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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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Karl / DSLreports:
Comcast Hacked - Comcast Network Solutions Account Compromised? — Starting late yesterday, Comcast users began noticing that Comcast.net has been hacked. More technically, early indications are that someone hacked Comcast's registrar account at Network Solutions, changing the authoritative DNS servers …
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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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 …
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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.
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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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:
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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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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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Brian Lam / Gizmodo:Exclusive: Dell Mini Inspiron, Their First Mini Laptop
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Henry Blodget / Silicon Alley Insider:
Google's Paid Clicks Spike Higher in April, Relief All Around — The collapse in Google's US paid click growth has scared the bejesus out of Google bulls for the past few months, but Comscore's April data suggests that trend has reversed. Lehman's Doug Anmuth:
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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 …
Rory Reid / Crave at CNET UK:
MSI Wind: Hands-on, with exclusive photos — We've just had an exclusive hands-on with the MSI Wind, which we liked the look of in March, and by golly it's good. So good, in fact, that it could take the throne from the Asus Eee PC as the best mini laptop on the planet.
John Morris / The Core Truth:
Via finally releases new Nano processor — Early this morning Via Technologies finally announced is new Nano processor, better-known by its code name, Isaiah. The Nano will deliver two to three times the performance of the current C7 with roughly the same power requirements, according to the company.
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Hank Williams / Why does everything suck?:
Who Has Comment Copyright Ownership In A Disqus Era — There is obviously lots of discussion about copyright around things like music and video on the Internet, but another area that is going to be very important that is only recently getting attention is the ownership of comments.
Matt Marshall / VentureBeat:
Glam offers new video ad network, gets acquisition offer for $1.3B — Glam, the fast-growing online advertiser and publisher for women, is announcing a new video offering that may make it easier to monetize videos on the Web. — Beginning tomorrow, Glam is letting its network publishers …
Josh Lowensohn / Webware.com:
Trulia and Stamen team up for more house-hunting eye candy — Real estate search and resource service Trulia has a new tool built by the guys at Stamen Design called Snapshot. It's built off of Microsoft Virtual Earth and shows off little clusters of homes all over a 2D map.
