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Here are some interesting links from the past couple days:

• Security pros completely bypass Vista’s now “useless” security
  About all those fancy security measures Microsoft put into Windows Vista… well, they’re now pretty much useless, according to security experts from IBM and VMware presenting a new attack methodology at this week’s Black Hat security conference.
• Reporters booted from conference for hacking
  With thousands of hackers milling around the Black Hat convention here, and widespread snooping on the public Wi-Fi network, one place was supposed to be off limits: the press room.
• Moving Beyond Passwords For Security
  The solution urged by the experts is to abandon passwords — and to move to a fundamentally different model, one in which humans play little or no part in logging on. Instead, machines have a cryptographically encoded conversation to establish both partie

Here are some interesting links from today:

• Hacker Claims Apple Can Spy On iPhone Users
  Apple may have opened up the iPhone to third-party applications, but it is keeping a very close eye on those apps. According to hacker Jonathan Zdziarski, the iPhone can “phone home” to tell Apple what apps are installed…
• RFID goes prime time in Beijing Olympics
  Radio frequency identification technology will be facing one of its first major tests during the Beijing Olympics, taking care of ticketing for the estimated 3 million athletes, journalists, and spectators. The chips embedded in Olympics tickets will…

Here are some interesting links from today:

• E-Passports Can Be Hacked and Cloned in Minutes
  Tests have concluded that new e-passports can be hacked within minutes. A researcher cloned the chips in 2 passports and then implanted images of Osama bin Laden and a suicide bomber. Both passports passed as genuine by UN approved passport readers.
• Google Search Provides Olympic Event Schedules Inline
  Find out when events in your favorite sport are going down in a single Google search: Simply enter the event name and “Olympics” into the Google search box to see upcoming dates and times, like tennis Olympics, or diving Olympics.
• SlingPlayer 2.0 beta goes public | Crave, the gadget blog – CNET
  The beta version of the SlingPlayer 2.0 software is now available for Windows users as a free download from Sling Media’s Web site. The software, which allows owners Slingbox products to access their TV programming via any broadband-connected PC…
• Watch the Olympics Online
  The 2008 Beijing Olympics will happen while most Americans are sleeping. While NBC will be providing thousands of hours of content on the web, the only way to truly ensure you won’t miss any action is to take advantage of the many video outlets online.

Here are some interesting links from the past couple days:

• Jobs: MobileMe “not up to Apple’s standards”
  Apple CEO Steve Jobs conceded in an e-mail to Apple employees that the company had made numerous mistakes during the launch of its MobileMe Internet service, saying that the service “was simply not up to Apple’s standards”
• Google backs ISP-guaranteed minimum data rates
  If Comcast can’t use TCP reset packets to limit the number of BitTorrent connections a client can spawn, what legitimate techniques can ISPs use to deal with congestion ? Google’s Vint Cerf, today weighed in with his answer: transmission rate caps.
• Aurora: The Future of the Internet
  What will browsing the web be like a decade from now? Leading design and UI company Adaptive Path offers one possible answer in a new concept video series called Aurora, demonstrating what the future of the web might look like.
  

Here are some interesting links from today:

• Microsoft’s New Vista Ads Don’t Work
  Microsoft’s bait-and-switch campaign for Vista, the “Mojave Experiment,” is baffling. Why base a campaign around the core assumption that everyone thinks your product sucks, and that people who have felt wronged by Vista are ignorant fools?
• Oh happy day — the new Delicious is here
  Over the past few days we’ve been transitioning Delicious over to our new platform, quietly starting with RSS feeds and APIs. Today we’re taking the final step and flipping the switch on the new web site: delicious.com.
• Firefox market share exceeds 20%, Internet Explorer dips below 70%
  It has been six weeks since Firefox 3 has been released and it appears that Mozilla has had a successful launch with market share gains, especially at the expense of Microsoft’s Internet Explorer.