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Kim Zetter / Threat Level:
Dateline Mole Allegedly at DefCon with Hidden Camera — Updated: Mole Caught on Tape — DefCon security on Friday warned attendees at the annual hacker conference that Dateline NBC may have sent a mole with a hidden camera to the event to capture hackers admitting to crimes.
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George Ou:
Undercover NBC Dateline reporter bolts from DEFCON 2007 — Undercover reporter Michelle Madigan (Associate Producer of NBC Dateline) got a little more than she bargained for when she tried to sneak in to DEFCON 2007 with hidden cameras to get someone to confess to a felony.
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Robert McMillan / PC World:
Hacking Conference Infiltrated by 'Media Mole' — DefCon organizers are worried that Dateline NBC has sent an undercover producer with a hidden camera to cover the show. — Recommend this story? — Trust nobody. — That's what organizers of the 15th annual DefCon hacking conference …
Jesus Diaz / Gizmodo:
Breaking: First Third-party Native iPhone Application — Google Code has the first third-party native application ever for the iPhone. A real full-fledged iPhone application with a graphic user interface and its own icon in the iPhone home screen. Yes, this is not a Web 2.0 app but the real thing …
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Engadget, iLounge, Apple Gazette, The Tao of Mac, Gadget Lab, iPhone Central, Slashdot and digg
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Erica Sadun / The Unofficial Apple Weblog:
Journeys inside the iPhone's SDK — I have now spent a pretty solid week writing applications for the iPhone. And what an exciting week it's been. I've been privileged to view and interact with the iPhone in a way that few other people have had the opportunity to.
Darla Mack:
iTheme for S60 3rd Edition — Have you ever wondered what it would be like to have the interface of the iPhone? Maybe some have and maybe some haven't, but seeing an app like this even I became a bit interested. This form of customization goes way beyond basic theme creation.
Xbox-Scene News:
Raid casualty comes forward to tell his story — >> HSD - Hours before the raids were news and broadcast across the net and the mass media, an XS member (FallsInc) tried to warn those of us in the inner circle that the noose was about to tighten around US Modchip shops.
Josh Catone / Read/WriteWeb:
Blogging Ethics: When And What Should Bloggers Disclose? — Is there a new blogger scandal brewing? Allen Stern over at CenterNetworks seems to think so. Allen takes issue with the new video blog Webb Alert (which mentioned Read/WriteWeb today), saying that the blog doesn't disclose …
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How To Split An Atom, CenterNetworks, Webomatica, Deep Jive Interests and Insider Chatter
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Reconfirmation: Flickr To Add Video — In May Flickr cofounder Stewart Butterfield casually mentioned to me that they would be allowing users to upload video "soon" (see last sentence in this post). Yesterday Yahoo Video GM Mike Folgner reconfirmed this: "Yahoo's Flickr photo-sharing site will also be adding video," he said.
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Kyle Pott / Lifehacker:
Featured Windows Download: Log your workday from the system tray with Life Logger — Log your workday from the system tray with Life Logger — Windows only: Freeware app Life Logger is a small system tray application to help log your daily activities. Inspired by Gina's quick log script …
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Bear Stearns: Yahoo Must Form A Social Networking Strategy — There is a bit of buzz around the presentation Bear Stearns Internet analyst Robert Peck gave a couple of days ago. It recommends a broad strategy for Yahoo to get their act together in the social networking space …
Dylan Jobe / PlayStation.Blog:
Warhawk Goes Gold — Hi Everyone - It's been a while since I've made a post, but since some of you guys posted comments wanting me to jump back on, *and* the very interesting pricing debate/discussion that has been going on recently, well ... here I am with a couple of important updates!?
Sabena Suri / CNET News.com:
E-book site for students promises to save trees, money — Every June, I am as elated as the next student to have a three-month respite from the confines of school. But, come August, you can find me on Amazon.com, frantically buying an inordinate number of books for every class—in many cases, more than two books per class.
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Business Wire:
Apple iPhones Will Be Sold for 99¢; Only to the First Nine Customers at the 25th Anniversary Celebration of the First 99¢ Only Stores® on Thursday, August 9th, 2007 — COMMERCE, Calif.—(BUSINESS WIRE)—99¢ Only Stores® invites all to join in celebrating our 25th anniversary!
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Mobility Site, IntoMobile, MacDailyNews, 901am, IP Telephony, VoIP, Broadband, Apple 2.0, Zoli's Blog and Lost Remote
Direct2Dell:
XPS M1330: What's Going On? — Since my last post, many of you made it clear that you want us to share more details about what's going on with the XPS M1330. I want to apologize for the frustration that these delays are causing you. I understand that no amount of explanation is a substitute …
Foster Klug / Associated Press:
Lawmaker wants Yahoo probe — WASHINGTON - Congressional investigators plan to look into whether Yahoo officials misrepresented the Internet company's role in the arrest of a Chinese journalist sentenced to a decade in jail. — House Foreign Affairs Chairman Tom Lantos ordered the investigation …
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David Kaplan / paidContent.org:
Billboard Expands Hot 100 Chart To Include Streaming Media Data — Billboard is augmenting its ranking of digital music sales for its Hot 100 chart formula by including weekly streamed and on-demand music data from Yahoo and AOL Music. The magazine began factoring in the sale of digital tracks …
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