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Paul Miller / Engadget:
Safari 3 for Windows — Sign one more up for the browser war, Apple is shipping the third version of its well received Safari WebKit-based browser over to foreign shores to duke it out with the likes of IE, Firefox and Opera... on Windows. The Mac-only browser has already attained a 5% market share …
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BBC:
Apple announces Windows browser — Apple has launched a version of its web browser Safari for Windows, competing head to head with Microsoft's Explorer and Mozilla's Firefox. — Chief executive Steve Jobs said Apple "dream big" and wanted to expand the 4.9% market share Safari enjoys.
Todd Bishop / Todd Bishop's Microsoft Blog:
Apple to offer Safari for Windows (Updated) — Posting from San Francisco: Apple CEO Steve Jobs just announced plans to offer the company's Safari Web browser for Windows. The move is significant in part because Web browsers are increasingly becoming platforms for sophisticated software programs.
May Wong / Associated Press:Apple Extends Web Browser to Windows
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Liquidmatrix Security Digest
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.
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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.
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Steve Dowling / Apple:
iPhone to Support Third-Party Web 2.0 Applications — Innovative New Way to Create Applications for iPhone — Apple® today announced that its revolutionary iPhone™ will run applications created with Web 2.0 Internet standards when it begins shipping on June 29.
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Wall Street Journal:
Google Intensifies Microsoft Fight — Google Inc. has told state and federal antitrust authorities that Microsoft Corp.'s Windows Vista operating-system software puts rivals at a disadvantage in violation of Microsoft's antitrust settlement. — Google's complaints center on desktop search …
Thomas Ricker / Engadget:
Apple's .Mac getting a Google overhaul? — Man, is there a Steve Jobs keynote today or something? Oh, right, the WWDC hype machine is in town. As such, we've got another tasty rumor to tide you over until things kick off later today. MacScoop has it that Apple's .Mac is about to get a helpful hand …
Munir Kotadia / CNET News.com:
OpenOffice worm Badbunny hops across operating systems — Malicious software targeting OpenOffice.org documents is spreading through multiple operating systems, according to Symantec. — "A new worm is being distributed within malicious OpenOffice documents.
Bob Tedeschi / New York Times:
Awaiting Real Sales From Virtual Shoppers — THE seven million or so inhabitants of Second Life, the three-dimensional online world, have spent millions of dollars on digital makeovers, clothing and other goods and services for their avatars. — But will the game's players buy anything for themselves?
Peter Lauria / New York Post:
ON THE DOWNLOAD — USING ADS, NEW ONLINE LABEL OFFERS MUSIC FREE — In a move designed to upend the traditional record label business model, Downtown Records and Internet entrepreneur Peter Rojas plan to launch an online-only record label that will offer its music for free and generate revenue …
Greg Sandoval / CNET News.com:
MPAA accuses TorrentSpy of concealing evidence — The movie studios may have discovered a new and powerful weapon in its war on copyright infringement. — The courts have for the first time found that the electronic trail briefly left in a computer server's Random Access Memory (RAM) …
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Technorati: When Will The Traffic Party End? — Recent Comscore stats show Technorati continuing to surge in traffic, more than tripling since a year ago. Founder and CEO Dave Sifry recently mentioned about this staggering growth in a blog post. Technorati's internal numbers showed massive growth early this year.
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Insider Chatter
Xbox.com:
Xbox 360 Games for Change Challenge — New York—Microsoft and Games for Change (G4C) announced a joint commitment to explore new ways to bring together the world of digital gaming with the world of social change at the fourth annual Games for Change Festival at Parsons The New School for Design.
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Computex 2007: Philips Takes on AppleTV — The AppleTV may have already been hacked to pieces, making it a lot more convenient to us with downloaded files than it is out of the box. However, for those overly zealous Mac haters, or just those that don't like the idea of having to crack open …
