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Jim Louderback / Revision3 » blog:
Inside the Attack that Crippled Revision3 — As many of you know, Revision3's servers were brought down over the Memorial Day weekend by a denial of service attack. It's an all too common occurrence these days. But this one wasn't your normal cybercrime - there's a chilling twist at the end.
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Download Squad, The Culture of Ownership, Between the Lines, mathewingram.com/work, Valleywag, ReadWriteWeb, CNET News.com, Podcasting News, NewTeeVee, Coop's Corner, Silicon Alley Insider, Mashable!, Portfolio.com, IP Democracy, p2pnet, WebProNews, CrunchGear, WebProBlog, Brandon Live! and Paul Colligan's …
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Enigmax / TorrentFreak:
Comcast Hacked in BitTorrent Throttling Payback? — When you're as large as Comcast, you can't please all of the people, all of the time. Although it has done so in other ways too, Comcast managed to annoy a large portion of its customer base with its throttling activities …
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Nick O'Neill / All Facebook:
Why Did Facebook Give Up on Beacon? — When speaking at the D6 Conference out in Carlsbad California, Mark Zuckerberg emphasized that Beacon was a big mistake. While I was personally a big critic of the system due to the inability to opt-in and the default setting of opt-out, I don't think that Beacon was a horrendous idea.
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Owen Thomas / Valleywag:
Mark Zuckerberg: “A technology company is a company that creates technology” — CARLSBAD, CA — Mark Zuckerberg has learned nothing. Taking the stage at D6, he uttered nothing but bromides and nonsequiturs. Examples: “Facebook is a technology company ... a technology company is a company …
Sunbelt Blog:
Microsoft: What we got here is a failure to communicate — Some men, you just can't reach: Microsoft says that a large problem with Vista is lack of understanding of key features (via Donna). — These are: … (Full document PDF link here.) — Ok, putting aside my typical insouciance …
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Ed Bott's Microsoft Report
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Andy Space / 9 to 5 Mac:
Infineon warning hints iPhone delay, analysts say — Apple's 3G iPhone launch plans may have seen a slight delay, at least, reading between the lines of today's profit warning from mooted chip supplier, Infineon. — What has occurred? Infineon today warned its profits and sales …
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Reuters, infineon.com, Brier Dudley's blog, InformationWeek Weblog, Electronista and MobileCrunch
Kate Kaye / ClickZ:
Obama Spent Most of $3.5 Million This Year on Google — Barack Obama's campaign spent at least $3.47 million on online advertising related purchases between January and April. The biggest recipient of the Democratic Presidential hopeful's online ad dollars was Google.
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paidContent.org, WebProNews, Search Engine Journal, Search Engine Watch Blog and Traffick
John Paczkowski / D6 Highlights:
Time-shifting the Ad Industry: Tom Rogers, President and CEO, TiVo — Tom Rogers, a well-rounded media executive, has had his work cut out for him at TiVo, the iconic but often-struggling pioneer and leader in the digital video-recorder market. Before coming to TiVo, Mr. Rogers was chairman …
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Tech Trader Daily, Beyond Binary, Silicon Alley Insider, paidContent.org, Electronista and Gizmodo
Allen Stern / CenterNetworks:
Akamai Releases State of the Internet Report — Akamai is out today with their first “State of the Internet” report. The report is well worth a read as it covers a variety of topics including: security, connection speeds, geography, network access, and Internet penetration. Some of the interesting stats include:
Dan Sabbagh / Times of London:
Apple to make major studios' films available for download — Apple is poised to announce it will start selling films from four major Hollywood studios for download in the UK as part of its iTunes internet service at prices on a par with DVDs. — The company intends to unveil agreements with Disney …
Adrian Kingsley-Hughes / Hardware 2.0:
Mozilla “Download Day” - Are you in or out? — Mozilla are organizing a “Download Day” to promote Firefox 3.0 and set a Guinness World Record for the most downloaded software in 24 hours. Are you in or out? — Maybe it's me and I'm feeling a little cranky today because I've …
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Ars Technica, Reuters, PC World, AppScout, Gizmodo, Homotron.net, bub.blicio.us and Mashable!
Stephen Shankland / CNET News.com:
We're all guinea pigs in Google's search experiment — SAN FRANCISCO—When it comes to search quality, Google has a split personality. — Google uses a method called split A/B testing to measure exactly what changes it should make to its main search Web site—both to its famously Spartan search box and to the results it produces.
Saul Hansell / Bits:
The Real Fight Over Fake News — “The Daily Show” is a bellwether for the evolution of Internet video. It is also one of those programs that signify for people why they pay so much money for cable. — Until recently, few of the main made-for-cable programs have been available to watch …
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paidContent.org, CrunchGear, NewTeeVee, Technology Live, InformationWeek Weblog and Slashdot
Chippy / UMPCPortal:
Is This The Acer Aspire One MiniNote? — Update. Some details are emerging...see below. — Hot on the heals of the Dell Mininote leak are these images which just dropped into our forum. This posts are titled ‘Aspire One.’ — It's got the same touchpad as seen on the HP 2133 and what appears to be an 8.9″ screen.
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Crave, Engadget, GMSV, Jeremy Toeman's LIVEdigitally, CrunchGear, VoIP & Gadgets Blog, Ubergizmo, jkOnTheRun, DailyTech, GottaBeMobile, The Tech Report, I4U News and Gizmodo
