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Microsoft Enjoys Mild Patch Tuesday

Windows users and system administrators should breathe a little sigh of relief as Microsoft's light package of patches for July, but a recently discovered Critical problem with Snapshot Viewer still lacks a solution.

Service Woes Can't Stop Twitter

Despite service outages, the microblogging service Twitter continues to enjoy plenty of visits to its website.

Blog Comment Ownership Question Resurrected

This is a topic destined for a courtroom one day, bitter enemies formed along the way: Can a blog publisher collect blog comments and publish them in a book? We addressed this topic weeks ago, with no definitive answer. The question arises again today as a result of simultaneous, otherwise minor, occurrences.

Report: Second Quarter Okay For Yahoo

According to the latest AdGooroo numbers, advertisers weren't too thrilled with the three major search engines these past few months.  MSN got hammered, Google was hurt, and surprisingly, Yahoo came out on top.

Orkut Captures Indian Developers' Interest

Many American software developers hang on Facebook's every word.  MySpace gets a fair amount of attention, too.  But Orkut is popular in other parts of the world, and it turns out that Indian developers are much more interested in it than in any potential competitor.

Bebo Scores Former Google Exec

AOL's Bebo seems to be growing a little stronger in terms of personnel; although it's not stealing directly from a certain search giant, the social network's newest hire acted as an exec at Dailymotion, and some time before that, Google.

Twitscoop Fixes Breaking News

Twitter's cool, no doubt, but what enhances its coolness are the applications developing in the periphery, all of which seem to extract from Twitter's deep reservoirs of cool and redistribute along the Internet. Recently, Twellow and Summize have surfaced. Before that it was TwittEarth, which lets you be a giant fly on the wall of the world.

Gmail Knocking Out Two Big Phishing Threats

PayPal and eBay have long drawn the attention of criminal phishers who try to spoof the companies and steal login information from their customers.

Americans Spending More Time Online

Nielsen has released its first comparable U.S. figures showing video and TV usage on all three screens (Television, Internet, Mobile).In May the average American watched 127 hours of TV and went online for 26 hours, up 9 percent over 2007. Internet and mobile phone users viewed an average of 2 hours of online video during the month.

Twitter (Maybe) Buying Summize

A rumor pops its head out this morning that Twitter is negotiating to buy Summize, a search engine allowing users to dig through tweets on Twitter. Before we continue, let's take a moment to appreciate the quality snark emanating from David Fry via Twitter rival FriendFeed: One company with no revenue buys another company with no revenue and whose existence depends on the first company?