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IEBlog:
IE Automatic Component Activation (Changes to IE ActiveX Update) — Back in April 2006, we made a change to how Internet Explorer handled embedded controls used on some webpages. Some sites required users to "click to activate" before they could interact with the control.
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Stefanie Olsen / Webware.com:
WORDPRESS FOUNDER LOOKS INTO BLOGGING'S FUTURE — LAS VEGAS, Nev.—If you type "Matt" into the Google search bar, you won't immediately get results for the actor Matt Damon or the political site owner Matt Drudge, as you might expect. — Instead, the No. 1 listing points to the site of Matt Mullenweg …
Roger Thompson / Exploit Prevention Labs:
Alicia Keys MySpace page is hacked — Attacks on MySpace seem to be on the rise. First, at the end of October, there were a number of links added as friend-comments that went via MySpace's open-redirector (MSPlinks) to exploit sites in China. This was reported publicly on the FunSec mailing list.
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Microsoft:
Microsoft Security Bulletin Advance Notification for November 2007 — Microsoft Security Bulletin Advance Notification issued: November 8, 2007 — Microsoft Security Bulletins to be issued: November 13, 2007 — This is an advance notification of two security bulletins that Microsoft is intending to release on November 13, 2007.
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Stephen Shankland / CNET News.com:
Adobe: Online Photoshop coming this year — MONTEREY, Calif.—Adobe Systems has committed to shipping a beta version of its online image-editing tool, Photoshop Express, this year, and said it will be complete in 2008. — "By late this year, we anticipate having a beta version," …
Louis Hau / Forbes:
Redstone: 'If Content Is King, Copyright Is Its Castle' — He may look his age when he's not speaking, but when Sumner Redstone, the 84-year-old chairman of Viacom and CBS, starts talking about the shifting media landscape, you forget he was born when radio was a novelty.
Chris Williams / The Register:
Surge in encrypted torrents blindsides record biz — BPI claims losing is winning in P2P arms race — Exclusive The legal crackdown and publicity blitz aimed at people who share music, videos and software online is having an unintended consequence for the troubled record industry.
investor.shareholder.com:
LookSmart Announces Sale of FindArticles.com — LookSmart, Ltd. (NASDAQ:LOOK), an online advertising and technology solutions company, today announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to sell the Company's FindArticles.com property to CNET Networks, Inc. (NASDAQ:CNET) …
Cris Castello / Google LatLong:
How's the weather? — A wise man once said, "I ain't often right, but I've never been wrong." When it comes to weather forecasts, this certainly rings true. You always remember that day when you planned a picnic because it was supposed to be sunny and it ended up raining.
Marshall Kirkpatrick / Read/WriteWeb:
Blogcosm Challenges Technorati, Techmeme to Parse the Blogosphere — Blogcosm is a new company aiming to build a directory of the blogosphere. From the mundane to the esoteric, the company wants to provide users with a rich data set about any particular blog of interest or the vertical market it is in.
Macworld UK:
iPhone queue forming at Regent Street store — The first few people have formed an iPhone queue outside the company's Regent Street store — Jonny Evans — Apple will launch the iPhone in the UK at 6.02pm tomorrow night - and a queue is already forming outside its doors on Regent Street.
Josh Catone / Read/WriteWeb:
FreshBooks Goes the Extra Mile — FreshBooks is a billing web application that allows people to send, track and collect online payments. I don't use FreshBooks (I generally have no one to invoice) and I don't know much about the Ontario, Canada-based company, but judging from their web site …
Business Wire:
The Walt Disney Company Reports Record Earnings for Fiscal Year 2007 — EPS for the year was $2.25 compared to $1.64 in the prior year. Net income increased from $3.4 billion in fiscal 2006 to $4.7 billion in fiscal 2007 — EPS for the year included a net benefit of $.33 …
Michael Tanne / Wink Blog:
Major Update to Wink People Search — Today we released a major update to Wink People Search. Wink now gives people control over their search profile allowing them to fill in or correct information, and decide which links to include. We also enable people to contact friends they find online …
Reuters:
Vonage loss widens, but settlement boosts shares — update Internet calling company Vonage Holdings on Thursday reported a bigger quarterly loss on litigation costs, but a legal settlement with AT&T raised hopes that such problems were coming to an end. — Vonage shares rose more than 21 percent …
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