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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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IEBlog:
Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2 Now Available — We're excited to release IE8 Beta 2 today for public download. You can find it at http://www.microsoft.com/ie8. Please try it out! — You'll find versions for 32- and 64-bit editions of Windows Vista, Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, and Windows Server 2008.
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Ryan Kim / The Technology Chronicles:
Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2 premieres with new safety, usability features — Accelerators are just one improvement in Internet Explorer 8 — Microsoft moved one step closer to releasing Internet Explorer 8 today with the release of its IE8 Beta 2. You can download the latest trial version of the browser here.
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Paul Miller / Engadget:
Microsoft's new “Blue Track” mouse spotted? — We're not really sure if Microsoft is peddling a revolution here or just the mousing tech flavor of the month, but we've got ourselves a much better idea of where things might be going. After that little “Say Goodbye to Laser” …
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Todd Bishop's Microsoft Blog, Gizmodo, Maximum PC all, CrunchGear, Electronista, DVICE and The Tech Report
Cisco:
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 …
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Mark Hendrickson / TechCrunch:
ESPN Helps The Active Network Raise $80 Million More — The Active Network, a network of sites focused on getting people involved in sports and other activities, has raised an additional $80 million in a Series F round led by ESPN and joined by Canaan Partners, North Bridge Venture Partners, and Performance Equity Partners.
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Joseph Weisenthal / paidContent.org:
ESPN Leads $80 Million Investment In The Active Network; Will Pursue Acquisitions — The Active Network, the big provider of sports-related technology, has just closed a huge, $80 million sixth round led by ESPN. Past backers participating in the round include Canaan Partners …
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Mary Kathleen Flynn / Tech Confidential:
EXCLUSIVE: FriendFeed readying RSS accelerator — Technorati — Facebook — FriendFeed Inc. is enhancing its service in order to fulfill a critical requirement on the Internet today: immediacy. The highly publicized startup is weeks away from boosting the frequency of its updates …
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MG Siegler / VentureBeat:FriendFeed working on a new RSS supplement to speed up data retrieval
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David King / The Official Google Blog:
Making money on YouTube with Content ID — Late last year, we introduced our newest tool for YouTube's content identification and management system, Video ID. While we have long provided copyright owners with similar content policies and tools, Video ID was revolutionary because it provided real choice …
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Marshall Kirkpatrick / ReadWriteWeb: Everything You Thought You Knew About the Business of YouTube Was Wrong
Tom Steinert-Threlkeld / Between the Lines:
Who's Dumber: Bad Guys ... Or Good Guys? — In the old cowboy movies, the black hats were villains that created mayhem, until the white hats came along and ended their reigns of fear. Now, we have the spectacle of good guys seemingly educating the bad guys on how to exploit flaws or processes …
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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 …
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Prince McLean / AppleInsider:
Repeat tests show iPhone 3G doesn't suffer from faulty hardware — After lab results demonstrated that the iPhone 3G's antenna actually functions normally, critics complained that the tests didn't represent their own experiences. So the tests were performed again on two phones …
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Mark Hendrickson / TechCrunch:
Yep, We Redesigned — As many of our readers have noticed (and noted) already, we rolled out a new design for TechCrunch yesterday evening. — We've been watching as the initial feedback has rolled in through Twitter and in the comments to our other posts.
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Justin Scheck / Business Technology:
Dell's Key to the Cloud: Fewer Features? — When it comes to cloud computing, the new Dell - the one that's been talking about getting away from generic, commoditized hardware — seems a lot like the old Dell. — The computer maker and some of its partners gathered atop …
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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Matt Asay / The Open Road:
PC manufacturers seek shelter from Vista's drizzle — If you needed any further testament to the colossal failure that is Microsoft Windows Vista, just read this Wall Street Journal article detailing PC manufacturers attempts to design around Vista's shortcomings, shortcomings that no amount of marketing are going to fix.
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New York Magazine:
CONFIRMED: Aaron Sorkin Creates Facebook Page, Writing Facebook Movie — Aaron Sorkin, a man whose discomfort with the Internet goes way, way back to the days he got angry at the Television Without Pity message boards, is writing a movie about the founding of Facebook.
