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Apple:
YouTube Live on Apple TV Today; Coming to iPhone on June 29 — Best YouTube Experience on a Mobile Device — Apple® today announced that iPhone™ users will be able to enjoy YouTube's originally-created content on their iPhones when they begin shipping on June 29.
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Aftenposten:
Opera Software boss hangs on to control — The founder of one of Norway's most successful high-tech firms, Opera Software, reportedly hung on to his power over the firm by firing Opera's board of directors before they could fire him. — Newspaper Dagens Næringsliv reported on Tuesday …
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Valleywag
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Steve / The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs:
We don't have to kill rival browsers; they're killing themselves — Check out the big scandal at Opera, the Icelandic company that makes the Opera browser. In a nutshell: the board decided to get rid of the CEO, Jon S von Tetzchner (above, in Viking helmet, holding list of names of the 20 people who use Opera).
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WebProNews
Sarah Ellison / Wall Street Journal:
Dow Jones Board Takes Over Talks on Future of Company — Dow Jones & Co.'s board of directors, frustrated with the pace of the Bancroft family's negotiations with News Corp., said it would take over talks on the future of the company. — The move, approved by the the four board members affiliated …
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Stephanie Kang / Wall Street Journal:
MySpace's Brad Greenspan to Seek Dow Jones Stake Via Dutch Auction — The former chief executive of the parent company of social-networking site MySpace says he will seek a non-controlling stake in Dow Jones & Co. through a $60-per-share "Dutch auction." — An investment group led …
Ina Fried / CNET News.com:
Microsoft flip-flops on Vista virtualization — Microsoft planned this week to announce that it was broadening the virtualization rights for Windows Vista, but decided at the last minute to reverse course and stick with existing limits. — The software maker had briefed reporters and analysts …
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All about Microsoft, eWEEK.com, Berlind's Testbed, Macsimum News and Todd Bishop's Microsoft Blog
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Anjali Athavaley / Wall Street Journal:
A Job Interview You Don't Have to Show Up For — Microsoft, Verizon, Others Use — Virtual Worlds to Recruit; — Dressing Avatars for Success — It's now possible to meet with recruiters without actually showing up for a job interview. — Some employers are experimenting with Second Life …
John Biggs / CrunchGear:
Pistols at Dawn: Ryan Block Now on TechCrunch20 Panel of Experts — Engadget's Ryan Block will represent the gadget and gizmo folks at the TechCrunch20, a supercool symposium of all things Web 2.0 hosted by our own Michael Arrington and the illustrious Jason "The Animal" Calacanis.
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Peter Sayer / InfoWorld:
Update: Security risks prompt French BlackBerry ban — (InfoWorld) - French government members and their advisors have been told not to use BlackBerry smartphones, for national security reasons. The ban on BlackBerry devices is just one of the IT challenges facing new National Assembly members …
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GigaLaw.com Daily News
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Alan Sipress / Washington Post:
Microsoft Concedes to Alter Its Vista Operating System — Microsoft has agreed to revise its Vista operating system under a compromise with federal and state officials monitoring the company's compliance with a five-year-old antitrust decree, according to a court filing last night.
Brad Edwards / WOOD-TV:
Man faces cyber-bullying felonies — Updated: — KENTWOOD — Amanda Brunzell, 23, said she is living in fear because of the actions of a man. — It is not his threats that got him in trouble, but the fact that he got others to do the harassing and the high-tech way he accomplished it.
Think Secret:
Gallery: Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard build 9A466 (WWDC 2007) — Those in attendance at Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference last week went home with the first new build of Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard released to third-party developers in almost two months. — Build 9A466 was demonstrated as the first …
Brian D Crecente / Kotaku:
PC: Spore Slip Sliding Away — The latest Game Informer reports that Spore has been "delayed indefinitely", but reached for comment today, Electronic Arts says that "Spore has slipped out of fiscal 08 and into fiscal 09". Either way you cut it, it means that the game we've all been waiting …
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Game | Life, Ars Technica, CrunchGear, Forever Geek, kottke.org, 4 color rebellion and digg
SecLists.Org Security Mailing List Archive:
Harry Potter 0day — From: go harry <goharrygo_at_linuxmail.org> ; — Voldemort killed Hermione. Yes, that's true. And we knew that 2 days ago. — This is the end of the not yet published (someone could call that 0day) book — Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows .
Paul Roberts / InfoWorld:
Enterprise 2.0: Think 'collaboration' — The Enterprise 2.0 Conference is underway here in Boston, and companies big and small are already jockeying for mindshare in the nebulous Enterprise 2.0 space. What is Enterprise 2.0 you ask? According to conference organizers CMP, the term describes …
Marguerite Reardon / CNET News.com:
Verizon CEO: No need for iPhone killer — CHICAGO—With the Apple iPhone launch less than two weeks away, Verizon sees its services and not a new iPhone-killing handset as the way to compete against rival AT&T, said CEO Ivan Seidenberg. — Seidenberg, who took questions from reporters …
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ZDNet
Damien Mulley:
Sky Handling Partners - The Return - So who's signing me up for dating websites? — This morning I noticed someone snooping around my website after coming to the site with the search "sky handling partners". It has happened before. Now for some background, I have had issues with this crowd losing my baggage.
Philipp Lenssen / Google Blogoscoped:
Google Press Release Analyzer — Google offers you an archive of their press releases from 1999 to 2007. A lot has happened in those 8 years, and you can analyze some of the changes - or to be more precise, the changes Google decided to publicly communicate - by comparing word counts for each year.
Eric Bangeman / Ars Technica:
Judge deals blow to RIAA, says students can respond to John Doe lawsuit — A federal judge in New Mexico has put the brakes on the RIAA's lawsuit train, at least in the US District Court for New Mexico. The case in question is part of the RIAA's campaign against file-sharing on college campuses and names …
Stuart Elliott / New York Times:
Embracing Change, TV Networks Find Stronger Demand for Ads — WHO said you can't teach an old medium new tricks? — The willingness of the big broadcast television networks to embrace change — by making it easier to watch shows online and by adopting new types of ratings …
Eric Rabe / Verizon:
One Millionth FiOS Customer Video — At NXTComm today Ivan introduced this Massapequa, NY family. They are the one millionth connected FiOS customer since August, 2004. My bold emphasis is here to ensure that readers don't glance at this and think that it's just a home passed of a potential customer.
