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Mark Sweney / Guardian:
Apple iPhone ad banned by Advertising Standards Authority over misleading internet claims — A TV ad for Apple's iPhone has been banned by the UK's advertising watchdog for misleading consumers after it over-hyped the internet capabilities of the smart phone.
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asa.org.uk:
Number of complaints: 2 — Media: — Sector: — Computers and telecommunications — Agency: — TBWA London — Ad — A TV ad, for the iPhone, showed the phone in someone's hand and a finger switching it on to reveal the menu page. The finger touched the weather icon showing …
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BBC:iPhone ad rapped as ‘misleading’
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Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Apple 2.0:
Apple bans a comic book, firestorm ensues — Murderdrome is not Ulysses, Lolita or Lady Chatterley's Lover. It's a dark, bloody comic strip marked by the type of over-the-top violence that has made its genre so popular among young readers with a lot of pent-up rage.
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Jesus Diaz / Gizmodo:
Huge iPhone Security Flaw Puts All Private Information at Risk — There's a huge security problem in the latest iPhone 2.0.2: if you have your JesusPhone password protected, using a very simple trick gives anyone full access to your cellphone private information in Mail, SMS, Contacts, and even Safari.
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Bill Ray / The Register:iPhone passwords not worth the paper they're written on
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Peter Lattman / Wall Street Journal:
A Photobucket Bonanza, for Insiders — A Web-Site Bet Was Lucrative For Venture Firm, but Not Its Investors — When the photo-sharing Web site Photobucket.com was acquired last year for about $300 million, executives at New York-based venture-capital firm Insight Venture Partners made a small fortune.
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Peter Kafka / Silicon Alley Insider:Who Hates Photobucket Investors Insight Venture Partners?
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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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Rafe Needleman / Webware.com:
Mozilla Ubiquity, Microsoft IE8, and the fracturing of Web pages — Mozilla on Tuesday released a public prototype of Ubiquity, a curious command-based interface to locating information on the Web and creating compilations of information from various sources. See: Mozilla offers do-it-yourself mashups for all.
Om Malik / GigaOM:
Why Cisco Bought Mail Startup PostPath for $215 Million — In order to fight its ongoing battle against Microsoft & Google on the whole issue of “collaboration”, Cisco today added yet another weapon to its arsenal. — The San Jose-based company today announced that is buying PostPath …
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Cisco Announces Definitive Agreement to Acquire PostPath — PostPath's Email and Calendaring Software to Enhance Cisco's WebEx Collaboration Platform — Building upon its commitment to provide a comprehensive collaboration portfolio, Cisco today announced its intent to acquire privately held PostPath …
Chase Jarvis Blog:
Chase Jarvis RAW: Advance Testing the Nikon D90 — Woot! Today I get to be among the very first to share with you the planet's newest camera: the much-anticipated Nikon D90. You may have been attuned to all the recent leaks, buzz and rumors of a new Nikon camera coming soon, but I can assure you, this here ain't no rumor.
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BBC:
Computer viruses make it to orbit — A computer virus is alive and well on the International Space Station (ISS). — Nasa has confirmed that laptops carried to the ISS in July were infected with a virus known as Gammima.AG. — The worm was first detected on earth in August 2007 and lurks …
David Kaplan / paidContent.org:
TiVo's Latest Content Push: ‘Entertainment Weekly’ Viewing Picks — In the battle to keep viewers from migrating to cable DVRs, TiVo (NSDQ: TIVO) has been adding a series of partnerships and features to separate itself from the pack. The latest: Time Inc.'s Entertainment Weekly …
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Kim Zetter / Threat Level:
Revealed: The Internet's Biggest Security Hole — Two security researchers have demonstrated a new technique to stealthily intercept internet traffic on a scale previously presumed to be unavailable to anyone outside of intelligence agencies like the National Security Agency.
Kelly Fiveash / The Register:
Microsoft dishes dirt on IE8 ‘pr0n mode’ — Microsoft has outlined the new privacy tools available in its forthcoming browser Internet Explorer 8 (IE8). — Earlier this week the company's program manager Andy Zeigler confirmed rumours from last week that Microsoft would include …
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Nathania Johnson / Search Engine Watch Blog:
Ask Relaunches AskKids.com with Updated Design, Cool Drawing Feature — As a new homeschooling parent, finding online learning resources that are safe, well-designed, and fun for my kids is important - but inexplicably difficult. That's why I was thrilled to learn about Ask.com's expansion and redesign of AskKids.com.
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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Owen Gibson / Guardian:
Don't just buy the music, fans told - now you can invest in big names of the future — Primal Scream. Music executives behind the band are supporting a scheme for fans to invest in new acts. — It may not be the most obvious investment choice in these turbulent economic times.
Jemima Kiss / PDA:
Qik gets investment from Marc Andreessen — Qik is one of a handful of mobile video broadcasting services battling to become the biggest name in that very new. Qik received a boost this week with sector with the announcement that Ning founder and web veteran Marc Andreessen is investing in the company …
