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Aza Raskin / Mozilla Labs:
Introducing Ubiquity — An experiment into connecting the Web with language. — It Doesn't Have to be This Way — You're writing an email to invite a friend to meet at a local San Francisco restaurant that neither of you has been to. You'd like to include a map.
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Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:If You Want To Create a Mashup, Just Ask Your Browser. …
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Erica Ogg / CNET News - Apple:
Psystar responds to Apple suit, will countersue — PALO ALTO, Calif.—Mac clone maker Psystar plans to file its answer to Apple's copyright infringement lawsuit Tuesday as well as a countersuit of its own, alleging that Apple engages in anticompetitive business practices.
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Gregg Keizer / Computerworld:Even without an enterprise strategy, Apple quadruples share
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comScore:
Microsoft Ranks as Top U.S. Online Display Advertiser in June, According to comScore Ad Metrix — Major Display Ad Campaign Promotes Windows Live Search Programs — comScore, Inc. (NASDAQ: SCOR), a leader in measuring the digital world, today released its June ranking …
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Todd Bishop's Microsoft Blog, Brier Dudley's blog, Digital Daily, CenterNetworks, Tech Tracks and WebProNews
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MG Siegler / VentureBeat:Google is neither buying nor running many online display ads …
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Alexkoc / Windows Genuine Advantage:
Update to WGA Notifications for Windows XP Professional — Starting this week, we will begin deployment of the latest version of WGA Notifications for Windows XP. In addition to the usual updates to validation that improve WGA's ability to detect the latest stolen or fake product keys …
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Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:
Google Now Searching For Synonyms — Blink, and you might have missed it. Google's now doing synonym searching. It's something they quietly noted in a past Google blog post and one that comes up again today in a post that covers how Google uses experiments to improve the search interface.
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MG Siegler / VentureBeat:
DMCA takedown notice forces Twitter to blacklist Mad Men characters — The micro-messaging service Twitter tonight suspended the accounts of users don_draper and peggyolson. If those names sound familiar, you're probably a fan of the hit AMC show Mad Men.
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Webware.com, Silicon Alley Insider, Valleywag, InformationWeek, Techdirt and The Inquisitr
Alex Vogenthaler / Inside AdSense:
Ad serving for everyone — Back in March, we announced the beta release of Google Ad Manager, our hosted ad serving and management solution for publishers with smaller direct sales teams. Today, we are pleased to announce general availability of the product — no invitation required!
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Search Engine Journal, CenterNetworks, TechCrunch, The Next Web, MarketingVOX, WebProNews, Epicenter and Silicon Alley Insider
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
iPhone 3Gs Now Outnumber First Generation iPhones — Despite a weak battery and questions about how fast it connects to 3G networks, some time in the next week more than 6 million iPhone 3Gs will be in people's hands around the world. What that means is that the second generation device …
Eric Bangeman / Ars Technica:
RIAA wins P2P case after defendant reformats hard drive — One of the most closely-watched copyright infringement lawsuits brought by the RIAA appears to have come to a screeching halt, much to the music industry's delight. A judge ruled Monday that a defendant had willfully …
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Jan Norman / Boston Herald:
Zune player forum makes teen a fortune — SANTA ANA, Calif. - Young entrepreneur Hansup Yoon, 15, recently sold his creation ZuneBoards, an Internet forum devoted to Microsoft's Zune media player, for $62,000. — The teenager, who lives in Fullerton, Calif., created the site months …
TweakGuides.com:
Vista Annoyances Resolved — Author: Koroush Ghazi — Introduction — “Oh lord, not another Vista article!” Like me, I'm sure many of you might be thinking something along those lines whenever you see an article with the word ‘Vista’ in the title these days.
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Guardian Unlimited
Infuriouscomics:
Murderdrome - KILLER APP — By now, you might have heard that Murderdrome has been banned by Apple. This is due to the part of the sdk that suggests content must NOT offend anyone in 'apple's reasonable' opinion. Here at infurious, we would love to work with Apple to ensure a content rating system …
Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
No Joke: The Onion Launches CitySearch Competitor — America's Finest News Source has launched Decider, a local entertainment site that includes interviews, event information, and restaurant reviews. The site is initially launching with content for Chicago, with plans to support more cities over the next few months.
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Lost Remote
Ryan Naraine / Zero Day:
Linux under attack: Compromised SSH keys lead to rootkit — The U.S. Computer Emergency Readiness Team (CERT) has issued a warning for what it calls “active attacks” against Linux-based computing infrastructures using compromised SSH keys. — The attack appears to initially use stolen SSH keys …
Ryan Singel / Threat Level:
Virus Infects Space Station Laptops (Again) — Viruses intended to steal passwords and send them to a remote server infected laptops in the International Space Station in July, NASA confirmed Tuesday. — And according to NASA, this wasn't the first infection.
