September 8, 2008 1:06 PM PDT
CNET News Daily Podcast: The new Zune plays its tune
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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Today's stories:
Google upgrades Gmail for IE 6 users
Ad trade group opposes Yahoo-Google search deal
Creating a 'Facebook for spies'
Zillow, newspaper consortium launch ad network
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