0day: PDF pwns Windows  —  I am closing the season with the following HIGH Risk vulnerability: Adobe Acrobat/Reader PDF documents can be used to compromise your Windows box.  Completely!!!  Invisibly and unwillingly!!!  All it takes is to open a PDF document or stumble across a page which embeds one.

Source:   GNUCITIZEN
Author:   Pdp
Link:   http://www.gnucitizen.org/blog/0day-pdf-pwns-windows

Welcome Erick Schonfeld, My New Co-Editor  —  I was dying to announce this at TechCrunch40, but the timing just didn’t work out.  Nevertheless, I am extremely proud to announce that TechCrunch now has a co-editor.  Erick Schonfeld, most recently an editor-at-large at Business 2.0 …

Source:   TechCrunch
Author:   Michael Arrington
Link:   http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/09/20/welcome-erick…

Techcrunch Founder Shares His Pulpit  —  Michael Arrington, founder and (strong) voice of Techcrunch, an influential tech-centric blog about startups, is moving over to share his pulpit.  —  Willingly.  —  Starting Wednesday, Techcrunch will be co-edited by Erick Schonfeld …

Source:   Bits
Author:   Matt Richtel
Link:   http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/09/20/techcrunch…

Xbox 360 to get new HD DVD drive  —  Microsoft reaffirms commitment in high definition war  —  Microsoft will launch an updated HD DVD drive for the Xbox 360 in 2008, it said at its 25th hardware anniversary in London today.  —  Mark Bennett, Microsoft’s European business development director for HD DVD …

Source:   Personal […]

Apple fesses up to faulty iPod touch screens  —  It looks like those complaining of problems with the iPod touch’s screen weren’t seeing things, as Apple has now reportedly confirmed that at least some early units did indeed ship with defective screens.  That bit of news comes at the tail end …

Source:   Engadget
Author:   […]

Stumbleupon mathematics for stumblers  —  We may be totally wrong so just a heads up but I hope this will at least give you some idea of what your thumb up is doing.  —  Audience score  —  Every stumbler has an audience score in the old days stumbleupon told you what your score was but […]

We Are Opening the Social Graph  —  Your lists of friends and connections on the social websites that you use, sometimes called your social graph, belongs to you.  No one company should own who you know and how you know them.  OpenID, which was born at Six Apart less than two years ago …

Source:   […]

Oracle Reports Q1 GAAP EPS Up 28% to 16 Cents, Non-GAAP EPS Up 27% to 22 Cents  —  Applications New License Revenues Up 65%, Database and Middleware New License Revenues Up 23%  —  REDWOOD SHORES, Calif., Sept. 20 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — Oracle Corporation (Nasdaq: ORCL - News) …

Source:   PR Newswire
Link:   http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/070920/aqth009.html

Zimbra: Why Did Yahoo Buy Them?  —  This week Zimbra was acquired by Yahoo! for a staggering $350M.  It seems like only yesterday that Zimbra was the buzz of the 2005 Web Conference.  But in two years, Zimbra has grown from a small ‘cool features’ startup to a company worth $350M.

Source:   Read/WriteWeb
Author:   Richard […]

Apple’s iPod Touch Is a Beauty of a Player Short on Battery Life  —  In the hyper-competitive world of consumer electronics, it’s highly unusual for one branded product to dominate its market for years on end.  Yet, that’s what Apple’s iPod media player, now approaching its sixth anniversary, has managed to do.

Source:   Personal Technology
Author: […]