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Apple:
About the Mac OS X 10.5.3 Update — The Mac OS X 10.5.3 Update is recommended for Mac OS X 10.5, 10.5.1, and 10.5.2 Leopard. It includes general operating system improvements that enhance the stability, compatibility, and security of your Mac. For detailed information about security updates, please visit this website.
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One More Thing, PC World, Mark Evans, TidBITS, CrunchGear, Gizmodo, MacUser, Geek News Central, The Apple Blog, Insanely Great Mac, The Unofficial Apple Weblog and Engadget
Google LatLong:
Google Earth, meet the browser — When Google Maps was launched in 2005, few could have guessed the way map mashups would permeate the online world. Online maps had been just something you used to get directions or to find the ten nearest grocery stores. Google Maps and the Google Maps API proved …
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Search Engine Land, Search Engine Watch Blog, Webware.com, Mashable!, Ogle Earth and James Fee GIS Blog
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Brady Forrest / O'Reilly Radar:
Google Earth Escapes the Client and Comes to the Browser — Google's 3D data has escaped the client and is now a welcome addition to the browser! Today at Google I/O a Google Earth Browser plugin is going to be released. With the plugin installed anybody with a Windows machine will be able …
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Miguel Helft / Bits:
Google Pushes to Make Browser Applications More Powerful — Google has been a leading proponent of Web-based computing — software that is delivered over the Internet and typically runs insider a browser. But most browser applications cannot do many of the things that more powerful PC-based software can.
Google:
Google App Engine to Announce Open Sign-ups, Pricing Plans, and New APIs at Google I/O Google Developer Conference Starts Wednesday in San Francisco; Highlights a Richer, Maturing Web Platform — Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) is getting ready to welcome more than 2900 developers to the Moscone Center …
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Darryl K. Taft / eWeek:
Google Opens Google App Engine — Google also announces pricing for the development technology.
Eric Savitz / Tech Trader Daily:
D: Amazon's Bezos: To Launch For-Pay Movie Streaming Service; Stays Bullish On Kindle; Books Are Like Horses — In the first session at the D: All Things Digital conference at the Four Seasons Aviara in Carlsbad, California this morning, it's Amazon.com (AMZN) CEO Jeff Bezos.
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Dan Farber / Outside the Lines:
Amazon's Jeff Bezos: A passion for Kindle and digital content delivery — CARLSBAD, Calif.—Amazon.com founder and CEO Jeff Bezos kicked off the morning proceedings here at D6 after a night of polite carousing by industry luminaries. During the interview with D co-host Walt Mossberg …
Chris Flores / Windows Vista Team Blog:
Microsoft demonstrates Multi-touch — For years Microsoft has been investing in many forms of natural input in order to simplify the way people interact with their PC's and devices. The advent of the original Windows graphical user interface forever changed the way people used their PC's.
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Apple Watch, InformationWeek, Between the Lines, CNET News.com, BBC, D6 Highlights, Tech Check with Jim Goldman, InfoWorld, All about Microsoft, Tech Beat, Teching It Easy, Gadgetell, Outside the Lines, Reuters, Beyond Binary, Bits, Gadget Lab, WebGuild, Podcasting News, TG Daily, MacDailyNews, MacUser, Coolest Gadgets, Download Squad, ParisLemon, Gizmodo, Network World, TechSpot, The Tech Report, GottaBeMobile, eHomeUpgrade, Darren Herman, TechRadar.com, MediaFile, Microsoft News Tracker, WebProNews, Scobleizer and Times of London
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Rafe Needleman / CNET News.com:
Sony CEO Stringer: You can't afford our best TV — CARLSBAD, Calif.—Sony CEO Howard Stringer says the culture of profitability has returned to his company. — In an interview with Stringer at the D6 technology and media conference, the Wall Street Journal's Walt Mossberg started by pointing …
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
MySpace Shows Facebook How It's Done: Google Gears To Power Messaging — The Google I/O conference in San Francisco kicks off today with a really welcome announcement: MySpace has integrated Google Gears into its messaging system, which will back up all messages to a user's local machine and allow for very fast search and sorting.
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Gene Marcial / Business Week:
Yahoo's End Game — Negotiations with Microsoft and Google are taking place behind the scenes, writes BW's Gene Marcial. A deal of some kind is imminent, according to his sources — Yahoo! finally looks ready to do a deal, according to people familiar with the situation.
Kevin Poulsen / Threat Level:
Man Allegedly Bilks E-trade, Schwab of $50,000 by Collecting Lots of Free ‘Micro-Deposits’ — A California man has been indicted for an inventive scheme that allegedly siphoned $50,000 from online brokerage houses E-trade and Schwab.com in six months — a few pennies at a time.
Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Apple 2.0:
Fatal bandwidth: 6 cell tower deaths in 5 weeks — There's a price to pay for the wireless networks we take for granted. — On May 16, Jonathan Guilford, 25, of Fort Payne, Alabama, was working on an AT&T UMTS (3G) project in Haubstadt, Ind., when he fell to his death from a 200-foot tower …
Josh Lowensohn / Webware.com:
SezWho acquires Tejit to expand commenter reputations — Distributed commenter reputation service SezWho is growing a little bigger Wednesday morning with the acquisition of Tejit, an engine that tracks content around the Web to see how it links up with people, events, places, and more.
Market Wire:
D-Link Introduces Ethernet-to-Coax Kit for Extending the Home Network Using Existing TV Cabling in the Home — Easy-to-Use Adapter Kit Enables Fast Transfers of HD Video, Music, Gaming; Quick Solution for Connecting Devices in Multiple Rooms — D-Link, the end-to-end networking solutions provider …
Qualcomm:
Qualcomm and Adobe Collaborate to Empower Developer Ecosystems With BREW Mobile Platform — BREW Mobile Platform Integrates Adobe Flash to Accelerate Advanced Application and Web Content Development for Mass Market Devices — Qualcomm Incorporated (Nasdaq: QCOM) and Adobe Systems Incorporated …
