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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 …
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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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.
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 …
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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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.
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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Michael Barbaro / New York Times:
Internet Sales Show Big Gains Over Holidays — Online retailers, whose growth was expected to level off after a decade of dizzying gains, experienced a stellar holiday season, according to two preliminary reports released yesterday, as traditional stores like Wal-Mart and Target cemented their place on the Web.
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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 …
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.
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 …
