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Dancho Danchev / Dancho Danchev's Blog:
Massive IFRAME SEO Poisoning Attack Continuing — Last week's massive IFRAME injection attack is slowly turning into a what looks like a large scale web application vulnerabilities audit of high profile sites. Following the timely news coverage, Symantec's rating for the attack as medium risk …
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InfoWorld:
Major Web sites hit with growing Web attack — A blossoming Web attack, first reported by security researcher Dancho Danchev earlier this month, has expanded to hit more than a million Web pages, including many well-known sites. — “The number and importance of the sites has increased,” …
Jennifer Saba / Editor and Publisher:
NAA Reveals Biggest Ad Revenue Plunge in More Than 50 Years — NEW YORK The newspaper industry has experienced the worst drop in advertising revenue in more than 50 years. — According to new data released by the Newspaper Association of America, total print advertising revenue …
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Duncan Riley / TechCrunch:
Decline Of US Newspapers Accelerating — Figures released by the Newspaper Association of America show that the decline of newspapers is more rapid than previously thought, with total print advertising revenue in 2007 plunging 9.4% to $42 billion compared to 2006, the biggest drop in revenue since 1950 …
Scott Moritz / Fortune:
Countdown to iPhone 2.0 — Citing ambitious production plans, observers eye a big June debut of Apple's next generation iPhone. — (Fortune) — Apple is gearing up for a big bump in sales of the next generation iPhone, if new production plans are any guide.
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Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Apple 2.0:Apple picks trusted supplier to assemble 3G iPhone
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I4U News, Electronista, AppleInsider, Hardware 2.0, CrunchGear, Insanely Great Mac, iPod Observer and Gearlog
Eric Savitz / Tech Trader Daily:Apple: BofA Sees iPhone Build Plans At 3M CQ2, 8M CQ3
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InfoWorld, Infinite Loop, Electronista, VentureBeat, mocoNews.net and Silicon Alley Insider
Josh / Redeye VC:
I Don't Know... I don't know. — Why is it so hard for people (including both entrepreneurs and VCs) to say these three words? — This past week I had two distinctly different meetings with entrepreneurs. They both were successful serial entrepreneurs. Both were exceptionally smart.
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Daniel Emerson / Sydney Morning Herald:
Facebook friends not real friends: judge — A British judge has made official what many of us have long suspected - that being “Facebook friends” with someone doesn't necessarily make you their friend. — The magistrate was presiding over a harassment case in which a woman accused …
Reggie / Internet Tablet Talk:
The Nokia N810 - WiMAX Edition — Ok, there's no official announcement yet but Nokia has again let the cat out of the bag a bit too early — four days too early to be exact as we can probably guess that the new Nokia N810 Internet Tablet - WiMAX Edition will be announced at CTIA at Las Vegas on April 1.
Charlie Anzman / SEO and Tech Daily:
Friendfeed Frenzy - Why it continues — I think we can all comfortably credit Louis Gray with carving out a neat niche and bringing the so-called numerous lifestreaming apps to the ‘significant awareness’ pool. — Friendfeed was very smart over the past week and they really should be congratulated.
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Kevin Poulsen / Wired News:
Hackers Assault Epilepsy Patients via Computer — Internet griefers descended on an epilepsy support message board last weekend and used JavaScript code and flashing computer animation to trigger migraine headaches and seizures in some users. — The nonprofit Epilepsy Foundation …
Darren Rowse / ProBlogger Blog Tips:
20 Types of Pages that Every Blogger Should Consider — When you use WordPress you're given the choice when publishing between doing it as a ‘post’ or as a ‘page’. Posts go up on your blog while ‘pages’ are static pages that you can publish without it having to go up on your blog.
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David Chartier / Ars Technica:
VeriSign ups cost of .com, .net domains second year in a row — Exercising its contractual right to raise prices, VeriSign is once again increasing the base registration fees for .com and .net domain names. It's the second increase in as many years since the company extended its control of those two TLDs in 2006.
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Mathew / mathewingram.com/work:
Musical interlude: virtual mixtapes — Maybe it was all the posts about the ISP music tax, but I started thinking about how one of the most important things about music is that we enjoy listening to it and want to share it with others — and that the Web is one of the best ways of doing that.
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:Music Tax Details From Source: “Pay Us Not To Sue You”
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Eric Savitz / Tech Trader Daily:
Liberty Media Loses Court Bid To Block IAC Split Up Plan — A Delaware court has ruled against Liberty Media (LCAPA) in its effort to block IAC/InterActiveCorp (IACI) Chairman Barry Diller from advancing a plan to split IAC into five public companies, the Wall Street Journal is reporting.
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Jessica E. Vascellaro / Wall Street Journal:Diller Wins a Court's Approval to Advance With Plan to Split Up IAC
Erica Ogg / CNET News.com:
HD DVD ceases to exist — Last one out, turn off the lights. — That was essentially the tone of the note that the HD DVD Promotional Group sent to its members Friday. The obituary for the format was short and to the point: … It was also a bit late.
Rain Anderson / That VideoGame Blog:
Consoles to “die out” in the next 5 to 10 years … The man who set up and ran the European Xbox business for Microsoft, Sandy Duncan, believes that consoles as we know them today will “die out” in the next 5 to 10 years. — “The industry is fundamentally driven by technology.
Cade Metz / The Register:
Adobe to remove Photoshop pic pimping clause — $10,000 Panda Challenge - are you really protected? — After complaints from freetards everywhere, Adobe has agreed to revise the photo pimping clause that accompanies its new freetard-friendly Photoshop Express service.
