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Mossberg pans MobileMe as service outages continue

In a rare slap at an Apple product, Walt Mossberg suggests people avoid the MobileMe service, even before taking into account the e-mail outages of its first few weeks.
(Posted in Apple by Tom Krazit)

Is your home system vulnerable to a DNS cache poisoning?

Tools and patches are available to see whether your home Internet connection is vulnerable to Dan Kaminsky's DNS flaw.
(Posted in Security by Robert Vamosi) 10:28 a.m.

Study: Vista still struggling to gain business users

Less than 10 percent of 50,000 companies surveyed are using Vista, according to Forrester Research, which calls the operating system "New Coke."
(Posted in Microsoft by Mike Ricciuti)
• Microsoft looks to 'Mojave' to revive Vista's image

Yahoo Music follows MSN into DRM controversy

Yahoo announced it will stop issuing keys to unlock DRM starting October 1. Sound familiar?
(Posted in Digital Media by Greg Sandoval)

Pixily turns stacks of paper into search-friendly scans

Got loads of bills and other docs you want to scan? Check out Pixily, a Netflix-like service for your paper.
(Posted in Webware by Josh Lowensohn)

RiskMetrics recommends re-election of current Yahoo board

Yahoo wins strong endorsement from influential institutional investor advisory service, which recommends the re-election of all current Yahoo directors.
(Posted in Digital Media by Dawn Kawamoto)
• Glass Lewis advises against re-electing 3 Yahoo directors

Sony opens e-book reader to outside publishers

Take that, Kindle. Sony's Reader Digital Book to read .epub formatted books from wide variety of publishers supporting the industry standard.
(Posted in Digital Media by Elinor Mills)

Sources: Google soured on long-form video

In talks with entertainment companies, Google focuses on licensing short-form content, telling studio executives that it doesn't want to become a media company.
(Posted in Digital Media by Greg Sandoval)

XM, Sirius detail potential FCC consent decree

XM Satellite Radio and Sirius Satellite Radio confirm that they're talking with the federal regulator about ways to move their 17-month merger effort forward.
(Posted in Wireless by Dawn Kawamoto)
• XM-Sirius merger heads to home stretch

Opposing Views is on a mission to tick you off

New debate site launching today tackles the most contentious of issues.
(Posted in Webware by Rafe Needleman)

DNS exploit code is in the wild

The urgency to patch clients and servers rises to a fever pitch as code to attack the Internet is released. Two Black Hat presenters had conflicted over the timing of the code release.
(Posted in Security by Robert Vamosi)

Kevin Johnson to leave Microsoft for Juniper

No successor has been named for Johnson, who has been president of Microsoft's Platforms and Services Division and is leaving to become CEO of Juniper Networks.
(Posted in Beyond Binary by Ina Fried)
• Ballmer's memo on Johnson's departure

Nokia, Qualcomm settle patent dispute

The mobile phone giant and chipmaker enter into a 15-year licensing agreement that settles all patent litigation between the two companies.
(Posted in Wireless by Steven Musil)

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