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The Official Google Blog:
Another step to protect user privacy — Today, we're announcing a new logs retention policy: we'll anonymize IP addresses on our server logs after 9 months. We're significantly shortening our previous 18-month retention policy to address regulatory concerns and to take another step to improve privacy for our users.
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Clint Boulton / eWeek:Google Reluctantly Halves Search Data Anonymization to 9 Months
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John R. Wilke / Wall Street Journal:
Top Lawyer Is Selected As U.S. Mulls Google Suit — Washington — The Justice Department has quietly hired one of the nation's best-known litigators, former Walt Disney Co. vice chairman Sanford Litvack, for a possible antitrust challenge to Google Inc.'s growing power in advertising.
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Henry Blodget / Silicon Alley Insider:Another Reason Google's Stock Crashed
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Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Apple 2.0:
Analyst: Steve Jobs must be feeling better — Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster says Steve Jobs' physical appearance at Let's Rock — a widely-anticipated Apple special event scheduled for Tuesday at 1 p.m. EDT in San Francisco — will reassure investors and boost the company's share price.
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Microsoft:
Zune Takes Music Discovery to the Next Level With New Ways to Find and Access Digital Music — Software update will enable Zune users to tag songs and buy music directly from FM radio and download and stream music on the go beginning Sept. 16. — Zune, Microsoft Corp.'s end-to-end music …
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Nate Anderson / Ars Technica:
New Zunes arrive early with WiFi downloads, FM song tagging — The third-generation Zunes are out, but the software won't be arriving for another week. After leaks forced Microsoft to play its hand today, we spoke with Group Marketing Manager Brian Seitz about the Zune platform …
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New York Times:
Google Strikes Partnership With NBC to Expand in TV Advertising — SAN FRANCISCO — Google will begin selling ads on some cable networks owned by NBC Universal in a new partnership that will expand Google's efforts to become a force in television advertising, the companies said late Monday.
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Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:Battlestar Galactica Meet Google TV Ads: Deal With NBC Universal Cut
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Arn / MacRumors:
16GB iPod Nanos, 32GB iPod Touches, Lots of Colors? — Last minute tidbits reveal a few more details about Apple's plans for later today. According to our sources, Apple will indeed be refreshing their entire iPod line at the media event. — Specifically, iPod Nanos are expected …
Eric Eldon / VentureBeat:
TC50: Live-blogging the Peter Thiel interview — Peter Thiel is the legendary cofounder of PayPal, investor in Facebook and other numerous companies, and founder of top venture firm The Founders Fund. Michael Arrington of Techcrunch is interviewing him now. I'll be constantly updating.
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Miguel Helft / New York Times:
Google to Digitize Newspaper Archives — SAN FRANCISCO — Google has begun scanning microfilm from some newspapers' historic archives to make them searchable online, first through Google News and eventually on the papers' own Web sites, the company said Monday.
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BBC:
Google to dump user data earlier — Google is to halve the amount of time it stores users' personal search data in response to continued pressure from the EU over its privacy policy. — The search giant has said it will anonymise identifiable IP addresses on its server logs after nine months.
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Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
TechCrunch50 Session 3: Enterprise — TechCrunch50's third session introduced four companies related to enterprise. The judges for this panel were: Marc Andreessen, Marc Benioff, Ash Patel, and Yossi Vardi. You can see our coverage of the first panel here and the second panel here.
Clive Thompson / Wired News:
How Videogames Blind Us With Science — A few years ago, Constance Steinkuehler — a game academic at the University of Wisconsin — was spending 12 hours a day playing Lineage, the online world game. She was, as she puts it, a “siege princess,” running 150-person raids on hellishly difficult bosses.
Ryan Paul / Ars Technica:
Why Mozilla is committed to Gecko as WebKit popularity grows — Webkit's strengths — In the wake of Google's release of the new WebKit-based Chrome browser, some technology enthusiasts are beginning to wonder if the days are numbered for Mozilla's Gecko rendering engine.
Ashlee Vance / New York Times:
At VMware, a Firing Is Still Reverberating — In the summer of 2007, Diane Greene was lauded as a business hero for leading VMware, a maker of business software, to the hottest stock debut since Google. But in the ensuing year, despite her popularity with employees and on Wall Street …
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Rafe Needleman / Webware.com:
Yammer: A ‘Twitter for the enterprise’ — I recently covered Socialcast, a “Friendfeed for business,” and liked it a lot. It takes emerging social interaction models that people are just now getting accustomed to and adapts them for business. — Here at TechCrunch50 …
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Kylewar / Tales from the Microsoft Surface team:
Live from MSNBC...it's Microsoft Surface — If you were on the East coast this morning or just up real early on the West coast you might have seen Microsoft Surface in action on TV. But this isn't just another news story about Surface, this morning a unit was deployed on the MSNBC set …
Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson / Financial Times:
Google backs project to connect 3bn to net — Google has thrown its weight behind ambitious plans to bring internet access to 3bn people in Africa and other emerging markets by launching at least 16 satellites to bring its services to the unconnected half of the globe.
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Maggie Shiels / BBC:
The global village — Despite the desire to have the world of information at our fingertips and a social networking page that boasts of hundreds of so-called “friends”, the reality is very different. — Researchers at Hewlett Packard have found that, in truth, we really only bother …
