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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 …
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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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Microsoft:
365 Days Later, Xbox 360 Unveils First Wave of TV Shows and Movies on Xbox Live — Xbox 360 offers the latest in entertainment options for everyone, from a library of 160 high- definition games expected by holiday to downloadable standard and high-definition TV shows and movies.
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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.
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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 …
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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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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.
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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 …
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 …
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.
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 …
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Kamil / F-Secure Antivirus Research Weblog:
iAdware — We recently received a proof-of-concept sample of an adware program. Normally that wouldn't be worth blogging about, but in this case it's for Mac OS X. In theory, this program could be silently installed to your User account and hooked to each application you use... and it doesn't require Administrator rights to do so.
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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
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