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Mike Rundle / Business Logs:
Crippling Firefox Bug On Mac OS X — As I'm sure you all know, Firefox v1.5 has been officially released and is available for download. Got a G5 processor? Check out this page to download a G5-optimized version of the Fox that is a bit faster. You would think all is gravy in Mozilla-land, but that is definitely not the case.
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Associated Press:
High-tech 'repo man' keeps car payments coming — NORFOLK, Va. — NOTE TO REPO MAN: Might want to look into another line of work. — A new gizmo is upping the odds that even the most hard-knock customer will come up with the car payment. Hooked into the ignition system …
Richard MacManus / Read/WriteWeb:
RSS Everywhere II - but where is Google? — Last night Yahoo! announced they are integrating RSS into their web mail and alerts products. As Scott Gatz explained in an interview with PodTech: Yahoo's plan, which started in January 2004 when they launched RSS in the My Yahoo portal, is to "bring RSS to the masses".
Reuters:
Setback for BlackBerry maker — Judge refuses to enforce disputed patent deal, may ban BlackBerry sales; RIM shares tumble. — WASHINGTON (Reuters) - BlackBerry maker Research In Motion Ltd. was dealt another legal setback in a key patent infringement case on Wednesday …
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Richard S. Tedlow / Fortune:
The Education of Andy Grove — A Harvard historian explains how Intel's legendary chief became the best model we have for leading a business in the 21st century. — In 1991, an instructor at Stanford's Graduate School of Business presented his class with a case study.
Brian Benzinger / Solution Watch:
Web-based Google Talk with Gtalkr — A new web-based client named Gtalkr has been released just yesterday which gives you the ability to use Google Talk through any browser, anywhere. I talked about meebo a while back, but what is different about the two is that Gtalkr is only for Google Talk …
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Electronic Frontier Foundation:
DMCA Triennial Rulemaking: Failing Consumers Completely — December 1 is the last day to submit proposals (by 5p EST) to the Copyright Office seeking a 3-year DMCA exemption for noninfringing activities that are otherwise squelched by "digital rights management" (DRM) restrictions.
Joris Evers / CNET News.com:
Trojan horse rides on unpatched IE flaw — Attackers are taking advantage of an unpatched vulnerability in Internet Explorer to target users of the ubiquitous Web browser, Microsoft warned late Tuesday. — Malicious software that exploits the security flaw to download a Trojan horse …
Jeff Leeds / New York Times:
Deadheads Outraged Over Web Crackdown — The Grateful Dead, the business, is testing the loyalty of longtime fans of the Grateful Dead, the pioneering jam band, by cracking down on an independently run Web site that made thousands of recordings of its live concerts available for free downloading.
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WSJ Personal Technology:
A New Gold Standard for PCs — When Apple Computer launched its video iPod last month, the hype was so great that another important Apple product announcement was lost in the shuffle. The company also released that day a new, improved, and yet cheaper, version of the already excellent iMac G5, its flagship consumer desktop computer.
Pete Wright / The secret life of an MS Author:
First impressions of Motion LE 1600 — Jealousy is an ugly thing, especially when it comes from an old friend you thought you could trust. — The new Motion LE-1600 arrived just around lunchtime today, leaving me just about enough time to unpack the thing, plug it into a power source and rest it next to the M200.
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CNET News.com:
Sun to offer more free software — update Sun Microsystems said Wednesday that it will offer free access to its Java server suite and N1 management software and bundle them with its Solaris operating system. — The software being offered for no cost are the Java Enterprise System set of server middleware …
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Loren Baker / Search Engine Journal:
Yahoo Mail RSS Reader (Screenshots!) Integrates Blogs into Email — Yahoo Mail RSS Reader Integrates Blogs into Email — Yahoo has announced the extension of its My Yahoo RSS (Really Simple Syndication) services with the addition of RSS feeds in the new beta version of Yahoo! Mail (available by invite only).
Dave Winer / Scripting News:
John Battelle almost gets there today in figuring out where the limits are for Google. First, Microsoft is not the prior art, Netscape is. What was their failure? They didn't create opportunities for other tech companies to lock them in. That's where P/E comes from in the tech world.
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Edmund Tadros / The Sydney Morning Herald:
The game that makes people cry — Update: This blog has been picked up by digg, where readers have posted a range of comments. — Dragging clouds through the sky. That's the most exciting activity you can do in Cloud, a new computer game where you play a young boy who flies through the air above a small group of islands.
