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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 …
Discussion: Gizmodo
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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.).
John Leyden / The Register:
'First' Mac OS X Trojan sighted
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.
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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Various / MacSlash:
Apple To Drop Mac OS X In Favour Of Windows
Discussion: Squash and TechBlog
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.
Discussion: clock, Dave Beckett and cubicgarden.com
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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Yuki Noguchi / Washington Post:
Internet Firms Address China Practices
Christopher Grant / Joystiq:
DirecTV blade coming to 360 Dashboard?  —  During CES in January, Microsoft andDirecTV announced a"long-term agreement to expand the reach of digital content throughout the home and on the go."  Part of thatagreement involved extending "the DirecTV experience to the Xbox 360 system."
Discussion: LiveSide and Xbox 360 Fanboy
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James Orry / pro-g.co.uk:
The Outfit demo readies for action on March 3
Discussion: Kotaku and Joystiq
Wall Street Journal:
News Corp. Goal: Make MySpace Safer for Teens  —  When News Corp. bought the social-networking Web site MySpace.com last July, the media company got two surprises, one good and one bad.  —  The good part: The site, where teens and twenty-somethings post pages about themselves and communicate with friends …
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Naked Conversations TechCrunch Party Tomorrow  —  I'm pretty excited about the Naked Conversations TechCrunch Party tomorrow night starting at 7 pm.  —  We've been working hard for weeks to get the event together and, thanks to our sponsors, this should be the best one so far.
Discussion: Scobleizer
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.
Discussion: Peer Pressure and Nik Cubrilovic
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 …
Discussion: Internet Outsider
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
Discussion: All Points Blog
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.
TiVo.com:
Inside TiVo...with Amir  —  Welcome to the first "Inside TiVo" blog post.  I spoke with Amir in Product Marketing and asked him if he would answer a few questions about the new online services that are currently rolling out.  Here's what he had to say:  —  Nova: What do you do here (read: what's your elevator pitch)?
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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