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Constant Brand / Associated Press:
EU probes Google over privacy concerns — BRUSSELS, Belgium - An independent European Union panel has launched an investigation into whether Google Inc.'s Internet search engine abides by European privacy rules. — EU spokesman Pietro Petrucci said Friday that the 28-member panel …
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BBC:
Google queried on privacy policy — Google has been told that it may be breaking European privacy laws by keeping people's search information on its servers for up to two years. — A data protection group that advises the European Union has written to the search giant to express concerns.
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Stephanie Bodoni Bloomberg / Bloomberg:
Google may be violating EU privacy laws on user search data — Google Inc., owner of the world's most popular search engine, may be violating the European Union's privacy laws by storing information on customer queries for as long as two years, advisers to EU regulators told the company.
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Search Engine Land
Greg Sterling / Search Engine Land:
Facebook Opens Up Its 'Platform' To Everyone — "Facebook is the anti-MySpace" and "Facebook is a new type of "Web 2.0" portal" are some of the things that were and are being said yesterday and today about the social network's new "Facebook Platform" initiative.
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Liz Gannes / GigaOM:Live at the Facebook Launch
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Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim, B.Mann Consulting, paidContent.org, ProgrammableWeb and Business Week
Richard MacManus / Read/WriteWeb:Facebook Grows Up - An Analysis of Today's News
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IP Democracy, Unit Structures, Beet.TV, TechCrunch, Business 2.0 Beta, Don Dodge on The Next …, Vecosys, The Social Web and i-boy
Karen / Official Google Blog:
Calendar for mobile devices — Posted by Devesh Parekh, Software Engineer, Google Calendar team — We realize that more people in the world have mobile phones than have computers, and people take their cell phones with them everywhere. Since one of our main goals on the Calendar team …
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Harry McCracken / PC World: Techlog:
Google Calendar Gets Mobile — If there was an award for "Best Google Service That Not That Many People Think About When They Think About Google," it might well go to Google Calendar. It's just plain well done, with a slick and simple interface and plenty of features.
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Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim
Robyn Tippins / The MyBlogLog Blog:
All About Tags — By now you've seen our newest feature, tagging, on MyBlogLog. We have had FAR too much fun this week tagging each other, so I hope you enjoy it at least half as much as we have. — Some people have suggested that tags, while well-known to the tech savvy, are still unfamiliar to many web users.
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
MyBlogLog Gets Into Tagging — MyBlogLog, a distributed social network which was acquired by Yahoo earlier this year, will launch a tagging feature later this evening that will allow users to add descriptive tags to the people and blogs (called "communities") on the service.
Kris Graft / Next Generation:
Nudity the Cause for Halo 2 Vista Delay — UPDATE - Microsoft reps have told Next-Gen the real reason for the Halo 2 Vista delay: partial nudity—specifically someone's backside in the game's map editor, the Entertainment Software Rating Board added today. — In an e-mail statement sent …
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Brendan Sinclair / CNET News.com:
Sony sued over Blu-ray — Given its global position as an electronics giant, Sony is quite familiar with patent law and the potential penalties for infringement. — Barely three months ago, Sony paid $97 million in damages and interest to Immersion Corporation in a dispute over the rumble functions in Sony's Dual Shock controllers.
I, Cringely . The Pulpit | PBS:
The Final Days of Google — Back in the 1990s Bill Gates said the company that would eventually beat Microsoft probably had yet to be founded, by which he meant that Microsoft was in such a strong position that only something truly disruptive — a whole new business — would have a chance to unseat Redmond.
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eWEEK.com, CrunchGear, Digital Markets, MediaVidea, Sadagopan's weblog … and Digital Inspiration
Andy Kessler / Wall Street Journal:
A Future for Newspapers — New technology is mucking up the media, and newspapers seem to be taking the brunt of it. Craigslist and eBay took away classified ad sales, direct advertisers are allocating budgets to search engines and circulation is receding faster than Bruce Willis's hairline.
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Jeremy Reimer / Ars Technica:
Dell goes Ubuntu; "Windows tax" is $50 according to pricing — When Dell put up its IdeaStorm community-feedback site, the company was surprised by the strong response in favor of shipping personal computers with Linux. The PC company then announced that it would offer Ubuntu Linux on select systems …
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Emily Steel / Wall Street Journal:
Advertising's Brave New World — Different Lineup of Players — Emerges With Online's Rise — For decades, advertising has been a relatively simple process dominated by a clubby world. Long-established advertising and media-buying agencies, most owned by half a dozen global giants …
John Shinal / MarketWatch:
Bill Gates, Steve Jobs set for historic conversation — Commentary: Archrivals' first public, face-to-face discussion one for the ages — SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) — For more than two decades, Apple Inc. Chief Executive Steve Jobs and Microsoft Corp. Chairman Bill Gates have sparred …
websense.com:
Malicious Web site / Malicious Code: Better Business Bureau Scam — Websense® Security Labs™ has received reports of a new email spam variant similar to an attack launched early this year. The spoofed email purports to be from the Better Business Bureau (BBB).
