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1:45 AM ET, October 2, 2006

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Eric Auchard / Reuters:
Yahoo allows outsiders to innovate on Yahoo e-mail  —  SUNNYVALE, California (Reuters) - Yahoo Inc. (Nasdaq:YHOO - news) is set to allow outsiders to create new services using the world's most popular consumer e-mail program, in the broadest move the Web has yet seen to enlist independent programmers …
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
All Women Team Takes Yahoo Hack Day Top Prize  —  Yahoo opened its corporate headquarters to hordes of hackers, press and others on Friday and Saturday for its open Hack Day.  After 24 hours of hacking (with a break for a private Beck concert in the Yahoo courtyard the first evening) …
Jeff / The Jeff Pulver Blog:
With Some Startups, "Parents Just Don't Understand"  —  After spending the past week reading various perspectives on some of the recently funded (mostly) mobile focused VoIP startups, I find it amazing how some members of the Blogosphere feel as if they have an inside track to the future success of one or more of these startups.
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Andy Abramson / VoIP Watch:
Being On The Inside  —  Jeff Pulver has made some very valid points about the blogosphere being a bit less enthusiastic about companies like RebTel (which I like) and Jajah where I just aired my views below.  —  I completely agree with Jeff that lots of very smart people are behind some of these ventures …
Discussion: Alec Saunders .LOG
Joris Evers / CNET News.com:
Hackers claim zero-day flaw in Firefox  —  SAN DIEGO—The open-source Firefox Web browser is critically flawed in the way it handles JavaScript, two hackers said Saturday afternoon.  —  An attacker could commandeer a computer running the browser simply by crafting a Web page that contains …
Discussion: TechBlog
ResourceShelf:
The Word "Mashup" Key to Newly Registered Google Domain Names  —  The new domain names keep pouring out of the Googleplex and this time they all use the word "mashups."  Not for maps or another Google service but search.  —  Like we always do, we'll set aside some space …
Anything But iPod:
Cowon iAudio N2 - PMP GPS DMB With Windows CE Running on AMD  —  The Cowon iAudio N2 is a series piece of hardware packed with a ton of features and is far from your typical portable media player.  First off the N2 runs Windows CE 5.0 on an AMD Alchemy 500MHz processor with 128MB of ram.
Discussion: Engadget and Ubergizmo
Chris Saad / APML Blog:
APML - OPML for Attention  —  Today Faraday Media (Creators of Touchstone) announce a new initiative to work with the community in order to design and implement "Attention Profiling Mark-up Language" or APML.  —  APML will allow users to export and use their own personal Attention Profile …
Steve Rubel / Micro Persuasion:
Technorati Intros Smarter Blog Search Feeds  —  Technorati has opened up RSS feeds for keyword and URL searches to all users.  You no longer need to register for an account and set up watch lists.  (Technorati is an Edelman partner.)  You couldn't do this prior to now.
Discussion: duncanriley.com
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
New Look For Netvibes  —  Netvibes quietly released an updated look and feel this evening.  Read about the release on the Netvibes blog here and here.  —  Key additions to the service include:  — Module search  — New web/blog /video search with results within netvibes
Discussion: digg
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Peter Galli / eWEEK.com:
Just One More Release Before Windows Vista Goes Gold  —  Microsoft will release just one more build of Windows Vista for testing before the code goes gold, said Brad Goldberg, the general manager for the Windows client business group.  —  That build will be made available to a limited group …
Discussion: TechSpot
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Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft:
Microsoft: 60,000 Vista biz seats to be deployed on launch day
Discussion: InsideMicrosoft
ntt.co.jp:
14 Tbps over a Single Optical Fiber: Successful Demonstration of World's Largest Capacity  —  Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation (NTT, Chiyoda Ward, Tokyo, President and CEO is Norio Wada) has successfully demonstrated the ultra-large capacity optical transmission of 14 Tera bits per second …
Discussion: Engadget and Slashdot
InfoWorld:
The Screening Room #9: Windows Live Writer  —  The September episode of The Screening Room, with J.J. Allaire and Jack Ozzie, introduces Windows Live Writer, discusses Live Writer plugins, and illustrates how the plugin architecture is being used to add support for microformats and Live Clipboard.
Conrad Quilty-Harper / Engadget:
FCC find: Novatel U720 USB EV-DO modem for Sprint  —  Although there have been inklings in the past that Sprint was working on a USB EV-DO modem with Novatel Wireless, recent FCC approval documents have confirmed its existence and given us a first glimpse at what the modem actually looks like.
Discussion: jkOnTheRun
Jason Clarke / Download Squad:
Feed reader bonanza - FeedDemon, Google Reader, Bloglines all update  —  Today's release of FeedDemon 2.1 beta seemed like a nice little treat.  After the release of NewsGator Go! last week, it felt like a really solid one-two punch from NewsGator.  Right on!
Discussion: ALLIED and Preoccupations
 
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 Earlier Items: 
Tphi / N-Europe:
News: Nintendo Confirm Console Specific Code
Jay Savage / Download Squad:
OpenSSH 4.4 released  —  The OpenSSH team has officially realeased OpenSSH 4.4/4.4p.
Ted Wallingford / Download Squad:
Mac VoIP/Video tools: new features just keep comin'
Steve Friess / Wired News:
Pod People Ponder Litigation
 

 
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