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4:00 PM ET, June 11, 2007

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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.
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.
Discussion: CNET News.com
Between the Lines:
Flash analysis: Takeaways from Jobs keynote; 64-bit Leopard is big …
Discussion: Engadget
mac Integration / Tech Feed:
Leaked Keynote For Tomorrows WWDC
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.
Discussion: PC World: Techlog and parislemon
BBC:
Apple announces Windows browser
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
Discussion: BloggingStocks and parislemon
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 …
Discussion: GigaOM
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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.
Discussion: Macsimum News and TechSpot News
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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 …
Discussion: Epicenter and hypebot
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.
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" …
Discussion: Morning Paper and The Next Net
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 …
 
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Richard Thurston / CNET News.com:
Microsoft appoints Linux interoperability chief
Discussion: Neowin.net
Om Malik / GigaOM:
And finally eBay opens up, offers new APIs
Discussion: Alex Barnett blog
AnandTech:
AMD's Barcelona: Why we haven't published benchmarks
Stuart Elliott / New York Times:
Marketers Are Joining the Varsity
Brad Hamilton / New York Post:
QUEENS POL BLASTS GOOGLE AS A TERROR RISK
Discussion: WebProNews and New York Sun
TrustedReviews:
Computex 2007: Philips Takes on AppleTV
Matthew G. Nelson / ClickZ:
Atlas Study Critiques 'Last Click' Attribution
Dikky Sinn / Associated Press:
Yahoo weighs in on free speech in China
 Earlier Items: 
D.R / Akihabaranews.com:
Anybody Down for A Yellow DS Lite?
Discussion: CNET News.com and Gizmodo
Alex Iskold / Read/WriteWeb:
Me.dium Secures $15M Series B - The Dawn of Collaborative Browsing?
Greg Sandoval / CNET News.com:
MPAA accuses TorrentSpy of concealing evidence
Sony:
SONY UNVEILS POWERFUL NOTEBOOKS IN BOLD COLORS
CNN:
Church wants cash for 'sick' game
Brad Stone / New York Times:
A Dog or a Cat? New Tests to Fool Automated Spammers
Discussion: Slashdot
Adobe Labs:
Adobe Flex
Michael Kanellos / CNET News.com:
Wi-Fi memory cards coming to cameras