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Scobleizer / Channel 9:
My coworkers impress, letter about Katrina efforts — This is why I love working here. I am taking a risk here by printing this (it was an internal email that I thought would be interesting to print here), but this is an email from Lisa Brummel, director of HR.
Joris Evers / CNET.com:
Mozilla offers temporary fix for Firefox flaw — Responding to the disclosure of a serious Web browser flaw, the Mozilla Foundation offered on Friday a temporary fix to protect Firefox and Mozilla users. — The downloadable fix protects against attacks that take advantage of a new …
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Doug Young / Reuters:
China Telecom said to block Skype — SHANGHAI, Sept 9 - China Telecom has started blocking access to a popular Internet telephone service that is threatening its long-distance revenue, according to local media reports and Internet postings. — China's largest fixed-line phone carrier …
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Center for American Progress:
A Better Communications System for Emergency Workers — Katrina overwhelmed the nation's complex communications system, raising serious questions about whether federal and local governments need new powers to organize a rapid response by the wireless, wire, cable, satellite, and broadcast industries.
James S. Granelli / Los Angeles Times:
Wireless Broadband Rises to Challenge Land Lines — Firms set up networks to help rescuers. Some see an opportunity to replace the old system. — As telephone and wireless companies scramble to repair their hurricane-battered networks along the Gulf Coast, some of them are calling up the future.
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Jenstar / JenSense:
New ad category targeting added to YPN — Yahoo Publisher Network has added a brand new ad category targeting feature for publishers, which should help create tighter ad targeting. … Here is a screenshot (click the screenshot to view full-sized version of the page):
Alfred Hermida / BBC:
Microsoft aims for hack-proof 360 — Microsoft plans to make its next generation games console, the Xbox 360, as difficult as possible to hack. — The 360 will have security built directly into the hardware, said Xbox engineer Chris Satchell. — Fans have modified the first Xbox to turn …
IEBlog:
Phishing Filter in IE7 — Hi, my name is Tariq Sharif and I am a Program Manager on the IE Security team. One of the threats users face on the web is phishing. Today, I want to tell you about the Phishing Filter in IE7, a new security feature designed to dynamically warn users if they visit a phishing site.
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 …
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lightreading.com:
SunRocket Misfires Again — SunRocket Inc. is undergoing a "system-wide" service outage that began Thursday and had not been resolved at the time of this writing at 5:15 EST Friday (see SunRocket Smolders During Stall). — A SunRocket telephone support person told Light Reading Friday …
Workbench:
Technorati's F'ing Ping Thing — In the Wall Street Journal, Technorati CEO David Sifry said the company has made exclusive deals to receive weblog pings: … The live, up-to-the-second nature of the blogosphere is made possible because of pings. When I publish a new entry on Workbench …
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Mnemonic / Godwin's Law:
RIAA's Big Push to Copy Protect Digital Radio — Never mind that digital audio broadcasting is not significantly greater in quality than regular, analog radio. Never mind that its music quality is vastly less than than that of audio CDs. In spite of these inconvenient facts …
Andrew Orlowski / The Register:
Subpoenas at 6Gbps? RIAA, MPAA join Internet2 — The experimental high speed internet project Internet2 has two new members today: a pair of acronyms guaranteed to have researchers rifling anxiously through their "Stuff" directories. Both the Recording Industry Ass. of America, the RIAA …
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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
Why Google hired Vint Cerf
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Search Engine Journal, The Tao of Mac, SearchViews, ClickZ Internet Marketing … and Joseph Scott's Blog