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Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac:
Apple Stores begin iCloud and iOS 5 training, may hint at imminent launch — As Apple's yet-to-be-made-official fall festivities approach, we've heard that Apple has begun iOS 5 and iCloud training with retail store employees. According to these sources, training is done through …
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Alex Wagner / PhoneDog.com:
Best Buy prepping for Sprint iPhone 5 in the first week of October?
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Chris Ziegler / This is my next:
iPhone 5 launch could be signaled by ‘Apple fixture installation’ at Best Buy on October 21st
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Jacob Appelbaum / Tor Blog:
DigiNotar Damage Disclosure — About an hour ago I was contacted by the Dutch Government with more details about the DigiNotar Debacle. It seems that they're doing a great job keeping on top of things and doing the job that DigiNotar should've done in July.
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Naked Security, @xentek and Securelist
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Andreas Udo de Haes / Computerworld:
CIA, Mossad, MI6 targeted by Iranian DigiNotar-hackers
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Computerworld, Between the Lines Blog and Hacking for Christ
Toby Sterling / Associated Press:
Dutch Government: Websites' Safety Not Guaranteed
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NOS, Associated Press, rnw.nl, Hacking for Christ, The Register and Mozilla Security Blog
Patrick May / Mercury News:
Apple's design wizard has not left the building — He was the resident wizard at 1 Infinite Loop, the guy sporting minimalist attire, closely cropped hair and a mischievous smile as he pulled one delightful new Apple (AAPL) product after another out of his sleeve. — Now he's left the building.
Mike Anderson / NBC Bay Area:
Behind Google's Freddie Mercury Doodle — Go behind the scenes of one of the most involved Google doodles ever. — Google is celebrating what would have been Freddie Mercury's 65th birthday on Monday with its second longest doodle to date. — Google is celebrating what would have been …
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The Next Web, The Huffington Post, Gizmodo Australia, Gawker and The Official Google Blog
Robert Scoble / Google+:
I am asking Google to remove me from the Google+ suggested user list. Here is my thinking. — 1. I don't need to be on the list. My bosses don't care. It isn't needed for my role in the industry or my business model. By being off the list on Twitter I have found my natural audience.
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Sean Ludwig / VentureBeat:
Hulu bidding heats up as DirecTV drops out — Satellite TV operator DirecTV has dropped out of the bidding process for Hulu after submitting too low of a bid, according the Financial Times. — Hulu has been on sale since June, with bids fluxuating between $1.5 and $2 billion.
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Ed Bott / The Ed Bott Report Blog:
The decline and fall of TiVo and Media Center — Summary: The streaming media era began in 2008, and the DVR is an endangered species. TiVo, the company that defined the DVR category a decade ago is on the ropes, and Microsoft has all but declared Media Center a legacy app.
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Graham Cluley / Naked Security:
DNS hack hits popular websites: Daily Telegraph, The Register, UPS, etc — Popular websites including The Register, The Daily Telegraph, UPS, and others have fallen victim to a DNS hack that has resulted in visitors being redirected to third-party webpages.
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@regvulture, THN : The Hacker News, Guardian, ZDNet, @alex_norcliffe, @cronus42, Sucuri, @youranonnews, Neowin.net, isc Home, The Next Web and @taf, Thanks:gcluley
Jacqui Cheng / Ars Technica:
Why keeping up with RSS is poisonous to productivity, sanity — On this long Labor Day weekend in the US, we're bringing you a set of opinion pieces from various Ars writers—and we've love to have you join the conversation in the comments. — On the surface, RSS seems great for those of us …
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Marco.org, @davewiner, Eileen Rivera and Scripting News
Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft Blog:
Microsoft weighs in on Mosaid-Nokia patent deal — Summary: Microsoft is party to the just-announced deal between Nokia and Mosaid, a Canadian patent licensing firm. The Redmond company has a “passive economic interest,” its officials are saying. — In the latest installment of …
Matt Richtel / New York Times:
Grading the Digital School: Technology in Schools Faces Questions on Value — CHANDLER, Ariz. — Amy Furman, a seventh-grade English teacher here, roams among 31 students sitting at their desks or in clumps on the floor. They're studying Shakespeare's “As You Like It” — but not in any traditional way.
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Jamie Davidson / The Cat Was Killed:
An exploration of Yelp's own filtered reviews — An article was published recently by the Chicago Tribune about a dog trainer in Chicago and his positive reviews being filtered on Yelp only after he refused to advertise with Yelp. Before he talked to Yelp, his business had a 4 star rating …
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