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Nick Bradbury: FeedDemon, NetNewsWire and NewsGator Inbox to Support APML: NetsGator’s products will now support the Attention Profiling Markup Language (APML) designed to allow users and services to interchange attention data (clickstream, IM, attention.xml, etc) in a more portable manner.
ETel 2008 Cancelled - O’Reilly Emerging Telephony: Unfortunately the upcoming O’Reilly Emerging Telephony conference and it’s [...]

GFI SecurityLabs issued a note today about a new type of pump and dump spam with MP3 attachments. The voice appears to be generated using text to speech.
GFI has a sample of the audio on it’s web site as does a note about MP3 spam from SophosLabs. I found several examples in my own spam [...]

Six Apart - News and Events: OAuth: Share Your Ideas, Not Your Password: OAuth is a new specification for an open API authentication protocol similar to Google’s AuthSub, Yahoo’s BBAuth, others. The OAuth project recently launched, but many providers have already promised support.
schrep’s blog: Mozilla and Mobile: The Mozilla project announced that they are officially [...]

How 2 Guys’ Iowa Connection Took Big Telecoms for a Ride - WSJ.com: The Wall Street Journal describes the history and explains how freeconferencecall.com exploits the high call termination rates of rural telephone companies in order to provide “free” service to consumers. Many consumers are now charged flat long distance rates and therefor other phone [...]

“Trends in Badware 2007″ released: The StopBadware organization has released a report describe current types and trends in “badware” including hacked websites, phising, social network scams, browser attacks, etc. The report is free and is targeted at a general audience.
CR Blog: Smoke Signals Over Bristol: describes an art project shown at the OFFLOAD Festival in [...]

Adobe Raises The Stakes For Web Documents With Buzzword and Share: Erick Schonfeld at Techcrunch describes Adobe’s plans to purchase Buzzword, Virtual Ubiquity’s browser-based word processor. Buzzword leads the competition in terms of interface and ability to render the documents on screen the same as they will be printed. Buzzword is built using Adobe’s Flash [...]

mitchell’s blog: Mozilla’s New Focus on Thunderbird and Internet Communications: The CEO of the Mozilla Corporation, Mitchell Baker describes the launch of a new organization to support the Thunderbird mail client which is being spun out of the Firefox project into an independent project.
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