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CNET News Daily Podcast: The new Zune plays its tune

Microsoft lets "slip" Zune news one day before Apple's big shindig. Big ad group says Google-Yahoo is a bad idea. Who says real spies don't dig social networking?

Charles Cooper Former Executive Editor / News
Charles Cooper was an executive editor at CNET News. He has covered technology and business for more than 25 years, working at CBSNews.com, the Associated Press, Computer & Software News, Computer Shopper, PC Week, and ZDNet.
Charles Cooper

Microsoft had a couple of announcements Monday morning--one planned, the other not so much (or so we've been led to believe.)...While the trustbusters at the U.S. Department of Justice pore over the proposed Google-Yahoo ad partnership, a coalition of companies says that the combination would be bad news for everyone else...It's not exactly Facebook or MySpace but an upcoming social network has been designed for U.S. intelligence agents.


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Google upgrades Gmail for IE 6 users

Ad trade group opposes Yahoo-Google search deal

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