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Jim Dalrymple / Macworld:
Apple updates strengthen wireless security — Apple on Thursday released a Security and AirPort update for Mac OS X that fixes vulnerabilities found in the company's wireless drivers. Apple said the issues found were the result of an internal audit of the software drivers …
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Joris Evers / CNET News.com:
New Apple patch plugs Wi-Fi hijack flaws — update A trio of security flaws in Apple Computer software that runs wireless-networking hardware could allow Macs to be hijacked over Wi-Fi, Apple said Thursday. — The Cupertino, Calif.-based company released security updates to repair the problems …
Charlie Demerjian / Inquirer:
Microsoft Media Player shreds your rights — Comment No more backups, or Tivo — THINK DRM WAS bad already? Think I was joking when I said the plan was to start with barely tolerable incursions on your rights, then turn the thumbscrews? Welcome to Windows Media Player 11, and the rights get chipped away a lot more.
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Backing up and restoring licenses — Windows Media Player 11 does not permit you to back up your media usage rights (previously known as licenses). However, depending upon where your protected files came from, you might be able to restore your rights over the Internet.
Richard Siklos / New York Times:
MTV Will Acquire Maker of Music-Oriented Games — MTV, the cable TV channel some critics have accused of straying too far from its musical roots, is to acquire Harmonix Music Systems, a maker of music-oriented video games, for $175 million in cash. — Harmonix's main product, Guitar Hero …
John Paczkowski / Good Morning Silicon Valley:
Geez, it's not like we had anyone killed. ... We didn't, did we? — "Go far, keep your secrets close." That's the message of Hewlett-Packard's ad campaign for its business notebooks, but it might make a better company slogan. With new disclosures each day about HP's ill-starred leak investigation …
Daisuke Wakabayashi / Reuters:
Microsoft mulls free Web-based business software — SEATTLE (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp. said on Thursday it may offer a free, advertising-supported version of its basic word processing and spreadsheet software, in an apparent bid to fend off a nascent challenge from Google Inc. in the business software market.
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socialtext.com:
Socialtext 2.0 — Today I gave a keynote at Networld/Interop on Enterprise 2.0 alongside Andrew McAfee — and launched Socialtext 2.0 — the most simple to adopt, use and extend wiki. Techcrunch has the details. — Two big changes come with Socialtext2.0.
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Guy Kawasaki / Signum sine tinnitu:
The Art of Distribution — One of the important insights that the Startups 2006 panel hammered home was the importance of distribution for consumer-facing startups. (By the way, an astounding 13,000 people watched this video during the first week.) Many people use the word "distribution" …
Inside AdSense:
New channels page, new ad format — This week we bring you two key improvements to AdSense that came about directly from publisher feedback. — First off, you'll be happy to hear that we've completely revamped the Channels page under your AdSense Setup tab.
Cyrus Farivar / Engadget:
Logitech's FreePulse Bluetooth headset leaked — The FCC's handed us yet another tasty morsel today: the new Logitech FreePulse Wireless headset, and what a headset she is. The minuscule looking device features Bluetooth 2.0+ EDR with A2DP (huzzah!) to control your iPod (via a dongle …
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Jenstar / JenSense:
AdSense adds a new 200x200 ad unit size — Google AdSense has just added a brand new 200x200 "Small Square" ad unit size to their regular ad unit line up. So new, in fact, that AdSense hasn't announced it yet, and it hasn't yet made it into their ad format page yet. — Here is an example of the ad unit:
David Berlind / Between the Lines:
Inconvenience of two-factor security pushes banks to "single factor plus" for online banking — For the nation's banking industry, the clock is ticking. By Dec 31, banks and financial institutions had better move to something more than just user ID and password-level security …
Gizmodo:
Remember Ring Gives You a Burning Reminder — The Remember Ring has a special nagging feature, using its "Hot Spot" technology that warms up to 120 degrees Fahrenheit for 10 seconds, every hour, on the hour, beginning 24 hours before that "special day," apparently honoring the anniversary of your voluntary servitude.
Darren Murph / Engadget:
Thomson and Skype to release GE 28300EE2 VoIP phone — You know something's gone mainstream when corporate giants like Thomson and GE get involved, and these two are presumably validating the internet calling craze by teaming up with Skype to release a GE-branded VoIP / conventional landline phone.
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Mike / Techdirt:
Google Hoping Someone In Belgium Recognizes How The Internet Works — from the here,-let-us-show-you.... dept — Earlier this week, we wrote about how a Belgian court had ordered Google to stop indexing French and German speaking newspapers on their Google News site and within the Google cache.
Stephanie.Quilao / Back in skinny jeans:
How to explain RSS the Oprah way — Today, I'm going to explain how RSS can help you live your best life online. — We all have busy lives with very little time. Web surfing is fun but can take hours going to visit every single website and blog you enjoy.
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