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12:35 AM ET, July 18, 2007

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Microsoft:
Peter Moore Resigns From Microsoft to Return to Northern California  —  Don Mattrick appointed to head Microsoft's Xbox and Games Business.  —  Microsoft Corp. today announced that Don Mattrick, a former president at Electronic Arts Inc. (EA), will lead the Interactive Entertainment Business …
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Ryan Block / Engadget:
Peter Moore resigns as head of Xbox  —  It's hard to call the Xbox 360 anything but a success, but having missed some sales numbers, ringing up an extra unexpected $1b on the corporate card because of warranty issues, and still generally failing to make a profit, it looks like Peter Moore …
Seth Schiesel / New York Times:
Microsoft Game Chief Moves to Electronic Arts
Brian Crecente / Kotaku:
Confirmed: Peter Moore Resigns, Mattrick Steps In
Discussion: UNEASYsilence and GamePolitics.com
Brian Crecente / Kotaku:
Top: EA Confirms Moore's New Job
Discussion: Crave, Engadget and Game | Life
Business Wire:
Yahoo! Reports Second Quarter 2007 Financial Results  —  Revenues - $1,698 Million  —  Operating Income - $185 Million  —  Operating Income Before Depreciation, Amortization and Stock-Based Compensation Expense - $474 Million  —  SUNNYVALE, Calif.—(BUSINESS WIRE)—Yahoo! Inc. …
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Larry Dignan / Between the Lines:
Yahoo to lay out strategic plan in next 100 days  —  Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang made his earnings conference call debut on Tuesday and said the next "100 days or so" will be spent mapping out the strategic plan for the company.  —  Yahoo, which reported its second quarter results and cut projections …
Greg Sterling / Search Engine Land:
Yahoo Sees Revenue Growth, But Income Down
Discussion: InsideGoogle and Screenwerk
Staci D. Kramer / paidContent.org:
Earnings: YHOO Revenue Up 8 Percent; EPS Even With Last Year's Q2
Jacques Erasmus / Prevx Blog:
Ransomware... Holding Corporate America Ransom!  —  What started off as a relaxed saturday morning, turned out to be quite interesting when Marco told me about a new ransomware trojan claiming to be using RSA-4096 to encrypt users data.  —  This is a new iteration of a rather persistent favourite …
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Robert Vamosi / CNET News.com:
Ransom-based malware attacks specific companies
Discussion: Reuters
Robert McMillan / PC World:
Government, contractors hit in targeted attack
Discussion: Reuters
Oracle:
Oracle Critical Patch Update - July 2007  —  A Critical Patch Update is a collection of patches for multiple security vulnerabilities.  It also includes non-security fixes that are required (because of interdependencies) by those security patches.  Due to the threat posed by a successful attack …
Discussion: Computerworld
Market Wire:
RIM Announces the BlackBerry 8820 Smartphone  —  The First Dual-Mode Cellular and Wi-Fi BlackBerry Smartphone  —  Editors Note: A photo for this release will be available on the AP/CP picture wire via CCNMatthews.  —  Research In Motion (RIM) (NASDAQ:RIMM)(TSX:RIM) today announced the BlackBerry® 8820 smartphone.
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Joshua Topolsky / Engadget:
WiFi equipped BlackBerry 8820 about to hit the streets  —  RIM just got real nasty on everyone with its latest announcement, namely, that the WiFi equipped, integrated-GPS-havin' BlackBerry 8820 has just gotten the proper release treatment, stating that the device will be heading to retailers in the …
Discussion: Computerworld
John McBride / Ars Technica:
Microsoft patents the mother of all adware systems  —  It's such a tremendously bad idea that it's almost bound to succeed.  Microsoft has filed another patent, this one for an "advertising framework" that uses "context data" from your hard drive to show you advertisements and …
Larry Dignan / Between the Lines:
Intel: Solid quarter; cuts capital spending; hit on chip pricing  —  Intel delivered a solid second quarter Tuesday with net income of $1.3 billion, or 22 cents a share, on revenue of $8.7 billion.  That net income figure included tax gains that boosted earnings by 3 cents a share.
Discussion: The Register and Reuters
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Business Wire:
Intel Second-Quarter Revenue $8.7 Billion
Discussion: Tech Trader Daily
comScore:
3 Out of 4 U.S. Internet Users Streamed Video Online in May  —  Average American Video Streamer Watched More than 2.5 Hours of Video Online  —  comScore (NASDAQ: SCOR), a leader in measuring the digital world, today released its comScore Video Metrix report for May 2007 …
Official Google Blog:
Hosted site search for businesses  —  Businesses spend a lot of effort and energy creating and promoting great websites for their products and services, but quality search is often missing.  As a result, businesspeople often ask us why they can't use Google to power search on their sites.
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Charlie White / Gizmodo:
Eye On You: Google Streetview Camera Car Fleet Set to Invade America  —  A camera-toting tipster saw what appeared to be a giant armada of Chevy Cobalt cars in the Google parking lot, getting ready to take pictures of the entire world (or thereabouts) with special 360° cameras.
Business Wire:
iPhone Has Potential to Dramatically Alter the Market for Mobile Video, According to Study by Interpret  —  Recent Survey From New Media Research Firm Interpret, LLC Shows Two-Thirds of iPhone Owners Have Already Watched Video on Their iPhone, And Three-Quarters of Non-Owners Are Interested in Watching Video on an iPhone
Reuters:
Steve Jobs tops list of online music "Powergeeks"  —  NEW YORK (Reuters Life!)  - Steve Jobs, the father of the iPod, was on Tuesday crowned the undisputed king of the online music revolution by U.S. music magazine Blender, topping a list of the 25 most influential people in Web music.
InfoSec Sellout / Information Security Sell Out:
Oh Look.  An Apple WORM.  —  Yes, you read the title correct.  —  With a few hours work I have put together a proof of concept worm that works on Mac OS X (Intel).  I need to get a hold of an older PPC Mac to test that platform but I suspect it will work just fine.
 
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Ted Bridis / Associated Press:
Missing TSA Computer Drive Not Protected
Discussion: Threat Level and Techdirt
Todd Haselton / Ars Technica:
AT&T may be moving closer to deploying femtocells
Discussion: Unstrung
Amit Agarwal / Digital Inspiration:
How Good Are You at Recognizing Fake Websites and Spam Emails ?
CraigE / Mac Mojo:
Coming soon  —  I am happy to say that the week of July 30th …
Joe Bel Bruno / Associated Press:
Move over MySpace, sites mean business
Eric Eldon / VentureBeat:
Virtualmin: Better sys-admin for your growing web site
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 Earlier Items: 
Jerome Archambeaud / GigaOM:
Letter From France:Vive Zlio, Vive La Vente!
Rajesh Sethumadhavan / SecLists.Org Security …:
Yahoo Messenger 8.1 Buffer Overflow
Discussion: Computerworld and kb.cert.org
Michael Zema / pr.vonage.com:
Sunny Days Ahead For Sunrocket Customers
Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft:
Microsoft starts priming the pump for Vista SP1 Preview
Dare Obasanjo aka Carnage4Life:
Note to Software Vendors, the World is Collaborative and Loosely Coupled
Jacqui Cheng / Infinite Loop:
ModBook ship date pushed back due to parts shortages
Think Secret:
Save the date: August 7 for new iMac, iLife to emerge early?
Business Wire:
Fisher Communications Expands Online Local News Strategy with …
 

 
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Benjamin Mullin / New York Times:
Ben Sherwood and Joanna Coles take minority stakes in The Daily Beast; Sherwood will be CEO and publisher, and Coles will be chief creative and content officer

Laurence Peter / BBC:
Russia's Ministry of Justice labels BBC Russian correspondent Ilya Barabanov and science reporter Asya Kazantseva as “foreign agents”; both now live abroad

Sahil Patel / The Information:
Sources: Disney plans old-style TV channels within Disney+, with a continuous, scheduled stream of shows that are focused on certain genres like Star Wars

 
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