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John's Blog:
Firefox 3's First 24 Hours — It's been a very busy 24 hours for Mozilla folks around the world — as our 24 hour initial period draws to a close, I wanted to put a few things into perspective. This is the first post of what will no doubt be many analysis posts, so here are a few things …
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Zero Day Initiative / DVLabs:
Mozilla Firefox 3.0 Vulnerability — A number of people who monitor our Zero Day Initiative's Upcoming Advisories page noticed yesterday that we reported a vulnerability to Mozilla (ZDI-CAN-349). Taking into account the coincidental timing of the Firefox 3. release, many are asking us …
Ryan Naraine / Zero Day:Code execution vulnerability found in Firefox 3.0
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Security Watch
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
The NYTimes Is Conflicted And Wrong About The A.P. And Needs To Stop Defending Them — The New York Times' Saul Hansell has now written three articles defending the Associated Press and their attempts to broaden content rights beyond what copyright laws allow.
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Saul Hansell / Bits:
Jay Adelson Diggs the A.P. — In the ruckus about the Associated Press's campaign to prevent blogs and other Internet sites from using what it considers too much of its material, one of the biggest sites that could be affected is Digg, the news site where readers determine that's worth reading.
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Pulse 2.0
Robert Cox / Media Bloggers Association:Backstory on AP - Drudge Retort Issue
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TechCrunch, Scott Rosenberg's Wordyard, The Social Times, Scripting News, Making Light and Workbench
Michael Learmonth / Silicon Alley Insider:
YouTube Shifts Strategy, Tries Long-Form Video — YouTube (GOOG), known for short clips of dogs on skateboards, cats on treadmills, is trying something new: Showing video that is much longer than its previous 10-minute limit. It's something of a test right now, limited to YouTube's …
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Scobleizer, Electronista, NewTeeVee, VentureBeat, Bruce Clay, Inc. Blog, Lockergnome, HipMojo.com, CrunchGear, Furrier.org, Valleywag, Industry Standard, CNET News.com and WebProNews
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Tech-On! : tech news:
Survey: 91% of Japanese Will Not Buy ‘iPhone’ — According to a survey by iSHARE, 91.0% of Japanese mobile phone users are not planning to purchase Apple Inc's “iPhone” mobile phone. — This research was conducted in the wake of the announcement by SoftBank Mobile Corp that it will release the iPhone in Japan (See related article).
Wagner James Au / GigaOM:
Why GTA IV Was the Beginning of the End — I think it's safe to say that the era of next-gen gaming as a driving force is over. Why? As of the week ending June 7th (the most recent tally available), just over 9 million copies of the highly touted Grand Theft Auto IV had been sold worldwide …
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BBC NEWS
James Sherwood / The Register:
Teens use technology to party in strangers' pools — Tech savvy teens are using Google Earth's splendidly clear aerial shots of the UK to launch a summertime craze - pool crashing. — Teens begin by surfing Google Earth's satellite images to find houses with swimming pools - or at least paddling pools.
reddit:
reddit goes open source — Today we're excited to announce that we're open sourcing reddit. We've always strived to be as open and transparent with our users as possible, and this is the next logical step. When we say ‘open-source’ we mean specifically that the code behind reddit …
Stefanie Olsen / CNET News.com:
Ask.com caves to Google's privacy pressures — Ever the publicity hound nipping at Google's heels, Ask.com has issued an open letter to the public about adding a privacy policy link to its home page. — The letter highlights the fact that, weeks ago, several privacy groups asked Google …
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David Kaplan / paidContent.org:
Global Online Ad Revs To Grow 19.5 Annually To 2012: PwC — Despite daily evidence of slowing online ad growth, internet revenues will represent the highest growth levels of overall media worldwide, averaging 19.5 percent annually through 2012, according to PricewaterhouseCoopers' annual Global Entertainment and Media Outlook.
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Electronista:
Dell charging $50 for Vista-to-XP downgrade — Dell is charging some customers as much as $50 to switch from Windows Vista to XP on their systems, according to the company. Buyers picking a system from the company's Vostro business line can choose to install XP Professional instead …
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Cloe Shasha / ABCNEWS:
Will GPS Make Us Dumb? — Experts Say Direction-Giving Phones Could Make Us Lose Our Way — For most people — the cab driver, the tourist, the business traveler — the ubiquitous GPS has become a lifeline, giving directions to the nearest bathroom, a pizza joint or the shortest route to the office.
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The Last Podcast
Samsung's Digital World:
Samsung Announces Mass Production of the World's Highest Capacity Hard Drive for Mainstream Laptops — Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., a worldwide leader in digital consumer electronics and information technology, announced today the mass production of the world's highest capacity hard drive for laptops …
Ocavada / PandaLabs:
T2W —> Trojan to Worm — We have detected an application whose main function is to turn an executable file into a worm, giving it the capacity to spread itself. Even though it's aim is to give a Trojan the spread capability of a worm, it works with any executable file.
Macworld:
MLB readies $5 At Bat iPhone app — One of the new mobile apps that was demoed at last week's WWDC keynote and will be available upon the launch of Apple's new App Store is MLB At Bat, from Major League Baseball Advanced Media. The software, which is making its debut appearance on the iPhone platform …
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MacRumors iPhone Blog
Marshall Kirkpatrick / ReadWriteWeb:
Learning from Flickr's Co-founders on Their Way Out of Yahoo — In June 2005 Yahoo! acquired upstart Canadian photosharing web site Flickr and the web hasn't been the same since. Yahoo, on the other hand, didn't change nearly as much as everyone expected it to.
Arn / MacRumors:
iPhone and App Store Attracting Developers — MercuryNews reports on how the iPhone and upcoming App Store are attracting many developers to Apple's mobile platform. Loopt's cofounder, Sam Altman, describes how he's seen an excitement amongst mobile developers:
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PC World
