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Anne Broache / CNET News.com:
Unsecured Wi-Fi would be outlawed by N.Y. county — According to a new proposal being considered by a suburb of New York City, any business or home office with an open wireless connection but no separate server to fend off Internet attacks would be violating the law.
Kasper Jade / appleinsider.com:
PowerBook to gain iSight, iBook to go widescreen in 2006 — Along with its transition to Intel processors, Apple Computer in the first half of next year will introduce new eye-catching industrial designs for both of its laptop offerings, AppleInsider has learned.
Stevedod / Steve Dodson's WebLog:
Microsoft Windows AntiSpyware is now......"Windows Defender" — Over the last few months we have been working hard on creating the next version of the Microsoft anti-spyware technology. Today, we are announcing the new name for this technology... Microsoft Windows Defender. Does this mean a lot is changing??
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Luke Hutteman's public virtual MemoryStream:
Feeds, well-formed XML and Vista — The Microsoft RSS Blog just announced that Vista will only accept RSS feeds that are well-formed XML. — I agree with Nick, who commented "This is the right thing to do, and I'm glad you're doing it - thanks". I'd like to add some emphasis to that statement though …
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Google Lunch? — As many people know, Google offers its employees free lunch and free dinner at the campus (Yahoo charges its employees). It's a lavish affair, with many different types of high quality food, drinks, desert, etc. I like visiting Google for lunch, and accept nearly every offer I get from a Google employee.
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Mark Russinovich / Mark's Sysinternals Blog:
More On Sony: Dangerous Decloaking Patch, EULAs And Phoning Home — My posting Monday on Sony's use of a rootkit as part of their Digital Rights Management (DRM) generated an outcry that's reached the mainstream media. As of this morning the story is being covered in newspapers …
Charlene Li / Charlene Li's Blog:
Microsoft's "Live" strategy is a good and smart move — I was at the launch event for Windows Live and Office Live on Tuesday morning and have been running ever since, so apologies for not posting this sooner. I wrote a Forrester piece on this (subscription required). Here's the executive summary:
Joris Evers / CNET News.com:
Digg temporarily downed by 'success' — Digg, a rising online technology news community that has been called a rival to Slashdot, went offline for about five hours on Friday. There was no attack, instead the servers succumbed to the site's success, according to Digg founder Kevin Rose.
Stefanie Olsen / CNET News.com:
Wireless: The new backseat driver? — SAN FRANCISCO—Just in case you don't have enough backseat drivers, your car could one day tell you when you're about to screw up. — On Thursday, General Motors demonstrated a vehicle-to-vehicle, or V2V, wireless communication system that alerts you when a collision is imminent.
Jeremy Reimer / Ars Technica:
On the 15th birthday of the World Wide Web, a look back — In November of 1990, Tim Berners-Lee, a researcher at Europe's CERN Particle Physics Laboratory, invented the very first web server and web browser. The server, entitled simply httpd, and the browser, called WorldWideWeb …
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Ben / Inside Firefox:
Improving Tabbed Browsing — A lot of us are fans of tabbed browsing. It's one of the most useful changes in window and document management since the Task Bar on Windows. People who like to work with multiple documents like quick, convenient access to them. It's part of the reason Microsoft moved Office to a SDI model.
Frans Bouma / Frans Bouma's blog:
VS.NET 2005 C# : IDE hang with simply code... Today I was doing some small research work with generics in VS.NET 2005 professional RTM and I was just typing normal code when the IDE suddenly locked up, a hardcore hang with 100% CPU usage. After a kill process, I restarted the IDE …
Tom Sanders / Silicon Valley Sleuth:
Yahoo Maps pranks Google — Yahoo engineers apparently couldn't help themselves. The beta of the new Yahoo Maps for a short while listed "The Dude's Fish Store" at 1600 Amphiteatre Parkway in Mountain View, CA. — The address is better known as the headquarters for Yahoo's competitor Google.
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Ywsblog / Yahoo! Web Services blog:
Shedding light on the Yahoo! Maps APIs Terms of Use — I wanted to take a brief moment to clarify our terms of use for Yahoo! Maps, as many folks have contacted us asking whether they could use the APIs on their site. — Our position has always been to allow usage of the Yahoo! …
