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Ryan Block / Engadget:
Peter Moore resigns as head of Xbox — It's hard to call the Xbox 360 anything but a success, but having missed some sales numbers, ringing up an extra unexpected $1b on the corporate card because of warranty issues, and still generally failing to make a profit, it looks like Peter Moore …
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Business Wire:
Yahoo! Reports Second Quarter 2007 Financial Results — Revenues - $1,698 Million — Operating Income - $185 Million — Operating Income Before Depreciation, Amortization and Stock-Based Compensation Expense - $474 Million — SUNNYVALE, Calif.—(BUSINESS WIRE)—Yahoo! Inc. …
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John McBride / Ars Technica:
Microsoft patents the mother of all adware systems — It's such a tremendously bad idea that it's almost bound to succeed. Microsoft has filed another patent, this one for an "advertising framework" that uses "context data" from your hard drive to show you advertisements and …
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Market Wire:
RIM Announces the BlackBerry 8820 Smartphone — The First Dual-Mode Cellular and Wi-Fi BlackBerry Smartphone — Editors Note: A photo for this release will be available on the AP/CP picture wire via CCNMatthews. — Research In Motion (RIM) (NASDAQ:RIMM)(TSX:RIM) today announced the BlackBerry® 8820 smartphone.
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Joshua Topolsky / Engadget:WiFi equipped BlackBerry 8820 about to hit the streets
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Oracle:
Oracle Critical Patch Update - July 2007 — A Critical Patch Update is a collection of patches for multiple security vulnerabilities. It also includes non-security fixes that are required (because of interdependencies) by those security patches. Due to the threat posed by a successful attack …
comScore:
3 Out of 4 U.S. Internet Users Streamed Video Online in May — Average American Video Streamer Watched More than 2.5 Hours of Video Online — comScore (NASDAQ: SCOR), a leader in measuring the digital world, today released its comScore Video Metrix report for May 2007 …
Emmanuel Evita / Google:
Google Introduces Hosted Site Search for Small Businesses — New Google Custom Search Business Edition adds powerful site search at very low cost — Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) today announced Google Custom Search™ Business Edition, a simple and inexpensive way for small businesses to add Google search to their websites.
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Larry Dignan / Between the Lines:
Intel: Solid quarter; cuts capital spending; hit on chip pricing — Intel delivered a solid second quarter Tuesday with net income of $1.3 billion, or 22 cents a share, on revenue of $8.7 billion. That net income figure included tax gains that boosted earnings by 3 cents a share.
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Business Wire:
Fisher Communications Expands Online Local News Strategy with Acquisition of Pegasus News — Neighborhood Content Site Opens New Opportunities for Reinforcing Fisher's Commitment to Local News — SEATTLE—(BUSINESS WIRE)—As part of its initiative to develop new online-only content …
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Smaran / TorrentFreak:
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows leaked to BitTorrent — We first got wind of this when two torrents of the book appeared on Demonoid.com. They became immensely popular with over a 1000 leechers and seeders each. But after some time were removed by either the uploader, or more likely …
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InfoSec Sellout / Information Security Sell Out:
Oh Look. An Apple WORM. — Yes, you read the title correct. — With a few hours work I have put together a proof of concept worm that works on Mac OS X (Intel). I need to get a hold of an older PPC Mac to test that platform but I suspect it will work just fine.
Reuters:
Steve Jobs tops list of online music "Powergeeks" — NEW YORK (Reuters Life!) - Steve Jobs, the father of the iPod, was on Tuesday crowned the undisputed king of the online music revolution by U.S. music magazine Blender, topping a list of the 25 most influential people in Web music.
Michael Zema / pr.vonage.com:
Sunny Days Ahead For Sunrocket Customers — Vonage to Offer Number Transition and Discount Service for SunRocket Customers — Vonage, a leading provider of digital phone service, is offering a way for SunRocket customers to transition their phone number over to Vonage, and also receive the added benefit of two months free service**.
Charlie White / Gizmodo:
Eye On You: Google Streetview Camera Car Fleet Set to Invade America — A camera-toting tipster saw what appeared to be a giant armada of Chevy Cobalt cars in the Google parking lot, getting ready to take pictures of the entire world (or thereabouts) with special 360° cameras.
Jacques Erasmus / Prevx Blog:
Ransomware... Holding Corporate America Ransom! — What started off as a relaxed saturday morning, turned out to be quite interesting when Marco told me about a new ransomware trojan claiming to be using RSA-4096 to encrypt users data. — This is a new iteration of a rather persistent favourite …
Jacqui Cheng / Infinite Loop:
ModBook ship date pushed back due to parts shortages — Ahh, the venerable ModBook. Made by Axiotron and distributed by Other World Computing, the ModBook made waves when it was announced just before Macworld this year. And at its demo boot at Macworld, the ModBook didn't fail to impress …
Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft:
Microsoft starts priming the pump for Vista SP1 Preview — Microsoft is still on track to make a beta available later this week of what it's referring to as "Vista Service Pack 1 Preview," according to sources close to the company. — Microsoft is expected to provide certain testers …
