Chinese military hacked into Pentagon  —  By Demetri Sevastopulo in Washington and Richard McGregor in Beijing  —  The Chinese military hacked into a Pentagon computer network in June in the most successful cyber attack on the US defence department, say American ­officials.

Source:   Financial Times
Link:   http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/9dba9ba2-5a3b-11dc-9bcd…

A boring rant  —  In the interest of keeping items brief I’ve cut the previous post and put the boring stuff here.  Enjoy.  Or don’t enjoy, as the case may be.  Skip over it.  Whatever.  —  It’s not just Disney and ABC that are out of touch.  Look at the management team at NBC Universal.

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The hundred gadget giveaway starts midnight tonight  —  This one goes out to all the folks who’ve been waiting ever so patiently to take home some gear in an Engadget giveaway.  This week we’re giving away over a hundred gadgets, games, swag bags, and the like — including an HDTV, a DSLR …

Source:   Engadget
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7 Reasons Why Microsoft is DOOMED!  —  Not this year, not next year… but soon - almost certainly by the next decade.  —  #1. Their business model is a dead-end.  - Back when Microsoft first started business in 1980, software as a commodity was still a fuzzy concept.

Source:   Geeks and Technology - Linux Windows […]

Return Of The Schwag  —  The true hard core geek/fanboy crowd loved ValleySchwag when it launched in the Spring of 2006.  For $15 per month you would receive a package containing tshirts, stickers, pens and other junk that new startups pay a fortune to have created with their logo printed on it.

Source:   TechCrunch
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Coming soon: hard drives with 1GB+ DDR RAM cache  —  Hard drives have long utilized small bits of cache memory to boost performance, and some recent hybrid hard drives already combine up to 256MB of NAND flash memory with traditional platter-based storage.  Now a Japanese company called DTS …

Source:   Ars Technica
Author:   Jeremy Reimer
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Windows Live Installer Thingy Coming This Week  —  In June Microsoft said that they would soon be aggregating the Windows Live services into a single downloadable installer to give users an easy way to access the suite of services.  Today the New York Times is reporting that Microsoft …

Source:   TechCrunch
Author:   Michael Arrington
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Link by Link: Whiting Out the Ads, but at What Cost?  —  MORE white space.  —  I sent an e-mail message to a friend telling him about Adblock Plus, an easy-to-use free addition to the Firefox Internet browser that deletes advertisements from Web sites.  That subject line of his reply summed it up quite nicely.

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Jotspot Coming to Google Apps as Google Wiki?  —  Since acquiring Jotspot last October, Google has been busy working on integrating the wiki service into its infrastructure.  —  In April this year, Jotspot’s help and support pages moved to Google and a few months later Dave Girouard mentioned …

Source:   Google Blogoscoped
Author:   Tony Ruscoe
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Adblock Plus: the nuclear plug-in  —  Adblock Plus, the Firefox browser plug-in that erases advertisements from web pages, is a killer of a killer app - or at least it would be if it became widely popular.  Right now, it sits like a coyote at the edge of the net, quietly eyeing all the businesses […]