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JakeTheSpud:
TABLETS OF SILICON — Consolidating my life with the Toshiba M200 — I should have figured that Moses was onto something when I read he returned from the top of Mt. Sinai with the Ten Commandments on tablets of stone—after all, he was a revolutionary. Until October I was either chained …
hexblog.com:
Windows WMF Metafile Vulnerability HotFix — This week a new vulnerability was found in Windows: — Browsing the web was not safe anymore, regardless of the browser. Microsoft will certainly come up with a thouroughly tested fix for it in the future, but meanwhile I developed a temporary fix - I badly needed it.
Chitika Blog:
Chitika Reporting System and Monthly Audits Update — We are working on upgrading our back-end filtering and fraud detection systems to dynamically detect and prevent fraud, improve the quality of the overall network and help minimize the difference between the daily raw click reports …
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Jeremy Wright / Ensight:
Sigh @ Netgear Support — Sometimes I wonder about companies. I really do. I got a new wireless router this month and decided to try and set it up. It's a Netgear router, which you'd think would work flawlessly. At least I did. Silly me. Here's what happened. — 1. Buy Netgear wireless router
Jeremy Zawodny / Jeremy Zawodny's blog:
What The F**k is with Dell Technical Support?! — I'm on hold waiting to speak with a Dell Tech Support representative, presumably in India. The Dell 2405FPW UltraSharp Flat Panel LCD Montior I recently purchased (using our corporate discount at work) arrived in a broken state.
itar-tass.com:
Putin tells telecom minister Leonid Reiman he does not have mobile phone — MOSCOW, December 30 (Itar-Tass) - President Vladimir Putin said during a meeting with Russian Telecommunications Minister Leonid Reiman Friday one of the things that makes him different from the vast majority …
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New York Times:
Patents Rejected for BlackBerry — Research in Motion, the maker of the BlackBerry wireless e-mail device, said yesterday that the United States Patent and Trademark Office had issued preliminary rejections of two wireless e-mail patents owned by NTP, the holding company that had won a patent infringement lawsuit against it.
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VoIP Blog
Ben / ds-x2.com:
Pokemon Diamond & Pearl - Online Capability — Junichi Mysada has released the first actual details about Diamand and Pearl. — In his diary, that can be found at the Gamefreak website, he wrote that the game isn't finished yet and that they need an amount of time to make the game a great one.
CNN:
Poll: Google the best of the Web — (CNN) — The search engine Google is the most significant development in the 15-year history of the World Wide Web, according to a poll of CNN.com users. — Nearly 18,000 CNN.com users voted in the three-week online survey, part of Spark's look …
Jeff Jarvis / BuzzMachine:
Cookie monsters — The government cookie story is getting stupider by the day. The AP — having naively believed they had some investigative scoop when they discovered that the NSA site, like most every site on earth, sets cookies — now finds that the White House has "bugs" …
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Stephen Shankland / CNET News.com:
Voice control coming to XM radio — XM Satellite Radio and VoiceBox Technologies announced a multiyear alliance Thursday to bring voice control to the satellite broadcast service. — The partnership will let drivers issue voice commands to search through XM Satellite Radio's 160 channels of music …
Rhys Blakely / Times of London:
Identity question for world's encyclopaedia — "In my vision of the future of journalism what we will see is an increasing amount of citizen participation in the gathering of news and in feedback and in reporting and analysing the news. At the same time, we'll have professional organisations managing the process"
Larry Seltzer / eWEEK.com:
Anti-Virus Protection for WMF Flaw Still Inconsistent — Days after the revelation of a flaw in Windows' handling of WMF graphics files, dozens of exploits are being spread from thousands of adware sites. But good protection is available. — At the same time, further testing confirms …
Eric Rice:
New Years Eve LIVE podcast / KSSX.com *and* in Second Life — PHONES WORK!!!, Now you can call in live, 1-818-237-5533 or 1-800-978-KSSX. And you know someone is gonna be busting out the hybrid podcast + live stream realtime rowra, baby. — Update Seems to be a little confusion about the event, apparently.
