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Ian King / Bloomberg:
Intel Drops Logo After 37 Years; Seeks to Take Image Beyond PCs — Dec. 30 (Bloomberg) — Intel Corp., whose marketing made its computer chips a household name, is changing its logo for the first time in 37 years. — The dropped ``e'' in Intel will be shed in favor of a swoop around …
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Geoff Duncan / news.designtechnica.com:
Intel Launches New Logo and Brand Renewal — Reflecting a shift towards consumer products, chip-maker Intel is scrapping its 37 year-old logo and "Intel Inside" tagline. — In an effort to reflect the company's shift towards the general consumer marketplace, chip-maker Intel Corporation …
John Battelle / John Battelle's Searchblog:
WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU MASHUP RSS, IM, AND PUBLISHING SERVICES? — So remember that prediction I made back in 2004, the one about mobile busting out in some kind of Web 2.0 way in 2005? And how it didn't happen, so I repeated it again this year? Well, I was wrong.
Brian Krebs / Security Fix:
US-CERT: 5,198 Software Flaws in 2005 — Security researchers uncovered a record 5,198 vulnerabilities in software products this year, nearly 38 percent more than the number of flaws found in 2004, according to statistics published by US-CERT, a cyber security information-sharing collaboration between …
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us-cert.gov:
Cyber Security Bulletin 2005 Summary — 2005 Year-End Index — Information in the US-CERT Cyber Security Bulletin is a compilation and includes information published by outside sources, so the information should not be considered the result of US-CERT analysis.
Eryn Brown / Wired News:
Revenge of the Dotcom Poster Boy … It's the Friday before Halloween, and Jason McCabe Calacanis, the onetime king of New York's Silicon Alley, is holding court in his new hometown of Santa Monica, California. Dressed in a chocolaty suede blazer, a BlackBerry glued to his hand …
Waxy.org:
Suck.com, Gone for Good? — Suck.com, one of the most important and influential webzines, appears to be offline permanently, replaced by a porn search portal. — The strangest part is that the domain continues to belong to Lycos, with Hotwired acting as the nameservers.
Business Week:
The Daily Paper Of Tomorrow — It won't look the same. But with reimagining, the local daily ain't dead yet — The boss walks into your office and shuts the door. Sits down. Looks you solemnly in the eye. "We're buying a bunch of newspapers from Knight Ridder (KRI )," he says.
Mark Henderson / Times of London:
Satellite will bring cinema listings to your mobile phone — THE first of a network of 30 satellites that will provide Europe with its own version of the American Global Positioning System (GPS) was launched yesterday. — A Russian Soyuz rocket carrying the Giove A satellite blasted off …
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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Adam Pasick / Reuters:
Web services thrive, but outages outrage users — LONDON (Reuters) - Web sites that share blogs, bookmarks and photos exploded in popularity in 2005, but in recent weeks a number of major outages left users stranded and frustrated. — The new breed of Web site includes blogging services such as TypePad …
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Sunbelt BLOG:
The DEP controversy — I admit I'm getting rather tired of talking about this WMF exploit and hope to stop writing about it soon. But because we were the first security company to break the story, a lot of people have been coming to this blog and we feel we have a responsibility to keep people updated.
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Dana Epp's ramblings …, Vitalsecurity.org, The PC Doctor, George Ou and Ed Bott's Windows Expertise
Search Engine Watch:
Chris Boggs — Oversees: Link Building; Other SE's & Directories — Reputation: — good point by php. — First of all, pay-per-click is not SEO. PPC allows you to place listings within sponsored listings of search results, and SEO deals only with the "organic" or "free" listings on a search results page.
Daniel B. Wood / ABCNEWS:
No Happy Ending in 2005 For Hollywood — Ticket Sales Drop for Third Year in a Row — LOS ANGELES, Dec. 29. 2005 — Hollywood's year-ending good news is that moviegoers are opening hearts and pocketbooks for "King Kong" — it brought in more than $60 million its debut weekend and counting.
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Associated Press:
WhiteHouse.gov Uses Cookies, Bugs — NEW YORK — Unbeknown to the Bush administration, an outside contractor has been using internet tracking technologies that may be prohibited to analyze usage and traffic patterns at the White House's website, an official said Thursday.
Suzi Turner / Spyware Confidential:
Update on WMF exploit — Some new approaches have emerged for reducing the risk of being affected by this exploit. One approach involves using Data Execution Prevention (DEP). Explanation of DEP from Microsoft: … SunbeltBLOG probably has the most updated information.
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