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Thor Larholm / Larholm.com:
Safari for Windows, 0day exploit in 2 hours — Apple released version 3 of their popular Safari web browser today, with the added twist of offering both an OS X and a Windows version. Given that Apple has had a lousy track record with security on OS X, in addition to a hostile attitude …
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Apple 2.0, Zero Day, CrunchGear, New York Times, Scott Hanselman's Computer Zen, Wired News, Compiler, InfoWorld, Channel 9, Inquirer, Guardian Unlimited, Tom Raftery's Social Media, Webware.com, Lifehacker, franticindustries, Gizmodo, Paul Mooney, WebProNews, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, The Unofficial Apple Weblog, usrbingeek's musings, Read/WriteWeb, eWEEK.com, Michael Gartenberg, TechBlog, DailyTech and Vincent Maher
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David Maynor / Errata Security:
Niiiice... Apple just released a Safari for Windows beta at http://www.apple.com/safari. Using publicly available tools we had a DoS in no time. Keeping with our disclosure policy, we do not report bugs to Apple. — UPDATE: Whoops, sorry, thats not a DoS, its memory corruption.
Aviv Raff On .NET:
Apple Safari for Windows - Out with a crash — Apple has just released a public beta of its Safari browser for Windows. — On the download page Apple write: "Apple engineers designed Safari to be secure from day one". — So, I've decided to take it for a test drive, and ran Hamachi.
Ryan Naraine / Zero Day:
Safari on Windows could be big target for malware — The news that Apple's Safari browser is coming to Windows (see Techmeme discussion) has raised eyebrows in the security research community and there's already word that a memory corruption vulnerability has been discovered.
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PC World: Techlog, Liquidmatrix Security Digest, Todd Bishop's Microsoft Blog, parislemon and p2pnet
Jeff Atwood / Coding Horror:
What's Wrong With Apple's Font Rendering? — I had read a few complaints that OS X font rendering was a little wonky, even from Joel Spolsky himself: … I didn't believe it until I downloaded the first beta of Safari 3 for Windows and saw it for myself. — Font rendering in Safari 3 Beta:
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Todd Bishop's Microsoft Blog, Popgadget, The Apple Blog, mathewingram.com/work, MacDailyNews, Computerworld and Scobleizer
Apple:Apple Introduces Safari for Windows
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Hardware 2.0, GigaOM, hicksdesign, CNET News.com, Wired News, Macworld, O'Grady's PowerPage, Elliott Back, Macsimum News, MacMegasite, Publishing 2.0, SitePoint Blogs, Podcasting News, Tom Raftery's Social Media, Digital Inspiration, Google Blogoscoped, The Tech Report, Howard Lindzon, Microsoft News Tracker, Digital Media Wire, Laughing Squid, TechCrunch, IP Telephony, VoIP, Broadband, Between the Lines and SeekingAlpha
Joel Spolsky / Joel on Software:Apple Safari for Windows: The world's slowest web browser
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Between the Lines
Karen / Official Google Blog:
How long should Google remember searches? — Over the years we've taken many steps to protect our users' data and privacy. For example, we have resisted overly-broad government subpoenas; we've designed our services to give users a choice between personalized services and general services …
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Search Engine Journal, paidContent.org, Insider Chatter, John Battelle's Searchblog and Matt Cutts
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Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:
Google Responds To EU: Cutting Raw Log Retention Time; Reconsidering Cookie Expiration — In response to an EU letter over data retention, Google has announced that it will now anonymize server log data after 18 months, rather than the previous maximum time it had announced of 24 months.
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Search Engine Watch
Reuters:
YouTube to test video ID with Time Warner, Disney — NEW YORK/SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Top online video service YouTube will soon test a new video identification technology with two of the world's largest media companies, Time Warner Inc. and Walt Disney Co..
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Insider Chatter, WebProNews, paidContent.org, Search Engine Land, TechCrunch and NewTeeVee
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Kevin J. Delaney / Wall Street Journal:
YouTube to Test Software To Ease Licensing Fights — SAN FRANCISCO — Google Inc.'s YouTube says it will begin testing advanced video identifying technology to spot clips on the video-sharing site with media companies including Time Warner Inc. and Walt Disney Co. starting in a month.
Barry Schwartz / Search Engine Land:
Google AdWords Adds Placement Performance Reports Showing Content Network Data To Advertisers — Google, as expected, has added a new report type to give AdWords advertisers the ability to see the exact sites their ads are displaying on within Google's content network.
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AdMoolah News and Views
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Philipp Lenssen / Google Blogoscoped:
Gmail Rolls Out PowerPoint Preview — Interesting: Google rolled out their slideshow feature for Gmail (some of you were already getting this as experiment for a while). What happens is that whenever someone sends you a PowerPoint attachment, you can instantly open it in a new browser window by clicking …
Rick Bozich / Courier-Journal:
Courier-Journal reporter ejected from U of L game — Bennett removed for blogging super-regional — A Courier-Journal sports reporter had his media credential revoked and was ordered to leave the press box during the NCAA baseball super-regional yesterday because of what the NCAA alleged …
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Daniel Terdiman / CNET News.com:Blogger removed from NCAA baseball game for blogging
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The Bivings Report
Rafat Ali / paidContent.org:
Cablevision Gets Strong Support From AT&T, Verizon And Others In Network DVR Case — Cablevision has found some friends in the network DVR case which it lost earlier this year in court: Several trade bodies and lobby groups, including USTelecom, which represents AT&T and Verizon …
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USTelecom
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Yinka Adegoke / Reuters:AT&T, Verizon support Cablevision's remote DVR plan
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Media 3.0 with Shelly Palmer
Miguel Helft / New York Times:
For Yahoo, an Ordeal of Dissent — When Terry S. Semel, Yahoo's chief executive, faces shareholders at the company's annual meeting on Tuesday, Eric Jackson will be there to pepper him with questions. — Mr. Jackson, who owns just a few Yahoo shares, is not happy with the company's performance …
Oliverryan / The Browser:
LinkedIn says it will own business networking — In the future, everyone will likely maintain two online profiles. So said LinkedIn CEO Dan Nye in an extended lunchtime interview last week here in Fortune's conference room/pool hall. We had opened the conversation with THE question of the moment …
The Chronicle of Higher Education:
Walt Mossberg Shows College Leaders His New iPhone — Walter S. Mossberg, The Wall Street Journal's personal-technology columnist, picked up his review copy of the Apple iPhone this morning, and he gave his initial impressions of the much-anticipated gadget to college leaders during a speech at The Chronicle's Presidents Forum.
The MMO Gamer:
MindArk: Marketing and brand awareness to attract 150 million users to Entropia — Recently, MindArk announced they were partnering with a Chinese company and expanding Entropia Universe into China. They stated their goal is to get 150 million users from around the world.
