A US intelligence office Friday warned Americans traveling to the Beijing Olympics or elsewhere to expect cyber spies to surreptitiously compromise their laptops, cellphones, and other electronic devices.

The unusual advisory issued by the National Counterintelligence Executive (NCIX) did not single out China by name, but the head of the office did in a press release and a television interview.

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I am in the process of getting my hands on the HP Mini-Note from HP Malaysia.

There will be a reveiw soon on this blog.

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Yahoo has struck an agreement with LucidMedia in a move to enhance contextual display advertising on its Right Media Exchange, the companies announced Tuesday.

The arrangement comes as Yahoo and its competitors, which rely heavily on ad revenue, face a challenging environment as the economy softens and advertisers pull back. With the agreement, Yahoo is seeking to grab market share from Google and Microsoft.

Under the agreement, Yahoo’s Right Media will support buyers and sellers that use LucidMedia’s contextual advertising engine ClickSense. The arrangement will allow Right Media users to categorize their display advertising inventory, using targeted tags for any of Yahoo’s more than 60 vertical channels, such as automotive, finance, and sports.

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Apple CEO Steve Jobs admitted it was a “mistake” to roll out the company’s MobileMe service at the same time it launched the iPhone 3G and other big products, tech news site Ars Technica reported late Monday.

Ars Technica cited an internal memo sent by Jobs to employees that acknowledged MobileMe had flaws and was released too soon. In the memo, Jobs said the launch of the service could have been handled better, the article said. He also acknowledged the service was “not up to Apple’s standards.” And he said the individual MobileMe services could have been launched slowly instead of all at once.

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Capital Research Global Investors, one of Yahoo’s largest shareholders, has asked for a re-examination of Yahoo’s shareholder vote at last Friday’s annual meeting, the investment group’s parent company said Monday.

The request for re-examination suggests that the votes actually withheld for certain Yahoo directors, including the chief executive, Jerry Yang, may have been higher than reported.

Gordon Crawford, an influential portfolio manager for Capital Research, which owns about 6.2 percent of Yahoo’s shares, has been sharply critical of Yahoo’s board and management, and was believed to have advised funds under his control to withhold votes from certain Yahoo directors. Read the rest of this entry »

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Time Warner said Friday that it had blocked the nomination of Jonathan Miller, the former chairman and chief executive of its AOL Internet unit, to the board of Yahoo.

In a statement, Time Warner said Mr. Miller had signed an agreement with Time Warner not to work for any of its competitors, including Yahoo, until March 2009.

Under a July 21 deal with the dissident shareholder Carl C. Icahn, Yahoo had agreed to expand its board to 11 directors and to appoint Mr. Icahn and two others it would choose from a list that included Mr. Miller and eight others previously nominated by Mr. Icahn. Mr. Miller had been added to the list at the suggestion of Yahoo, and his selection was considered likely. Read the rest of this entry »

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