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9:55 AM ET, July 31, 2007

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Mozilla.org:
Mozilla Foundation Security Advisory 2007-27  —  Unescaped URIs passed to external programs  —  Impact:  —  Critical  —  Announced:  —  Reporter:  —  Jesper Johansson  —  Products:  —  Firefox, Thunderbird, SeaMonkey  —  Fixed in:  —  Firefox 2.0.0.6  —  Thunderbird 2.0.0.6
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Mozilla.org:
Mozilla Foundation Security Advisory 2007-26
Discussion: TechBlog
Robert Levine / New York Times:
Music From Independent Labels to Be Sold via Cellphones  —  EMusic, the nation's second-largest online music seller after Apple's iTunes, plans to announce a deal with AT&T today that will allow people to buy songs from independent labels through their cellphones, without the need to go through a personal computer.
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Tom Neumayr / Apple:
iTunes Store Tops Three Billion Songs  —  Apple® today announced that more than three billion songs have been purchased and downloaded from the iTunes® Store (www.itunes.com). iTunes is the world's most popular online music, TV and movie store featuring a catalog of over five million songs …
Marguerite Reardon / ZDNet:
Google bets on mobile market  —  Search giant Google is setting the stage for its biggest push yet into the U.S. mobile market, in a strategy that delicately straddles the line between partnering and competing with the major cell phone operators.  —  Last week, Google signed its most significant deal …
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Molly Peterson / Bloomberg:
FCC to Set Airwaves Auction Rules as Google, AT&T Take Sides
Discussion: WebProNews
Marguerite Reardon / CNET News.com:
Google's battle for wireless spectrum
Discussion: digg
George Ou:
Getting to the bottom of the 3.0 GHz AMD quad-core demos  —  There's been some controversy brewing over the issue of the 3.0 GHz "K10 Barcelona" desktop-variant quad core processors that were demoed at last Thursday's AMD analyst day.  Accusations on whether the chip was cherry picked …
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Charlie Demerjian / Inquirer:
Phenom 3.0 demo surrounded by FUD  —  Let's dispel some of it  —  THERE HAS BEEN a great deal of speculation, FUD and outright whoppers about the AMD 3.0Ghz Barcelona/Phenom demo last week.  Let's try to dispel some of it, and toss in a little more insight as well.
Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft:
Microsoft Works to become a free, ad-funded product  —  Microsoft's next version of its small-business/home productivity suite, due imminently, will be free and ad-funded.  —  Microsoft Works 9.0 — which will be the new product's name, if Microsoft opts to stick with its current nomenclature …
Dave Winer / Scripting News:
Bug Labs (initial review)  —  I went to a real interesting dinner tonight in San Francisco, to get introduced to a New York-based startup, Bug Labs, along with Ryan Block of Engadget, Robert Scoble and Jerry Michalski.  —  We met with their CEO, Peter Semmelhack, and their San Francisco-based consultant, Jeremy Toemann.
Matt Marshall / VentureBeat:
Amp'd Mobile asset list *not* full of porn  —  Sorry folks, we made a big mistake on this one.  —  This was originally a story about the asset list of bankrupt mobile entertainment network Amp'd Mobile, and how it included several pages of porn titles.  A source, reliable in the past …
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Rafat Ali / mocoNews.net:
Audio Interview: Peter Adderton, Former CEO, Amp'd Mobile
Discussion: contentSutra.com and hypebot
Andy Beal / Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim:
What the iCrossing Acquisition of Proxicom Says About the State of the SEM Industry  —  Today iCrossing, possibly the largest SEM firm, announced its acquisition of web development firm Proxicom.  The acquisition came on the heels of an announcement last week by iCrossing that it had received $62 million …
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Jane Larson / Arizona Republic:   Internet marketer iCrossing acquires Va. firm
Vivian / Inside AdWords:
Campaign Optimizer now available  —  Today, we're happy to announce the launch of a new ad performance tool called Campaign Optimizer.  It's an on-demand AdWords tool that provides personalized campaign ideas in just minutes.  We're always looking for ways to help you improve your account performance …
InterActiveCorp:
IAC Reports Q2 Results  —  IAC (Nasdaq: IACI) released second quarter 2007 results today, reporting $1.5 billion in revenue, a 6% rate of growth over the prior year, and $136 million in Operating Income Before Amortization, compared to $165 million in the year ago period.
Associated Press:
Voting machine makers criticize review  —  Firms dispute a state study that found security problems.  One study author defended the conclusions.  —  SACRAMENTO — Representatives of three voting machine companies criticized a state study Monday that found that their machines could be breached by hackers …
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Anne Broache / CNET News.com:
Computer scientists hack Calif. e-voting machines
Discussion: The Register and eWEEK.com
Bill Ray / The Register:
Half of European calls to be mobile by 2008  —  Mobile calls are replacing fixed-line usage across Europe, according to a new report from Analysys, but people aren't talking more, they're just using fixed-lines less.  —  The change has been most stark in Finland, where 2006 saw another 10 per cent …
Discussion: MobileCrunch and SMS Text News
BBC:
The long hard road to open source  —  Will Microsoft's new licenses change the way we think about open source?  Regular columnist Bill Thompson believes they could.  —  Microsoft has stirred up debate in the open source community by announcing that it will be submitting two licenses to the Open Source Initiative (OSI) for approval.
Discussion: Open Source
Benjamin Edelman / Ben Edelman:
Zango Practices Violating Zango's Recent Settlement with the FTC … In my hands-on testing, Zango continues numerous practices likely to confuse, deceive, or otherwise harm typical users as well as practices specifically contrary to Zango's obligations under its November 2006 settlement with the FTC.
Discussion: Vitalsecurity.org
Microsoft:
Software Assurance Brings Value to Customers Beyond Upgrades  —  Q&A: Joe Matz, corporate vice president of Worldwide Licensing and Pricing at Microsoft, discusses the role of enterprise programs in ensuring and supporting customer technology road maps.  —  Two weeks ago Microsoft released …
 
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DesktopLinux.com:
MEPIS to switch from Ubuntu to Debian
Discussion: digg
Ben Bland / Telegraph:
Illegal music downloads hit record high
DigiTimes:
Intel 45nm notebook CPUs to account for 50% of total shipments in 2Q08
Jonathan Richards / Times of London:
YouTube to filter out copyrighted videos
Discussion: Inquirer
Neil Cavuto / Fox News:
Some Free Advice for Apple
Discussion: MacUser and MacDailyNews
David Kender / CamcorderInfo.com Blog:
Panasonic Unveils Two AVCHD Camcorders: HDC-SD5 and HDC-SX5
Discussion: I4U News
Phil Butler / Read/WriteWeb:
Software Runs Into Iceberg
Discussion: ProgrammableWeb and digg
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Natalie O'Brien / NEWS.com.au:
Spies watch rise of virtual terrorists
Discussion: RealityPrime and TechCrunch
Enigmax / TorrentFreak:
Downloading More Than Ever Before, Brits Care Less About Getting Caught
Discussion: Download Squad and digg
Tom Krazit / CNET News.com:
Nvidia gaining ground on Intel, AMD in graphics
Discussion: DailyTech
Wendy Boswell / Lifehacker:
Technophilia: Get productive with the best Facebook Apps
Eric Bangeman / Ars Technica:
RIAA backtracks after embarrassing P2P defendant
Discussion: Slashdot and digg
Dan Primack / PE HUB:
Qualcomm Backs iPhone Competitor
Dare Obasanjo aka Carnage4Life:
A-List Technology Bloggers: What Are They Good For?
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Online Advertising: Facebook's secret rate card
 

 
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Bill Donahue / Billboard:
Drake launches legal action against UMG and Spotify for allegedly using bots, payola, and more to inflate Kendrick Lamar's Not Like Us, a track attacking Drake

Mark Kleinman / Sky News:
Sources: CVC Capital Partners and a major European broadcaster, thought to be France's Groupe TF1, are among those considering a takeover of the UK's ITV

Joe Flint / Wall Street Journal:
Sources: NBC's new deal with Macy's to keep the Thanksgiving Day Parade on NBC and Peacock has an average annual fee of $60M+, up from ~$20M in the current deal

 
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