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Joris Evers / CNET.com:
Unpatched Firefox flaw may expose users — A new, unpatched flaw in that affects all versions of Firefox could let attackers surreptitiously run malicious code on users' PCs, a security researcher has warned. — The problem lies in the way Firefox handles Web links that are overly long and contain dashes …
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Firefox 1.5 Beta 1 Released — Project Links — 2.0 Development Roadmap - outlines 2.0 plans and priorities. — The Firefox 1.0 Charter outlines the reasons behind this project, and its goals. — Developer Links — Firefox 1.0.6 Source Tarball — Firefox-specific source lives under …
Stefanie Olsen / CNET.com:
Why Google hired Vint Cerf — news analysis What will Internet visionary Vint Cerf do for Google? — Whether he meant to or not, Cerf hinted at one area he was interested in six weeks before he joined the search giant, and it deals with a wireless device near you.
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linuxdevices.com:
PalmSource gets acquired by mobile browser vendor — Mobile browser-maker Access Co. Ltd. announced Friday that it will acquire Palm OS developer PalmSource Inc. in an all-cash transaction for approximately $324 million. The acquisition adds operating system platform expertise …
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Armed and Dangerous:
Microsoft tries to recruit me — The following is, verbatim, a letter I received a few minutes ago from a Microsoft recruiter. — From: "Mike Walters (Search Wizards)" <v-mikewa@microsoft.com> To: <esr@thyrsus.com> Eric, I am a member of the Microsoft Central Sourcing Team.
John Gruber / Daring Fireball:
The iTunes 5 Announcement From the Perspective of an Anthropomorphized Brushed Metal User Interface Theme — A Lexus SC 430 convertible speeds down a sunny street in Cupertino. The top is down. BRUSHED METAL is behind the wheel, stabbing at the buttons on his mobile phone. — We hear the connection ringing.
Chandu Thota / Chandu Thota's WebLog:
Virtual Earth APIs available for commercial use (and they are FREE!) — Here is the good news folks: We are now offering the MSN Virtual Earth API for commercial applications free of charge to developers. This APIs include the JavaScript map control and local search service …
Martin LaMonica / CNET.com:
Microsoft Web plan takes aim at Google — Microsoft will take aim at rival Google next week with a new Web development plan. — The software company plans to open access to its MSN and other public Web sites to let developers assemble new applications that build on those sites …
Matt Cutts:
What's an update? — (Normally I, you know, think before I post. I'm experimenting with the quick-post-with-very-little- thought technique here.) — What is an update? Google updates its index data, including backlinks and PageRank, continually and continuously.
ZDNet:
Mac community must wake up to security — Apple Macintosh users believe they are immune from security problems and need to wake up to the potential of attack — before they are rudely awoken by a destructive piece of malware. — At the University of Otago in New Zealand …
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Matthew Fordahl / Associated Press:
Wireless Tech to Be Deployed for Katrina — SAN JOSE, Calif. - A high-speed wireless networking technology that's still being tested around the world will be deployed at an evacuation shelter and other spots on the U.S. Gulf Coast hit by Hurricane Katrina. — The technology called WiMax …
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Loren / Incremental Blogger:
Ink gestures addin for Word (part 3) — The ink gestures addin for Word is coming along. — Bob is making some terrific progress with the Office UI integration. He was stuck on a couple Office CommandBar issues, but I think he's made his way through them. He's definitely been learning lots about the workings of Word.
Arshad Mohammed / Washington Post:
Wireless Networks Give Voice To Evacuees — Hurricane Katrina survivor Caprice Butler had been at a church shelter in rural northeastern Louisiana for nearly a week when she finally heard her husband's voice on an Internet phone running on an improvised wireless network.