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Financial Times:
Chinese military hacked into Pentagon — By Demetri Sevastopulo in Washington and Richard McGregor in Beijing — The Chinese military hacked into a Pentagon computer network in June in the most successful cyber attack on the US defence department, say American officials.
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Analyst: Chinese Face Spy Scandal Fallout — A report suggesting that the Chinese military has hacked into German government computers could have a negative impact on the prospects in Western markets of Chinese equipment vendors Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. and ZTE Corp. (Shenzhen: 000063 …
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Steve / The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs:
A boring rant — In the interest of keeping items brief I've cut the previous post and put the boring stuff here. Enjoy. Or don't enjoy, as the case may be. Skip over it. Whatever. — It's not just Disney and ABC that are out of touch. Look at the management team at NBC Universal.
Tony Ruscoe / Google Blogoscoped:
Jotspot Coming to Google Apps as Google Wiki? — Since acquiring Jotspot last October, Google has been busy working on integrating the wiki service into its infrastructure. — In April this year, Jotspot's help and support pages moved to Google and a few months later Dave Girouard mentioned …
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Read/WriteWeb, TechCrunch, Insider Chatter, Hightouch, Profy.Com, Zoli's Blog, Mashable! and Digg
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Ionut Alex Chitu / Google Operating System:
Google Presentations and JotSpot Could Be Available Next Week — Google will participate at the Office 2.0 Conference that takes place next week in San Francisco. Jonathan Rochelle, Product Manager at Google Spreadsheets, will be there: — "Almost a year ago - it was October 10-11 …
Rea Maor / Geeks and Technology:
7 Reasons Why Microsoft is DOOMED! — Not this year, not next year... but soon - almost certainly by the next decade. — #1. Their business model is a dead-end. - Back when Microsoft first started business in 1980, software as a commodity was still a fuzzy concept.
Jack Schofield / Guardian:
Can you digg it? — As the social bookmarking site Digg often proves, mob wisdom is not always right - but it is interesting — Digg.com: the wisdom of crowds? — The internet is big. Really big, as Douglas Adams once said of space. You'd need an army of people to monitor it and find things of interest.
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Peteris Krumins / good coders code, great reuse:
Designing Digg Picture Website in a Matter of Hours — I released full source code of the reddit media website (reddit media website generator suite (.zip)). It can now be totally reused with minor modifications to suit the digg for pictures website. — Only the following modifications need to be made:
Ryan Block / Engadget:
The hundred gadget giveaway starts midnight tonight — This one goes out to all the folks who've been waiting ever so patiently to take home some gear in an Engadget giveaway. This week we're giving away over a hundred gadgets, games, swag bags, and the like — including an HDTV, a DSLR …
David Chartier / Ars Technica:
Mozilla keeps Eudora alive, releases new version based on Thunderbird — The Eudora team might have called it quits on commercial aspirations and released the product as open source some time ago, but that doesn't mean you should get the trash bin out just yet.
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Return Of The Schwag — The true hard core geek/fanboy crowd loved ValleySchwag when it launched in the Spring of 2006. For $15 per month you would receive a package containing tshirts, stickers, pens and other junk that new startups pay a fortune to have created with their logo printed on it.
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Nate Anderson / Ars Technica:
MPAA says no to suing movie fans, yes to paying $15,000 for private e-mails — Oh, MPAA, you make it so hard for us to love you. The moment we say a few half-decent things about you and your decision not to start an RIAA-style crusade against noncommercial file-swappers …
BBC:
Mobiles to become digital wallets — The UK's big five mobile phone firms have switched on a payment system that turns handsets into digital wallets. — Called PayForIt, the scheme is designed for those buying goods and services with a value of up to £10.
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Jeremy Reimer / Ars Technica:
Coming soon: hard drives with 1GB+ DDR RAM cache — Hard drives have long utilized small bits of cache memory to boost performance, and some recent hybrid hard drives already combine up to 256MB of NAND flash memory with traditional platter-based storage. Now a Japanese company called DTS …
Nick / Rough Type:
Adblock Plus: the nuclear plug-in — Adblock Plus, the Firefox browser plug-in that erases advertisements from web pages, is a killer of a killer app - or at least it could be if it ever becomes widely popular. Right now, it sits like a coyote at the edge of the net, quietly eyeing all the businesses it would happily devour.
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Glass House, WinExtra, Gadgetopia, Mark Evans, Social Media, JasonKolb.com and HipMojo.com
