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Ryan Block / Engadget:
The second-gen iPhone: 3G, GPS, only slightly thicker — So we've got it on authority that the second-gen iPhone is already well into testing, and numerous units are floating around in super secret pockets. A trusted source got a chance to check one out, here's what we've heard.
Brian Krebs / Security Fix:
Hundreds of Thousands of Microsoft Web Servers Hacked — Hundreds of thousands of Web sites - including several at the United Nations and in the U.K. government — have been hacked recently and seeded with code that tries to exploit security flaws in Microsoft Windows to install malicious software on visitors' machines.
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Dan Goodin / The Register:
Department of Homeland Security website hacked! — The sophisticated mass infection that's injecting attack code into hundreds of thousands of reputable web pages is growing and has even infiltrated the website of the Department of Homeland Security. — While so-called SQL injections are nothing new …
Ionut Alex Chitu / Google Operating System:
New in Google Docs: Insert Videos, Edit CSS — There are so many updates at Google Docs, that you'll need many hours to explore them and start to use them. — You can now access your browser's contextual menu by pressing Shift while right-clicking. This might be useful if you want to search …
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Brian Caulfield / Forbes:
A Hostile Bid Could Be Over Fast — Microsoft Chief Financial Officer Chris Liddell promised Thursday that the software giant will provide an update on its bid for struggling portal Yahoo! next week. — Translation: Microsoft (nasdaq: MSFT - news - people ) Chief Executive Steve Ballmer …
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Paul McDougall / InformationWeek:
Lenovo To Make Windows XP Available Until 2009 — Hewlett-Packard will also provide Windows XP to business customers that want to downgrade from Windows Vista after June 30. — In the latest sign that computer makers are bucking Microsoft's decision to retire Windows XP at the end of June …
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Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Presdo, The Magical Online Scheduler — I want you to stop what you are doing right now and go try Presdo. It is a deceptively simple online scheduling assistant that is a prime example of what a modern Web app should be. It only shows you what you need to see at the moment that you need to see it.
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Shane Richmond / Telegraph Blogs:
Liveblog: Telegraph Developers Weekend — 1.30PM: Apps for the iPhone will only be available through Google's app store. Paul says this is to ensure that nobody releases apps that break the device or operate in a way that confuses users. The iPhone is a consumer electronics device …
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Kevin Purdy / Lifehacker:
Hardy Heron Makes Linux Worth Another Look — If you've flirted with the idea of switching your desktop operating system to Linux but never took the leap, the time is now. This week's release of Hardy Heron, an Ubuntu release that will be supported until 2011, offers a freer, more productive space for work and play than ever before.
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Aaron Besson / MyTriniPhone.com:
iPhone Video Recorder version 1.1.6 - Full feature Update — Don't ask what I am doing up so late, but as usual I decided to check my Installer on my iPhone for any late night App updates, I know they usually come late at night. I guess the devs are up late too.
Daniel Terdiman / Geek Gestalt:
Fake Steve Jobs lights up Web 2.0 Expo — SAN FRANCISCO—If there's one person in the world of Web 2.0 technology—or tech in general—who hasn't yet been skewered by the infamous blogger Fake Steve Jobs, get ready: He's coming for you. — In a frenetic keynote address Friday morning …
Marshall Kirkpatrick / ReadWriteWeb:
How We Use Twitter for Journalism — How useful can communication limited to 140 characters be for serious journalism? It turns out that the short messages you find on Twitter have proven wildly useful for some writers penning larger pieces. — Here at ReadWriteWeb we've …
Stephen Shankland / Webware.com:
Jonathan Schwartz: A top blogger sees end to blogging — SAN FRANCISCO—Sun Chief Executive Jonathan Schwartz rightly gets credit for pioneering the corporate blog as a tool to reach customers, employees, and others. But pretty soon the novelty of his methods will wear off, he predicted.
AOL Press Releases:
AOL Sites Break Traffic Records in March — Programming Channel Redesign and New Launches Produce Six Consecutive Months of Growth; Platform-A Ranked No. 1 Ad Network — New York, NY (April 25, 2008) - AOL's programming sites hit an all-time high in March, after growing steadily …
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Kristin McAllister / Dayton Daily News:
Dayton woman sues man for sending her nude photos — MIAMISBURG — A Dayton woman is suing a Dayton man and Sprint Nextel, claiming she received unsolicited text messages and nude digital photos of the man soon after he exchanged her Nextel telephone for a Sprint telephone at The Sprint Store in Miamisburg …
