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Yahoo! Announces New Privacy Choice for Consumers — Will Expand Its Opt-Out Policy to Customized Advertising on — Yahoo.com — Today Yahoo! Inc. (Nasdaq: YHOO) announced that it will offer users greater choice in how they manage their privacy online by enabling them to opt-out of customized advertising on Yahoo.com.
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Larry Dignan / Between the Lines:
Yahoo bolsters opt-out policy — Yahoo said Friday that it will allow users to opt out of custom ads on its network. — The move comes a day after Google provided a one-click opt-out as it integrates DoubleClick into its operations. — Yahoo said in a statement that its policy change was in response to a Congressional inquiry.
John Gruber / Daring Fireball:
It's a Core Location Blacklist — Yesterday I linked to a story about the discovery by Jonathan Zdziarski of a remote blacklist Apple is maintaining, supposedly, according to Zdziarski, to remotely disable rogue iPhone apps previously distributed through the App Store.
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Tom Krazit / One More Thing:
iPhone ‘kill switch’ limited to location-aware apps — Apple's “blacklist” inside the iPhone's operating system just pertains to a specific technology, according to a report. — (Credit: CNET) — Apple's iPhone blacklist appears to fall short of fears that it led directly back to a big red button on Apple CEO Steve Jobs' desk.
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Adrian Kingsley-Hughes / Hardware 2.0:Warning to iPhone Apps devs - Apple can make your apps vanish on a whim
L.A. Times Tech Blog:UPDATED: Apple removes $1,000 featureless iPhone application
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Bob Egelko / San Francisco Chronicle:
State Supreme Court rejects noncompete clauses — (08-07) 12:04 PDT SAN FRANCISCO — Californians have the right to move from one company to another or start their own business and can't be prohibited by their employer from working for a competitor in their next job, the state Supreme Court ruled Thursday.
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John Biggs / TechCrunch:
The Rise and Fall of Twitter — At the risk of offending some of you, I am posting this parody video created by Crunchgear's Nicholas Deleon and his brother Gabriel. Just remember, it's not about Hitler. It's about Twitter. — CrunchBase Information — Twitter — Information provided by CrunchBase
Om Malik / GigaOM:
Tech IPOs Return With Rackspace — After a long dry spell, technology initial public offerings took a small step towards a comeback as Rackspace Hosting, a San Antonio, Texas-based company, announced its IPO. The company that will trade on the NYSE under the ticker RAX is selling …
Ina Fried / Beyond Binary:
Opening Olympics ceremony video online, but not on NBC — Updated 1:00 p.m. PDT, with initial impressions of video experience on NBCOlympics.com. — Although NBC is holding back online video of the opening ceremonies until its TV broadcast Friday night, some other sites have started posting unofficial videos.
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Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft:
Microsoft to stop selling boxed copies of Money Plus — Microsoft has decided against releasing a 2009 version of Money Plus, its personal-finance-management software. The company also is planning to discontinue selling Money Plus as a boxed software product at retail …
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The Boy Genius / Boy Genius Report:
BlackBerry Thunder gets 9530 model designation on Verizon, October 13th release date? — We just got a screen cap of the product inventory screen from a Verizon tipster. It shows that the BlackBerry Thunder, which we've all been reporting as a 9500-series device is correct.
Allen Hutchison / Google Mobile Blog:
Google Translate now for iPhone — A few months ago I was planning a vacation to Austria and Italy. I knew a few words and phrases in German and Italian, but that was about it. So I looked around for some portable language dictionaries. I thought Google Translate was great, but the web page didn't work that well on the iPhone.
Stefanie Olsen / CNET News.com:
Between a rock and YouTube, video execs see promise — SAN FRANCISCO—If the $1 billion Web video advertising market is to reach the level of television's estimated $50 billion, it ironically won't be thanks to YouTube, the Internet's most popular spot for watching clips.
Erica Ogg / CNET News.com:
CNET News Daily Podcast: Journalist-on-journalist hacking at Black Hat — In what's being regarded as a total breach of professional ethics, three reporters from Global Security Mag were removed from the Black Hat security conference in Las Vegas Thursday after attempting to expose the username …
Slash Lane / AppleInsider:
Over 100 bug fixes baked into Apple's Mac OS X 10.5.5 Update — For the second time in as many weeks, Apple has handed developers a new pre-release build of an upcoming maintenance and security release for Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard and asked that they spend the weekend testing the software.
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Allen Stern / CenterNetworks:
blinkx Offers To Acquire Miva — Video search provider blinkx has publicly announced its proposal to acquire online advertising company Miva today. Miva closed yesterday on the Nasdaq at $0.78/share, down from it's 52-week high of $5.76. blinkx is offering $1.20/share in cash.
Caroline McCarthy / CNET News.com:
Google brings Olympics updates to mobile phones — Google is making it easier to check up on the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing from your mobile phone. — Searching for any Olympic sport on Google's mobile Web site will bring up, in addition to the regular search results that Google would normally offer …
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Peter Kafka / Silicon Alley Insider:
How To Watch The PGA Championship LIVE On The Web (It's Much Easier Than The Olympics) — Instructive counterpoint to NBC (and the IOC's) counterproductive throttling of Olympic coverage: Watching pro golf and Turner (TWX) collaborate to simulcast the PGA Championship on cable and the Web.
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