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Giorgio / hackademix.net:
United Nations VS SQL Injections — The United Nations web site* has been defaced this morning. (screenshot) — *15:20 UTC update: this link now says "temporarily unavailable due to scheduled(!) maintenance", but the other ones should still work. — The speeches of the Secretary …
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UN's website breached by hackers — Hackers have attacked the United Nations official website, forcing some sections to be taken offline. — Slogans accusing the US and Israel of killing children appeared on the pages reserved for statements from UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon.
Chuck Roast / Pligg Blog:
Pligg Opens Negotiations For Possible Sale — As some of you may have noticed, Pligg is going through some changes. Recently, the administration has decided to open Pligg.com up for bidding. You can read more at the following links Mashable & Tech Crunch — Let me elaborate on what this means.
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Steven Levy / Newsweek:
Facebook Grows Up — At 19, Mark Zuckerberg came up with a new way for college kids to connect—and started an online revolution. Now 23, he's trying to build out his business without losing its cool. — On Tuesday, July 31, Shara Karasic's world came to a temporary halt. Facebook was down.
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Chris Ziegler / Engadget:
SlingPlayer Mobile for Symbian in private beta — Windows Mobile and Palm devices won't be having all the placeshifting fun for much longer. Though carrier Hutchison 3 has had its own version for some time through its X-Series line, a generic, widely available SlingPlayer Mobile for Symbian …
Kim Hart / Washington Post:
Microsoft Disputes FCC's Rejection of Web Devices That Use TV Airwaves — Today Microsoft plans to try to convince regulators that it can connect consumers to high-speed Internet over unused television airwaves without interfering with existing broadcasts. — In a document that it plans …
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Is Glam A Sham? — Glam Media, which is mostly an ad network but also owns a group of sites focused on women, is actively attempting to raise $200 million in a private round of financing. The company previously raised $18.5 million in December 2006. — The company has hired Allen & Company …
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Louise Story / New York Times:
A Variation on the DVR, Without Ad Skipping — In a move that is certain to delight advertisers, Time Warner Cable is about to offer its customers a free recording feature for their televisions — one that will not allow them to zap through the commercials.
Ken Fisher / Ars Technica:
Google selleth then taketh away, proving the need for DRM circumvention — It's not often that Google kills off one of its services, especially one which was announced with much fanfare at a big mainstream event like CES 2006. Yet Google Video's commercial aspirations have indeed been terminated …
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Eric Sylvers / New York Times:
Dutch Company Bets on Interactivity to Make G.P.S. Devices More Useful in the U.S. — If you have ever been lost on the tiny, twisting, one-way back streets of Prague, Brussels or Milan, you have a pretty good idea why navigation devices that use the Global Positioning System are vastly more popular in Europe than in the United States.
Jacqui Cheng / Ars Technica:
Google, Microsoft and Apple building online storage havens: you win — Cloud computing is still far off, but Microsoft and Google are both eagerly working on "cloud storage" solutions in the hopes that you'll start keeping more and more of your data on their servers, keeping you coming back to their services …
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Janko Roettgers / NewTeeVee:
How To Leak Your Own TV Show On The Net — Want to give your new TV show a big promotional push? Forget about those promo DVDs in Entertainment Weekly, nobody watches them. P2P is where it's at for a new generation of TV viewers. At least that appears to have been the rationale …
Robert Scoble / Scobleizer:
Note to HP: Open Your Garage for next weekend's BarCamp — Next week is a huge event in Silicon Valley. August 18-19. BarCampBlock. They are closing an entire block in Palo Alto to celebrate the birthday of BarCamps worldwide. The first BarCamp was started at SocialText's offices …
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Valeria Maltoni / Conversation Agent:
Meet the (New Media) Editor — Tony Hung, The Blog Herald — Have you found that writing articles for print publications is quite onerous? For example Marketing News has a very rigid set of guidelines one must follow and a lengthy process to be approved. Yet the magazine's content is often not very original.
