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Charles C. Mann / Wired News:
How Click Fraud Could Swallow the Internet … Stuart Cauff launched a charter-jet service in Miami Beach back in 2002. Being a 21st-century business, JetNetwork advertised on the Internet, especially on search engines. Anyone who Googled, say, "air charter Miami" would be greeted …
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Chris Anderson / The Long Tail:
ANNOUNCING THE FORTUNE 500 BUSINESS BLOG INDEX — Short form: In collaboration with Socialtext, we've created a wiki that tracks which of the Fortune 500 is blogging. We found that only 3% of the F500 are doing so. Check it out here. — Long form: Earlier this year I was at a dinner …
Om Malik / Om Malik on Broadband:
Towards Nearly Free Voice — Rupert Murdoch says voice will soon be free, and so does eBay's Meg Whitman. And even if you laugh of these non-telecom types procrastinations as wisdom of the novice, there are signs that they may not be that off the mark. — Especially if you are one of those …
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USA Today:
Blogger's aircraft emergency account draws praise, scorn — A California man who was a passenger on the Alaska Airlines flight that lost cabin pressure earlier this week is now being both praised and scorned online for taking photographs and posting an account on his blog.
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Brian Krebs / Washington Post:
Windows Security Flaw Is 'Severe' — A previously unknown flaw in Microsoft Corp.'s Windows operating system is leaving computer users vulnerable to spyware, viruses and other programs that could overtake their machines and has sent the company scrambling to come up with a fix.
Justin Hyde / USA Today:
Nissan puts video gamers behind the wheel ... for real — If you think of driving in the real world as precious hours away from your racing video games, Nissan may have a car for you. — The Japanese automaker said Wednesday it will unveil a concept roadster at the North American International Auto Show …
Business Week:
Inside Intel — Paul Otellini's plan will send the chipmaker into uncharted territory. And founder Andy Grove applauds the shift — Even the gentle clinking of silverware stopped dead. Andrew S. Grove, the revered former Intel Corp. (INTC ) chief executive and now a senior adviser …
W. David Gardner / TechWeb:
Google To Supply Search For Opera's Mobile Browsers — Google will supply the default search function for Opera Software's mobile browsers, the company said Thursday. Opera Software supplies two separate browsers for mobile and wireless devices. — In a statement, Opera said …
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Khoi Vinh / Subtraction 7.0:
Breaking News — This is going to be a hard post to write, so I'm going to keep it as short as I can, but forgive me if I run long. After pouring so much of my blood, sweat and tears into Behavior, I've decided that the time has come for me to leave this terrific company that …
Paul R. La Monica / CNN:
Does Ma Bell want a DISH? — There are rumors that AT&T may bid for EchoStar. Speculation seems premature but a deal makes sense. — NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) - Cable companies and telecoms are at each other's throats. — Cablers Comcast (Research) and Cox are trying to steal customers …
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Sunbelt BLOG:
A note on DEP and the WMF exploit — Based on preliminary research, we're finding that systems with software-enforced DEP will get the WMF exploit, but systems with hardware-enforced DEP will not. — For those of you unfamiliar with DEP, Microsoft explains it well:
Mike / Techdirt:
RIAA Accused Of Coaching 15-Year-Old Witness In File Sharing Suit — Lawyer Ray Beckerman may have ditched Patricia Santangelo after promising to stick with her case against the RIAA all the way through, but he's still highlighting some interesting cases of people who are finally fighting …
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dannysullivan — Reputation: — As it happens, I was at a friend's house yesterday who has a completely new site, only a month and a half old. He was wondering why another site was outranking him. I'm probably going to go into detail about what I found, but fair to say, there was a sandbox effect for everything I could see.
Joel Spolsky / joelonsoftware.com:
The Perils of JavaSchools — Lazy kids. — Whatever happened to hard work? — A sure sign of my descent into senility is bitchin' and moanin' about "kids these days," and how they won't or can't do anything hard any more. — When I was a kid, I learned to program on punched cards.
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Scobleizer / Microsoft Geek Blogger:Joel says teaching Java is bad for CS students
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JD Lasica / New Media Musings:
Top 10 Tech Transformations of 2005 — Everyone else is making Best of 2005 top 10 lists, so here's a quick list of Top 10 ways in which technology has impacted our culture during 2005, in no particular order. I didn't check any other writer's lists, so I probably missed some big ones.
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