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Owen Thomas / Valleywag:
Screenshots of first Googlephone app [Exclusive] — Remember WhatsOpen.com, the stealth search startup that piqued Google cofounder Sergey Brin's interest last month? Brin was so intrigued he told the founders to keep the company hush-hush. Now, however, a source has leaked screenshots of WhatsOpen's secret project.
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Thomas Ricker / Engadget:First screenshots of application running on Google's Android platform?
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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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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.
Henry Blodget / Silicon Alley Insider:
LookSmart (LOOK) Bombs: Bad News for GOOG/YHOO? — LookSmart had a terrible quarter, with advertising revenue growing only 4% year over year (this is Internet, remember, not TV). It also stopped providing guidance (presumably because it doesn't have anything good to say).
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.
Eric Bangeman / Ars Technica:
Blu-ray's DRM crown jewel tarnished with crack of BD+ — One advantage that backers of Blu-ray have touted in the format battle with HD DVD is its extra helping of "unbreakable" DRM called BD+. It's not unbreakable after all. SlySoft, makers of AnyDVD, have released a new beta …
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Erica Ogg / ZDNet:
'Internet van' helped drive evolution of the Web — MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.—If not for this nondescript, gray van with the letters "SRI" painted on the side, you might not be reading this article right now. — Parked feet from the entrance of the Computer History Museum here in the heart of Silicon Valley …
Ryan Singel / Threat Level:
Encrypted E-Mail Company Hushmail Spills to Feds — Hushmail, a longtime provider of encrypted web-based email, markets itself by saying that "not even a Hushmail employee with access to our servers can read your encrypted e-mail, since each message is uniquely encoded before it leaves your computer."
Umair / Bubblegeneration Strategy Lab:
Research Note: Evil is in the DNA, Special Facebook Edition — "..."There are these small bands of people who are trying to take over the world," Yu said. " This is so much more fun than working at a hedge fund or an investment bank. ie, Gideon Yu, Facebook's CFO. — That's a really (really) important quote.
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.
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Rachel Rosmarin / Forbes:
Fear Among Facebook Developers — LOS ANGELES - — Travel back in time six months to Facebook's last big event, at a warehouse in an artsy part of San Francisco, where scrappy independent developers were the apple of Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg's eye. — How things have changed.
Ars Technica:
How we got here — CableCARDs have an intriguing pedigree. They come not from the cable industry, but from Congress, which in 1996 passed the massive Telecommunications Act and charged the FCC with (among other things) creating a more competitive market for third-party set-top boxes (STBs).
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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.
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.
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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 …
