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I, Cringely . The Pulpit | PBS:
The Seduction of AT&T — This week was Apple's World Wide Developers Conference (WWDC), the biggest news from which seemed to be the beta version of Safari (Apple's web browser) for Windows. Why the heck would Apple even produce such a product? Readers and pundits alike have been wondering ad nauseam.
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Om Malik / GigaOM:
Safari for Windows... but WHY? — Steve Jobs & Company must have known that releasing a Safari browser for the Windows platform was going to result in some serious blowback: vulnerabilities, outrage and of course, the mocking. And as expected, the digerati responded with scorn and outrage.
Apple:
Safari for Windows Public Beta Downloads Top 1 Million in First 48 Hours — Apple® today announced that more than 1 million copies of Safari™ for Windows were downloaded in the first 48 hours since the free public beta was made available on Monday.
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Inquirer, Podcasting News, Sparkplug 9, Apple Gazette, Forever Geek, The Unofficial Apple Weblog, Macsimum News, Manthan and MacSlash
Dan Primack / PE HUB:
Veoh Hosts $26 Million Round — Updated Veoh may no longer host popular adult videos, but that hasn't stopped venture capitalists from backing up the Brink's truck. peHUB has learned that the San Diego-based company recently raised around $26 million in Series C funding …
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John's Blog:
A Picture's Worth 100M Users??? — Steve Job's keynote at WWDC this year inspired some and was disappointing to others — but, as usual, it was interesting & entertaining. I've always liked Apple's products, and spend an embarrassing amount of my own money on them. So I'm interested in what he's got to say.
Stefan Constantinescu / IntoMobile:
Video: Review of the Jaiku Beta client for S60 — This kicks Twitter in the balls and then makes love to its mother. Jonathan Greene takes a stab at reviewing the latest beta of the S60 Jaiku client and he does a great job, but if you're going to watch the video you should definitely read …
Karen / Official Google Blog:
The CNN/YouTube debates — Posted by Steve Grove, Head of News and Politics, YouTube — Back in March we kicked off our You Choose '08 program, a hub of political channels on YouTube designed to educate, empower, and connect voters and presidential candidates through the power of online video.
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BBC:
The Tech Lab: Dave Winer — Dave Winer, considered by many to be the father of blogging and a pioneer of RSS feeds, offers his personal view on technologies he would like to see in existence one day. — I'm a blogger, therefore I like to write short two or three paragraph essays on things I care about.
Brian Lam / Gizmodo:
Exclusive: How Justin.TV's Live Video System Was Born — Like most great ideas, the concept behind Justin.tv is simple: a video stream, anytime, anywhere. But the hardware behind it all wasn't so easy to make, so Justin called up a friend, Kyle Vogt, to hand build version 1.0 from some off the shelf parts …
Aline van Duyn / Financial Times:
Sony chief ponders cut for PS3 price — Sir Howard Stringer, the chairman and chief executive of Sony Corp, said the electronics and entertainment company was trying to "refine" how much it could afford to cut the price of PlayStation 3 gaming consoles, saying there was "no question" consumers wanted the price to be lower.
Scott Karp / Publishing 2.0:
Business 2.0 vs. Valleywag — Business 2.0 has had another trend defining staff departure, following the departure of blogger Om Malik last year to launch his own media company. Now, the news is that Business 2.0 editor Owen Thomas will be the new editor of Valleywag, the tech gossip blog run by gossip monger Nick Denton.
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Richard MacManus / Read/WriteWeb:
Future of Media Video: Google Takes Over the World by 2050 — Davide Casaleggio sent a tip to Read/WriteWeb about a video his company produced exploring the future of media. It is a very cool 6-minute video, which takes some educated (and imaginative) guesses at how the Web and media will evolve over the next 40-50 years.
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Nate Anderson / Ars Technica:
Frontline Wireless pitches plan to build "third pipe" using 700 MHz spectrum — 84 MHz in and around the 700 MHz band are up for reassignment as analog television stations are replaced by digital broadcasts in 2009. The Senate Commerce Committee held hearings today on how best to make use of the spectrum …
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Wall Street Journal:
FTC Launches More Reviews Of Web Ad Deals — The Federal Trade Commission is investigating two more mergers in the fast-growing online-advertising industry. — The FTC is conducting antitrust reviews of Microsoft Corp.'s $6 billion bid for aQuantive Inc. and Yahoo Inc.'s $680 million deal …
Karen / Official Google Blog:
The state of our video ID tools — Recent speculation and stories like this Wall Street Journal article or this Reuters report on YouTube's use of video identification tools made us think it would be useful to clarify what we're doing. — We've been developing improved content identification for months …
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Search Engine Journal
San Francisco Chronicle:
EBay slashes Google ads, escalating rift — Analyst: 'The two companies have been on a collision course for a long time' — EBay Inc. has pulled all of its advertising from Google Inc.'s U.S. network in what is widely seen as punishment for trying to crash eBay's user conference in Boston this week.
John Solomon / Washington Post:
FBI Finds It Frequently Overstepped in Collecting Data — An internal FBI audit has found that the bureau potentially violated the law or agency rules more than 1,000 times while collecting data about domestic phone calls, e-mails and financial transactions in recent years …
