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Amazon Boosts Storage Features In EC2 
Nik Cubrilovic via TechCrunch on Thu, 21 Aug. 2008
Amazon today launched a new web service - EBS, the Elastic Block Store (yes I also first read it as ‘Elastic Book Store’) for EC2. EBS provides persistent storage for EC2 computing instances, and th
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Facebook Security Advice: Never Ever Enter Your Passwords On Another Site, Unless We Ask You To
Nik Cubrilovic via TechCrunch on Sat, 09 Aug. 2008
After the recent outbreak of a worm that hacked user Facebook accounts and disseminated through users contacts, Facebook responded with a post with advice to users on gene
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One Year Later: FeedBurner Gains Google Server Power
Nik Cubrilovic via TechCrunch on Sat, 02 Aug. 2008
Over a year has passed since Google completed the acquisition of feed massaging and hosting service Feedburner, and today some users now finally have their feeds hosted o
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Sitemeter Kills Thousands Of Sites For IE Users
Nik Cubrilovic via TechCrunch on Sat, 02 Aug. 2008
In yet another case of widgets going crazy and causing havoc, a bug in Sitemeter has caused a large number of websites and blogs using the free web analytics tool to fail loading for users of Internet Ex
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Open Web Foundation Officially Launches
Nik Cubrilovic via TechCrunch on Thu, 24 Jul. 2008
This morning at that OSCON conference David Recordon o
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Mass Reorg at Microsoft Platforms & Services Division
Nik Cubrilovic via TechCrunch on Wed, 23 Jul. 2008
Microsoft has just announced a major reorganization of its Platforms & Services Division. It will now be split into two groups (Windows/Windows Live and Online Services) which will bo
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Facebook Connect Coming To iPhone This Fall
Nik Cubrilovic via TechCrunch on Wed, 23 Jul. 2008
Today at the f8 conference Benjamin Ling revealed that Facebook will be releasing a Cocoa framework for the iPhone that will allow application developers to integrate with Facebook Connect. The framework is expected to be released sometime in the fall, and will take the form
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New MySQL Fork Turns Back The Clock
Nik Cubrilovic via TechCrunchIT on Wed, 23 Jul. 2008
Drizzle is a newly announced fork of the open source MySQL project. The developers of the project are taking MySQL back to its roots as a light-weight web application da
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What Role Did The Web Play In Capturing Karadzic?
Nik Cubrilovic via TechCrunchIT on Wed, 23 Jul. 2008
News broke out across the world yesterday that Bosnian Serb war-time leader Radovan Karadzic had been captured after 12 years on the run. Karadzic had adorned the top of the Interpol most wanted list
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New Open Data Foundation To Set Out Data Formats
Nik Cubrilovic via TechCrunchIT on Wed, 23 Jul. 2008
Chris Saad, a co-founder of the Data Portability project has posted that tomorrow at OSCON
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Top 10 Best Ever Computer Hackers
Nik Cubrilovic via RSSmeme on Wed, 23 Jul. 2008
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Learning The Hard Way That DNS Is Insecure: Attack Details Now Public
Nik Cubrilovic via TechCrunchIT on Tue, 22 Jul. 2008
There are times when the full disclosure of a security vulnerability works well for everybody, and there are times when it does not. One such case where it hasn’t worked out well is with the DNS security vulnerabilities recently ‘discovered’ by security researcher Dan Kaminsky. Some weeks ago after he called a press conference with the organize
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Dot Org First TLD To Implement DNSSEC
Nik Cubrilovic via TechCrunchIT on Tue, 22 Jul. 2008
The Public Interest Registry, operators of the .org top-level domain name, was today granted permission from ICANN to implement Domain Name Security Extensions (DNSSEC). DNS is inherently insecure, which has become more apparent recently with security issu
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The Techcrunch Web Tablet Project
Nik Cubrilovic via TechCrunchIT on Mon, 21 Jul. 2008
Today at Techcrunch we announced that we are building our own web tablet hardware device. This all stems back from a conversation a few weeks ago when we were discussing the ultimate web browsing/cloud computing client hardware. The iPhone is nice but too small, and most laptops are over-powere
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Facebook Sues German Social Network StudiVZ
Nik Cubrilovic via TechCrunch on Sat, 19 Jul. 2008
Facebook is pursuiting social networks it believes have copied their design or features by suing German social network StudiVZ. The Financial Times
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Google Remove XMPP Support In Android
Nik Cubrilovic via RSSmeme on Fri, 18 Jul. 2008
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Battle Over: Twitter Opens Up To Gnip
Nik Cubrilovic via TechCrunchIT on Fri, 18 Jul. 2008
Since launching TechcrunchIT we have been pounding away about open standards and data availability. One of the biggest victims of this focus recently has
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Gmail Now A Major Spam Hub
Nik Cubrilovic via TechCrunchIT on Thu, 17 Jul. 2008
When Gmail first launched, it was lauded for its spam filtering and security - there was no spam leaving the systems and almost no spam coming in. But all that has changed as a study from Roa
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