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Matthew Garrahan / Financial Times:
Hollywood studios in video talks with Apple — Apple is in advanced talks with Hollywood's largest movie studios about launching an online film rental service to challenge cable and satellite TV operators. — The service could be significant for Apple. If it signs enough studios …
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Wall Street Journal:
Apple Seeks a Deal to Make Movies Available for Rent Via iTunes Service — Apple Inc. is in talks with the Hollywood studios to make new movies available for rental for its iTunes service, according to two studio executives familiar with the matter. — The rental service is being pitched aggressively …
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Los Angeles Times:
Movie studios fear the sequel to iPod — They see risk that new Apple TV signals effort to control distribution. — Some movie fans hope Apple TV will do for Internet video what the iPod did for digital music. — That's precisely what some Hollywood executives are afraid of.
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Matt Cutts / Gadgets, Google, and SEO:
Why I disagree with Privacy International — Sigh. Google as a company takes privacy very seriously. I personally feel strongly about protecting our users' privacy. So I'm frustrated by a recent study that Privacy International did, and I want to know if I'm off-base in my reaction.
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Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:
Google Bad On Privacy? Maybe It's Privacy International's Report That Sucks — It's a bad privacy day for Google, with Privacy International first accusing the company of having the worst privacy performance of any internet service company in a study it has just released and then accusing Google …
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Michael Santo / Alice Hill's Real Tech News:Google's Privacy Policies Ranked the Worst
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Adobe Labs:
Adobe Flex — Adobe® Flex™ 3 is a cross platform, open source framework for creating rich Internet applications that run identically in all major browsers and operating systems. — This page provides a summary of the Flex-related prerelease products, experimental technologies …
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Jay Fortner / Read/WriteWeb:
Adobe Apollo is now Adobe AIR — Adobe has just unveiled the official name of its much talked about Adobe Apollo product: Adobe Integrated Runtime, or Adobe AIR for short. Adobe is also announcing a beta version of the runtime, which will include Ajax and HTML support.
Ryan Stewart / The Universal Desktop:Adobe announces hardware accelerated video in Flash, Apollo's …
Wall Street Journal:
GE, Microsoft Discussed Buying Dow Jones — General Electric Co. and Microsoft Corp. were in discussions in recent weeks to combine Dow Jones & Co. with some portions of GE's NBC Universal, parrying a bid by News Corp., but the two sides couldn't reach an agreement, according to people briefed on the discussions.
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Steve Lohr / New York Times:
NBC Studied Dow Jones Bid With Microsoft — General Electric's NBC unit and Microsoft explored making a joint bid for Dow Jones but decided against it a week ago, a person close to NBC and Microsoft said yesterday. — No rival has yet stepped up to compete with Rupert Murdoch's $5 billion bid …
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DailyTechTalk:
Exact Keynote Transcript for WWDC07 [UPDATED] — In a last minute find, I happened across a German site that has an outline of tomorrow's play by play of Steve Jobs' WWDC keynote. The text has some issues when I performed the translation but I've copied it in the "Full Story" section and made some changes to make it easier to read.
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Wall Street Journal:
Google Intensifies Microsoft Fight — Google Inc. has told state and federal antitrust authorities that Microsoft Corp.'s Windows Vista operating-system software puts rivals at a disadvantage in violation of Microsoft's antitrust settlement. — Google's complaints center on desktop search …
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Helen Chernikoff / Reuters:
Desk jockeys can cool off or heat up with C2 device — NEW YORK (Reuters) - Office furniture maker Herman Miller Inc. wants to let cooler heads prevail when it comes to the often-heated issue of how hot or cold offices should be. — Herman Miller is launching a $300 desktop heating …
Michael Kanellos / CNET News.com:
Wi-Fi memory cards coming to cameras — Think of it as point, shoot and post. — In the fall, start-up Eye-Fi plans to release Secure Digital memory cards with integrated Wi-Fi chips. With the card, digital cameras will be able to automatically send photos to home PCs or to photo-sharing Web sites.
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Brad Stone / New York Times:
A Dog or a Cat? New Tests to Fool Automated Spammers — On the Internet, nobody knows you're a human — until you fill out a captcha. — Captchas are the puzzles on many Web sites that present a string of distorted letters and numbers. These are supposed to be easy for people to read and retype …
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Greg Sandoval / CNET News.com:
Hollywood's YouTube frustration grows — news analysis Google and its YouTube subsidiary are trying Hollywood's patience. — The search engine has made significant progress in recent weeks signing content partnership deals for YouTube. But a growing number of studio executives …
Lia Miller / New York Times:
An Editor's Untimely Departure Is Captured in Just a Flicker — Call it a bit of a "video killed the radio star" moment, circa 2007: John Curley, who had been a deputy managing editor of The San Francisco Chronicle, announced that he was let go from the newspaper by posting the news on Flickr, the photo-sharing Web site.
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