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11:30 AM ET, June 12, 2007

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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.
Aviv Raff On .NET:
Apple Safari for Windows - Out with a crash  —  Apple has just released a public beta of its Safari browser for Windows.  —  On the download page Apple write: "Apple engineers designed Safari to be secure from day one".  —  So, I've decided to take it for a test drive, and ran Hamachi.
Discussion: Macsimum News and SitePoint Blogs
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.
Robert Vamosi / Webware.com:   SECURITY RESEARCHERS: SAFARI FOR WINDOWS NOT SO SECURE
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 Cookie Expiration  —  In response to an EU letter over data retention, Google has announced that it will now anonymize server log data after 18 months, rather than the previous maximum time it had announced of 24 months.
Discussion: InfoWorld and Search Engine Watch
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.
New York Times:
YouTube Sets Tests of Video Blocking  —  Google says it will soon begin testing a long-awaited system that can block unauthorized copyrighted clips from being uploaded to YouTube, the popular video-sharing site it bought last year.  —  Company executives have predicted that the technology …
Duncan Riley / TechCrunch:   YouTube To Test Copyright Screening Technology
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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Duncan Riley / TechCrunch:   Google Integrates Powerpoint Viewer Into Gmail
Om Malik / GigaOM:
5 ways iPhone will change the wireless biz  —  Steve Jobs' WWDC keynote, demo of upcoming Leopard and Safari for Windows may have generated a lot of oohs and ahhs, but it was towards the end that His Jobness revealed the game plan to irreversibly change the world of wireless.
Discussion: Download Squad
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Arn / MacRumors:
No Adobe Flash Support on the iPhone
Discussion: digg
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 …
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Steve O'Hear / The Social Web:   LinkedIn vs Facebook: room for both?
Kristen Nicole / Mashable!:
Google to Release Detailed Metrics for your AdSense Campaign  —  Google has made a significant stride with its AdWords program, in which Google announced its Content Placement Reports.  This means that AdSense users can get a far more detailed report on where their money is going for Google ad placement.
Discussion: howardowens.com
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Miguel Helft / New York Times:
For Yahoo, an Ordeal of Dissent  —  When Terry S. Semel, Yahoo's chief executive, faces shareholders at the company's annual meeting on Tuesday, Eric Jackson will be there to pepper him with questions.  —  Mr. Jackson, who owns just a few Yahoo shares, is not happy with the company's performance …
Eric Bangeman / Ars Technica:
HD DVD sales spike in wake of price cuts  —  Last month, the HD DVD Promotional Group announced a rebate program designed to make HD DVD players a bit more affordable.  Today, the group said that one Toshiba player has made it to the top of the Amazon DVD player sales chart and that HD DVD players …
Discussion: Neowin.net
 
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Robert Andrews / paidContent.org:
Warner Confirms Still in EMI Running; Receives 'Approach' From EMI's Own Buyer
BBC:
Download store 'takes on iTunes'
Mariko Sanchanta / Financial Times:
Handhelds drive games market, says Enix chief
Discussion: Ars Technica, Kotaku, DS Fanboy and Go Nintendo
David Gelles / Forbes:
PayPerPost Gets Paid, Again
Discussion: BuzzMachine and paidContent.org
Antone Gonsalves / InformationWeek:
Apple Says No Sun File System For Leopard
Discussion: Engadget
Robert Mullins / InfoWorld:
VMware Windows-on-a-Mac product close to launch
Ben Darnell / Official Google Reader Blog:
Today's outage  —  This afternoon we experienced a brief outage …
Discussion: WinExtra, live and Search Engine Roundtable
Richard MacManus / Read/WriteWeb:
Day Without Google Begins!
Discussion: Search Engine Land, The Next Net and WebMetricsGuru
 Earlier Items: 
John Pospisil / TECH.BLORGE.com:
Digital camera Wi-Fi memory card coming soon
Discussion: Digital Trends and Wi-Fi Networking News
Steve / The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs:
Yes this is me, holding a Windows machine
Discussion: Engadget and Gadget Lab
Business Wire:
PodZinger Relaunches as 'EveryZing'
Discussion: Vecosys, Search Engine Watch Blog and Podcasting News
Eric Eldon / VentureBeat:
Q & A with RockYou — three hit apps on Facebook, and counting
Discussion: Digital Common Sense
Rafat Ali / paidContent.org:
Cablevision Gets Strong Support From AT&T, Verizon And Others In Network DVR Case
Discussion: Reuters
Rick Bozich / Courier-Journal:
Courier-Journal reporter ejected from U of L game
Discussion: CNET News.com, The Bivings Report, Between the Lines, mathewingram.com/work, Virtual Economics, Innovation in College Media, Center for Citizen Media and Wordblog
The Chronicle of Higher Education:
Walt Mossberg Shows College Leaders His New iPhone
Discussion: The Unofficial Apple Weblog, Valleywag, Scobleizer, Engadget Mobile, Gizmodo, The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs and Ars Technica
 

 
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