firefox web browser that exposes saved passwords to clever attackers.  —  Given the new nature of this type of attack, CIS has named this a Reverse Cross-Site Request (RCSR) vulnerability.
Steve Rosenbush / Business Week:
Vodafone's Social Connections  —  The wireless giant is in talks to give its customers access to social-networking services with their phones  —  Wireless-phone giant Vodafone (VOD) will let customers use their mobile phones to gain access to online social networking services, BusinessWeek.com has learned.
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Katie Fehrenbacher / GigaOM:
Vodafone, You're Going to Make How Much?  —  Vodafone's CEO …
Discussion: Alec Saunders .LOG
CNET News.com:
Top ten girl geeks  —  Charles Babbage may have invented the programmable computer, but it was Ada Byron (later Ada Lovelace) who is widely credited with writing the first real program for it.  She translated Luigi Menabrea's notes on Babbage's machine from Italian, and added her own ideas …
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Rob Hyndman / robhyndman.com:
Top 10 Web 2.0 Girl Geeks?  —  CNet has published a Top 10 Girl Geeks piece that has provoked much interest and criticism (Lisa Simpson and ... Paris Hilton?; no Esther Dyson; etc.?), and seems to have been written more to provoke hot-tempered discussion than for any other reason.
Discussion: Podonomics
T3:
Folding laptop filmed!  —  Video exclusive: Fujitsu let us finger their super-swish folding laptop.  —  Taking the Origami principle to heart, Fujitsu reckon they've got the ultimate UMPC licked, with this swish design for a laptop which literally folds in half to fit your pocket.
Discussion: Engadget and jkOnTheRun
Numair Faraz:
Sean Parker as Jim Clark 2.0, and the return of th...  First, let us settle the matter once and for all - the unthinkable has happened, and we are in the midst of a second dotcom boom.  Our current progress seems to be somewhere right around 1996 — people are unsure if the valuations are sustainable …
Discussion: A VC and ben barren
Dan Lurie / The Unofficial Apple Weblog:
MacBook Marionette  —  Most puppets scare me.  Horrid little creatures, only coming alive when controlled by some being of perceived omnipotence manipulating every aspect of their pathetic little lives.  But enough about my puppet paranoia, and on to this awesome hack.  Some cunning (and brave!
Paul Collins / Slate:
Dead Plagiarists Society  —  WILL GOOGLE BOOK SEARCH UNCOVER LONG-BURIED LITERARY CRIMES?  —  Listen to an interview with the author here, or sign up for Slate's free daily podcast on iTunes.  —  Amir Aczel knew just whom to blame.  "It seems," the science author complained last month …
Gizmodo:
XBox 360 Video Store FAQ: How Long to Download a Movie?  —  Our FAQ for the Xbox 360's video download service keeps growing.  —  How Long Does it Take to DL a Movie?  —  I'm in SF, on Comcast's 6Mbit cable modem service.  I started downloading Akira Kurosawa's Dreams at 10PM PST.
Discussion: Kotaku and PVR Wire
Frank Rose / Wired News:
Commercial Break … The thinking went something like this: Chevrolet is all about being revolutionary, right?  (That's debatable, but since Chevy's tagline is "An American Revolution!" this is where all discussion starts at its ad agency.)  And if Chevrolet is revolutionary, then its advertising ought to be, too.
Discussion: Labnotes and eirikso.com
Marshall Kirkpatrick / TechCrunch:
Remote Control Mail: Check Your Postal Mail on the Web  —  Kirkland, Washington based company Document Command Inc. has launched its consumer facing web interface for postal mail called Remote Control Mail.  The service provides an alternative to PO Boxes, mail forwarding or waiting until …
Discussion: Newlaunches.com
David Leonhardt / New York Times:
Filling Pantries Without a Middleman  —  A few years back, the online grocery business was just about the perfect symbol of the dot-com bust.  —  A company called Webvan had gone public in 1999, promising to reinvent the $500 billion supermarket industry — retail's largest sector …
Discussion: Techdirt and Inc.com
Mary Madden / Pew Internet:
Podcast Downloading  —  Some 12% of internet users say they have downloaded a podcast so they can listen to it or view it at a later time.  However, few internet users are downloading podcasts with great frequency; just 1% report downloading a podcast on a typical day.
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Steve Rubel / Micro Persuasion:
Pew: 12% Have Listened to a Podcast, But Only 1% Download Daily
Discussion: Web Strategy
 
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Cyrus Farivar / Engadget:
Buffalo's WSKP-G brings Skype on-the-go for about $200
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Thomas Ricker / Engadget:
Panasonic's Words Gear gets official launch and price
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Ernesto / Torrentfreak:
Sundance Winner 'The Corporation' Released for Free on BitTorrent
Kotaku:
Analyst: Initial PS3 Shipment 125K to 175K
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Ryan Block / Engadget:
Palm Treo 680 launches on Cingular, $199
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jkOnTheRun:
jkOnTheRun Audio Edition #28- Fujitsu P1610 video review
Discussion: GottaBeMobile.com
Alexander Sliwinski / Joystiq:
Simple Wii controller chart
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Greg Linden / Geeking with Greg:
Google dominates, MSN Search sinks
Ren Reynolds / Terra Nova:
There's nothing 'just' about Monopoly money
Discussion: Joystiq and Game|Life
 

 
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