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Robert McMillan / InfoWorld:
eBay says Skype was not attacked — (InfoWorld) - Skype has not been attacked, eBay said Friday, dispelling rumors that Russian hackers took down its popular online telephony service. — For more than a day now, millions of Skype users have been knocked offline by a major service outage that has crippled the service.
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Villu Arak / Heartbeat:
Where we are at 1100 GMT — As Europe has woken up to a new day and Asia is entering the evening hours, here's the latest on the sign-on problem. — We're on the road to recovery. Skype is stabilizing, but this process may continue throughout the day. — An encouraging number of users can now use Skype once again.
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Matt Hamblen / Computerworld:
Second lawsuit filed over iPhone battery replacement — Suit questions whether Apple kept battery information from early buyers to boost sales — A second class-action lawsuit argues that Apple Inc. and AT&T Inc. failed to tell early buyers of the iPhone that annual fees of more than $100 …
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Jacqui Cheng / Infinite Loop:
iPhone battery lawsuit x2: west coast style — Yet another class action lawsuit has been filed against Apple this week, once again over that dastardly iPhone battery. California resident Sydney Leung heads up the new complaint with allegations that are near identical to that filed …
Nate Anderson / Ars Technica:
RIAA faces possible class action over suing the innocent — The scene at RIAA headquarters this week must have been fascinating. The group yesterday announced that it has finished sending out a new batch of 503 "pre-litigation letters" to 58 different universities around the US …
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Jon / p2pnet:RIAA named in first class action
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Los Angeles Times:
It's not journalism — Google's latest effort highlights the difference between what it does and what newspapers and magazines do. — Many publishers consider the Internet, and Google in particular, a greater threat to their livelihoods than Osama bin Laden.
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Robert Niles / Online Journalism Review:The L.A. Times tells its readers: 'Shut up'
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Eric / Technology & Marketing Law Blog:
American Airlines Sues Google Over Keyword Ads — American Airlines v. Google, 4:07-cv-00487 (N.D. Tex. complaint filed Aug. 16, 2007) [Warning: 4.4MB file] … Well, this is interesting. It's not unusual for a trademark owner to sue Google for keyword-triggered ads—been there, done that.
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Miguel Helft / New York Times:
Lawsuit Challenges Google's Keyword Ads — Google and other search engines have been on the receiving end of a dozen or so lawsuits challenging a common practice in search advertising: the use of someone's trademark, say Mercedes Benz, to show an ad for a competitor, say a BMW dealer.
Stuart Elliott / New York Times:
Now, the Clicking Is to Watch the Ads, Not Skip Them — FOR generations, advertising interrupted the entertainment that Americans wanted to read, hear or watch. Now, in a turnabout, advertising is increasingly being presented as entertainment — and surprisingly, the idea of all ads, all the time, is gaining some favor.
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Heather Hopkins / Hitwise Intelligence:
YouTube Replace Searches for Funny Videos — We are working on some analysis for a report on how consumer search behaviour has changed over the past couple of years and I wanted to share a fun bit of data that we found. Analysis of search term content, or the words that consumers use …
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RSnake / ha.ckers.org web application security lab:
XSS Hole In Google Apps Is "Expected Behavior" — You know, just when I think I'm being a super nice guy, and I go out of my way to go through responsible disclosure, I am slapped in the face with the exact reason why I don't think responsible disclosure works for some companies.
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Ernesto / TorrentFreak:
Comcast Throttles BitTorrent Traffic, Seeding Impossible — ISPs have been throttling BitTorrent traffic for almost two years now. Most ISPs simply limit the available bandwidth for BitTorrent traffic, but Comcast takes it one step further, and prevents their customers from seeding.
Brian Prince / eWEEK.com:
Sourcefire Catches ClamAV — ClamAV is among the most broadly adopted open-source security projects worldwide. — Sourcefire has acquired ClamAV, an open-source gateway anti-virus and anti-malware project, in the company's first purchase since it went public in March.
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Matt Hines / InfoWorld:Sourcefire acquires ClamAV open-source anti-malware project
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Peter D. Csathy / Digital Media Update:
All Peer-to-Peer Models Are NOT Created Equal — Skype's Outage Does Not Impugn All Peer-to-Peer Models — Guest blogger, Aron Rosenberg, Founder & CTO of SightSpeed, responds to Om Malik's critical and provocative question that literally is around the blogosphere and media world-wide …
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Om Malik / GigaOM:And More VoIP PBXes — [...] Aron responded to a post Om wrote today …
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Valleywag:
Exclusive: Fark founder accuses Fox newsman of hacking — Local TV reporters are infamous for practicing "ambush" journalism — but as they try to take their gotcha practices to the Web, increasingly they're the ones ambushed. The first rule of hacking, after all, is "Don't get caught."
Brad Fitzpatrick / bradfitz.com:
Thoughts on the Social Graph — I've been thinking a lot about the social graph for awhile now: aggregating the graph, decentralization, social network portability, etc. — If you've seen me at any conference recently, I probably talked your ear off about it.
Modculture / Tech Digest:
Dominos launches Pizza by TXT - obesity to go through the roof — Good news for junk food junkies - Dominos is offering pizza by via SMS. — Yes, if you get a passion for pepperoni when the pubs throw out, just go to your phone and send a message. Your pizza will then arrive …
