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Leander / The Cult of Mac Blog:
First Mac OS X Worm a Wake-Up Call — UPDATE: There's a lot of debate about whether this is a real worm, or merely an elaborate, executable script that the user is tricked into running. It appears to be a worm — it's self-containing code that replicates itself over the Net (def.).
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May Wong / Associated Press:
Apple Hackers Encounter a Poetic Warning — SAN JOSE, Calif. - Apple Computer Inc. has resorted to a poetic broadside in the inevitable cat-and-mouse game between hackers and high-tech companies. — The maker of Macintosh computers had anticipated that hackers would try to crack …
John C. Dvorak / PC Magazine:
Will Apple Adopt Windows? — This would be the most phenomenal turnabout in the history of desktop computing. There's just one fly in the ointment. — Total posts: 15 — The idea that Apple would ditch its own OS for Microsoft Windows came to me from Yakov Epstein …
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Om Malik / Om Malik on Broadband:
Introducing, The Daily Om — Back in the day when I worked for a weekly newspaper in New York, the dismal newsroom taught me something: not everything merits a front page 24 point headline treatment. There are some stories which are short, sweet, touching or simply quirky.
Declan McCullagh / CNET News.com:
Congressman quizzes Net companies on shame — When the U.S. House of Representatives convened a hearing on Wednesday to talk about China and the Internet, it quickly devolved into an exercise in political speechmaking. — Not until nearly halfway through the event did any of the technology …
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Jeremy Zawodny / Jeremy Zawodny's blog:
Tom's Future of Web Apps, Translated for Product Managers — I've had a tab open in my browser pointing at Tom's Native to a Web of Data slide for a few days now. It's been nagging me. I needed to do something with the ideas encapsulated in that one slide, and tonight it struck me while I was doing something completely unrelated.
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
AllPeers is Coming; Exclusive Screenshots — Prague based Allpeers cofounder Matthew Gertner came by my house today to install the product and let me try it out. — Allpeers is a Firefox extension that creates a simple, persistent buddy list in the browser.
Tom Krazit / CNET News.com:
Microsoft driver flaw saps battery strength — Microsoft has confirmed the existence of a flaw in its USB 2.0 drivers for Windows XP Service Pack 2 that can cause a notebook to consume power at a faster-than-expected rate when using a peripheral device. — The issue, first uncovered …
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Jonathan Berr / TheStreet.com:
Google Warms to Wall Street — Google (GOOG:Nasdaq - news - research - Cramer's Take) is extending an olive branch. — The search engine giant's shares are down 18% this year, following a Jan. 31 earnings setback that cratered the once-invincible stock. So Google, after long sitting …
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AdAge:
'THE SOPRANOS' USES GOOGLE MAPS TO PROMOTE NEW SEASON — NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — HBO may have unearthed a new branding platform, Google Maps. The Time Warner unit is out promoting the return of "The Sopranos" through a variety of mediums but is likely to be the first advertiser to have paid …
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Barry Schwartz / Search Engine Watch Blog:HBO's "The Sopranos" Uses Google Maps & AdWords for Show Promotion
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Marc Orchant / Office Evolution:
Office Live: bring out the trolls — There's nothing like a big announcement from Microsoft to start what my friend Ed Bott charitably calls "OS food fights". Yesterday's soft launch of Office Live is a classic example of how good ideas can go right off the rails when marketing messes around …
Chris Pratley / Chris Pratley's OneNote Blog:
OneNote 2007 Drawing Tools — Awhile back I promised to write about drawing tools in OneNote 2007. I'm pleased to say that thanks to the valiant efforts of one of our interns (hiya Bill!), we've got 'em! — Obviously a big part of capturing information quickly is capturing diagrams.
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Life On the Wicked Stage
Bonnie Ruberg / Wired News:
Sex Games Get Down to Business — Sexy mods squeezed into video games may still cause controversy, but racy titles are becoming so popular the industry is planning a convention so developers can chart a path to success. — Evergreen Events will host the first-ever Sex in Video Games Conference this June.
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kpcb.com:
Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers Forms $200 Million — Pandemic and Bio Defense Fund — MENLO PARK, CA., February 16, 2006 - Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers (KPCB) - a leader in providing relationship and venture capital SM services to entrepreneurs - announced the formation of a new fund, the KPCB Pandemic and Bio Defense Fund.
Brian / Spam Kings Blog:
Asterisk on pop-up mogul's gold — There's already a tarnish on the gold medal won by Australian mogul skier Dale Begg-Smith at the Olympics in Turin this week. — While the 21-year-old Begg-Smith may not have been involved in doping or cheating on the slopes, the way he richly supported himself …
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Peter Galli / eWEEK.com:
Microsoft to Unleash Host of Office 2007 Suites — Microsoft on Feb. 16 is set to announce 34 Office suites, programs, servers, services and tools—13 of which are new—that form part of its 2007 Microsoft Office family of products, previously knows as Office 12.
