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Graham Cluley / Graham Cluley's blog:
Apple ships a known vulnerable version of Flash with Snow Leopard — The last thing you expect when you upgrade your operating system, is that you will have some of your security silently downgraded. — But that's precisely what seems to have happened with Mac OS X Snow Leopard …
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Chris Foresman / Ars Technica:
Do minor UI changes mean Snow Leopard is tablet-ready? — Among Snow Leopard's many refinements are some changes to how Mac OS X displays windows in Exposé—with a regular grid arrangement—and Stacks, which are much easier to scroll through when they become large enough.
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Wall Street Journal:
YouTube in Talks to Stream Rental Movies — Google Inc.'s YouTube is in discussions with major movie studios about allowing users to stream movies on a rental basis, according to people familiar with the company's plans, marking one of the video giant's first moves towards charging …
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Jenna Wortham / New York Times:
Customers Angered as iPhones Overload AT&T — Slim and sleek as it is, the iPhone is really the Hummer of cellphones. — It's a data guzzler. Owners use them like minicomputers, which they are, and use them a lot. Not only do iPhone owners download applications, stream music and videos …
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Guardian, MobileContentToday, ParisLemon, MacRumors, Slashdot and Peter O'Kelly's Reality Check, Thanks:atul
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MG Siegler / TechCrunch:Endless Summer: AT&T Has Three Weeks To Fulfill Its MMS Promise
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Oh, RSS Is Definitely Dead Now: Feedburner CEO Dick Costolo To Become Twitter COO — Former Google exec and the cofounder/CEO of RSS service Feedburner Dick Costolo is Twitter's new chief operating officer, we've heard from multiple sources. Costolo, who sold Feedburner to Google for $100 million in 2007, left Google in July.
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Dan Frommer / Silicon Alley Insider:
FeedBurner Is Google's Biggest Screw-Up To Date — No wonder FeedBurner cofounder Dick Costolo left Google. After the search giant bought his RSS startup FeedBurner in 2007 — for a reported $100 million — it has since squandered it. — The idea was that by merging FeedBurner's neat RSS tools …
Dan Primack / PE Hub Blog:
RSS Is Dead, So Is The RSS Fund — Three months ago, Steve Gillmor wrote that “it's time to get completely off RSS and switch to Twitter.” Sam Diaz piled on last week, calling RSS a Web 1.0 application whose time has passed. And things got even worse today, when news leaked …
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Michael Learmonth / AdAge:
Want 5,000 More Facebook Friends? That'll Be $654.30 — USocial Will Sell You Followers and Friends — NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — If you're a Gmail user who also happens to use Twitter, it's probably been about five minutes since you've seen an ad promising to boost your follower count.
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McKinsey Quarterly:
How companies are benefiting from Web 2.0: McKinsey Global Survey Results — The heaviest users of Web 2.0 applications are also enjoying benefits such as increased knowledge sharing and more effective marketing. These benefits often have a measurable effect on the business.
Jesus Diaz / Gizmodo:
This Is How You Steal 23 MacBook Pros, 14 iPhones, and 9 iPods In 31 Seconds — Quick: How can you get 23 MacBook Pros, 14 iPhones, and 9 iPods in 31 seconds, for free? Tip: According to this security video, you need four friends, a brick, and a visit to the Apple Store in Marlton, NJ.
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Ryan Tate / Gawker:
Google Patents World's Simplest Home Page — After a five-and-a-half-year fight, Google and its attorneys have managed to convince federal bureaucrats to bestow a patent on the company's iconic home page. We always thought the page was brain-dead simple, but apparently it's an innovative “graphical user interface.”
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Softpedia News, Search Engine Land, Neowin.net, Search Engine Journal, Techgeist, ReadWriteWeb, The Invent Blog® and Mashable!
Foo Yun Chee / Reuters:
EU opens in-depth probe into Oracle, Sun deal — * EU Commission cites concerns over database market — * Deadline of Jan. 19, 2010 for Commission decision — * Lawyer: too early to say whether probe is bad news for deal — European Union antitrust regulators launched an in-depth probe …
Steve Perlman / OnLive Blog:
OnLive Opens the Beta Program — Hey there... It's been a very busy and productive few months for OnLive. We've been focused on evolving the OnLive technology, installing lots of servers in our data centers and tuning the OnLive® Game Service based on feedback from our internal Beta testers.
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Facebook Connect expands beyond iPhone to mobile web — Facebook Connect is continuing its march across multiple mobile platforms as the company endeavors to make itself the primary identification system for the web. — The company announced Facebook Connect for the mobile web today …
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Erin Pettigrew / Gawker Advertising:
Then and Now, Seven Years of Blogging as Business — When Nick Denton launched the proto gadget blog Gizmodo in August 2002, it arrived on scene to a milieu of early web confusion. Until then, blogs were low traffic outlets for personal thought-flinging to be visited by friends …
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Shooting at Bubbles
Eric Savitz / Tech Trader Daily:
Palm: Pre Sales To Whiff Targets? — Is the Palm (PALM) Pre a bust? — Town Hall Investment Research analyst David Eller asserted in a research note this morning that sales of the Pre “are continuing to slow,” and “likely will come in dramatically below” Sprint's (S) reputed target of 1 million to 1.5 million customers for the year.
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Mark Wilson / Gizmodo:
Review: Duracell Instant Chargers Are...Pretty Perfect? — We've all seen those mini cellphone rechargers at airports, but Duracell has released a line of rechargeable pocket chargers that can refill any USB-compatible device (like iPhones) through compatibility with your own adapters.
Todd Bishop / TechFlash:
Microsoft calling on thousands to host their own Windows 7 parties — Microsoft is putting a Tupperware-style twist on the upcoming Windows 7 rollout — launching a new initiative to encourage thousands of employees, partners and technology enthusiasts to throw parties in their homes …
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Yelp Is Growing 80 Percent A Year, While Citysearch Remains Flat — Say what you will about the quality of the reviews on Yelp or the lengths it will go to get verboten features into its iPhone app, it has made the jump from Web 2.0 darling to a mainstream service.
Mikael Ricknäs / InfoWorld:
Samsung brings Windows 7 to netbooks — Users will still be able to pick Windows XP as an option on the two new netbooks — Samsung will use Windows 7 Starter Edition on two new netbooks, it announced on Thursday. — Both the N130 and N140 will come with the Starter Edition …
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Greg Sandoval / CNET News:
Apple to offer ready-made ringtones — Apple has obtained the rights to offer ready-made ringtones for the iPhone and managers are trying to have them available in time for next week's press conference, music industry sources told CNET News. — Owners of Apple's iPhone have long had the ability …
Tom Krazit / CNET News:
Amazon: Google Books deal an ‘unprecedented’ copyright hack — Amazon came out swinging Tuesday against Google's proposed settlement with book authors and publishers. — Amazon's opposition was made public last week when it joined the Open Book Alliance, but the company filed its own brief …
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Heather Hopkins / Hitwise Intelligence:
Bing Leads in Successful Canadian Searches — A couple of weeks ago we posted data on the success rate of Canadian searches, noting in particular that only 30% of Canadian Internet searches are “successful”. A couple of readers asked us to share success rate by search engine.
Om Malik / GigaOM:
Who Invested How Much To Buy Skype — Earlier this week, a group of investors led by Silverlake Partners, a Silicon Valley-based private equity group acquired 65 percent ownership in Internet Telephony company, Skype for about $1.9 billion in cash and $125 million in debt.
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Rick Klau / The Official Google Blog:
Happy 10th birthday, Blogger — Much has changed since Blogger was released in August of 1999. Writing about Blogger's founding in his book Say Everything, Scott Rosenberg describes the effect of Blogger simply: “It cleared the obstacles from the path between brain and Web page.”
Jason F. / Signal vs. Noise:
The bar for success in our industry is too low — This weekend the New York Times published a piece called Using ‘Free’ to Turn a Profit. The piece focused on Evernote, a web-based and smart-phone based application for taking notes, snapping pictures, and storing stuff you want to remember later.
Andrew Donoghue / CNET News:
Microsoft pushes for single global patent system — A senior lawyer at Microsoft is calling for the creation of a global patent system to make it easier and faster for corporations to enforce their intellectual property rights around the world. — In a blog posting on Tuesday …
