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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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Gizmodo, 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 …
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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Darren Murph / Engadget:
Parallels 3.0 handles 3D gaming, adds SmartSelect integration tool — The folks over at Parallels aren't messing around with these updates, as just about four months after unveiling release candidate 2, the harmony-inducing software is just about ready to hit the big three-o.
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Peter Galli / eWEEK.com:
Final GPLv3 Draft Provisions 'Good for Novell Customers' — Novell has welcomed the provisions of the fourth, and final, draft of the upcoming GNU General Public License 3.0, which allow it to include technologies under this license in SUSE Linux Enterprise, OpenSUSE and other Novell offerings.
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Kris Graft / Next Generation:
Activision Addresses Wii Third-Party Debate — Activision is confident that third-party publishers can succeed on Nintendo platforms, as the company confirmed today it is "reinvesting" in Nintendo in a way that eclipses the publisher's prior GameCube support.
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.
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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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.
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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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 …
Brady Forrest / O'Reilly Radar:
Google Developer Day Videos Posted — As you saw from the many posts yesterday the Google Developer Day was full of announcements and in-depth technical sessions. 63 videos from Google Dev Days around the world have been posted to YouTube. Jeff Huber's US keynote (below) introduced the Mashup Editor …
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Ogle Earth, Google Blogoscoped, Web Strategy, CNET News.com and The Technology Chronicles
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.
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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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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.
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).
IFPI:
Ten inconvenient truths about the music industry today — 1. Pirate Bay, one of the flagships of the anti-copyright movement, makes thousands of euros from advertising on its site, while maintaining its anti-establishment "free music" rhetoric. — 2. Allofmp3.com, the well-known Russian website …
Christopher Phin / MacFormat:
YouTube content on the iPhone — One of the questions I asked Apple execs after the keynote at which Steve Jobs unveiled the iPhone was to do with how feature-complete the version of Safari was that ran on the mobile device. I was told that it was pretty much the same as the one running under Mac OS X …
