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Miguel Helft / New York Times:
Google Photos Stir a Debate Over Privacy — For Mary Kalin-Casey, it was never about her cat. — Ms. Kalin-Casey, who manages an apartment building here with her husband, John Casey, was a bit shaken when she tried a new feature in Google's map service called Street View.
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Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim, CNET News.com, Guardian Unlimited, Michael Gartenberg and Todd Watson
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Stan Schroeder / Mashable!:
Top 15 Google Street View Sightings — Google's Street View feature for Google Maps, which enables users to see certain parts of several big US cities through panoramic images, has caused a new trend: StreetSpotting (we just invented that). We've gone through the avalanche of reports about funny …
Wall Street Journal:
Bancrofts Open Door To a Sale Of Dow Jones — Controlling Family Says — It Will Meet Murdoch, — Consider Other Offers — Dow Jones & Co.'s 125-year history as an independent media company could be nearing an end. — The Bancroft family, which controls 64% of the company's voting power …
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Andy Greenberg / Forbes:
The Spam Bust That Wasn't — Robert Alan Soloway, the notorious Seattle spam marketer known as the "Spam King," was arrested Wednesday after being indicted on charges that include identity theft, money laundering and mail fraud. — But while spam-fighters are lauding law enforcement's crackdown …
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The Official Parallels Virtualization Blog:
Yes, you heard right...PARALLELS DESKTOP 3.0 IS ALMOST HERE! — About 3 hours ago we let the world know that for the last few months, we've been quietly building and testing an entirely new version of Parallels Desktop for Mac. Named Desktop for Mac 3.0, this forthcoming major update …
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Compiler, Macworld, TechCrunch, MacMegasite, Ars Technica, MacUser, The Unofficial Apple Weblog, Podcasting News, Macsimum News and CrunchGear
Stace / Unwired View:
PSP PHONE FROM SONY ERICSSON — Nowadays everything seems to be converging into a mobile phone. It already can be a perfectly good digital camera, a mobile TV station a music player or GPS receiver. One of the things missing here was a mobile gaming platform. But it's coming too.
Hector Becerra / Los Angeles Times:
Hacker taps into Carson city coffers — A cyber-thief was able to take $450,000 from the city of Carson's general fund as part of an elaborate scheme that officials said raises questions about the security of municipal coffers. — Authorities said the hacker was somehow able to mimic …
Declan McCullagh / CNET News.com:
LiveJournal apologizes for mass deletion — LiveJournal apologized Thursday for a mass deletion of sex-themed discussions that purged literary criticism and accounts belonging to role-playing game characters and led to an unprecedented user revolt. — In a public announcement, Barak Berkowitz …
BBC:
Anger over DRM-free iTunes tracks — The launch of music tracks free of digital locks on iTunes has been overshadowed by the discovery that they contain data about who bought them. — Some fear this data could be used to identify the owner of the tracks if they turn up on file-sharing sites.
Peter Galli / eWEEK.com:
FSF Releases the Final Draft of GPLv3 — The final version of the GNU General Public License 3.0 should be published before the end of June, bringing to an end some 18 months of discussions around the new license, the Free Software Foundation said on May 31.
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CIO.com:
How Online Criminals Make Themselves Tough to Find, Near Impossible to Nab — Forensic investigations start at the end. Think of it: You wouldn't start using science and technology to establish facts (that's the dictionary definition of forensics) unless you had some reason to establish facts in the first place.
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Techdirt
Arn / MacRumors:
New MacBook Pros on Tuesday, June 5th 2007? [Updated] — While we had heard convincing reports that the MacBook Pro updates would have to wait until WWDC (June 11th), a few new reports have started trickling in that the MacBook Pro could see updates as soon as this Tuesday (June 5th).
Daniellinden / Official Linden Blog:
Keeping Second Life Safe, Together — The diversity of things to see and do within Second Life is almost unimaginable, but our community has made it clear to us that certain types of content and activity are simply not acceptable in any form. Real-life images, avatar portrayals …
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Duncan Riley / TechCrunch:
The New RealPlayer: Ripping a YouTube Video Near You — RealNetworks have annonuced a new version of RealPlayer that includes one-click video ripping. — The free downloadable video player will allows users to save and organize video files in all major formats including Flash, QuickTime …
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Epicenter, BloggingStocks, Brier Dudley's blog, Jim Kukral, Mashable! and Media 3.0 with Shelly Palmer
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Andy Plesser / Beet.TV:Bombshell from RealNetworks: Rip/Save/Burn "All" …
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last100, Gizmodo, PR Newswire, Bag and Baggage, eHomeUpgrade, Compiler, Scobleizer, AppScout, NewTeeVee, Business 2.0 Beta, RealPlayer Blog, Ryan Stewart and Reel Pop
Nick ONeill / The Webpreneur:
Is There Any Point In Launching Your Own Social App? — When Facebook launched its new platform last week, a new era of interacting online was started. Suddenly companies can have immediate access to a network of over 25 million users which is growing at an insane rate.
Duncan Riley / TechCrunch:
Fix8 Brings Computer Generated Animation To The Webcam — Sherman Oaks company fix8 brings the world of computer generated animation to the webcam with software being pitched as "User-Generated Reality". — fix8 combines video, animation and instant messaging that allows users to create …
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EirePreneur
BBC:
EMI strikes a deal with YouTube — EMI has signed a deal with YouTube that will allow its users to access videos by EMI artists. — It means that all four major music companies are YouTube partners. — The terms of the deal will allow users to incorporate elements of the videos and other recordings into their own projects.
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Alex Iskold / Read/WriteWeb:
RIA: What is it good for? — This year there has been an explosion in Rich Internet Application (RIA) frameworks. The first major player to announce one was Adobe and its Apollo framework, which Richard covered back in March and I wrote about during ETech. Richard also wrote an explanatory post on Apollo.
Huffington Post:
Meshfight! Meta-Battle Between New Media And Old Media Over Panel About New Media vs. Old Media — Greetings from Mesh! Or, "mesh" as the e.e. cummings interweb types like to call it. I am at the Mesh conference in Toronto, and it is awesome (you hear that, Jian Ghomeshi?
Frank Schilling / Seven Mile:
It's "OverSnap" — It's official, Snapnames has been acquired by Los Angeles based Oversee .. And while it may seem like the rumored 25mm sale was struck, purely on the EBITDA that Snapnames.com generates, I have a hunch this is all about what can be done with the industry's leading automated auction platform and clearing house.
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