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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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What To Make Of Google Gears — Being a non-developer I was a bit of a fish out of water at Google Developer Day yesterday. The event, which took place in the 10 countries where Google has offices, was intended to showcase Google Gears and the company's various APIs.
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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 …
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.
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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.
Margaret Kane / CNET News.com:
'Second Life' takes tough stance on taboos — Second Life has come under fire for some taboo sexual behavior among residents of the online world. Now maker Linden Lab is trying to lay down the law regarding what is and isn't permitted in Second Life, but not all its residents are happy about it.
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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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Darren Murph / Engadget:Parallels 3.0 handles 3D gaming, adds SmartSelect integration tool
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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 …
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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.
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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AOL Beta:
AOL Local Search Beta — News & Updates — Welcome! — The AOL Local Search Beta allows you to find a local business or location with AOL Local by following three simple steps: — Enter a query term, such as PIZZA, a business name or the type of business you're looking for, such as plumbers, in the search field.
Jeremy Reimer / Ars Technica:
New AACS "fix" hacked in a day — The ongoing war between content producers and hackers over the AACS copy protection used in HD DVD and Blu-ray discs produced yet another skirmish last week, and as has been the case as of late, the hackers came out on top.
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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 …
Live Search's WebLog:
Live Search Books: Now with In-Copyright Content — Today we're delighted to announce the availability of in-copyright book content in the Beta version of Live Search Books! — For hundreds of years books have been the repositories for the world's most trusted, authoritative knowledge.
Kimberly Maul / Book Standard News:
PUBLISHER NEWS — Google Launches New Tool for Google Book Search Partner Program — Google will unveil a new marketing tool today at BookExpo America, as part of the Google Book Search Partner Program. The program, which will allow publishers to put a co-branded Google Book Search tool …
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Gord Hotchkiss / Search Engine Land:
A Tale Of Two Cultures — Last week I had the opportunity to present some very preliminary results from our Chinese eye tracking study to a Chinese audience at Search Engine Strategies Xiamen. We're still going over the results and preparing a final report, the highlights of which I'll cover in this column in a few weeks.
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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 …
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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