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Jacqui Cheng / Infinite Loop:
Steve Jobs: MobileMe “not up to Apple's standards” — In an internal e-mail sent to Apple employees this evening, Steve Jobs admitted that MobileMe was launched too early and “not up to Apple's standards.” The e-mail, seen by Ars Technica, acknowledges MobileMe's flaws and what could have been done to better handle the launch.
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IT Project Failures, The Register, Gizmodo, last100, Guardian Unlimited, Data Center Knowledge, AppleInsider, Boing Boing Gadgets, BloggingStocks, MediaBytes with Shelly Palmer, The Mac Observer, CrunchGear, The iPhone Blog, Cult of Mac, MobileCrunch, GottaBeMobile, Silicon Alley Insider, 9 to 5 Mac, TUAW, MacDailyNews, MacRumors, Engadget and Digg
Brian Stelter / New York Times:
A Ruling May Pave the Way for Broader Use of DVR — RECORDING TV shows — and skipping the commercials that come with them — may become more pervasive in the wake of a new court ruling that blesses a new networked form of digital video recorder. — The United States Court of Appeals …
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Lost Remote
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Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:
Microsoft launching two security initiatives at Black Hat conference — [D.T. note: I'll be leaving today for the Black Hat and Defcon conferences in Las Vegas. Be sure to check for a variety of security stories during the week.] — Microsoft is launching two initiatives aimed at improving …
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Ryan Naraine / Zero Day:
Microsoft makes daring vulnerability sharing move — LAS VEGAS — Starting in October, Microsoft will start sharing details on security vulnerabilities with software vendors ahead of Patch Tuesday under a daring new program aimed at reducing the window of exposure to hacker attacks.
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Between the Lines
Robert Vamosi / CNET News.com:
Black Hat 2008 promises to be big — Las Vegas - Black Hat 2008 is bigger, and some might say better. Occupying most of the third and fourth floors of the convention hall at Caesar's Palace, the conference started on Saturday with two and four day training sessions which continue through Tuesday.
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eWeek
Larry Dignan / Between the Lines:
AT&T joins the cloud computing game — AT&T said Tuesday that it will offer cloud computing services via a new service dubbed AT&T Synaptic Hosting. — The telecom giant described Synaptic as a “next-generation utility computing service with managed networking, security and storage for businesses.”
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Rich Miller / Data Center Knowledge:
As IPO Nears, Rackspace Eyes the Cloud — For Rackspace, Thursday's initial public offering (IPO) is a major step in its push into cloud computing, which the company believes will eventually offer even better returns than managed hosting. The San Antonio-based company has been one of the most successful hosting companies.
Andrew Lavallee / Wall Street Journal:AT&T to Be Provider Of ‘Cloud Computing’
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CNET News.com
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Adaptive Path Releases Aurora To “Inspire And Engage” Community — Aurora (Part 1) from Adaptive Path on Vimeo. — Adaptive Path, a product development and consulting service in San Francisco, is releasing a new web interface concept called Aurora this evening.
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The Universal Desktop, Technologizer, Ryan Stewart, Adaptive Path, Mozilla Labs and The Inquisitr
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Kaspersky Lab Weblog:
Social engineering on Twitter — This week it's Twitter's turn to host an attack - one that is targeting both Twitter users and the Internet community at large. In this case it's a malicious Twitter profile twitter.com/[skip]/ with a name that is Portuguese for ‘pretty rabbit’ which has a photo advertising a video with girls posted.
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Profy.Com, The Register, Zero Day, Guardian Unlimited, jd/adobe, Dancho Danchev's Blog, WebProNews and TwitPwn
Brad Stone / Bits:
Friendster Lives: New Cash, New C.E.O. and a New Strategy? — Don't count Friendster out yet. — The pioneering social network, surpassed by MySpace and Facebook in most of the world, is still going strong in Asia, and now it plans to build on its success there.
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Between the Lines, Silicon Alley Insider, The Next Web, The Social, Startup Meme, VentureBeat and Mashable!
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AppleInsider:
Apple releases iPhone, iPod touch 2.0.1 Software Updates — Apple on Monday evening released iPhone 2.0.1 Software Update, the first maintenance and security update for iPhone 3Gs and first-generation iPhones running iPhone Software 2.0. iPod touch 2.0.1 has also been released.
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Tenzin Pema / Reuters:
Internet companies agree on China code of conduct: report — (Reuters) - U.S. technology giants Microsoft Corp, Google Inc and Yahoo Inc, in talks with other Internet companies and human-rights groups, have reached an agreement on a voluntary code of conduct for activities in China …
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Startup Meme
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Jon Stokes / Ars Technica:
Larrabee: Intel's biggest leap since the Pentium Pro — Since the primitive 4004 chip first designed for a line of calculators, Intel has been a processor company. And in all of the company's decades of processor design and fabrication, Intel has seen only one truly disruptive change …
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Eric Eldon / VentureBeat:
LinkedIn, like Facebook, is letting employees sell some stock early — LinkedIn is letting employees sell up to twenty percent of their vested stock options at a $500 million valuation, I've learned from a source. Another source tells me that the plan was announced at a recent company meeting, but they didn't give me the details.
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Profy.Com, The Social Times, paidContent.org, Furrier.org, metarand, Webware.com, WebProNews and Darren Herman
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David Griner / The Social Path:
Is Google's PG-13 virtual world doomed to be NC-17? — There's just no denying that our world is full of perverts. Thankfully, we have social norms, prison and pepper spray to keep them at bay. — Not so in the virtual world, where pervs run wild and free.
BBC:
Core problem — We need more details about the security fixes Apple is releasing, says regular commentator Bill Thompson. — The computer manufacturer formerly known as “Apple Computer” changed its name to Apple Inc eighteen months ago, reflecting the growing importance to its profitability …
David Kaplan / paidContent.org:
Sony Buys Bertelsmann's 50 Percent Stake In Sony BMG For $1.2 Billion — As expected, Sony Corp (NYSE: SNE). and Bertelsmann AG have reached an agreement that has Sony buying Bertelsmann's 50 percent stake in Sony BMG for $1.2 billion. The music company will be called Sony Music Entertainment Inc …
