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Mozilla:
Firefox Release Notes — Firefox 2 is the next generation release of the award-winning Firefox web browser from Mozilla. — These Release Notes cover what's new, download and installation instructions, known issues and frequently asked questions for Firefox 2.
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CNET News.com, CyberNet Technology News, DesktopLinux.com, The Register, Security Fix, Sunnet Beskerming … and digg
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Thor Larholm / Larholm.com:
Firefox fixes Internet Explorer flaw — Mozilla has just released Firefox 2.0.0.5 which purportedly fixes one of the attack vectors of the Internet Explorer input validation flaw that I previously detailed. I will go on the record as stating that this does not actually fix the flaw in Internet Explorer …
Jeremy Toeman / Jeremy Toeman's LIVEdigitally:
Community-Based Facebook Application Reviews at AppRate.com — Last week I rolled up the sleeves, dusted off the old PHP memories, and got a little down and dirty to take a swing at a new site called AppRate.com. While watching people like Scoble, Mario Sundar, and Dave McClure add and remove …
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Haitham Jendoubi / MarketWatch:
E.U. court adviser says Telefonica not required to reveal client data — BRUSSELS (MarketWatch) — Spanish broadband Internet provider Telefonica (TEF) isn't required to reveal the identity of clients who may have illegally downloaded music recordings, an adviser for Europe's highest court said Wednesday in a legal opinion.
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Eric Bangeman / Ars Technica:
EU's top court deals blow to music industry's fight against file-sharing — While subpoenas and ex parte discovery have worked well for the RIAA in its legal fight against suspected file-sharers, the music industry in Europe looks to be facing a tougher battle.
AdAge:
Google Print Ads Now Used by 225 Newspapers — Trial Program Turns Into Real Service to Place Offline Ads — NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — Google's foray into print-ad sales is showing every sign of turning into an extended stay. Following a limited test of its Print Ads program …
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Barry Schwartz / Search Engine Land:Google Offering Print Ads To More Advertisers & Papers
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Khoi Vinh / Subtraction:
Designed Deterioration — If you buy yourself a piece of high quality luggage from Rimowa — and I've daydreamed about it, but have never been able to justify the exorbitant expense — you're getting a structurally and aesthetically pristine object that's going to get beaten up.
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Declan McCullagh / CNET News.com:
FBI remotely installs spyware to trace bomb threat — The FBI used a novel type of remotely-installed spyware last month to investigate who was e-mailing bomb threats to a high school near Olympia, Wash. — Federal agents obtained a court order on June 12 to send spyware called CIPAV …
The Precursor Blog by Scott Cleland:
Why the FTC Will Likely Block the Google-DoubleClick Merger — My detailed analysis over the last several weeks leads me to believe that the FTC is likely to block the Google-DoubleClick merger because it will enable Google to dominate online advertising and dramatically increase the opportunity …
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Emily Steel / Wall Street Journal:
Newspapers' Ad Sales Show Accelerating Drop — Even as News Corp. negotiated to buy Dow Jones & Co. over the past few weeks, a grim reality was increasingly evident to executives on both sides of the discussion: The downturn in the newspaper industry is getting worse.
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David Kaplan / paidContent.org:As Newspapers Ready Q2 Earnings Reports, Overview Finds Industry Slump Accelerating
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Angel Jennings / New York Times:
Web Site for Job Seekers Is Sold — Laurel Touby turned her popular cocktail parties into a high-traffic Web site for job-seeking media and creative professionals. Yesterday, she sold Mediabistro.com, the company that sprang from those mixers, for $23 million.
Eric Savitz / Tech Trader Daily:
Local.com: Hearst Apparently Sells Entire 22% Stake — Hearst Corp., which earlier this year made a private placement investment in local search engine Local.com (LOCM) debt and warrants convertible into a 22% stake in the company, has apparently converted the securities into common stock and sold all of its share in the open market.
Wall Street Journal:
Dow Jones Board Approves Sale — Backing of News Corp. Offer — Puts Pressure on Family; — A Bancroft Exits Meeting — The board of Dow Jones & Co. voted to approve News Corp.'s $5 billion bid for the company last night, with two directors abstaining from the vote and one leaving the meeting early …
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Dealscape, New York Times, paidContent.org, rexduffdixon.com, Digital-Lifestyles, Epicenter, MarketingVOX and Romenesko
fudder:
The very first iPhone — In late June, the [iPod] iPhone hit the US market. Apple aficionados queued for days to be first in line to get their greedy little paws on the long awaited gadget. fudder-employee Marc Esslinger is an Apple-fan as well - also because he has a very special relationship to Apple.
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CrunchGear, Incremental Blogger, Boing Boing, technabob, Advertising Lab, textually.org and digg
Steve O'Hear / last100:
Democracy Player is dead, long live Miro — Miro (formerly known as Democracy Player) is an open-source Internet TV application that combines a media player and library, content guide, video search engine, as well as podcast and BitTorrent clients. Developed by the Participatory Culture Foundation …
Chris Faylor / Shacknews:
ESRB Goes After 3D Realms Web Site — In what 3D Realms co-founder Scott Miller described as a "sucker punch", the Duke Nukem series developer has come under fire from the Entertainment Software Rating Board due to the use of outdated ESRB imagery on its official website.
Wall Street Journal:
Full Text: Keen vs. Weinberger — This is the full text of a "Reply All" debate on Web 2.0 between authors Andrew Keen and David Weinberger. — Mr. Keen begins: So what, exactly, is Web 2.0? It is the radical democratization of media which is enabling anyone to publish anything on the Internet.
