Techmeme: What Does Apple's Steve Jobs Have Up His Sleeve? (Philip Elmer-DeWitt/Apple 2.0)

11:35 AM ET, June 11, 2007

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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.

Discussion: Guardian Unlimited, Google Blogoscoped, Network World, Search Engine Roundtable, 901am, Insider Chatter, Between the Lines, privacyinternational.org and Internet Alchemy

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 …

Discussion: Paul Mooney, InfoWorld, Compiler, Things That, Search Marketing Gurus, Scobleizer, p2pnet, Mark Evans, Burningbird, down the avenue, TechCrunch, John Battelle's Searchblog, Rational rants, David Dalka, privacyinternational.org and digg

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.

Discussion: Profy.Com

Donna Bogatin / Insider Chatter: Google is WRONG On Consumer Privacy

privacyinternational.org:
An Open Letter to Google

Discussion: Between the Lines, WebProNews, InfoWorld and Digital Destiny

Los Angeles Times:

Movie studios fear the sequel to iPod — They see risk that new Apple TV signals effort to control distribution. — Some movie fans hope Apple TV will do for Internet video what the iPod did for digital music. — That's precisely what some Hollywood executives are afraid of.

Discussion: IP Democracy

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 …

Discussion: IP Telephony, VoIP, Broadband, Podcasting News, Media 3.0 with Shelly Palmer, rexblog.com and UNEASYsilence

Matthew Garrahan / Financial Times:
Hollywood studios in video talks with Apple

Om Malik / GigaOM: Apple plots a DVD player for the broadband era

Matthew Garrahan / Financial Times: Apple gets head start in online rental

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.

Discussion: Engadget, Cult of Mac, TechCrunch, The Unofficial Apple Weblog, parislemon, Apple Gazette, Switched and digg

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 …

Discussion: dailywireless.org, Michael Gartenberg and digg

Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Apple 2.0:

What Does Apple's Steve Jobs Have Up His Sleeve? — Apple's (AAPL) annual world wide developers conference opens this morning at San Francisco's Moscone West center and the town is abuzz with speculation about what secrets Steve Jobs will reveal in the keynote speech scheduled to start at 10 a.m. PT.

Discussion: Tech Trader Daily, Gizmodo, MacRumors and PC World: Techlog

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.

Discussion: HipMojo.com, Guardian Unlimited, paidContent.org and Microsoft News Tracker

Steve Lohr / New York Times:

NBC Studied Dow Jones Bid With Microsoft — General Electric's NBC unit and Microsoft explored making a joint bid for Dow Jones but decided against it a week ago, a person close to NBC and Microsoft said yesterday. — No rival has yet stepped up to compete with Rupert Murdoch's $5 billion bid …

Discussion: BloggingStocks and parislemon

ComputerworldUK:

Bookings.com opts for open source MySQL database — Scalebale system incorporates up to 20 database servers — Europe's largest online hotel reservation site Booking.com has selected the MySQL open source database to process tens of thousands of online bookings a day.

Discussion: Computer Business Review

Dana Blankenhorn / Open Source: Doubt no more than mySQL is enterprise class

Adobe Labs:

Adobe Flex — Adobe® Flex™ 3 is a cross platform, open source framework for creating rich Internet applications that run identically in all major browsers and operating systems. — This page provides a summary of the Flex-related prerelease products, experimental technologies …

Discussion: PC World, Computerworld, RIA pedia and Ted On Flex

Jay Fortner / Read/WriteWeb:
Adobe Apollo is now Adobe AIR

Discussion: Mashable!, The Universal Desktop, ZDNet, Macsimum News and TechCrunch

Alex Iskold / Read/WriteWeb:

Me.dium Secures $15M Series B - The Dawn of Collaborative Browsing? — Colorado-based Me.dium is announcing today a $15M Series B round led by Commonwealth Venture Partners. Me.dium is developing a next-generation collaborative browsing technology that dynamically combines visualization and chat.

Discussion: Feld Thoughts and VentureBeat

Phil Butler / Profy.Com: Me.dium Awarded $15 Million in Series B

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 …

Discussion: Search Engine Land, BloggingStocks and Google (GOOG): BloggingStocks

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.

Discussion: jkOnTheRun and Vecosys

Greg Sandoval / CNET News.com:

Hollywood's YouTube frustration grows — news analysis Google and its YouTube subsidiary are trying Hollywood's patience. — The search engine has made significant progress in recent weeks signing content partnership deals for YouTube. But a growing number of studio executives …

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