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June 17th,2007

Safari Will Rule the World, Russians Run Bogus Windows on ATM, Gadgets Should Blow Themselves Up

By Jayvee

With the almost stunning announcement of Apple announcing the Safari browser for Windows, this could mean nothing more than Apple wanting to push the iPhone into the mainstream. In the same light that the iPod was opened up to the world by allowing non-Mac users to download iTunes on Windows, up and coming iPhone owners will be Windows users too. Safari is not only a browser, but an operating system and a sync conduit as well.

I’ve recently discovered the joys of using Google’s Personalized Search. But after days of logging all the websites I surf through, the concept seems a tad scary. Gilad talks about Matt Cutts, personalized search, privacy and Google.

On the industry front, Mark Evans does a weekly podcast with Duncan Stewart and Kevin Restivo. Listen in.

This week, one of the topic was the speculation about Nortel CEO Mike Zafirovski being considered a candidate for the Qwest CEO position.

Funny how a Russian ATM is running an evaluation copy of Windows. Maybe they don’t know how to activate it. And since we’re on the topic of piracy and stealing, our resident Gadgenista has outlined, in simple terms, why gadgets should have a self destruct mecahism.

And now for something more on the charitable side. Jason comments about how Windows Live Messenger is donating a portion of the revenues earned to several non profit groups. A good read.