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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
RSS is Now Integrated into Yahoo Mail and Alerts — Yahoo gathered a small group of bloggers, press and others at Sauce in San Francisco tonight to announce the launch of two new RSS products. They have integrated an RSS reader directly into Yahoo Mail Beta, and are expanding Alerts to include RSS feeds.
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Jfurrier / Podtech.net:
PodTech Exclusive: Yahoo! RSS Goes Mainstream with Yahoo! Mail and Alerts — Download to MP3: Exclusive Yahoo! Podcast - RSS Goes Mainstream with Yahoo! Mail and Alerts — The PodCast: — PODTECH EXCLUSIVE - YAHOO! PODCAST MEDIA RELEASE — In another PodTech Podcast InfoTalk exclusive …
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Jeff Clavier / Software Only:
Yahoo Mail becomes a full fledged RSS Reader - and messes up with MyYahoo home page — TechCrunch reports that the new Yahoo Mail (still in closed beta ?) now offers the ability to subscribe to RSS feeds and display the content as a river of news, etc. Makes sense.
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Ryan Naraine / eWEEK.com:
Trend Micro: RSS Is Worm Bot's Next Target — Security researchers at Trend Micro Inc. have pinpointed RSS (Really Simple Syndication) technology as a lucrative target for future bot worm attacks. — David Sancho, senior anti-virus research engineer at Trend Micro, warned that RSS feed hijacking …
Ina Fried / CNET News.com:
No Vista Beta 2 this year — The second beta of Windows Vista will not come until next year, Microsoft said Tuesday. — The software maker did not give a time frame for the release of Beta 2 of the operating system, and said only that it would have more to say next year.
ctv.ca:
New spyware could prevent drivers from speeding — Many motorists would balk at the idea of an electronic back-seat driver that forcefully prevents them from speeding. — But a new device being road-tested by Transport Canada could mean breaking the speed limit will no longer be an option.
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Daniel Terdiman / CNET News.com:
Newsmaker: Banking on a virtual economy — Late last month, Jon Jacobs, an independent filmmaker from Miami, became the first person in the history of online gaming to spend $100,000 on a single virtual item when he bought a space station in the game "Project Entropia."
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Andrew Hill / Financial Times:
An energetic guide for a 21st-century journey — Thomas Friedman has a vision for the final edition of The World is Flat: anybody will be able to update it. — "It's been suggested to me that we actually turn the book into an open-source product. Just put it up on the web like Wikipedia …
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Steve Hamm / Business Week:
Sony BMG's Costly Silence — The label was alerted to the secret, virus-vulnerable software on its CDs long before the scandal broke. Trouble is, it didn't act immediately to alert consumers — For Sony BMG Music Entertainment, it has become a public-relations nightmare — and it shows no signs of abating.
Dan Farber / Tech Blogs on ZDNet:
Grand Central turning to Swivel — After co-founding and leading CNET (from which this blog issues forth) from obscurity to Web stardom, Halsey Minor started 12 Entrepreneuring, raising over $130 million to incubate Web services companies before flaming out during the 2001 bubble bursting.
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Microsoft "Fremont" to Launch — Microsoft will be beta launching a new web 2.0 service under the Live.com brand in the next few weeks. The final name is TDB, but the current project name is "Fremont" and the URL fremont.live.com will redirect once its fully live.
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Scot Wingo / eBay Strategies:Microsoft beta testing a Google Base like system?
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Jeremy Reimer / Ars Technica:
Firefox 1.5 released on Mozilla's FTP site — The much-anticipated release of Firefox 1.5 has finally been posted on Mozilla's FTP site. This is the full release, unlike the Release Candidates 1, 2 and 3 that were posted on the Mozilla.org website on November 1, November 10 and November 17, respectively.
Spyware Warrior:
ANTI-SPYWARE ZEALOT RANTS ABOUT 180SOLUTIONS — Just when 180solutions' CEO Keith Smith is whining about anti-spyware companies, or to use his words "scanning applications", Spyware Warrior has captured another 180solutions installation with no notice and no consent through a security exploit.
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Business Week:
Computer, Heal Thyself — Intelligent machines that can learn and fix themselves are becoming a reality — Back in the Fall of 2001, Paul Horn was wrestling with the computer industry's demons. The former University of Chicago physics professor had been running IBM's (IBM ) research labs since 1996.
BBC:
US net body challenged over .com — The US body which oversees the workings of the internet is being challenged over its handling of the .com domain. — The row concerns the decision by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (Icann) to allow the private firm Verisign to maintain control of .com forever.
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Whatshisface / The Post Money Value:
A new Infomercial — How to start a company with no money down — I had started this blog as sort of a joke/response to all the "we don't need no stinkin VC" postings floating around. — But an interesting thing happened along the way which should actually make a whole lot of people stand up and take serious notice.
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