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Elinor Mills / CNET News:
Twitter, Facebook attack targeted one user — A Russian activist blogger with accounts on Twitter, Facebook, LiveJournal and Google's Blogger and YouTube was targeted in a denial of service attack that led to the site-wide outage at Twitter and problems at the other sites on Thursday, according to a Facebook executive.
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Dan Goodin / The Register:
Researcher: Twitter attack targeted anti-Russian blogger — Joejobbing Cyxymu — Free whitepaper - Avoiding 7 common mistakes of IT security compliance — As Twitter struggled to return to normal Wednesday evening, a trickle of details suggested that the outage that left 30 million users unable …
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Clint Boulton / eWeek:
How Google Was Impacted By The Twitter-Facebook Denial of Service Attacks — A small group of users of Google's Blogger blogging service and Google Sites wiki experienced an hour-long outage. However, Google's core Web services, including its search engine, Gmail and Docs …
Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Brainstorm Tech:
Apple's $1.2 billion tablet computer — Apple's next gadget? Image: Piper Jaffray — Piper Jaffray senior analyst Gene Munster took another crack at the Apple (AAPL) tablet computer he's been writing about for months, issuing a report to clients Friday that included …
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Neil Hughes / AppleInsider:
Apple's tablet will be more than a niche product - report — A new financial analysis predicts that Apple's yet-to-be-announced tablet will launch in early 2010 and sell about 2 million units in its first year — and at an estimated $600 each, that would be an additional $1.2 billion in revenue.
Arik Hesseldahl / Business Week:
Schmidt's Apple Gig: He Worked for Free — Former Apple director Eric Schmidt took no salary or stock for his board service. What did the Google chief accept? Lots of Apple gear — Google Chief Executive Eric Schmidt served on Apple's board essentially without pay …
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Maria Bartiromo / Business Week:
Eric Schmidt on Where Google Is Headed — Maria Bartiromo talks to the Google CEO about where the opportunities are in the future — The news on Aug. 3 that Google (GOOG) CEO Eric Schmidt was resigning from the board of Apple (AAPL) took many by surprise.
David Pogue / New York Times:
New Entry in E-Books Is a Paper Tiger — Suppose there are two rival companies — let's call them A and B. Each wants to dominate the blossoming world of electronic books. — Company A (that's A as in “Amazon") began life selling physical books online. Its reading gadget, the Kindle …
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Ashlee Vance / Bits:
Yahoo Chief: ‘We Have Never Been a Search Company’ — The dust has settled - for the moment - on the Microsoft and Yahoo search and advertising deal. So, perhaps there's room for a bit of reflection. — Last week, Brad Stone and I interviewed Carol Bartz, Yahoo's chief executive …
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James Robinson / Guardian:
Sunday Times site to be paid-for testbed — • Pay-to-view website to launch in November — • Move follows plunging profits at News Corp titles — Rupert Murdoch will use the Sunday Times as a testbed for a radical new strategy designed to transform the finances …
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Elinor Mills / CNET News:
Is Adobe the next (pre-2002) Microsoft? — If you are a criminal and you want to break into a network a common attack method is to exploit a hole in software that exists on most computers, has its fair share of holes and isn't automatically updated. — In 2002, that would have been Windows.
Ross Miller / Engadget:
Google Wave dev preview hands-on and impressions — After an impressive debut at Google I/O, the company's newest experiment and collaborative chat client has been making its way into the hands of developers in the lead-up to a torrent of new testers on September 30th.
Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Brainstorm Tech:
Apple's curious PR problem — Senior VP Phil Schiller. Image: Apple Inc. — The tech press is buzzing this week with the news that a senior Apple (AAPL) vice president took the time to e-mail a blogger. — The senior VP was Phil Schiller, one of Steve Jobs' top lieutenants.
Robert D. Hof / Business Week:
Betting on the Real-Time Web — No one knows how the microblogging site and similar online social networks will make money, but investors see a new Web revolution — John Borthwick speaks softly, but he can't hide his excitement. Co-founder and chief executive of the New York Internet …
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Ed Bott / Ed Bott's Microsoft Report:
Microsoft blunders with a confusing Windows 7 upgrade chart — Someone at Microsoft is secretly working for Apple. — That's the only possible explanation I can come up with for why they sent this “Official Windows 7 Upgrade chart” to Walt Mossberg of the Wall Street Journal …
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
This Is Quite Possibly The Spotify Cap Table — Hot European music startup Spotify is back in the news today. On August 4 we broke the news that the big music labels have secretly been shareholders in the company since 2008, and that they paid roughly the same price for their preferred stock …
Wall Street Journal:
Washington vs. Silicon Valley — Treasury's financial reform treats venture capital like hedge funds. — Printer — Friendly — Here's a stumper: In the Treasury financial reform proposal, who comes in for more regulatory retooling: Fannie Mae, or your average 14-man venture capital shop?
Corynne / Electronic Frontier Foundation:
The Kindle Lawsuit: Protecting Readers From Future Abuses — Not surprisingly, Amazon's recent deletion of George Orwell's 1984 and Animal Farm from its customers' Kindle e-book readers has sparked a class action lawsuit by Kindle users. After all, not only was the remote deletion “stupid …
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Google LatLong:
New data in Google Earth show wider swath of destruction in Darfur — On the side of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum west wall is a quote etched into the rock from General Dwight D Eisenhower, who witnessed firsthand the conditions in the concentration camps in 1945, after they were liberated:
Nilay Patel / Engadget:
Pressure-sensitive keyboard lets you express fury, tenderness — Microsoft's hardware division has always pushed the envelope, and its latest prototype is no exception: this pressure-sensitive keyboard looks exactly like a normal 'board, but each key can register up to eight levels of pressure …
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Chris Saad / Got Kit?:
JS-Kit Echo - Now Public Beta — We are proud to announce that Echo is now available to the general public as a Public Beta. — After launching our private beta sites TechcrunchIT, Building43, Guy Kawasaki, Inquistr, BrianSolis, LearnToDuck and LaLaWag we feel ready to make Echo available to the rest of the world.
