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Thor Larholm / Larholm.com:
Safari for Windows, 0day exploit in 2 hours — Apple released version 3 of their popular Safari web browser today, with the added twist of offering both an OS X and a Windows version. Given that Apple has had a lousy track record with security on OS X, in addition to a hostile attitude …
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David Maynor / Errata Security:
Niiiice... Apple just released a Safari for Windows beta at http://www.apple.com/safari. Using publicly available tools we had a DoS in no time. Keeping with our disclosure policy, we do not report bugs to Apple. — UPDATE: Whoops, sorry, thats not a DoS, its memory corruption.
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Ryan Naraine / Zero Day:
Safari on Windows could be big target for malware — The news that Apple's Safari browser is coming to Windows (see Techmeme discussion) has raised eyebrows in the security research community and there's already word that a memory corruption vulnerability has been discovered.
Jeff Atwood / Coding Horror:
What's Wrong With Apple's Font Rendering? — I had read a few complaints that OS X font rendering was a little wonky, even from Joel Spolsky himself: … I didn't believe it until I downloaded the first beta of Safari 3 for Windows and saw it for myself. — Font rendering in Safari 3 Beta:
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Apple Introduces Safari for Windows — Public Beta Available Today for Mac & Windows — Apple® today introduced Safari™ 3, the world's fastest and easiest-to-use web browser for Windows PCs and Macs. Safari is the fastest browser running on Windows, based on the industry standard iBench tests …
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Joel Spolsky / Joel on Software:Apple Safari for Windows: The world's slowest web browser
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Tom Krazit / CNET News.com:Apple takes Safari to Windows and iPhone
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Reuters:
YouTube to test video ID with Time Warner, Disney — NEW YORK/SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Top online video service YouTube will soon test a new video identification technology with two of the world's largest media companies, Time Warner Inc. and Walt Disney Co..
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Kevin J. Delaney / Wall Street Journal:
YouTube to Test Software To Ease Licensing Fights — SAN FRANCISCO — Google Inc.'s YouTube says it will begin testing advanced video identifying technology to spot clips on the video-sharing site with media companies including Time Warner Inc. and Walt Disney Co. starting in a month.
Karen / Official Google Blog:
How long should Google remember searches? — Over the years we've taken many steps to protect our users' data and privacy. For example, we have resisted overly-broad government subpoenas; we've designed our services to give users a choice between personalized services and general services …
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Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:Google Responds To EU: Cutting Raw Log Retention Time; Reconsidering …
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Barry Schwartz / Search Engine Land:
Google AdWords Adds Placement Performance Reports Showing Content Network Data To Advertisers — Google, as expected, has added a new report type to give AdWords advertisers the ability to see the exact sites their ads are displaying on within Google's content network.
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Daniel Terdiman / CNET News.com:
Blogger removed from NCAA baseball game for blogging — It appears that college baseball officials may have been taking lessons from the censorship masters in Soviet Russia. — That at least is the sense after a blogger from the Courier-Journal of Louisville, Ky., was expelled from a college playoff game for live-blogging.
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Rick Bozich / Courier-Journal:Courier-Journal reporter ejected from U of L game
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Oliverryan / The Browser:
LinkedIn says it will own business networking — In the future, everyone will likely maintain two online profiles. So said LinkedIn CEO Dan Nye in an extended lunchtime interview last week here in Fortune's conference room/pool hall. We had opened the conversation with THE question of the moment …
The Chronicle of Higher Education:
Walt Mossberg Shows College Leaders His New iPhone — Walter S. Mossberg, The Wall Street Journal's personal-technology columnist, picked up his review copy of the Apple iPhone this morning, and he gave his initial impressions of the much-anticipated gadget to college leaders during a speech at The Chronicle's Presidents Forum.
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.
The MMO Gamer:
MindArk: Marketing and brand awareness to attract 150 million users to Entropia — Recently, MindArk announced they were partnering with a Chinese company and expanding Entropia Universe into China. They stated their goal is to get 150 million users from around the world.
Philipp Lenssen / Google Blogoscoped:
Gmail Rolls Out PowerPoint Preview — Interesting: Google rolled out their slideshow feature for Gmail (some of you were already getting this as experiment for a while). What happens is that whenever someone sends you a PowerPoint attachment, you can instantly open it in a new browser window by clicking …
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