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Following the wave of concern expressed by several media companies that Google was favoring its own services and websites in search results, like the new Knol service, Timo Paloheimo, a Finnish digital planner for an advertising agency, had an interesting idea – to give people the option to use Google search without getting results from Google’s own websites. He went on and created a service that does just that, and named it Google minus Google.

A while back, Google launched a service called Knol, which aims at becoming an encyclopedia written by experts (as opposed to Wikipedia, which can be edited by anyone). Not long after it was launched, people started to notice that, when searching various names like products or services on Google, results from Knol pages appeared higher than the original pages related to those names.

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Konami, the famous Japanese entertainment company, has unveiled the future release of Pro Evolution Soccer 2009 for mobile phones, which comes as a sequel of the 2008 edition of the game. Published by Glu Mobile, PES 2009 will be available starting this autumn, offering football fans the chance to enjoy the on-field excitement while on the go.

Built on the success of PES 2008 for mobiles, the new game will bring all the features of the previous one, plus many new ones. Most importantly, there will be a Bluetooth multiplayer mode, hence one-on-one matches should be easily played. Also, you will find enhanced animations, improved controls, new arenas, bonuses and so on.

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Yesterday, David Recondon announced the launch of the New Open Web Foundation, a virtual place where developers must come to an agreement regarding the development and ratification of web standards. “The foundation is trying to break the trend of creating separate foundations for each specification, coming out of the realization that we could come together and generalize our efforts,” says the official statement released by the
supporting group.

Some of the companies that decided to enter the foundation and join their creative forces in order to decrease efforts and add-up their capabilities are BBC, Facebook, Google, MySpace, Yahoo!. Although the organization has more interest in going unnoticed, the great names that back it up will make it be in the center of attention.

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A court of law has found Carolyn M. Gudmundson, a former employee of industry giant Microsoft, guilty of embezzling approximately $1 million. Consequently, she was sentenced to 22 months incarceration time but, after she is done serving her time, she will continue to be closely supervised for a period of three years. Microsoft has been awarded monetary restitution to the amount of $923,000.

“Other employees who have similar opportunities to place their hands in the corporate till need to understand that society takes this sort of crime very seriously,” said Judge Ricardo
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According to the US DOJ (Department of Justice) three top brass executives from E-Gold, an online service that allows users to send and receive payments, and Gold & Silver Reserve Inc. have pleaded guilty to charges of conspiracy to engage in money laundering and conspiracy to operate a money transferring business without a license. The three men in question are Douglas Jackson, Director of E-Gold and CEO of Gold & Silver Reserve, Barry Downey and Reid Jackson.

Acting Assistant Attorney General Matthew Friedrich comments: “By failing to comply with money laundering laws and regulations, the E-Gold operation created an environment ripe for exploitation by criminals seeking anonymity in conducting online transactions. This case demonstrates that online payment systems must operate according to the applicable rules and regulations created to ensure lawful monetary transactions.”

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Recently, the DNS flaw discovered by Dan Kaminsky made all the headlines, first of all because of its gravity, and secondly because the Director of Penetration Testing for IOActive would not release specific, technical details about the flaw. Kaminsky stated on numerous occasions that he would disclose all the information on the 6th of August, at the BlackHat Security Conference in Las Vegas. But it seems that Thomas Dullien, CEO and head of research with Sabre Security has figured it all out, even though he admits he is not an expert in DNS.

This is the message posted on the Matasano Security blog in regard to Dullien’s discovery: “The cat is out of the bag. Yes, Halvar Flake figured out the flaw Dan Kaminsky will announce at Black Hat”. Halvar Flake is the hacker alias used by Thomas Dullien. It must be noted that the blog post presented above was posted for about five minutes and then it was taken down.

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Social-networking giant Facebook has filed a copyright infringement suit against a German counterpart, according to the Financial Times.

StudiVZ is accused of “copying the look, feel, features and services” of Facebook, including its “wall” feature, according to the complaint filed Friday in California, the Financial Times reported.

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