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Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac:
Apple Stores begin iCloud and iOS 5 training, may hint at imminent launch — As Apple's yet-to-be-made-official fall festivities approach, we've heard that Apple has begun iOS 5 and iCloud training with retail store employees. According to these sources, training is done through …
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Alex Wagner / PhoneDog.com:
Best Buy prepping for Sprint iPhone 5 in the first week of October? — The rumblings of a Sprint iPhone 5 have been growing louder as we've marched toward the device's rumored October arrival, and today we've got more evidence to support the claims that Hesse and Co. may soon be landing Apple's upcoming smartphone.
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PhoneArena, BGR, Redmond Pie, MacPost, 9to5Mac, Gizmodo, MacRumors, MacNN, PalmAddicts, Edible Apple, Mashable!, Shoutpedia and AppleInsider
Chris Ziegler / This is my next:
iPhone 5 launch could be signaled by ‘Apple fixture installation’ at Best Buy on October 21st
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Examiner, AppleInsider, MobileSyrup.com, PC Magazine, PhoneArena, MacPost, everythingiCafe, Shoutpedia, Neowin.net, CNET News, App Advice, Sprintfeed, iDownloadBlog.com, TiPb and 9to5Mac
Jacob Appelbaum / Tor Blog:
DigiNotar Damage Disclosure — About an hour ago I was contacted by the Dutch Government with more details about the DigiNotar Debacle. It seems that they're doing a great job keeping on top of things and doing the job that DigiNotar should've done in July.
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Securelist and @xentek
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Andreas Udo de Haes / Computerworld:
CIA, Mossad, MI6 targeted by Iranian DigiNotar-hackers
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Between the Lines Blog, Computerworld and Hacking for Christ
Toby Sterling / Associated Press:
Dutch Government: Websites' Safety Not Guaranteed
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NOS, Associated Press, Hacking for Christ, rnw.nl, The Register and Mozilla Security Blog
Mike Anderson / NBC Bay Area:
Behind Google's Freddie Mercury Doodle — Go behind the scenes of one of the most involved Google doodles ever. — Google is celebrating what would have been Freddie Mercury's 65th birthday on Monday with its second longest doodle to date. — Google is celebrating what would have been …
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The Huffington Post, The Official Google Blog and Gizmodo Australia
Robert Scoble / Google+:
I am asking Google to remove me from the Google+ suggested user list. Here is my thinking. — 1. I don't need to be on the list. My bosses don't care. It isn't needed for my role in the industry or my business model. By being off the list on Twitter I have found my natural audience.
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SFGate, PC Magazine, AllThingsD, PC World, @steverubel, 9to5Google, LAUNCH, Digital Trends, Softpedia News and adafruit industries blog
Ed Bott / The Ed Bott Report Blog:
The decline and fall of TiVo and Media Center — Summary: The streaming media era began in 2008, and the DVR is an endangered species. TiVo, the company that defined the DVR category a decade ago is on the ropes, and Microsoft has all but declared Media Center a legacy app.
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TechCrunch
Jacqui Cheng / Ars Technica:
Why keeping up with RSS is poisonous to productivity, sanity — On this long Labor Day weekend in the US, we're bringing you a set of opinion pieces from various Ars writers—and we've love to have you join the conversation in the comments. — On the surface, RSS seems great for those of us …
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Marco.org, @davewiner, Eileen Rivera and Scripting News
Jamie Davidson / The Cat Was Killed:
An exploration of Yelp's own filtered reviews — An article was published recently by the Chicago Tribune about a dog trainer in Chicago and his positive reviews being filtered on Yelp only after he refused to advertise with Yelp. Before he talked to Yelp, his business had a 4 star rating …
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Graham Cluley / Naked Security:
DNS hack hits popular websites: Daily Telegraph, The Register, UPS, etc — Popular websites including The Register, The Daily Telegraph, UPS, and others have fallen victim to a DNS hack that has resulted in visitors being redirected to third-party webpages.
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Guardian, @regvulture, THN : The Hacker News, ZDNet, Neowin.net, @taf, @alex_norcliffe, @cronus42, Sucuri, @youranonnews, isc Home and The Next Web, Thanks:gcluley
Jo Adetunji / Guardian:
‘Twitter terrorists’ face 30 years after being charged in Mexico — School teacher and radio presenter accused of spreading false reports that gunmen were attacking schools in Veracruz — A man and a woman are facing 30-year prison terms in Mexico for allegedly using Twitter to spread panic over a series of child kidnappings.
Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft Blog:
Microsoft weighs in on Mosaid-Nokia patent deal — Summary: Microsoft is party to the just-announced deal between Nokia and Mosaid, a Canadian patent licensing firm. The Redmond company has a “passive economic interest,” its officials are saying. — In the latest installment of …
Tom Krazit / mocoNews:
Why HP's Hasty, Bumbling Decision To Dump Mobile Hardware May Doom WebOS — It's never pretty to watch a big tech company scramble for direction (that is, unless you compete against that company). HP (NYSE: HPQ) is currently trying to wind down a mobile business that it hardly launched …
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