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Kim Zetter / Threat Level:
Dateline Mole Allegedly at DefCon with Hidden Camera — Updated: Mole Caught on Tape — DefCon security on Friday warned attendees at the annual hacker conference that Dateline NBC may have sent a mole with a hidden camera to the event to capture hackers admitting to crimes.
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Undercover NBC Dateline reporter bolts from DEFCON 2007 — Undercover reporter Michelle Madigan (Associate Producer of NBC Dateline) got a little more than she bargained for when she tried to sneak in to DEFCON 2007 with hidden cameras to get someone to confess to a felony.
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Tim Wilson / PC World:
Public Wi-Fi: Past its Prime? — For the average Internet user, wireless means Wi-Fi. Most routers used in offices and at hot-spots in local cafes and-libraries use Wi-Fi technology. However, the increasing development and use of the fledgling WiMAX technology has some questioning whether cities should invest in the older standard.
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Billboard Music Charts - Latest Music News - Music Videos — Amid hot yet stunningly gorgeous weather in downtown Chicago, Daft Punk, LCD Soundsystem and London rapper M.I.A. capped a beat-inspired first day of Lollapalooza (Aug. 3) at Grant Park. French duo Daft Punk, in full robot regalia …
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Surveys Say iPhone Demand Continues — Apple's iPhone seems set to disrupt the mobile phone industry, with ChangeWave claiming up to 16 percent of those planning to buy a mobile in the next six months will buy an iPhone. — The latest Changewave consumer mobile phone survey …
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Darla Mack:
iTheme for S60 3rd Edition — Have you ever wondered what it would be like to have the interface of the iPhone? Maybe some have and maybe some haven't, but seeing an app like this even I became a bit interested. This form of customization goes way beyond basic theme creation.
Glenn Fleishman / Wi-Fi Networking News:
SF Mayor Puts Free Wi-Fi on Ballot, Lamely — Gavin Newsom and the president of the city's board of supervisors stuck a free wireless resolution on the ballot five minutes before the deadline: The measure is nonbinding, but asks voters whether they support the notion of free wireless throughout the city.
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KathrynV / dslreports.com:
Google Phone Talk Is Back - Do you want an ad-supported mobile web? — The Google phone rumors are back. Google has apparently developed a prototype cell phone which they say will bring Google Search and Google Aps to the mobile community, offering better web browsing than current products (a not-so-subtle threat to the iPhone).
Xbox-Scene News:
Raid casualty comes forward to tell his story — >> HSD - Hours before the raids were news and broadcast across the net and the mass media, an XS member (FallsInc) tried to warn those of us in the inner circle that the noose was about to tighten around US Modchip shops.
Andrew McAfee:
And Now for Something Completely Different — Wikipedia's article on Enterprise 2.0 has been heavily edited by the administrator Jreferee since July 26. I just read through the most recent version, which consists largely of a history of the term. According to this version,
Kyle Pott / Lifehacker:
Featured Windows Download: Log your workday from the system tray with Life Logger — Log your workday from the system tray with Life Logger — Windows only: Freeware app Life Logger is a small system tray application to help log your daily activities. Inspired by Gina's quick log script …
Erica Sadun / The Unofficial Apple Weblog:
Journeys inside the iPhone's SDK — I have now spent a pretty solid week writing applications for the iPhone. And what an exciting week it's been. I've been privileged to view and interact with the iPhone in a way that few other people have had the opportunity to.
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Jesus Diaz / Gizmodo:Breaking: First Third-party Native iPhone Application
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Todd Haselton / Ars Technica:
NEC and Hitachi team to water-cool hard drives — Score one for water-cooling fanatics. NEC and Hitachi just announced a partnership focused to develop a liquid cooling system for hard drives. Let's take a look at how liquid cooling typically works, why it's attractive, and how Hitachi and NEC plan to liquid-cool a hard drive.
Josh Catone / Read/WriteWeb:
Blogging Ethics: When And What Should Bloggers Disclose? — Is there a new blogger scandal brewing? Allen Stern over at CenterNetworks seems to think so. Allen takes issue with the new video blog Webb Alert (which mentioned Read/WriteWeb today), saying that the blog doesn't disclose …
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Insider Chatter, How To Split An Atom, CenterNetworks, Deep Jive Interests and Webomatica
RSnake / ha.ckers.org web application security lab:
Mozilla Says "Ten F**king Days" — I'll do a more thorough writeup of the craziness that is Blackhat, but this I thought should go out ahead of all the other stuff. I don't have a lot of time so I'll try to make this story short. Two days ago after Jeremiah and my talk …
