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[Software News] Chrome's 'Save As' Flaw Could Give Attackers Control
Bach Khoa Internetwork Security, a security-research firm in Vietnam, claims to be the first to discover a critical vulnerability in Google's Chrome browser. "This is the first critical Chrome vulnerability permitting [a] hacker to perform a remote code-execution attack and take complete control of the affected system," the firm wrote in its Sept. 5 advisory. While four Chrome vul...
[Software News] Updating.me Updates All Your Microblog Services
Many of us have accounts on several social networking and micro-blogging services, but we update them individually when we get around to it. A number of services will update multiple micro-blogging or social networking services at the same time, but most of them don't include some of the most popular ones, such as Facebook, Twitter, Plurk, FriendFeed, and Pownce. Updating.me does, though; and it even offers a downloadable app that you can use to update all of your se...
[Software News] Google expands search in old newspapers
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Google Inc has stepped up efforts to digitize dozens of historical newspapers and make scanned images of the original papers available online, the Internet search leader said on Monday. In a blog post on the Silicon Valley-based company's website, Google said it is looking to make old newspapers searchable online by partnering with newspaper publishers to digit...
[Software News] Google copying, storing more stories fit for print
SAN FRANCISCO - Google Inc. is trying to expand the newspaper section of its online library to include billions of articles published during the past 244 years, hoping the added attraction will lure even more traffic to its leading Internet search engine. The project announced Monday extends Google's crusade to make digital copies of content created before the Internet's advent, so the information c...
[Software News] Transurety Says Patents Provide for Internet Insurance
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[Software News] AT&T Launches Yahoo's oneSearch on Mobile Network
As part of an expanded strategic alliance first announced earlier this year, AT&T on Monday officially launched Yahoo's oneSearch mobile search platform on its MEdia Net portal. That makes AT&T the first U.S. carrier to integrate Yahoo's mobile-search service directly into its portal, and gives Yahoo a win over rival Google in the latest round of the nascent mobile-search battle. Yahoo ...
[Software News] Apple Ready To Rock with Possible iPod, iTunes News
"Let's Rock" is the tagline for Tuesday's press event that Apple is teasing as a major product announcement. The question for the legions of Apple speculators is: What will Apple CEO Steve Jobs announce? At the top of the speculation list is a new, significantly redesigned iPod nano. Other rumors include a major upgrade to Apple's iTunes software or the launch of music and...
[Software News] Google brings old newspapers online
San Francisco - Google is expanding efforts to put offline materials online by adding old newspaper content to its Google News Archive application, the company announced on Monday. The effort uses scanning technology leveraged in Google Book Search, which enables Web viewers to read books online as if they were still in their original paper form. The initiative is intended to "bring old newspap...
[Software News] Google digitizing old newspapers for online perusal
SAN FRANCISCO (AFP) - Google announced Monday it is working with a growing number of newspapers to "bring history online" by digitizing archives of articles ranging from lunar landings to local obituaries. "Around the globe, we estimate that there are billions of news pages containing every story ever written," Google product manager Punit Soni wrote in a blog po...
[Software News] AT&T puts Yahoo's search engine on cell phones
DALLAS - AT&T Inc. has become the first U.S. carrier to make Yahoo Inc.'s search engine the default on its cell phones, the companies said Monday. Yahoo's oneSearch replaces a search function from privately held Motricity Inc. on AT&T's MEdia Net cell phone portal, which is used on most of its Web-enabled phones, but not the iPhone. Yahoo will also be providing the advertising that appears a...
[Software News] U.S. hires lawyer for Google/Yahoo inquiry
NEW YORK (Reuters) - The U.S. Justice Department has hired Sandy Litvack, who was its former antitrust chief and Walt Disney Co's (DIS.N) former vice chairman, to consult on its probe of Google Inc's (GOOG.O) search advertising deal with Yahoo (YHOO.O), a source close to the investigation said. The Justice Department contacted the companies and told them that they were consulting wit...
[Software News] Google, NBC Universal ink ad deal
SAN FRANCISCO - Internet search leader Google Inc. and NBC Universal said Monday they're teaming up to allow Google to sell advertisements on some of NBC's cable channels such as MSNBC, Oxygen and the Sci Fi network. The partnership signals Mountain View, Calif.-based Google's desire to sell ads in different places besides next to its search engine, and NBC's efforts to get access to advertisers who...
[Software News] Nokia says eyes more Internet buys
HELSINKI (Reuters) - Nokia's Internet offering is far from ready and the world's top cellphone maker is seeking further acquisitions to speed up roll out of new services, Niklas Savander, the head of the unit, said in an interview. Nokia bought U.S. digital maps firm Navteq for $8.1 billion in July and has acquired ten smaller firms to jump-start its Internet services business as...
[Software News] Chris Shipley 1, Internet lynch mob 0
On the eve of the dueling demo-fests, Demo impresario Chris Shipley confesses that she has had it with the shoddy reporting, invective and arrogance that has attended most of the commentary on the phony faceoff between her conference and TechCrunch. Her post deserves to be quoted at length: When in a twitter I bemoaned the lack of original reporting (only one reporter (cnet) and exactly zero...
[Software News] Google: You've Come a Long Way, Baby!
Google's 10th birthday sent me back into the PCMag archives for some reminiscing and some perspective… Google! www.google.edu.stanford.edu.com "Here's your chance to search the Web and participate in high-level academic research at the same time. Google! Is a Stanford University project designed to find the most relevant Web pages (those with the most related lin...
[Software News] Old Web idea of micropayments finally finds a home
NEW YORK - Seventeen-year-old Alexis Corocan spends about $5 a month on clothes, accessories and eyes of various shapes and shades for her online persona on IMVU, a popular Internet hangout. For 29 cents, for example, she can buy a set of deep gray eyes framed by dark lashes. Sixty cents gets her a white tiger. Or for $1.21, she could have an infant named Baby Candy. Five dollars a month doesn't sou...
[Software News] Ad trade group opposes Yahoo-Google search deal
Update at 3:03 p.m. PDT, with comments from the attorney general from the state of Connecticut, which is one of the lead states in the multistate antitrust review of the Yahoo-Google deal. The Association of National Advertisers announced Sunday it sent a letter to the head of the antitrust division of the U.S. Department of Justice, citing its opposition to the controversial Yahoo-Google search ...
[Software News] Advertising group opposes Yahoo-Google pact
SAN FRANCISCO - A group representing big-spending national advertisers said Sunday it sent a letter to the Justice Department asserting an online ad partnership between Yahoo Inc. and Google Inc. will stifle competition and likely raise prices. The Association of National Advertisers said on its Web site that the letter to Thomas Barnett, assistant attorney general in charge of the Justice Departmen...
[Software News] Advertiser group objects to Google-Yahoo tie up
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The Association of National Advertisers sent a letter objecting to the proposed Internet search advertising partnership between Yahoo Inc and Google Inc to government regulators reviewing the deal, the group said on Sunday. The letter to Assistant Attorney General Thomas Barnett, noted that "a Google-Yahoo partnership will control 90 percent of search advertisin...