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Larry Dignan / Between the Lines:
Microsoft: Third party apps killing our security — Why would hackers target Microsoft directly when there is so much low hanging fruit hanging from the Windows operating system? — The short answer is that hackers won't attack Microsoft directly because they have plenty …
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Elinor Mills / CNET News:
Microsoft: Trojans are huge and China is tops in browser exploits — China gets more browser-based exploits than any other country, according to the Microsoft Security Intelligence Report for the first half of 2008. — Three things you might not know: Vulnerabilities are decreasing but becoming easier to exploit.
John Markoff / New York Times:
On Security, Microsoft Reports Progress and Alarm — Microsoft plans to report on Monday that the security of its Windows operating system has significantly improved, while at the same time the threat of computer viruses, frauds and other online scourges has become much more serious.
Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft:
Microsoft confirms MinWin is in Windows 7, after all — MinWin — the core of the Windows operating system — is, indeed, in Windows 7. It's just not part of it in the way many people (including yours truly) initially assumed. — Technical Fellow Mark Russinovich, who detailed via …
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Kelly Fiveash / The Register:
Windows 7 ‘pre-beta’ washes up on Pirate Bay and co — It's as if people WANT to download Microsoft's next OS — Microsoft's “pre-beta” version of its upcoming OS - Windows 7 - has already tipped up on BitTorrent sites just as the dust settles on the firm's Professional Developers Conference.
Business Technology:
Salesforce.com Wants to Host Your Web Site — Salesforce.com is getting into the Web site hosting business, the latest sign that the company's ambitions reach beyond the sales-automation software it's named for. — Salesforce.com, whose annual conference gets under way in San Francisco Monday …
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Ted Dziuba / The Register:
What Ray Ozzie didn't tell you about Microsoft Azure — Behind the whiteboard of confusion — Fail and You Unveiled earlier this month at Microsoft's Professional Developer Conference by Chief Whiteboard Operator Ray Ozzie, the Azure Services Platform confused damn near everyone.
Rafat Ali / paidContent.org:
Social Networks Reunion.com and Wink Merge — Two lesser-known social networks Reunion.com and Wink have merged. The two sites focus on people and alumni/classmates search, and now plan to launch a new brand early next year. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.
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Eric Eldon / VentureBeat:
Irrepressible widget-maker RockYou aims at Asia, raises $17M — RockYou, a company that started out two years ago making simple slideshow widgets for MySpace, and more recently applications on Facebook and other rival social networks, is now invading Asia. — It has taken on strategic funding …
Nicholas Carlson / Silicon Alley Insider:
Ad Net Rates Dropped 11% In The Third Quarter — The average amount advertisers pay publishers to display their ads one thousand times — CPMs — dropped 11 percent from Q2 to Q3 across the 307 ad networks and 1,300 publishers that ad-optimizing firm The Rubicon Project calls clients.
Jessica Guynn / Los Angeles Times:
MTV Networks in deal to monetize uploaded videos — The company plans to pair ads with clips on MySpace using Auditude's technology. — Reporting from San Francisco — Hollywood used to fume when fans uploaded video clips to the Internet to share with their friends. Now it's looking to cash in on them.
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Jessica Guynn / L.A. Times Tech Blog:MySpace, MTV Networks team with Auditude to profit from online video
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Brian Stelter / New York Times:
Yahoo News Is Bracing for a Day of Heavy Traffic — The festive red, white and blue graphics have been designed. The production rehearsals have been held. The Web servers have been adjusted in preparation for a great influx of traffic. Now Yahoo News is waiting for the election results to start streaming in.
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Ryan Tate / Gawker:
Times Said Shopping About.com — The troubled New York Times Company is running out of options. It owes more than $1 billion, close to half of it coming due in the next two years. But it just ruled out layoffs for the foreseeable future and will probably try to avoid cutting …
Seth Rosenblatt / Webware.com:
VoxOx goes gunning for Skype, Digsby — What if Digsby and Skype merged into one seemingly all-powerful VoIP and messaging communications tool? It's a question which, according to San Diego-based telephone company TelCentris, can be answered by VoxOx. — VoxOx incorporates features …
Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
John McCain and Barack Obama Talk Tech — In advance of tomorrow's elections, here's a pair of videos of the two presidential candidates, Republican Sen. John McCain and Democratic Sen. Barack Obama, talking about tech. — While Obama has many more supporters in the tech and Internet sectors …
