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Apple's Worst Security Breach: 114,000 iPad Owners Exposed — Apple has suffered another embarrassment. A security breach has exposed iPad owners including dozens of CEOs, military officials, and top politicians. They—and every other buyer of the wireless-enabled tablet—could be vulnerable to spam marketing and malicious hacking.
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Taylor Buley / The Firewall:
AT&T's iPad Hackers ‘Ignored’ By Reuters, Other Mainstream Press — Gawker contributor Ryan Tate set the Web ablaze on Wednesday with a blog post detailing the alleged breach of 114,000 iPad users' email addresses. The post named names: among them, executives at News Corp, The New York Times Company and Dow Jones.
Michael Learmonth / AdAge:
AOL to Hire ‘Hundreds’ of Journalists, Reorganize Content Division — Sites to Be Grouped Into ‘Super Networks’ and Sold to Advertisers — NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — AOL is planning to hire hundreds of journalists, editors and videographers in the coming year as it builds out its content-first business model.
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Andy Plesser / Beet.TV:
Arianna Huffington Takes “Shine” to Yahoo! and is Setting-up Shop in New York — The Huffington Post is entering a “deep partnership” with Yahoo! to produce original content, including both text and video for Shine, the women's interest pages of of Yahoo!, co-founder and editor …
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Mark Tapscott / Washington Examiner:
Evasive FTC wants it both ways on ‘reinventing journalism’ — Those seeking more evidence that the American people are smarter than the progressive elites think they are need look no further than Scott Rasmussen's first survey of public opinion on the Federal Trade Commission's pernicious “reinventing journalism” project.
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Omar / The Life and Times of AdMob:
Mobile advertising and the iPhone — Apple proposed new developer terms on Monday that, if enforced as written, would prohibit app developers from using AdMob and Google's advertising solutions on the iPhone. These advertising related terms both target companies with competitive mobile technologies …
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Golnaz Esfandiari / Foreign Policy:
The Twitter Devolution — Far from being a tool of revolution in Iran over the last year, the Internet, in many ways, just complicated the picture. — Before one of the major Iranian protests of the past year, a journalist in Germany showed me a list of three prominent Twitter accounts …
Jim Romenesko / Romenesko:
WSJ editor: How many apps will merely be mediocre or meaningless? — “DOG BITES MAN, MAN BITES DOG, BYTES DOG MAN” — I normally don't get invited to awards ceremonies these days because since I became editor, the Journal doesn't seem to win many awards - so the only way to get here was to be the keynote speaker.
Jeremy W. Peters / New York Times:
BP and Officials Block Some Coverage of Spill — When the operators of Southern Seaplane in Belle Chasse, La., called the local Coast Guard-Federal Aviation Administration command center for permission to fly over restricted airspace in Gulf of Mexico, they made what they thought was a simple and routine request.
Rob Beschizza / Boing Boing:
Gallery: Digitizing the past and present at the Library of Congress — The Library of Congress has nearly 150 million items in its collection, including at least 21 million books, 5 million maps, 12.5 million photos and 100,000 posters. The largest library in the world …
Jonathan Stray / Nieman Journalism Lab:
Making connections: How major news organizations talk about links — Links can add a lot of value to stories, but the journalism profession as a whole has been surprisingly slow to take them seriously. That's my conclusion from several months of talking to organizations and reporters …
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J. David Goodman / New York Times:
Advertising: Drinking Game Poses Query, Who's ‘Icing’ Whom? — NO sooner had Alex Rospos arrived from Los Angeles for a Memorial Day weekend on the Jersey Shore than he witnessed, and fell victim to, his first prolonged session playing what has become the nation's biggest viral drinking game, otherwise known as “icing.”
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Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
Meet the Two Grad Students Who Freaked Out the NYT-The Pulse iPad App Creators Speak! — The first thing to strike you about the pair of Stanford University graduate students (pictured here) who made the banned and then unbanned news-reading iPad app, Pulse News Reader …
Regina D'Alesio / MinOnline:
min Q&A: Prevention's Murcko and the Secret to Double-Digit Growth — In this economy, magazine brands are always looking for new ways to generate revenue. According to Mary Murcko, SVP/publisher of Prevention, solutions may be more easily found than they expect.
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Glam Swings For The Fences With Glam Adapt, An Ad-Serving Platform Built For Brands — As big brands move more of their ad budgets online, what they want most is not just to capture clicks, but to capture the attention and mindshare of consumers. The buzzword in the online advertising industry …
Timothy A. Clary / Newsweek:
Drumbeats: The Tech Press Turns on Microsoft's Ballmer — Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer speaks in New York to kick off Windows 7 on October 22, 2009 — Microsoft has a problem—a big one. The problem is not just that its CEO, Steve Ballmer, has had a disastrous 10-year run.
Bill Mickey / Folio:
Behind The Atlantic's Brand Reinvention — During FOLIO: Show keynote, Justin Smith outlines path back to profitability. — The Atlantic, a 153-year-old magazine, suffered from a protracted decline in revenues and rising costs starting in the 1960s. A dramatic multi-platform overhaul …
Sarah Rabil / Bloomberg:
Viacom to Start Paying Dividend, Buy Back Stock Amid Ad Rebound — Viacom Inc., the owner of MTV Networks and the Paramount Pictures film studio, will start paying a dividend for the first time and buy back as much as $4 billion in stock as the advertising market recovers.
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James Robinson / Guardian:
Public relaxed over TV swearing — Ofcom acknowledges softening of attitudes with research giving detailed guidance on public tolerance of bad language — When the Sex Pistols appeared on Bill Grundy's teatime ITV chat show and filled the air with four-letter words, a public outcry forced the interviewer into early retirement.
Joe Strupp / Strupp:
Departing New York Times Public Editor: Job Was Like ‘A Shock Absorber.’ — New York Times Public Editor Clark Hoyt will end his three-year run in the post with a final column Sunday. He says the experience has been positive, although sometimes making him feel like “a shock absorber.”
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