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Hits Half Billion Mark (NewsFactor)NewsFactor - Apple Computer (Nasdaq: AAPL) (Internet advertising)

ITunes Hits Half Billion Mark (NewsFactor)
NewsFactor - Apple Computer (Nasdaq: AAPL) announced that music-minded consumers have purchased and downloaded over half a billion songs from the iTunes music store.

Phishing Concerns To Delay Non-English Domain Names (TechWeb)
TechWeb - Unicode has been ICANNs best bet for issuing multilingual URLs, but security experts have warned of a potential exploit in Unicode that might slow progress.

PhoneGnome Aims to Make VOIP Cheap and Easy (Ziff Davis)
Ziff Davis - New plug-and-play device turns any regular phone line into a feature-filled Internet calling service.

Security Alerts Roundup: IE, Skype, Winamp (Ziff Davis)
Ziff Davis - Unpatched vulnerabilities have been found in three widely deployed Internet-facing applications.

In Focus: Inching Toward the Paperless Office (TechWeb)
TechWeb - Today, more than a decade after the mainstreaming of the Internet and two decades since the dawn of the personal computing era, the quest for the paper-free office marches onward.

Firefox Continues To Gain Browser Share (NewsFactor)
NewsFactor - The Mozilla Foundation's Firefox browser increased its market share n June, continuing a steady rate of growth that is nibbling away at some of Microsoft's (Nasdaq: MSFT) Internet Explorer (IE) dominance.

News Corp. To Acquire Intermix Media (TechWeb)
TechWeb - News Corp. says it has agreed to acquire Intermix Media Inc., which owns more than 30 e-commerce and media websites, for$580 million in cash, tripling News Corp.'s reach among U.S. Internet users and making it a player in the online social-networking market.