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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 …
Michael Liedtke / Associated Press:
Internet Pioneer Vinton Cerf Joins Google — SAN FRANCISCO — Google Inc. has hired Internet pioneer Vinton Cerf to float more ideas and develop new products, adding another weapon to the online search engine leader's rapidly growing arsenal of intellect. — Cerf's defection from MCI Inc. …
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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.
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.
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 …
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.
Jwelch / bynkii.com's Mac Matters:
iDevelopers! iDevelopers! iDevelopers! — Let me apologize if the title of this post brings to mind the disturbing image of Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer's infamous "MonkeyBoy" dance, but for this article, it applies. With the release of the iPod Nano, iTunes 5.0, the Motorola Rockr …
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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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.
Ross Mayfield / Ross Mayfield's Weblog:
Our Social World — Random notes from Our Social World in Cambridge, UK. — Ben Hammersley kicked off by stressing the important part isn't the technology, but the social interaction. When tracing the roots of blogging back the enlightenment, he notes that it introduced concepts of science, technology and good manners.