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Google ‘faces Street View block’ — Google's plans to launch a mapping tool in the UK could be referred to the Information Commissioner. — Street View matches photos of locations to maps, including passers-by who were captured as the photograph was taken.
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Darren Waters / BBC NEWS:
Google, privacy and Street View — As soon as Google launched Street View, its innovative photo-mapping tool, people began complaining that their privacy had been compromised. — From the man walking out of a sex shop, to the sun-bathing girls - had Google compromised their privacy …
San Francisco Chronicle:
Merchants angry over getting yanked by Yelp — Four years ago, Geri Rebstock started using Yelp, a popular site for consumers to review local businesses and services. She critiqued her favorite veterinarian, a neighborhood print shop and an acupuncturist who took care of her bad wrist.
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Elizabeth Woyke / Forbes:
Developers Wary Of iPhone — Developers of location-based services should be clamoring to make applications for Apple's 3G iPhone, which features built-in global positioning system technology—but they're not. — Instead, many are steering clear of the new device, which will go on sale July 11 …
Saul Hansell / Bits:
Google Changes Home Page, Adding Link to Privacy Policy — The word “privacy” now appears on Google's home page, with a link to the company's privacy policy. — With that one word, the Web search giant heads off the growing controversy over whether its previous practice ran afoul of a California law …
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Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Apple 2.0:
German publishing giant Axel Springer switching to Mac — Here's an unexpected Independence Day gift for Apple. — Axel Springer AG, one of Europe's largest newspaper publishers, with 10,000 employees and more than 150,000 papers in 30 countries, including its flagship Die Welt …
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Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
The Problem With Identi.ca Is That It Is Not Twitter — The launch of Twitter clone Identi.ca earlier this week caused a bit of a blogstorm because it appears to have a solution to Twitter's all-too-regular downtime. (That problem has reached comical proportions, with the familiar Twitter Fail Whale …
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Margaret Ho / New York Sun:
‘Mac Guy’ Buys Into Lower East Side's Blue — Actor Justin Long, best-known for his starring role in a series of Macintosh computer commercials, has purchased an apartment at the high-rise Blue luxury complex at 105 Norfolk St., on the Lower East Side. — The two-bedroom, two-bathroom apartment …
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Zhanyong Wan / Google Testing Blog:
Announcing: New Google C++ Testing Framework — We all know the importance of writing automated tests to cover our code. To make it easier for everyone to write good C++ tests, today we have open-sourced Google C++ Testing Framework (Google Test for short), a library that thousands of Googlers have been using in our C++ programs.
Enigmax / TorrentFreak:
Indiana Gregg to The Pirate Bay: The Internet Police Are Coming — A little while ago we wrote about the exchange of emails between artist Indiana Gregg and The Pirate Bay. Indiana wanted The Pirate Bay to remove torrents linking to her work, which they refused to do.
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Ryan Block / Engadget:
Matias Duarte, designer behind Sidekick and Helio, now developing Palm's next-gen UI — So we heard from a very reliable source that mobile user interface guru Matias Duarte — who you may know as the man behind the Sidekick and Helio UI / user experiences — actually left Helio late last year to join up with Palm.
Adam Pash / Lifehacker:
Five Best Windows Maintenance Tools — You download, create, delete, and move around countless files and endless piles of data on your PC every day. While your PC would ideally handle all of this data for you, it doesn't take long before you end up with a disorganized, cluttered computer.
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Kelly Fiveash / The Register:
BSA slams EC's ‘narrow-minded’ interoperability vision — EIF 2.0 draft ruffles some proprietary software feathers — An open standards row is brewing between the EC and a lobbying group for software multinationals over a proposed European framework on interoperability - a draft of which is due to be published on 15 July.
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