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YouTube Blog:
The Law and Your Privacy: An Update — As we let you know on July 4, YouTube received a court order to produce viewing history data. We are pleased to report that Viacom, MTV and other litigants have backed off their original demand for all users' viewing histories and we will not be providing that information.
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Google/Viacom Agree To Preserve User Anonymity In Data Shakedown — The Google-Viacom showdown over the handover of YouTube user data appears to be over. The two sides agreed to changes in a previous ruling that would have required Google to hand over user id's, IP addresses and a list …
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Search Engine Watch Blog, CNET News.com, Inquirer, Computerworld, VentureBeat, Beyond Search and The Blog Herald
Jesus Diaz / Gizmodo:
iPhone 3G Unlocked with SIM Card Adapter — Just four days after its launch, the iPhone 3G has been unlocked for the first time exactly like the original iPhone: using a special card that piggybacks to your SIM card, fooling the phone into thinking it's using an official carrier.
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Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Apple 2.0:
iPhone 3G: Sold out in 21 states — Shoppers hunting for iPhone 3Gs can still find them — if they're willing to get up early and, in some cases, drive long distances. — As of 6:00 a.m. EDT Tuesday, all three models (8GB black, 16 GB black or white) of the hot-selling device were sold out in 21 states …
IDG News Service:
Intel's Quad-core Mobile Chip Coming Next Month — Intel will release it's first quad-core processor for laptops next month, rounding out a broad update to its mobile computing platform. — “We're bringing quad-core to mobile in August,” said Sujan Kamran, regional marketing manager for client platforms at Intel in Singapore.
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Adrian Kingsley-Hughes / Hardware 2.0:
Intel Centrino 2 lives — Following a technical stumble which allowed AMD to gain a lead, Intel has now released the long awaited Centrino 2 notebook platform. — The platform, code-named “Montevina” was due for release last month but a technical hitch meant that the launch had to be delayed …
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
How Many Silicon Valley Startup Executives Are Hopped Up On Provigil? — Is someone you work with taking Provigil to give them an extra competitive edge? I've spoken with one executive who says he uses it regularly to work twenty hour days, and the buzz lately is that it's the “entrepreneur's drug of choice” around Silicon Valley.
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Matt / WordPress:
WordPress 2.6 — I'm happy to announce that version 2.6 of WordPress.org is now available, almost a month ahead schedule. Version 2.6 “Tyner,” named for jazz pianist McCoy Tyner, contains a number of new features that make WordPress a more powerful CMS: you can now track changes to every post …
Declan McCullagh / The Iconoclast:
The backstory on Senate's Google-Yahoo hearing — The U.S. Senate is holding a hearing Tuesday on the antitrust implications of the Google-Yahoo ad deal, and the two companies, along with Microsoft, are testifying. You should expect sober, selfless discussions conducted with the public's best interests in mind.
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Google Bucket Testing New Digg-Like Search Interface — Google has experimented with search features that let users vote on search results, and/or recommend other results than those given, since late 2007. They generally bucket test these features (meaning some small percentage of users …
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Google's “Edit Search results” experiment — I Googled something a minute ago and noticed that my SERP looked a little different: — In particular, check out those three grey icons. They appear next to every result on the page, but there isn't any noticeable indication why they're there.
Henry Blodget / Silicon Alley Insider:
How Carl Icahn Screwed Up a Perfectly Good Search Deal — A source close to Yahoo, a source close to Microsoft, and Carl Icahn disagree about a critical part of the search proposal that Yahoo rejected over the weekend: whether or not it required that Carl Icahn be given control of Yahoo.
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Andrew Ross Sorkin / New York Times:From the Inside, Jerry Yang Looks Out for Yahoo
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The Official Google Blog:
“In their own words”: political videos meet Google speech-to-text technology — In this U.S. election year, what information could be more important than the candidates' own words to describe their views, actions and platforms? — Our teams have been working to develop tools to make it easier …
Rebecca Kuo / DigiTimes:
Dell said to be planning launch of low-cost notebook in August — Dell is planning to introduce a low-cost notebook in August to join the low-cost notebook market, according to the market sources. The notebook will be manufactured by Compal Electronics, according to the sources
Barry Schwartz / Search Engine Roundtable:
Google Fridges Begin To Melt Down — Back in April of 2006, Google began sending out Google Fridges to some of their larger advertisers as a thank you. Well, I am now seeing reports via WebmasterWorld that those fridges are beginning to break. — WebmasterWorld's Hubie said:
Chris Albrecht / NewTeeVee:
Alex Albrecht Goes Medieval with Lore — One of the first rules of journalism is to never start your story with a quote, but this one just fits too well: “People have said I have an interesting knack to be able to monetize my life.” That's Alex Albrecht (no relation, I asked) …
Andy Space / 9 to 5 Mac:
Location, Location, Location - iPhone-friendly Skyhook upgrades its technology — Remember Skyhook? The people who helped Apple put a little location-sensing inside the v.1 iPhone? — Well, hot on the heels of the most recent Apple mobile, Skyhook has introduced XPS 2.0 …
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Inquirer
