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John Markoff / New York Times:
New Focus for Intel: The Home — Intel, the world's biggest chip maker, is breaking away from its longstanding love affair with pure computing power to remake itself as a consumer-friendly brand that will seek to dominate the digital home. — Intel's strategy, based on a new generation …
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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 …
Ars Technica:
Google Talk targeted in patent lawsuit — The fledging Google instant messaging service known as Google Talk has come under fire from a Delaware corporation that claims that Google is infringing on two of its patents. Rates Technology Inc. claims that Google has violated their patents …
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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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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:
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Vitalsecurity.org, Spyware Confidential, The PC Doctor, Ed Bott's Windows Expertise and AccMan Pro
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George Ou / ZDNet.com:
Lots of bad advice for critical WMF vulnerability! — There has been a lot of bad information/advice being kicked around on the Internet pertaining to the critical WMF vulnerability in the last few days. I'm said to admit that I too fell for it for a short period of time until I proved that these "fixes" were worthless.
Lorraine Woellert / Business Week:
Sony BMG Ends a Legal Nightmare — The label has quickly settled the class action over its "secret" copy-protection software. That's good for all parties — including the future of digital music — As peace treaties go, it might be one of history's swiftest negotiations.
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Lost Remote TV Blog
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Dave Winer / Dave's Wordpress Blog:
Why I'm working on an aggregator — Background — The first RSS aggregator developed at UserLand was called My.UserLand.Com. It was a centralized application, like Bloglines or My.Yahoo. It first shipped in 1999, alongside My.Netscape.Com, which took a different approach.
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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 4% of the F500 are doing so. Check it out here. — Long form: Earlier this year I was at a dinner …
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Things That, Guardian Unlimited, a shel of my former self, Weblogs Work, rexblog.com and Susan Mernit's Blog
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.
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Web 2.0 Companies I Couldn't Live Without — There have been numerous 2005 "best of" and 2006 "predictions" posts over the last few weeks as the year comes to an end. I'm not going to write one of those. Giving out "best of" awards seems presumptuous to me, given that I've been blogging all of six months.
Jeremy / POP! PR Jots:
The PR Issue Behind Alaska Airlines Decompression — Found via Scobleizer, then seen on MP, and then noted on BuzzMachine the PR issue ... here's an interesting story on Alaska Airlines ... and how the plane decompression was blogged about with nice photos by Jeremy Hermanns (good first name …
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Robert Strohmeyer / Wired News:
Best (and Worst) Gadgets of 2005 — 2005 has been a banner year for gearheads, with more hot gadget launches than you could shake a USB cable at. But there's a great chasm separating pre-launch buzz from real-world performance, and not all gizmos live up to the hype.
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Peter Graff / Reuters:
Cash pours in for UK student with $million Web idea — LONDON, Dec 29 (Reuters) - If you have an envious streak, you probably shouldn't read this. — Because chances are, Alex Tew, a 21-year-old student from a small town in England, is cleverer than you.
David Kesmodel / Wall Street Journal:
Microsoft Places Big Bet On Multiplayer Gaming — Microsoft Corp.'s new Xbox 360 videogame console comes bundled with lots of bells and whistles, such as movielike graphics. But Microsoft's bid to reshape the videogame industry largely is tied up in one feature: the machine's emphasis on online play.
