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The Smoking Gun:
Google: “Complete Privacy Does Not Exist” — Defending “Street View” lawsuit, firm says trespasses to be expected — Arguing that technology has ensured that “complete privacy does not exist,” Google contends that a Pennsylvania family has no legal grounds to sue the search giant …
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BBC:
Google Street View gets go ahead — Google's controversial Street View photo-mapping tool has been given the all clear by the UK's privacy watchdog. — The system takes pictures of streets and adds them to online maps to let people see what locations look like.
Bobbie Johnson / Guardian:Watchdog clears Google's street cameras
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Carl Icahn / The Icahn Report:
Concerning the Annual Yahoo! Meeting — I will not be attending. The proxy fight is over and it will not do shareholders or Yahoo! any good to have the annual meeting turn into a media event for no purpose. Last week, I realized it was impossible to gain enough support from the large institutions …
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Dawn Kawamoto / CNET News.com:
Yahoo shareholders meeting a case of deja vu? — Believe in deja vu? Yahoo shareholders may when they file into the company's annual shareholders meeting on Friday. — Last year, an angry mob of investors took Yahoo's CEO to task at the company's annual shareholders meeting …
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Delicious 2.0 Launches. Really. It Totally Launched. — YAY! The long awaited, much promised, never delivered Delicious 2.0 will launch in the next few minutes, just like they promised again last week. — The new Delicious is just like the old Delicious, except for the way it looks.
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Stephen Hood / delicious blog:
Oh happy day — the new Delicious is here — Over the past few days we've been transitioning Delicious over to our new platform, quietly starting with RSS feeds and APIs. Today we're taking the final step and flipping the switch on the new web site: delicious.com.
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Search Engine Journal, Search Engine Land, Mashable!, Yodel Anecdotal and SitePoint Blogs
Andy Plesser / Beet.TV:
YouTube Has Speech-to-Text Functionality.....and it Works — YouTube has introduced rich metadata into select videos, which will significantly impact how online video is discovered and consumed. — Announced in June, we have found the technology is very useful.
Eric A. Taub / Bits:
True Blu-ray Quality Via Satellite-or Not? — High-definition, Blu-ray discs offer consumers what is now the ultimate in picture quality: its programming is recorded in the 1080p format, delivering 1,080 lines of information, progressively scanned. If you own a large-enough 1080p flat panel TV …
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David Schatsky / JupiterResearch:
Forrester Buys Jupiter — It was announced today that Forrester Research has bought JupiterResearch from MCG Capital for $23 million in cash. Forrester plans to integrate Jupiter's staff into its Marketing & Strategy division. The goal is to create a dominant marketing & strategy research organization …
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Jessica E. Vascellaro / Wall Street Journal:
Google to Extend Reach With Venture-Capital Arm — Ex-Entrepreneur Hired To Assist in Setup; Brand-Name Advantage — Google Inc. is working on plans to start a venture-capital arm, according to several people briefed on the discussions. — The group will be lead by David Drummond …
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Justin Smith / Inside Facebook:
Facebook Launches News Feed Filters - First Look — It's been nearly two years since Facebook's News Feed launched. Tonight, Facebook is turning on the first major change to the News Feed user experience: News Feed filters. — News Feed filters are tabs at the top of the News Feed that allow you to view stories of only one type.
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Nick O'Neill / All Facebook:Facebook Furthers Attack on FriendFeed, Adds Comments to News Feed
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Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Wordscraper Hurts My Eyes — Yesterday, one day after taking down Scrabuluos in the U.S. and Canada in response to a lawsuit from Hasbro, the Indian brothers behind Scrabulous, Rajat and Jayant Agarwalla, released a brand new crossword-like game on Facebook called Wordscraper.
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Caroline McCarthy / The Social:‘Scrabulous’ gets a nip-tuck, returns as ‘Wordscraper’
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Arn / MacRumors:
Apple Seeds 2nd Beta of iPhone 2.1 Firmware to Developers — Just a week after the first iPhone 2.1 beta seed, Apple has released another 2.1 firmware release to developers. The new version appears to include several bug fixes. … Apple has not announced a timeframe for the 2.1 release …
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Martin Heller / Strategic Developer:
Open source ECM Alfresco now emulates SharePoint — I had a long talk the other afternoon with John Newton (that's his picture at the left), CTO and Chairman of Alfresco. John previously co-founded Documentum. — If the name Alfresco rings a bell but you can't place it …
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DigiTimes:
Asustek preps launch of Ultimate and Pro Fashion Eee PCs; prices to hit US$700 or more — Asustek Computer plans to launch more Eee PCs designed to address different market segments, according to company president Jerry Shen. — Shen said he anticipates the netbook and Mobile Internet Device …
Larry Dignan / Between the Lines:
Surprise! Motorola posts profit; Isn't unraveling as handset sales crater — Motorola posted a small profit excluding charges-a small victory, but enough to top Wall Street estimates calling for a loss of 3 cents a share. The company's enterprise and networking business carried the quarter.
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Karl Bode / DSLreports:
AT&T Backbone Sees 20% P2P Drop - Hulu, YouTube and other alternative video ‘taking over’ — Industry analyst Dave Burstein has an interesting (but margin blown) post over at the interesting people listserv discussing the reality of congestion (or lack thereof) on AT&T's network.
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Larry Dignan / Between the Lines:
EDS shareholders approve HP deal; Layoff rumors surface — EDS said Thursday that shareholders have approved the HP acquisition of the IT services company. Internally, employees at EDS are concerned about layoffs. — According to a statement, 98.8 percent of EDS common stock was voted …
Andy Space / 9 to 5 Mac:
Firewire speed set to increase four-fold — The group behind development of FireWire, the IEEE, has approved the new IEEE 1394-2008 specification that gives support for better bandwidth of up to 3.2Gbps. — In an attempt to maintain compatibility between different evolutions of FireWire …
Wade / Voltage Blog:
I'll Give You $50 for a Worse Brand Name Than Knol — Knol is Google's newest assault on the rest of the internet. (They're convinced they own it.) I'm sure it will do well, because it's a Google property, but... K-N-O-L is their brand name? I couldn't think of a worse name if I tried.
Tim O'Reilly / O'Reilly Radar:
Open Source and Cloud Computing — I've been worried for some years that the open source movement might fall prey to the problem that Kim Stanley Robinson so incisively captured in Green Mars: “History is a wave that moves through time slightly faster than we do.”
