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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.
Andrew / Changing Way:
Naked Conversations — I've read most parts of this book twice, and some parts more than that. So this post is not based on a skimming, or a hasty reading, or even a single reading. I recommend Naked Conversations very highly. (I'll refer to it as NC from this point on.)
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Scobleizer
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 …
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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The Blog Herald
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
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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The Doc Searls Weblog
Ars Technica:
Australia looks to legalize VCR recording, CD ripping — Our friends in the Land Down Under (where women glow and men plunder) have been living under an awful plight, but the need to run and/or take cover is coming to pass. See, while the rest of the world is trying to figure out how to stop …
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.
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 …
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 …
