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Dancho Danchev / Dancho Danchev's Blog:
Massive IFRAME SEO Poisoning Attack Continuing — Last week's massive IFRAME injection attack is slowly turning into a what looks like a large scale web application vulnerabilities audit of high profile sites. Following the timely news coverage, Symantec's rating for the attack as medium risk …
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InfoWorld:
Major Web sites hit with growing Web attack — A blossoming Web attack, first reported by security researcher Dancho Danchev earlier this month, has expanded to hit more than a million Web pages, including many well-known sites. — “The number and importance of the sites has increased,” …
Jennifer Saba / Editor and Publisher:
NAA Reveals Biggest Ad Revenue Plunge in More Than 50 Years — NEW YORK The newspaper industry has experienced the worst drop in advertising revenue in more than 50 years. — According to new data released by the Newspaper Association of America, total print advertising revenue …
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Duncan Riley / TechCrunch:
Decline Of US Newspapers Accelerating — Figures released by the Newspaper Association of America show that the decline of newspapers is more rapid than previously thought, with total print advertising revenue in 2007 plunging 9.4% to $42 billion compared to 2006, the biggest drop in revenue since 1950 …
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Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Apple 2.0:
Apple picks trusted supplier to assemble 3G iPhone — It should be no surprise that Apple has turned to Foxconn, the trade name for Hon Hai Precision Industries, to build the next generation iPhone. — China's Commercial Times reported early Friday that Foxconn was competing for the business …
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CNN, Electronista, I4U News, Hardware 2.0, AppleInsider, CrunchGear, iPod Observer and Insanely Great Mac
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Reggie / Internet Tablet Talk:
The Nokia N810 - WiMAX Edition — Ok, there's no official announcement yet but Nokia has again let the cat out of the bag a bit too early — four days too early to be exact as we can probably guess that the new Nokia N810 Internet Tablet - WiMAX Edition will be announced at CTIA at Las Vegas on April 1.
Daniel Emerson / Sydney Morning Herald:
Facebook friends not real friends: judge — A British judge has made official what many of us have long suspected - that being “Facebook friends” with someone doesn't necessarily make you their friend. — The magistrate was presiding over a harassment case in which a woman accused …
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Russell Beattie's Weblog, Mashable!, Techdirt, Business Technology, All Facebook and AppScout
Charlie Anzman / SEO and Tech Daily:
Friendfeed Frenzy - Why it continues — I think we can all comfortably credit Louis Gray with carving out a neat niche and bringing the so-called numerous lifestreaming apps to the ‘significant awareness’ pool. — Friendfeed was very smart over the past week and they really should be congratulated.
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Online Media Cultist
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Music Tax Details From Source: “Pay Us Not To Sue You” — We learned yesterday that Warner Music, the third largest music label, is gunning for a $5/month music tax on U.S. residents. — Some of the details were in the article: they've hired industry veteran Jim Griffin to create …
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Josh / Redeye VC:
I Don't Know... I don't know. — Why is it so hard for people (including both entrepreneurs and VCs) to say these three words? — This past week I had two distinctly different meetings with entrepreneurs. They both were successful serial entrepreneurs. Both were exceptionally smart.
Cade Metz / The Register:
Adobe to remove Photoshop pic pimping clause — $10,000 Panda Challenge - are you really protected? — After complaints from freetards everywhere, Adobe has agreed to revise the photo pimping clause that accompanies its new freetard-friendly Photoshop Express service.
Jessica E. Vascellaro / Wall Street Journal:
Diller Wins a Court's Approval to Advance With Plan to Split Up IAC — IAC/InterActiveCorp. Chairman Barry Diller won a big victory in his legal dispute with Liberty Media Corp. Chairman John Malone, as a Delaware court ruled Mr. Diller can move ahead with his plan to split IAC into multiple companies.
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Saul Hansell / Bits:
PaidContent vs. TechCrunch: Two Visions of Blogging's Future — Michael Arrington and Rafat Ali are both forceful, sharp-tongued, quick-tempered and plugged in, and both have built successful technology blogging ventures. So it's no surprise that there is more than a little sparring between them.
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mathewingram.com/work, broadstuff, Valleywag, rexblog.com, Pro Blogging News, bub.blicio.us and PDA
Erica Ogg / CNET News.com:
HD DVD ceases to exist — Last one out, turn off the lights. — That was essentially the tone of the note that the HD DVD Promotional Group sent to its members Friday. The obituary for the format was short and to the point: … It was also a bit late.
AppleInsider:
Apple begins widespread testing of Mac OS X 10.5.3 Update — Apple Inc. this week began testing Mac OS X 10.5.3 Update, a third maintenance and security update to its relatively new Leopard operating system that already bundles over 75 bug fixes and code corrections.
Rafe Needleman / Webware.com:
Firefox 4 will push out the edges of the browser — This post has been corrected from the original: Mozilla has no plan to ship Firefox 4 this year; references to that effect have been removed. — After the product road map roundtable I live-blogged Wednesday, I had a talk with Chris Beard, VP of Labs for Mozilla.
Wall Street Journal:
Phones Will Soon Tell Where You Are — Would you want other people to know, all day long, exactly where you are, right down to the street corner or restaurant? — Unsettling as that may sound to some, wireless carriers are betting that many of their customers do, and they're rolling out services to make it possible.
