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Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:
Google Bad On Privacy? Maybe It's Privacy International's Report That Sucks — It's a bad privacy day for Google, with Privacy International first accusing the company of having the worst privacy performance of any internet service company in a study it has just released and then accusing Google …
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Matt Cutts / Gadgets, Google, and SEO:
Why I disagree with Privacy International — Sigh. Google as a company takes privacy very seriously. I personally feel strongly about protecting our users' privacy. So I'm frustrated by a recent study that Privacy International did, and I want to know if I'm off-base in my reaction.
BBC:
Google ranked 'worst' on privacy — Google has the worst privacy policy of popular net firms, says a report. — Rights group Privacy International rated the search giant as "hostile" to privacy in a report ranking web firms by how they handle personal data.
Michael Santo / Alice Hill's Real Tech News:Google's Privacy Policies Ranked the Worst
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Robert Scoble / Scobleizer:Google slammed in privacy report...
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Matthew Garrahan / Financial Times:
Hollywood studios in video talks with Apple — Apple is in advanced talks with Hollywood's largest movie studios about launching an online film rental service to challenge cable and satellite TV operators. — The service could be significant for Apple. If it signs enough studios …
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Wall Street Journal:
Apple Seeks a Deal to Make Movies Available for Rent Via iTunes Service — Apple Inc. is in talks with the Hollywood studios to make new movies available for rental for its iTunes service, according to two studio executives familiar with the matter. — The rental service is being pitched aggressively …
Om Malik / GigaOM:
Apple plots a DVD player for the broadband era — At the recent All Things D conference, Steve Jobs, chief executive officer of Apple in an uncharacteristic display of modesty dubbed Apple TV, as a "hobby" that the company was trying to figure out. He, then proceeded to outline his grand vision …
Jay Fortner / Read/WriteWeb:
Adobe Apollo is now Adobe AIR — Adobe has just unveiled the official name of its much talked about Adobe Apollo product: Adobe Integrated Runtime, or Adobe AIR for short. Adobe is also announcing a beta version of the runtime, which will include Ajax and HTML support.
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Martin LaMonica / ZDNet:
Adobe's Apollo platform, now called AIR, goes beta — Adobe Systems on Monday plans to release a beta version of AIR, a software download formerly called Apollo that makes Web-native applications operate like desktop programs. — The much-anticipated software, now called the Adobe Integrated Runtime …
Helen Chernikoff / Reuters:
Desk jockeys can cool off or heat up with C2 device — NEW YORK (Reuters) - Office furniture maker Herman Miller Inc. wants to let cooler heads prevail when it comes to the often-heated issue of how hot or cold offices should be. — Herman Miller is launching a $300 desktop heating …
Wall Street Journal:
GE, Microsoft Discussed Buying Dow Jones — General Electric Co. and Microsoft Corp. were in discussions in recent weeks to combine Dow Jones & Co. with some portions of GE's NBC Universal, parrying a bid by News Corp., but the two sides couldn't reach an agreement, according to people briefed on the discussions.
Michael Kanellos / CNET News.com:
Wi-Fi memory cards coming to cameras — Think of it as point, shoot and post. — In the fall, start-up Eye-Fi plans to release Secure Digital memory cards with integrated Wi-Fi chips. With the card, digital cameras will be able to automatically send photos to home PCs or to photo-sharing Web sites.
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Matt / mattwaite.com:
Why (some) journalists should learn (some) code — Warning: long post ahead. — Recently, I argued that some journalists should learn how to program. Here's a practical example why. — Today, my employer published a story about where the tens of thousands of people who came to Tampa Bay during the boom years came from.
DailyTechTalk:
Exact Keynote Transcript for WWDC07 [UPDATED] — In a last minute find, I happened across a German site that has an outline of tomorrow's play by play of Steve Jobs' WWDC keynote. The text has some issues when I performed the translation but I've copied it in the "Full Story" section and made some changes to make it easier to read.
Andrew Hampp / AdAge:
CNN the TV Channel Is No Match for CNN the Website — The Breaking-News Model the 24-Hour Network Built Its Reputation on Now Best Suits Its Website — NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — "I worry about CNN more than I do about CNN.com." — Many news junkies already feel the same way …
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Matthew Creamer / AdAge:
Dell Quells Critics With Web 2.0 Tack — Social Media Has Turned Customer Service Inside-out for All to See — NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — Back in the summer of 2005, Dell ignored Jeff Jarvis' complaints about a lemon laptop at its own peril. The blogger's "Dell Hell" rants teed …
Andrew Adam Newman / New York Times:
A Few Details of the iPhone Galvanize the Apple Cadre — These days advertisers fret over DVR owners fast-forwarding through their commercials, but that was far from the case with the release by Apple last week of four iPhone commercials, which viewers pored over with Talmudic intensity.
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