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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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BBC:
Google ranked 'worst' on privacy — Google has the worst privacy policy of popular net firms, says a report. — Rights group Privacy International rated the search giant as "hostile" to privacy in a report ranking web firms by how they handle personal data.
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Profy.Com, ClickZ News Blog, PodTech Network, Sydney Morning Herald and privacyinternational.org
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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Tom Krazit / CNET News.com:
Continuous WWDC keynote coverage — At Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference in San Francisco, developers and press gather to get details on the upcoming Leopard operating system and possible tidbits on iPhone development. — Check back here for live updates from Steve Jobs' keynote speech, which is set to begin at 10 a.m. PDT.
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Between the Lines:Flash analysis: Takeaways from Jobs keynote; 64-bit Leopard is big …
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Engadget
Erica Sadun / The Unofficial Apple Weblog:Metaliveblogging the WWDC Keynote
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Incremental Blogger, A Bugged Life, creativebits, Chris Pirillo, Cult of Mac and kottke.org
Paul Miller / Engadget:
Safari 3 for Windows — Sign one more up for the browser war, Apple is shipping the third version of its well received Safari WebKit-based browser over to foreign shores to duke it out with the likes of IE, Firefox and Opera... on Windows. The Mac-only browser has already attained a 5% market share …
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Todd Bishop / Todd Bishop's Microsoft Blog:
Apple to offer Safari for Windows (Updated) — Posting from San Francisco: Apple CEO Steve Jobs just announced plans to offer the company's Safari Web browser for Windows. The move is significant in part because Web browsers are increasingly becoming platforms for sophisticated software programs.
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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ComputerworldUK:
Bookings.com opts for open source MySQL database — Scalebale system incorporates up to 20 database servers — Europe's largest online hotel reservation site Booking.com has selected the MySQL open source database to process tens of thousands of online bookings a day.
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Aaron Back / MarketWatch:
Google, China's Sina to cooperate on web searches, advertising — BEIJING (MarketWatch) — Google Inc. (GOOG : , , ) and Sina Corp. (SINA : , , ) said Monday they plan to cooperate on search services and advertising, giving the U.S.-based search giant an ally as it seeks to wrest market share …
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Munir Kotadia / CNET News.com:
OpenOffice worm Badbunny hops across operating systems — Malicious software targeting OpenOffice.org documents is spreading through multiple operating systems, according to Symantec. — "A new worm is being distributed within malicious OpenOffice documents.
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 …
Bob Tedeschi / New York Times:
Awaiting Real Sales From Virtual Shoppers — THE seven million or so inhabitants of Second Life, the three-dimensional online world, have spent millions of dollars on digital makeovers, clothing and other goods and services for their avatars. — But will the game's players buy anything for themselves?
Peter Lauria / New York Post:
ON THE DOWNLOAD — USING ADS, NEW ONLINE LABEL OFFERS MUSIC FREE — In a move designed to upend the traditional record label business model, Downtown Records and Internet entrepreneur Peter Rojas plan to launch an online-only record label that will offer its music for free and generate revenue …
Xbox.com:
Xbox 360 Games for Change Challenge — New York—Microsoft and Games for Change (G4C) announced a joint commitment to explore new ways to bring together the world of digital gaming with the world of social change at the fourth annual Games for Change Festival at Parsons The New School for Design.
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Insider Chatter, WebProNews, A+E Interactive, Clickable Culture, Gamerscore Blog and Digital Trends
Chris Ziegler / Engadget:
Apple announces third-party software details for iPhone — As expected, Apple used WWDC as the stage to announce a third-party development solution for the iPhone, putting to rest fears that the handset would be a closed (read: non-smartphone) platform. Calling it a "sweet solution" …
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 …
