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[Medianews] A Stroll Through the iPhone App Store

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[Medianews] Firefox 3.0.1 released

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[Medianews] USA Today for iPhone

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[Medianews] Textbooks, free and illegal, online

Textbooks, free and illegal, online Use of pirated works hurting publishers By Hiawatha Bray, Globe Staff | July 18, 2008 The Boston Globe Faced with soaring prices for textbooks, cash-strapped students have discovered a tempting, effective, but illicit alternative - pirated electronic

[Medianews] The Soup: iPhone 3G

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[Medianews] The Miles Pile Up; Their Value Declines

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[Medianews] Apple Reports Record Third Quarter Results

Apple Reports Record Third Quarter Results Revenue Up 38 Percent Year-Over-Year Mac Sales Reach All-Time High CUPERTINO, California-July 21, 2008-Apple today announced financial results for its fiscal 2008 third quarter ended June 28, 2008. The Company posted revenue of $7.46 billion and net

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[Medianews] ATT's 2Q08 Earnings

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[Medianews] Generation Text: Emailing on the Go Sends Some Users Into Harm's Way

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[Medianews] My Son, the Blogger: An M.D. Trades Medicine for Apple Rumors

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[Medianews] A Beloved Professor Delivers The Lecture of a Lifetime

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[Medianews] Apple's Culture of Secrecy

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[Medianews] Apple's Latest Opens a Developers' Playground

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[Medianews] Apple Fails to Patch Critical Exploited DNS Flaw

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[Medianews] Literacy Debate: Online, R U Really Reading?

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Can science explain why ABBA is so catchy? By Sarah Rodman, Globe Staff | July 13, 2008 The Boston Globe It only takes a single exposure, and in an instant, your whole day can change. The infection is rapid and feels potentially unending. One minute you're minding your own business and the

[Medianews] Rec-Room Wizard

Video Games Rec-Room Wizard By DAVE ITZKOFF The New York Times August 10, 2008 ROCHESTER, Minn. THE sounds were coming from the basement: a rapid, staccato clicking of plastic against plastic, hundreds of times a minute, too quick and orderly to be described as a rattle and too rhythmic to

[Medianews] AntiPod

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[Medianews] Leaks in Patch for Web Security Hole

Leaks in Patch for Web Security Hole By JOHN MARKOFF The New York Times August 9, 2008 SAN FRANCISCO - Faced with the discovery of a serious flaw in the Internet's workings, computer network administrators around the world have been rushing to fix their systems with a cobbled-together patch.

[Medianews] Online Consumers at Risk and the Role of State Attorneys General

Study: State AGs Fail to Adequately Protect Online Consumers State attorneys general received thousands of complaints about online fraud and abuse in 2006 and 2007. Yet, with the exception of several notable standouts, few states brought significant cases in response to those complaints,

[Medianews] I've lost my key. Can you pass me that banana? / Lock-picking enthusiasts are cracking the 'uncrackable' in increasingly creative ways.

I've lost my key. Can you pass me that banana? Lock-picking enthusiasts are cracking the 'uncrackable' in increasingly creative ways. And locksmiths aren't happy about it. Patrick White reports PATRICK WHITE From Friday's Globe and Mail July 11, 2008 at 8:58 AM EDT You won't be kicked off

[Medianews] The Social Network as a Career Safety Net

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[Medianews] Silverglate: National security and free speech

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[Medianews] Smartphone Sart-Ups Have a Friend in This Fund

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[Medianews] Welcome, Freshmen. Have an iPod.

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[Medianews] Apple Premieres Movies on the iTunes Store in Australia New Zealand

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[Medianews] New Nikon Holds a Secret

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[Medianews] BNY Mellon Data Breach Potentially Massive

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[Medianews] The Bank Account That Sprang a Leak

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[Medianews] Woody Allen has his groove back

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[Medianews] Apple Introduces New iPod nano

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[Medianews] Apple Announces iTunes 8 / Features Apple's New Breakthrough Genius Technology

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[Medianews] NBC Universal Returns to the iTunes Store

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[Medianews] Apple Introduces New iPod touch

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[Medianews] App Store Downloads Top 100 Million Worldwide

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[Medianews] APPLE-SA-2008-09-09 iPod touch v2.1

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[Medianews] APPLE-SA-2009-09-09 iTunes 8.0

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[Medianews] APPLE-SA-2008-09-09 QuickTime 7.5.5

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[Medianews] Conflict Over Spying Led White House to Brink

Conflict Over Spying Led White House to Brink By Barton Gellman Washington Post Staff Writer Sunday, September 14, 2008; A01 This is the first of two stories adapted from Angler: The Cheney Vice Presidency, to be published Tuesday by Penguin Press. Original source notes are denoted in

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[Medianews] Brave New World of Digital Intimacy

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[Medianews] Apple Updates for Multiple Vulnerabilities

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[Medianews] iPhone Forensics / Recovering Evidence, Personal Data, and Corporate Assets

iPhone Forensics Recovering Evidence, Personal Data, and Corporate Assets By Jonathan Zdziarski First Edition: September 2008 ISBN: 9780596153588 Pages: 138 http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/9780596153588/ *** * POST TO [EMAIL PROTECTED] *

[Medianews] RIM BlackBerry Desktop Manager v. PocketMac: Macs and BlackBerrys, Part I

RIM BlackBerry Desktop Manager v. PocketMac: Macs and BlackBerrys, Part I RIM currently builds its BlackBerry Desktop Manager software only for Windows machines, often leaving Mac users out in the cold. Here we list a number of important features available to PC users in desktop manager, as

[Medianews] Diamond and Kashyap on the Recent Financial Upheavals

Steven D. Levitt September 18, 2008, 10:04 am Diamond and Kashyap on the Recent Financial Upheavals By Steven D. Levitt New York Times As an economist, I am supposed to have something intelligent to say about the current financial crisis. To be honest, however, I haven't got the foggiest

[Medianews] U.S. Court Is Now Guiding Fewer Nations

American Exception U.S. Court Is Now Guiding Fewer Nations By ADAM LIPTAK The New York Times September 18, 2008 WASHINGTON - Judges around the world have long looked to the decisions of the United States Supreme Court for guidance, citing and often following them in hundreds of their own

[Medianews] Fuzzy Renaissance

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[Medianews] Live Ars Technica coverage of Apple's 2008 notebook event

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[Medianews] Your 0-to-60 Time? Just Ask Your iPhone

Your 0-to-60 Time? Just Ask Your iPhone By PETER WAYNER The New York Times October 30, 2008 WHEN Greig McArthur gets in his Ferrari 360 Modena, he likes to take his iPhone along. He might have to call someone, of course, but it's certain he'll use the phone to see how his car is running.

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[Medianews] US court throws out most software patents

US court throws out most software patents Microsoft has a problem By John Oram @ Friday, October 31, 2008 4:56 AM Much of the patent portfolio of some of the world's biggest software companies has become worthless overnight, thanks to a ruling yesterday by the US patent court. The US

[Medianews] Cars With the High-Tech Comforts of Home

Fully Loaded By BILL VLASIC The New York Times October 30, 2008 AUTOMAKERS have long tried to make the car a relaxing sanctuary that eases the stress of overcrowded highways and gridlocked traffic. But while cushy seats and big stereos once defined a sweet ride, consumers today are traveling

[Medianews] BlackBerry Aims to Stay Step Ahead

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Economic Scene Are Stocks the Bargain You Think? By DAVID LEONHARDT The New York Times October 29, 2008 Some of the country's most famous investors, including Warren Buffett and John Bogle, have started to make the case that it's time to dive back into the stock market. They are usually

[Medianews] Consumers Feel the Next Crisis: It's Credit Cards

Consumers Feel the Next Crisis: It's Credit Cards By ERIC DASH The New York Times October 29, 2008 First came the mortgage crisis. Now comes the credit card crisis. After years of flooding Americans with credit card offers and sky-high credit lines, lenders are sharply curtailing both, just

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[Medianews] Can TV Make Your Teen Pregnant?

November 3, 2008, 12:18 pm Can TV Make Your Teen Pregnant? By Lisa Belkin Television can make your teenager pregnant. Not directly, of course. But the journal of the American Academy of Pediatrics is releasing a study today, linking sexual content on television with the teenage pregnancy

[Medianews] U Tube / Want a free education? A brief guide to the burgeoning world of online video lectures.

U Tube Want a free education? A brief guide to the burgeoning world of online video lectures. By Jeffrey MacIntyre | November 2, 2008 RESERVE ANOTHER LAUREL for Edward O. Wilson, the Pellegrino University Professor emeritus at Harvard, serial Pulitzer winner, and prominent intellectual:

[Medianews] The '08 Campaign: Sea Change for Politics as We Know It

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[Medianews] The Masses on Yelp.com Eat and Tell - NYTimes.com

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[Medianews] Behind the Statistics on TV and Teen Pregnancy

November 3, 2008, 3:58 pm Behind the Statistics on TV and Teen Pregnancy A new study making headlines today suggests teenage girls and boys who watch a lot of steamy television are more likely to become pregnant or cause a pregnancy. But a closer look at the data shows the relationship

[Medianews] Mass. voters OK decriminalization of marijuana

Mass. voters OK decriminalization of marijuana November 4, 2008 09:34 PM By David Abel, Globe Staff Massachusetts voters today approved a ballot initiative to decriminalize possession of small amounts of marijuana, making getting caught with less than an ounce of pot punishable by a civil

[Medianews] Measured Response To Financial Crisis Sealed the Election

Measured Response To Financial Crisis Sealed the Election By Anne E. Kornblut Washington Post Staff Writer Wednesday, November 5, 2008; A01 Sen. Barack Obama, so steady in public, did not hide his vexation when he summoned his top advisers to meet with him in Chicago on Sept. 14. His

[Medianews] Why More Colleges Want Jewish Students

Inside Higher Ed Oct. 29 Why More Colleges Want Jewish Students At Chicagoland Jewish High School, What I'm seeing is, new names are popping up all the time, says Bruce Scher, the academic dean and director of college counseling. Outside of the stereotypical or the standard colleges that

[Medianews] The Ink Tank: a daily roundup of editorial cartoons

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[Medianews] Early Transition Decisions to Shape Obama Presidency

Early Transition Decisions to Shape Obama Presidency By Shailagh Murray Washington Post Staff Writer Wednesday, November 5, 2008; A30 Barack Obama will take office in 76 days, but the moves he begins making today will immediately begin to define his presidency. He is expected to name a White

[Medianews] FCC Adopts Rules For Unlicensed Use of Television White Spaces.

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[Medianews] FCC Approves, With Conditions, Verizon Wireless-ALLTEL Transaction.

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[Medianews] FCC Approves, With Conditions, Sprint-Nextel/Clearwire Transaction.

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[Medianews] Mark Papermaster Joins Apple as Senior Vice President of Devices Hardware Engineering

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[Medianews] GSA Presidential Transition Resources

Message to Presidential Nominees and Appointees, and Members of the President-elect's Transition Team: The Presidential Transition Act of 2000 (P.L. 106-293) authorizes the General Services Administration (GSA) to develop a transition directory in consultation with the National Archives and

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[Medianews] list of top ten irritating phrases

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/debates/3394545/Oxford-compiles-list-of-top-ten-irritating-phrases.html Oxford compiles list of top ten irritating phrases A top 10 of irritating expressions has been compiled by researchers at Oxford University. By Charlotte Bailey Last Updated:

[Medianews] Kimchi rising

Kimchi rising Pushed by a Korean initiative to increase its profile, the distinctive 'day-to-day' cuisine of fermented foods is attracting American devotees By Sheryl Julian , Globe Staff | November 5, 2008 Americans are eager for any new food or unfamiliar ingredient. They fall in ove

[Medianews] Shazam! A Projector Is Shrunk

State of the Art Shazam! A Projector Is Shrunk By DAVID POGUE The New York Times November 5, 2008 Come on, admit it: is there anything more awesome than miniaturization? The Walkman put a stereo system in your pocket and changed the game forever. A modern digital watch has the computing power

[Medianews] Internet Attacks Grow More Potent

Internet Attacks Grow More Potent By JOHN MARKOFF The New York Times November 10, 2008 SAN FRANCISCO - Attackers bent on shutting down large Web sites - even the operators that run the backbone of the Internet - are arming themselves with what are effectively vast digital fire hoses capable

[Medianews] APPLE-SA-2008-11-10 iLife Support 8.3.1

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 APPLE-SA-2008-11-10 iLife Support 8.3.1 iLife Support 8.3.1 is now available and addresses the following security issues: ImageIO CVE-ID: CVE-2008-2327 Available for: iLife 8.0 or Aperture 2, on Mac OS v10.4.9 through v10.4.11 Impact: Viewing a

[Medianews] Hacker Tool Targeting MS08-067 Vulnerability

Hacker Tool Targeting MS08-067 Vulnerability 11.11.2008 - 9:00 AM Websense Security Labs has noticed a special hacker tool in China. In the past few weeks, Microsoft has announced and released a patch for the MS08-067 vulnerability, and a hacker tool named wolfteeth bot catcher has been

[Medianews] The Supreme Court, Personalities and Rivalries that Define America By Jeffrey Rosen

Excerpt from EPIC Alert 15.22 http://www.epic.org/alert/EPIC_Alert_15.22.html === [7] EPIC Bookstore: The Supreme Court === The Supreme Court, Personalities

[Medianews] Security Update available for Adobe Reader 8 and Acrobat 8

Security Update available for Adobe Reader 8 and Acrobat 8 Release date: November 4, 2008 Vulnerability identifier: APSB08-19 CVE number: CVE-2008-2992, CVE-2008-2549, CVE-2008-4812, CVE-2008-4813, CVE-2008-4817, CVE-2008-4816, CVE-2008-4814, CVE-2008-4815 Platform: All Platforms SUMMARY

[Medianews] Firefox 3.0.4 released

Firefox 3.0.4 Release Date: November 12, 2008 Release Notes http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/3.0.4/releasenotes/ http://www.mozilla.com/firefox/ http://www.getfirefox.com/ *** * POST TO MEDIANEWS@ETSKYWARN.NET * ***

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