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8:05 AM ET, November 10, 2007

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Erica Sadun / The Unofficial Apple Weblog:
iPhone: Testing the 1.1.2 Jailbreak  —  After a really late night, I had the privilege of being able to test some of the jailbreak software this morning.  This is not the final jailbreak software.  That will involve using a nice graphical user interface.  For now, I'm invited to use …
Discussion: Macsimum News, Bits and Engadget
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Tom Krazit / CNET News.com:
Latest iPhone update jailbroken before it hits the ground  —  As expected, Apple released the OS X 1.1.2 update for the iPhone overnight to coincide with its debut in the U.K. and Germany.  As not expected, it's been sprung from jail already.  —  Erica Sadun at The Unofficial Apple Weblog …
Discussion: TechSpot News
Donald Melanson / Engadget:
Instructions posted for downgrading iPhone from 1.1.2 to 1.1.1
Discussion: PMP Today, Today @ PC World and Gizmodo
Peter Kafka / Silicon Alley Insider:
News Corp (NWS): Launching An Ad Network, Too  —  News Corp.'s Fox Interactive Media unit is one of the few big Web players that has yet to roll out its own ad network (selling space on third-party sites).  That's about to change, sources tell us: FIM is building out it own ad network …
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
That's Your AIM in My GTalk  —  It is amazing that we still have major instant messaging platforms that don't talk to one another.  Yahoo and Microsoft got their two systems to work with each other more than a year ago, but AOL is still working on interoperability issues with those two.
Discussion: Gadgetell and Googlified
Tris Hussey / blognation Canada:
Om Malik & Arrington Blow Off BlogWorld-iJustine Fills In  —  The buzz around the show was that Om Mailk and Michael Arrington were skipping BlogWorld Expo even though both are confirmed speakers.  Right now Leo Laporte, after giving what I've heard was a kick-ass keynote, pulled iJustine in as a last minute panel member.
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Anne Zelenka / GigaOM:
Web 2.0 Manages to Sober Up  —  A couple of weeks ago, Edelman marketing strategist Steve Rubel declared the Web 2.0 world to be skunk drunk on its own Kool Aid.  But I've seen signs of sobriety recently.  Kleiner Perkins has said no more Web 2.0 startups.
Dan Goodin / The Register:
IndiaTimes website 'attacks visitors'  —  Visitors to the IndiaTimes website are being bombarded by malware, some of which appear to target previously unknown vulnerabilities in Windows, a security researcher warns.  —  In all, the English-language Indian news site is directly or indirectly serving …
Discussion: STAT Blog and Holidays in India
63.247.141.49:
Survey: Intel Ahead of AMD on Server Customer Loyalty  —  Intel brand server processors enjoy higher levels of loyalty among enterprise x86 customers than rival AMD, although system purchases are largely influenced by vendor brand and other non-processor factors, according to a survey conducted by Gabriel Consulting Group (GCG).
Discussion: The Register
Dan Goodin / The Register:
Botmaster owns up to 250,000 zombie PCs  —  He's a security consultant.  Jail beckons  —  An American computer security consultant on Friday admitted using massive botnets to illegally install software on at least 250,000 machines and steal online banking identities of Windows users …
Discussion: Los Angeles Times
Tom Espiner / CNET News.com:
Infamous Russian malware gang vanishes  —  A Russian gang allegedly hosting malicious software abruptly disappeared this week, according to Trend Micro.  —  The Russian Business Network, which allegedly was heavily involved in hosting packing kits—development suites for malicious software …
Owen Thomas / Valleywag:
Facebook to let users vote on news feed [Scoop]  —  Snooping on user profiles isn't the only special privilege Facebook employees have.  They also get to test the site's latest features.  Like news feed voting.  Above is a mockup of my news feed as a Facebooker would see it, based on real screenshots from an inside source.
Discussion: Mashable! and Digg
Ben Drawbaugh / Engadget HD:
Hands-on with HD TiVoToGo and Multi-Room Viewing  —  It seems as if we've been waiting a lot longer than a year for TiVo to add two of our favorite features to the Series3, and while complications with CableLabs haven't exactly made the process possible before now, we're elated that TiVoToGo and Multi-Room viewing are finally a reality.
Discussion: TiVo Blog
Matt Hickey / CrunchGear:
CrunchRumor: Sony launching 16GB Memory Stick at CES?  —  We hate rumors.  No, wait, we love them.  So do you, that's why you're here.  We've got one that we've been hearing about that will bore most of you, but some of you will love.  —  The word is that at CES in January …
Discussion: Gadgetell
Nick / Rough Type:
Tapping at the window  —  Spying is best done surreptitiously.  The Peeping Tom that you don't see is of infinitely less concern to you than the one who taps on your window and waves.  With its new Beacon ad program, Facebook taps on the window.  —  Nate Weiner reports on his first experience coming face …
 
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Daksh Sharma / Rev2.org:
VOIS.com Launches Beta Version, To Target BRIC & N-11
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Marc Andreessen / blog.pmarca.com:
Building a state-of-the-art Emergency Room for Silicon Valley
David F. Gallagher / Bits:
E-Mail Scammers Ask Your Friends for Money
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Reuters:
SK Telecom to gain management rights in Helio
I, Cringely . The Pulpit | PBS:
Getting to Know You  —  While politicians and the U.S. Census Bureau …
InfoWorld:
Analysts grade Vista's first year: Did not meet expectations
Catherine McLean / Globe and Mail:
RIM sues LG over phone names
Bobbie Johnson / Guardian:
From surfers to tea fans, Britain's blogging army is now 4m strong
Discussion: TechnoLlama and Liberate Media
 Earlier Items: 
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Attack of the Splogs—One Of Our Posts Copied 152 Times Without Attribution
Christopher Null:
Did Web Amateurs Impede Search for Fossett?
Discussion: Valleywag
Ernesto / TorrentFreak:
Demonoid Shuts Down Again
Discussion: Ars Technica and The Register
Kelly Olsen / Associated Press:
Samsung Stops Selling in Japan
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ScottIsAFool / LiveSide:
Windows Live Translator For Your Website
David Pogue / New York Times:
Reaching for Apple, Falling Short
 

 
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Lachlan Cartwright / The Ankler:
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