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McAfee SiteAdvisor:
The State of Search Engine Safety … Key Findings — Overall, 4.0% of search results link to risky Web sites, which marks an improvement from 5.0% in May 2006. Dangerous sites are found in search results of all 5 of the top US search engines (representing 93% of all search engine use).
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Think Secret:
With iPhone launch date out, other details emerge — A trio of iPhone television commercials Sunday night delivered the news many have been waiting for: June 29. That's the day that customers will be able to take home an Apple iPhone. — Just weeks ago, Apple had been targeting …
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PR Newswire:
Yahoo! Opens Access to Search Marketing Platform APIs — Dedicated third-party partner services and free, open access to Yahoo!'s "Panama" advertising platform technology will drive further growth and innovation in digital advertising — SUNNYVALE, Calif., June 4, 2007 /PRNewswire-FirstCall …
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Caroline McCarthy / CNET News.com:
Yahoo opens Panama search ad platform — Yahoo announced Monday that its Panama search advertising platform is now open to third parties. — Under Panama, which was launched in February, sponsored search results are based on items such as relevancy and not just on the advertiser's bid price.
Eric Bangeman / Ars Technica:
Florida defendant goes after RIAA for fraud, conspiracy, and extortion — As the RIAA has continued its legal assault on file-sharing, defendants are responding with what amount to boilerplate defenses and counterclaims against the RIAA's allegations of copyright infringement.
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Jonathan Richards / Times of London:
Search is history, says Yahoo! — The company says personalisation is now more important than search, in what some have seen as an admission that it can't compete with Google — Yahoo!, one of the two names most synonymous with search on the internet, has surprised Silicon Valley by suggesting …
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The Smoking Gun:
Google As Terror Tool? — One of the plotters behind the alleged scheme to explode gas pipelines at John F. Kennedy airport directed his co-conspirators to use Google Earth to obtain detailed aerial photos of the targeted facility. In a federal criminal complaint, an excerpt from which you'll find below …
Brooks Barnes / Wall Street Journal:
Hearst-Argyle, YouTube to Share Revenue From TV Video Clips — Hearst-Argyle Television Inc., one of the nation's largest operators of local TV stations, will distribute news, weather and entertainment video to Google Inc.'s YouTube in a revenue-sharing agreement.
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Ryan Block / Engadget:
Dell XPS m1330 performance ultraportable revealed — We've got the scoop on some early marketing materials / renders for Dell XPS m1330, and we have to say, this is as impressed as we've ever been with a Dell laptop. Check it out: — 13.3-inch screen, configurable with LED backlight!
Guy Kawasaki / How to Change the World:
By the Numbers: How I built a Web 2.0, User-Generated Content, Citizen Journalism, Long-Tail, Social Media Site for $12,107.09 — Because of Truemors, I've learned a lot about launching a company in these "Web 2.0" times. Here's quick overview "by the numbers." — 0. I wrote 0 business plans for it.
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Microsoft: Silicon Valley Team Building Stealth Search Engine — Microsoft has gathered a team of twenty or more "rock star" developers who've been tasked at building their next generation search engine, a source has told us. The team, which supposedly came together recently …
Jeremy Guscott / Times of London:
Bono and Rubinstein plan to shake Palm — Palm sells 25 per cent stake to Bono's Elevation Partners and invites key former iPod chief to shake up the Treo maker — Palm has sold a 25 per cent stake to a private equity partner in a move that will bring two key former Apple executives …
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Finjan:
Finjan's Latest Web Security Trends Report Reveals New Genre of Evasive Attacks — Evasive Attacks Hit Once and Disappear to Minimize Visibility to Security Products; — Financial Incentives Drive Growth of Malicious Website Affiliations — Finjan, a leader in web security products …
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Martin LaMonica / CNET News.com:
Microsoft teams with Linux distributor Xandros — Microsoft and Linux distributor Xandros announced on Monday a technical and legal collaboration, the latest step in the software giant's ongoing program to partner with open-source companies. — Over the next five years, the two companies said …
Pavel Alpeyev / Bloomberg:
Nintendo's Wii Widens Lead Over Sony's PS3 in Japan in May — Nintendo Co., the world's third- biggest maker of video-game players, widened its lead in Japan last month after its Wii consoles and DS portable players outsold products from Sony Corp., a research firm said.
Martin LaMonica / CNET News.com:
Adobe brings Flash to LiveCycle enterprise server — Adobe Systems on Monday released an early version of LiveCycle Enterprise Suite, a revamped version of its document management and work-flow server. — LiveCycle Enterprise Suite, which is expected to be available for deployment in July …
Scott Gilbertson / Compiler:
Firefox 3 Feature Preview — Firefox Alpha 5 arrived last Friday, bringing with it the first look at Places, the new bookmark management system. But the Firefox team has a number of additional UI tweaks up their sleeve and some of them look quite slick. — Alex Faaborg who's …
Joshua Karp / The Boy Genius Report:
Apple iPhone details a plenty — Now that we all know when the iPhone is dropping, some further details about Apple's upcoming wireless Coup de'Tat are in order. Here's a short rundown for your viewing pleasure: — 1. The iPhone will interact with your Mac through iPhoto and iTunes …
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Paul Farhi / American Journalism Review:
Rolling the Dice — Media companies have high hopes that hyperlocal news online will bolster their newspapers' futures. But early returns suggest the financial outlook for such ventures is not bright. — Paul Farhi (farhip@washpost.com) is a Washington Post reporter who writes frequently about the media for the Post and AJR.
