Jeffrey Meisner / The Official Microsoft Blog:
Microsoft Neutralizes Kelihos Botnet, Names Defendant in Case — Building on the recent successes of the Rustock and Waledac botnet takedowns, I’m pleased to announce that Microsoft has taken down the Kelihos botnet in an operation codenamed “Operation b79” using similar legal and technical measures …
Steven Sinofsky / MSDN Blogs:
Signing in to Windows 8 with a Windows Live ID … Each Windows user wants to have the ability to set up and use a PC in a way that is unique to them. Doing so, however, can be challenging in today’s multiple user and multiple PC environment. We know that shared PC usage is common …
Gautham Nagesh / The Hill:
Facebook forming own PAC to back candidates — Facebook confirmed it filed paperwork on Monday to start its own political action committee. — “FB PAC will give our employees a way to make their voice heard in the political process by supporting candidates who share our goals of promoting …
Bloomberg:
Alibaba Plans to Spin Off HiChina Group, List Stock in U.S. — Sept. 26 (Bloomberg) — Alibaba.com Ltd., the business-to- business marketplace operator owned by China’s biggest e- commerce company, plans to list its HiChina Group Ltd. domain- name service unit in the U.S.
Laura June / This is my next:
Facebook’s new sharing is anything but ‘frictionless’ — Just a few days ago, Facebook announced a number of significant changes, most importantly of which is the morphing of personal profiles into “timelines,” where each update, tagging, event, and photo is now a “story” of one’s life.
Nik Cubrilovic:
Logging out of Facebook is not enough — Dave Winer wrote a timely piece this morning about how Facebook is scaring him since the new API allows applications to post status items to your Facebook timeline without a users intervention. It is an extension of Facebook Instant and they call it frictionless sharing.