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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 …
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Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Apple 2.0:
Apple picks trusted supplier to assemble 3G iPhone — It should be no surprise that Apple has turned to Foxconn, the trade name for Hon Hai Precision Industries, to build the next generation iPhone. — China's Commercial Times reported early Friday that Foxconn was competing for the business …
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CNN, Electronista, I4U News, Hardware 2.0, AppleInsider, CrunchGear, iPod Observer and Insanely Great Mac
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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.
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 …
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Russell Beattie's Weblog, Mashable!, Techdirt, Business Technology, All Facebook and AppScout
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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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Music Tax Details From Source: “Pay Us Not To Sue You” — We learned yesterday that Warner Music, the third largest music label, is gunning for a $5/month music tax on U.S. residents. — Some of the details were in the article: they've hired industry veteran Jim Griffin to create …
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Jessica E. Vascellaro / Wall Street Journal:
Diller Wins a Court's Approval to Advance With Plan to Split Up IAC — IAC/InterActiveCorp. Chairman Barry Diller won a big victory in his legal dispute with Liberty Media Corp. Chairman John Malone, as a Delaware court ruled Mr. Diller can move ahead with his plan to split IAC into multiple companies.
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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.
Saul Hansell / Bits:
PaidContent vs. TechCrunch: Two Visions of Blogging's Future — Michael Arrington and Rafat Ali are both forceful, sharp-tongued, quick-tempered and plugged in, and both have built successful technology blogging ventures. So it's no surprise that there is more than a little sparring between them.
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mathewingram.com/work, broadstuff, Valleywag, rexblog.com, Pro Blogging News, bub.blicio.us and PDA
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.
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.
AppleInsider:
Apple begins widespread testing of Mac OS X 10.5.3 Update — Apple Inc. this week began testing Mac OS X 10.5.3 Update, a third maintenance and security update to its relatively new Leopard operating system that already bundles over 75 bug fixes and code corrections.
Rafe Needleman / Webware.com:
Firefox 4 will push out the edges of the browser — This post has been corrected from the original: Mozilla has no plan to ship Firefox 4 this year; references to that effect have been removed. — After the product road map roundtable I live-blogged Wednesday, I had a talk with Chris Beard, VP of Labs for Mozilla.
Chris Ziegler / Engadget Mobile:
BlackBerry 9000 in the wild — Okay, we'll admit, the first thought on our minds when we saw the BlackBerry 9000 in its natural habitat for the first time was, “that's it?” RIM's been taking on increasingly sharp competition as of late — even in its traditional corporate strongholds …
