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westchestergov.com:
SPANO PROPOSES LAW TO COUNTER RISKS OF WIRELESS NETWORKS — Businesses would be required to maintain secure networks — Wireless Internet connections are becoming more popular as "hot spots" are popping up at Starbucks and countless cafes, businesses and even parks, but many users …
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Guy J Kewney / newswireless.net:
WiFi Internet cafes "must have firewall" - Westchester County — Just outside New York City, Westchester County has become the scene of the latest WiFi scare, with County Executive Andy Spano [left] announcing legislation to prevent insecure WiFi hotspot operation.
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Mike / Techdirt:
Local Politicians Say Open WiFi Should Be Illegal — It's quite well known that there are security issues with WiFi networks, but there are ways to take precautions and make yourself pretty safe. As education gets better, it the security risks shouldn't be as big a deal.
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Edward Wyatt / New York Times:
Want 'War and Peace' Online? How About 20 Pages at a Time? — In a race to become the iTunes of the publishing world, Amazon.com and Google are both developing systems to allow consumers to purchase online access to any page, section or chapter of a book.
Gavin O'Malley / MediaPost Publications:
CBS Crosses Online 'Threshold,' Distributes It Via CBS.com — CBS IS CROSSING ANOTHER DIGITAL threshold - literally. The broadcast network, Wednesday unveiled plans to distribute three episodes of prime-time sci-fi series "Threshold" online via CBS.com. The move represents yet another …
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Om Malik / Om Malik's Broadband Blog:
Bigger Than Google, MySpace is different — Robert Young, earlier this year, explained to my readers why Rupert Murdoch really bought MySpace for $583 million. He argued that we should wait for Rupert to launch a record label and a music channel that takes on MTV and knocks it off its top spot.
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Brian Benzinger / Solution Watch:
Podcasters, meet Fruitcast — Fruitcast is a new service that is not only great for advertisers, but podcasters as well. The founder of Fruitcast, James Archer of Forty Media, saw a problem when it comes to making money with podcasting. You cannot simply connect Google AdSense to a podcast …
Arshad Mohammed / Washington Post:
SBC Head Ignites Access Debate — The head of a major telecommunications company stirred up a hornets' nest this week by suggesting that he wants to charge companies like Google and Yahoo a fee for bringing them into consumers' homes. — SBC Communications Inc. Chairman Edward E. Whitacre Jr.'s comments …
Kevin Poulsen / Wired News:
Alleged Pop-Up Hacker Busted — In the first U.S. prosecution of its kind, FBI agents arrested a 20-year-old Los Angeles man Thursday on charges that he cracked some 400,000 Windows machines and covertly installed pop-up-generating adware on them, in a scheme that allegedly brought in $60,000 in ill-gotten profits.
Rasmus / Rasmus' Toys Page:
GeoCool! … There is of course the fancy new maps.yahoo.com/beta site which is fun, but as far as I am concerned the killer app here is the geocoding platform that drives this. And it is completely accessible for anyone to use. It's also a sane API that anybody can figure out in minutes.
Steve Friess / Wired News:
Video and the Podcasting Star — Within days of Apple's release of the video iPod last month, the guys at Cinecast flipped on a camera and started offering one segment of their movie-review show as a videocast. Switched:on host Bryan Castles is also experimenting, but says he'll go slow …
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Jenstar / JenSense:
AdSense Policies update time again! — When AdSense is down or there are login problems, it often means there is something new and shiny to keep us publishers amused with. And sure enough, we have a brand new Google AdSense Policies available. — So, it is updated Google AdSense Policies time …
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BBC:
Google posts first books online — The first works scanned and put online as part of Google's controversial print project have been unveiled. — Included in this opening swathe are many 19th Century works of American literature and history. — The works were chosen because they are out of copyright …
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Yuki Noguchi / Washington Post:
A New Place for Spam's Same Old Pitches — Now that Web logs — blogs, for short — are a popular online pastime for millions of people, scammers are finding new ways to exploit them as vehicles for junk advertisements. — The Internet has even coined a term — splog, a combination of spam and blog …
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Samus / What Do You Care What Other People Think?:
SaaS Startup Offering — I've been working hard to develop a strong Microsoft-based offering for startups building SaaS companies, because the economics are with LAMP right now. In listening to startup engineering managers and business managers (i.e. VP Engineering and CEOs) I consistently hear the following:
