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Bob Lord / Twitter Blog:
All about the “onMouseOver” incident — The short story: This morning at 2:54 am PDT Twitter was notified of a security exploit that surfaced about a half hour before that, and we immediately went to work on fixing it. By 7:00 am PDT, the primary issue was solved.
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Peter Bright / Ars Technica:
Twitter worms spread quickly thanks to blatant security flaw — Anyone checking twitter.com this morning was probably greeted with a mess of JavaScript, mouseover effects, and spam retweets, after a flaw in the site's handling of hyperlinks allowed attackers to inject scripts into Twitter's pages.
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SmoothSpan Blog, Sophos, Security Watch, ReadWriteWeb, Between the Lines Blog, L.A. Times Tech Blog, GigaOM, BBC, The Register, threatpost, TechCrunch Europe, CenterNetworks, Slyck, Boy Genius Report, Pocket-lint, THINQ.co.uk, Netcraft, Lifehacker, Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim, Inquirer, TechCrunch, BetaNews, SitePoint, blogs.chron.com and V3.co.uk
Charles Arthur / Guardian:
The Twitter hack: how it started and how it worked — A Japanese developer was the first to notice the weakness in Twitter's site and says he reported it as far back as mid-August. He put up a demonstration - and then the exploits flourished — The original discovery of the weakness …
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Software as Services Blog, Inspired? No, F-Secure Antivirus …, Telegraph, PC World, Gawker and Asiajin
Vlad Savov / Engadget:
CE-Oh no he didn't!: Anssi Vanjoki says using Android is like peeing in your pants for warmth — You've been asking and imploring, so Anssi Vanjoki — straight shooter, that he is — now has an answer. Why doesn't Nokia switch to Android? Because Google's software represents …
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Computerworld, Boy Genius Report, IntoMobile, Android Phone Fans, TG Daily, Neowin.net, Engadget Mobile and AndroidGuys
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Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Fortune:
Pie chart: Apple's outrageous share of the mobile industry's profits — Cupertino is raking in the cash as its competitors struggle to post any profit at all. Canaccord Genuity initiated coverage of Apple (AAPL) Tuesday with a “buy” rating and a price target of $356 per share.
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Fast Company, MacRumors, 9 to 5 Mac, MacNN and Macsimum News
Nicholas Carlson / The Wire:
The Facebook Movie Is An Act Of Cold-Blooded Revenge - New, Unpublished IMs Tell The Real Story — On October 1, Columbia Pictures will release The Social Network, a film that portrays Facebook's CEO and cofounder, Mark Zuckerberg, as an arrogant nerd-punk who betrays friends and classmates …
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TechCrunch, All Facebook and Gawker
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Aaron Greenspan / The Huffington Post:
The Legend of Mark Zuckerberg — What's Your Reaction: … Bill Gates got me into Harvard. — I had never met the man even once in my life, and I had certainly never been the beneficiary of his unparalleled personal fortune in any direct sense. I had, of course, used his company's software …
Lance Whitney / CNET News:
Google report shows where its content is blocked — Google's Transparency Report shows which countries are asking the company to remove certain content. — In the wake of Google's censorship battles with China and other nations, the search giant has launched a new tool to reveal …
Google Mobile Blog:
Updated Gmail app in Android Market — We just released a new version of the Gmail app in Android Market, so Gmail updates aren't tied to Android version releases anymore. Now you can get new Gmail stuff faster without having to wait for system updates. To start you off …
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Engadget, Download Squad, The Next Web, BlogsDNA, Phone Arena, Neowin.net, Erictric, AndroidSPIN, Android Community, Boy Genius Report, Droid Life, Ubergizmo and Gizmodo
Maija / Nokia Conversations:
Nokia N8 shipping update — ESPOO, Finland - There have been a few stories this morning about the N8 availability which we feel need clarification. As we have previously said, we still expect to start the shipments by the end of the third quarter. As with every global launch …
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Reuters, Wall Street Journal, TechEye, SlashGear, eWeek, Inquirer, My Nokia Blog, GigaOM, The Nokia Blog, Mashable!, Cellpassion, VatorNews, IntoMobile, BloggingStocks, mocoNews and Softpedia News
Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
Google Deciphers The Balance Of Power Across The U.S. — Google has consistently offered consumers useful ways to interact with election and politics online including “In Quotes,” maps of where to vote, and town hall meetings on YouTube. Today, the search giant is helping you see where the balance …
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Hillicon Valley, Google LatLong and Google Maps Mania
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Facebook Has Quietly Implemented A De-Facto Follow Feature — A few days ago, Facebook made what seemed to be a small tweak to its Friend Requests area. As first noted by Inside Facebook, the social network changed the way friend rejections work. Previously, you could either Confirm or Ignore (deny) a request.
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All Facebook and Gizmodo, Thanks:srikardhanakoti
Surur / WMPoweruser.com:
Full specs of the Windows phone 7 HTC Mozart leaked — A kind tipster has sent us this video of the HTC Mozart in action (which we have seen before) and also the full specs of the device, which we have not. — He confirms the device runs a 1GHzQualcomm QSD 8250, with 512 MB ROM and 8GB storage …
Dan Frommer / Silicon Alley Insider:
Tumblr CTO Steps Down To Focus On Instapaper, Independent Career — Tumblr cofounder and CTO Marco Arment is stepping down from his full-time role within the company to focus on “independent” projects, he announced this morning. He'll continue as a consultant to Tumblr.
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Marco.org and The Next Web, Thanks:atul
Jon Fortt / Tech Check:
iPad Tops in Consumer Satisfaction: Report — Big news for Apple and Apple investors: The iPad is the highest-scoring product that a leading consumer satisfaction index has ever tracked. — The implication here is that the iPad's popularity may well have real staying power heading into the all-important holiday quarter.
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Digital Daily and MacRumors
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Erica Ogg / CNET News:
Secrets of Apple's customer success
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BetaNews, CNNMoney.com and The Tech Report
Matthew Lynley / VentureBeat:
Credit Suisse: Verizon iPhone will get 1.4M users from AT&T in 2011 — An estimated 1.4 million AT&T subscribers will shift to Verizon with the advent of a Verizon iPhone in early 2011, according to a report released today by Credit Suisse. Credit Suisse's report relies on a supposed February 15 launch …
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Boy Genius Report, PC World, AppleInsider, Electronista, MacRumors, IntoMobile, SlashGear, Digital Daily, iLounge, TUAW, ReadWriteWeb, Silicon Alley Insider, Gearlog, TiPb, MarketWatch and mocoNews
Kellex / Droid Life:
Breaking: DROID X Android 2.2 Update Starting Tomorrow at 12PM EST — Just as we said yesterday, the Droid X 2.2 update will be released tomorrow to the masses. The update will become available at 12:00PM EST giving any user with a DX the opportunity to “pull” the update manually.
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MobileCrunch, Boy Genius Report, Electronista, IntoMobile, Fone Arena, AndroidSPIN, Erictric, Engadget, TG Daily, Phone Arena and AndroidGuys
Hamid Tehrani / Global Voices Advocacy:
Iran: Jailed blogger, Hossein Derakhshan ("Hoder") may face death penalty — A reliable source has told Global Voices that Tehran's prosecutor is seeking the death penalty for jailed Iranian blogger Hossein Derakhshan (also known as “Hoder"). The presiding judge, named Salavati, has not yet ruled in the case.
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Matt Van Wagner / Search Engine Land:
How Google Saved $100 Million By Launching Google Instant — It seems fitting that from the moment it was announced, Google Instant became an instant headline news story. — For the past few week, industry pundits have been talking, tweeting and writing about Google Instant and offering …
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ReadWriteWeb, Softpedia News and Search Engine Watch
Anthony Ha / VentureBeat:
Thanks to Fuze Box, you can run meetings from your iPad — Popular online meeting services WebEx and GoToMeeting were both in the first wave of applications for Apple's iPad, but they lacked one key feature — the ability to actually host meetings. That's where a company called Fuze Box has been able to top them.
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PR Newswire, eWeek, VatorNews, TUAW, TechCrunch and IntoMobile
Josh Halliday / Guardian:
Facebook fraud a ‘major issue’ — Site says it is developing new ways to verify users' identities and detect when their accounts have been hacked — Hacking of Facebook accounts to scam people out of money has become a “major issue” for the social networking site, its head of European public policy …
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All Facebook, p2pnet and Inquirer
Alexei Oreskovic / Reuters:
Google M&A boss presides over record year — (Reuters) - In the fast-paced world of Silicon Valley innovation, Google's (GOOG.O) chief dealmaker David Lawee puts many a youthful engineer to shame. — As head of Google's M&A group, he has powered up the search giant's acquisition machine …
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VentureBeat, DealBook and Silicon Alley Insider
Bappa Majumdar / Reuters:
India in talks on BlackBerry e-mail access-source — (Reuters) - India is in talks with Research In Motion Ltd (RIM.TO) to gain access to BlackBerry corporate e-mails after securing access to instant messages sent via the devices, a senior government source said on Tuesday.
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Guardian, pocketnow.com, Phone Arena, Electronista, Digital Daily, SiliconANGLE, GeekSmack and Tech Trader Daily
