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Mozilla:
Firefox Release Notes — Firefox 2 is the next generation release of the award-winning Firefox web browser from Mozilla. — These Release Notes cover what's new, download and installation instructions, known issues and frequently asked questions for Firefox 2.
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Thor Larholm / Larholm.com:
Firefox fixes Internet Explorer flaw — Mozilla has just released Firefox 2.0.0.5 which purportedly fixes one of the attack vectors of the Internet Explorer input validation flaw that I previously detailed. I will go on the record as stating that this does not actually fix the flaw in Internet Explorer …
AdAge:
Google Print Ads Now Used by 225 Newspapers — Trial Program Turns Into Real Service to Place Offline Ads — NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — Google's foray into print-ad sales is showing every sign of turning into an extended stay. Following a limited test of its Print Ads program …
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Haitham Jendoubi / MarketWatch:
E.U. court adviser says Telefonica not required to reveal client data — BRUSSELS (MarketWatch) — Spanish broadband Internet provider Telefonica (TEF) isn't required to reveal the identity of clients who may have illegally downloaded music recordings, an adviser for Europe's highest court said Wednesday in a legal opinion.
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Declan McCullagh / CNET News.com:
FBI remotely installs spyware to trace bomb threat — The FBI used a novel type of remotely-installed spyware last month to investigate who was e-mailing bomb threats to a high school near Olympia, Wash. — Federal agents obtained a court order on June 12 to send spyware called CIPAV …
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Angel Jennings / New York Times:
Web Site for Job Seekers Is Sold — Laurel Touby turned her popular cocktail parties into a high-traffic Web site for job-seeking media and creative professionals. Yesterday, she sold Mediabistro.com, the company that sprang from those mixers, for $23 million.
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Brad Linder / Download Squad:Jupiter Media buys Mediabistro for $23 million
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Marguerite Reardon / CNET News.com:
Microsoft teams with JiWire to offer ad-based muni Wi-Fi — Microsoft is teaming up with advertising technology provider JiWire to offer advertisements on municipal Wi-Fi networks. — The companies are testing the new advertising service in Portland, Ore., and Oakland County, Mich.
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Matt Hamblen / Computerworld:Microsoft joins JiWire to test muni Wi-Fi advertising
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Emily Steel / Wall Street Journal:
Newspapers' Ad Sales Show Accelerating Drop — Even as News Corp. negotiated to buy Dow Jones & Co. over the past few weeks, a grim reality was increasingly evident to executives on both sides of the discussion: The downturn in the newspaper industry is getting worse.
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David Kaplan / paidContent.org:As Newspapers Ready Q2 Earnings Reports, Overview Finds Industry Slump Accelerating
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Khoi Vinh / Subtraction:
Designed Deterioration — If you buy yourself a piece of high quality luggage from Rimowa — and I've daydreamed about it, but have never been able to justify the exorbitant expense — you're getting a structurally and aesthetically pristine object that's going to get beaten up.
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Jessica E. Vascellaro / Wall Street Journal:
Calling All Videos — Alex Gurevich loves to log on to YouTube to watch music videos and comedy sketches on breaks from work. But the 24-year-old entrepreneur from San Francisco fretted that he couldn't take the fun with him on his cellphone. Mr. Gurevich assumed that signing …
Vince Veneziani / CrunchGear:
Everex Sub-$300 Green PC Launches — When you stroll into Wal-Mart today to pick up some cheap meds and plentiful toilet paper, you may notice a new PC for sale in the electronics section. Everex has released the Impact GC3502, its new $298 "green" PC that uses 20W of power at most thanks to a 1.5GHz VIA C7-D processor.
Chris Gaylord / USA Today:
Economists puzzled by irrational eBay buyers — In the 12 years since eBay's launch, the online auction house has established itself as a one-stop shop for all things rare, kitschy, and collectible. But recently, a small group of economists have mined the site for a different prize: clues on how people spend their money.
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Eric Savitz / Tech Trader Daily:
Local.com: Hearst Apparently Sells Entire 22% Stake — Hearst Corp., which earlier this year made a private placement investment in local search engine Local.com (LOCM) debt and warrants convertible into a 22% stake in the company, has apparently converted the securities into common stock and sold all of its share in the open market.
Steve O'Hear / last100:
Democracy Player is dead, long live Miro — Miro (formerly known as Democracy Player) is an open-source Internet TV application that combines a media player and library, content guide, video search engine, as well as podcast and BitTorrent clients. Developed by the Participatory Culture Foundation …
Austin American-Statesman:
Apple expanding in Austin — Company adding 80,000 square feet to Northwest Austin campus — By By M.B. Taboada — Apple Inc. is expanding its operations in Austin, with plans for a new 80,000-square-foot building at its campus in Northwest Austin, according to real estate sources.
