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Arn / MacRumors:
Apple's Ability to Deactivate Malicious App Store Apps — When Apple launched the App Store, they suggested that the use of DRM'd and signed applications could allow them to protect the iPhone from malicious applications and suggested that they could deactivate such applications remotely.
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Benwilson / iPhone Atlas:iPhone can phone home and kill apps?
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Mykmelez / Mozilla Labs:
Introducing Snowl — An Experiment with Messaging in the Browser — Conversing (a.k.a. messaging) is a common online activity, and a number of desktop and web applications enable it. But with an increasing variety of protocols and providers, it's getting harder and harder to keep track of all your conversations.
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Owen Thomas / Valleywag:
BitTorrent Inc. laying off 12 of 55 employees — BitTorrent Inc., the file-sharing startup whose underlying technology is responsible for much of the piracy that plagues Hollywood, is laying off its sales and marketing department. The immediate cause of the layoffs: A failure to sell …
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Maggie Shiels / BBC:
Net address bug worse than feared — A recently found flaw in the internet's addressing system is worse than first feared, says the man who found it. — Dan Kaminsky made his comments when speaking publicly for the first time about his discovery at the Black Hat conference in Las Vegas.
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Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:Black Hat: Dan Kaminsky explains the bug that threatened the Internet
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Thomas Hawk / Thomas Hawk's Digital Connection:
The Top Five Reasons Not to Upgrade to the New iPhone 3G — I've had my new 3G iPhone for about a month now and I thought I'd take a few minutes to write some of my thoughts and reflections on the experience for people who might be considering upgrading to the new 3G iPhone. First a little background though.
Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
Jajah Launches Instant Chinese/English Voice Translation — Jajah, a popular VoIP service provider, has released a new English/Chinese translation service called JAJAH.Babel just in time for the Olympic Games. The service, which was developed in conjunction with IBM, allows users to call …
Phil Wainewright / Software as Services:
When Google disowns you — SaaS providers are still learning the hard way that If you trade in dependency, you have to earn trust: “[Clients of] on-demand application providers ... depend on them for everyday functions and operations, and therefore trust is paramount.”
Dan Kaplan / VentureBeat:
When TokBox talks browser-based video chat, Bain Capital and Sequoia listen — In the first years of the 1990s, the attempt to push video chat to the masses got off to an ignoble start when AT&T released its VideoPhone 2500. For the low cost of $1500, you, too, could have choppy …
Eric Eldon / VentureBeat:
More on the Facebook employee stock sale: “Dozens” selling, “investment firms” buying — At least nine Facebook employees are selling company stock — that private-company stock broker Laurence Albukerk personally knows of. In a recent BusinessWeek article, He estimates there are “dozens” …
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Spencer E. Ante / Business Week:Facebook Stock for Sale
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Adam Lashinsky / Fortune:
The true meaning of Twitter — What exactly is Twitter? And what does its exploding popularity say about the state of the tech industry? Inside the hottest Web startup since ... gosh, February at least. — (Fortune Magazine) — I am sitting in a meeting room at the San Francisco offices of Twitter …
Saul Hansell / Bits:
Google Goes Gaudy With YouTube Ads — Take a look at the image here and you see proof of what we all knew: Google is not going to put its highfalutin ideals above the practical realities of its business. — This is a screen grab of a YouTube player embedded in a blog.
Elinor Mills / CNET News.com:
Hacking electronic-toll systems — LAS VEGAS — Electronic toll systems like FasTrak and E-ZPass may be convenient for drivers, but they are rife with privacy risks, a security expert said Wednesday at the Black Hat 2008 security conference. — Strangers with the right transponder reader walking through …
internetnews.com:
PTO Rains on Dell's ‘Cloud Computing’ Trademark — Less than a week after the industry took note, the PTO puts the mark on hold. — Well, that didn't last long. — Dell had received near-final approval for its trademark application of the term “cloud computing,” but the US Patent …
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
How Much Will Your Startup Be Worth In Three Years? Go Find Out. — See our review of the YouNoodle startup valuation predictor from a couple of days ago (as well as our skeptical post from earlier this year). The product just came out of private beta. Look for a tab in the top right corner …
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John Leyden / The Register:
Net shoppers bullied into being Verified by Visa — The Verified by Visa system may be marketed as an optional opt-in system for internet shoppers, but some banks are forcing users to enrol after only three attempts to avoid it. — The unpleasant experiences of Verified by Visa refusenik …
Jeremiah Andrick / Live Search Webmaster Center Blog:
Big Update to Webmaster Tools — Creating websites and publishing on the web is getting simpler and simpler all the time, but with more content on the web it is becoming harder for webmasters and publishers to ensure that their content can be found. Last fall when we launched …
Greg Sterling / Search Engine Land:
Pew: Daily Search Usage Approaching Email Levels — According to a new report from The Pew Internet & American Life Project, daily use of search engines is growing and starting to approach email usage levels. New research conducted by telephone 2,251 US adults, age 18 and older …
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