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Sydney Morning Herald:
Ten things that will change your future — So Google and Wikipedia took you by surprise? Nick Galvin looks into his crystal ball and explains what you need to know to survive the next decade. — Think back to the days before the network we call the internet existed.
Ben Edelman:
The Sears “Community” Installation of ComScore — Late last month, Benjamin Googins (a senior researcher in the Anti-Spyware unit at Computer Associates) critiqued a ComScore installation performed by Sears' “Sears Holdings Community” ("My SHC Community" or “SHC").
Casey McNerthney / Seattle Post-Intelligencer:
Computer glitch interrupts Needle fireworks — A computer glitch led to a delayed fireworks show at the Seattle Center on Monday night as partiers waited to ring in the new year. — The show started on time at 11:59, said Mary Bacarella, spokeswoman for the Space Needle …
Paul Boutin / Valleywag:
Denton to pay bloggers based on traffic — Gawker Media dark overlord Nick Denton (pictured) has launched a new pay system for all Gawker Media blogs, after testing it at four of his leading sites. Denton's goal is to discourage “self indulgent” posts and “mind-numbing frequency” in favor of …
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Jason Striegel / Hackszine.com:
Eavesdropping on Bluetooth headsets — Here's a short video in which Joshua Wright demonstrates how a Bluetooth headset can be hijacked, allowing audio to be captured or sent to the device: … All that is necessary is knowing the device address, which can be easily sniffed, and the secret pin, which defaults to 0000.
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Christopher Price / PhoneNews.com:
Not a Rumor, the LG Rumor has Issues — Sprint has halted shipping new LG LX260 Rumor units to stores. The LG Rumor has a known issue where certain sets of key presses during startup can trigger a complete erasure of the phone's firmware. — Sprint has isolated the issue to a specific debugging menu …
Andrew Chen / Futuristic Play:
Public and private spaces, and why YouTube comments are so awful — Why do Reddit and YouTube comment areas suck so bad? — Have any of you guys read YouTube comments lately? They are just really awful - just click through to the YouTube site and read them.
Jim Courtney / Skype Journal:
Eight 2007 “Non-Skype” Technology Recognitions — ...or how to use up all those IP addresses available on a cable/DSL router. — While our focus has been on Skype, there are other products and services that we have had access to over the course of the year.
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Marshall Kirkpatrick / ReadWriteWeb:
Five Ways You Can Fall in Love With Tagging Again — Tagging content online is something that doesn't seem to have taken off the way some people expected it to. — Is it too complicated for widespread adoption? Is it too arbitrary to have the impact that formal taxonomies offer?
Karl / DSLreports:
$20 AT&T Naked DSL Arrives - Merger condition required it before year's end.... In order to gain government approval for its acquisition of BellSouth, AT&T was allowed to conveniently author their own merger conditions (pdf), which the FCC boldly stated they probably wouldn't enforce anyway.
John Leyden / The Register:
Nintendo Wii hack opens door to homebrew games — Security researchers have hacked into a Nintendo Wii game console to run their own code in a move that makes it far easier to develop homebrew games for the popular gaming device. — Up to now developers have only been able to write homebrew games for the Gamecude, not the Wii.
Richard MacManus / ReadWriteWeb:
Open Media Web: Online Music — An interesting new online video series, called Open Media Web, debuted today. The first episode is an interview with Yahoo's Lucas Gonze - who created music playlisting service WebJay, acquired by Yahoo! in January 2006. The interview was conducted by Chris Messina and Brian Oberkirch.
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heise Security:
24C3: Barcode systems susceptible to serious hacker attacks — Experts say that the Barcodes our highly automated business world could now hardly do without, often display serious security holes. In particular, one- or two-dimensional systems of barcodes and matrix codes are open …
Evan Blass / Engadget:
Broadcom wins major injunction against Qualcomm — In the latest major twist in this epic battle between wireless chipmakers, a US District Judge has slapped a permanent injunction on any products containing those Qualcomm 3G chips ruled to be infringing on Broadcom's so-called '686 patents.
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