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Karen / Official Google Blog:
More sharing — We're pleased to announce that we've acquired the assets of Zenter, a company that provides software for creating online slide presentations. — You've heard us talk a lot about using the web to improve group collaboration and information sharing.
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Nick Gonzalez / TechCrunch:
Google Acquires Zenter; Y Combinator Gets Another Payday — Google made another acquisition announcement today - they've bought a company called Zenter ("a company that provides software for creating online slide presentations") to help complete their upcoming Powerpoint/presentation application.
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Om Malik / GigaOM:
Enter Zenter, Google Office is now complete — Google has snapped up yet another start-up - Zenter, which is building online presentations. This is yet-another-exit for YCombinator, the madrassa of the Web 2.0 crowd. In Microsoft world those are known as PowerPoints.
Kat / Google LatLong:
Add your reviews to businesses on Google Maps — Posted by Jonathan Goldman, Software Engineer, Google Maps — The Cheeseboard Pizza Collective in Berkeley is one of my favorite places on the planet. My friends and co-workers will tell you, I can't really shut up about the place.
Jacqui Cheng / Ars Technica:
YouTube begins rolling out international sites, new mobile support — YouTube has launched localized versions of its video-sharing site in nine different languages. YouTube co-founder Steve Chen made the announcement at a press conference in Paris this morning, saying that the sites …
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Gregg Goldstein / Hollywood Reporter:
'Sicko' leaks have studios crying foul — Clips uploaded to YouTube in 14 chunks — NEW YORK — YouTube has removed clips of Michael Moore's U.S. health-care expose "Sicko" that appeared on the site during the weekend, two weeks before the film's June 29 opening.
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Guardian:
Moore lays into Sicko YouTube stunt — Staff and agencies — Sicko, Michael Moore's Cannes-selected documentary about the US healthcare system, opened in New York last night amid controversy over leaked extracts of the film on the net. — Yesterday YouTube pulled clips of the movie …
Ed Felten / Freedom to Tinker:
Email Protected by 4th Amendment, Court Says — The Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled yesterday, in Warshak v. U.S., that people have a reasonable expectation of privacy in their email, so that the government needs a search warrant or similar process to access it.
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Nate Anderson / Ars Technica:Appeals court: Feds can't secretly seize e-mail without a warrant
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Randall Bennett / wirelessinfo.com Blog:
Cell phones on a plane!: Airbus gets approval in Europe — Uh oh... European airline passengers' dreams of flying the quiet skies might be on their way out as AirBus just received approval for an on-board mobile phone system from the EASA, the European Aircraft Safety Agency (think FAA for Europe.)
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Richard MacManus / Read/WriteWeb:
Web Office Suite: Who's Leading The Pack? — This morning Zoho will release their latest Web Office app, Meeting, as a public beta. It's a good opportunity to consider what progress each of the main Web Office vendors is making towards a full Web Office Suite.
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Noheat:
Nintendo and Apple to partner on games for iPhone — If you can't beat them join them. With the iPhone days away from being launched Nintendo has apparently begun working with Apple, licensing a limited amount of content for the new phone. It was rumored a while back that Nintendo …
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U.K. Internet Users Leading Consumers of Online Video — 80 Percent of Surfers Streamed Video in April, Spending 10 Percent of Their Online Time Viewing Videos — comScore, a leader in measuring the digital world, today released a study of video streaming in the U.K. The study showed …
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Jackson West / NewTeeVee:U.K., Teens Leading in Online Video Viewing
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MediaShift:
'Cup Is Overflowing' for Future of Journalism — If there is one overriding debate in the world of journalism, it's whether technology and the Internet are going to doom traditional reporting or strengthen it in the long run. Putting it bluntly, is journalism's cup half full or half empty?
John Battelle / John Battelle's Searchblog:
Just Asking... I've found myself more and more wary of doing things that I'd like to do with Google applications simply out of some primal, lizard brain fear of giving too much control of my data to one source. It's not that I don't trust Google, it's not that I don't like the applications …
François Bancilhon / Mandriva Blog:
We will not go to Canossa — Novell, Xandros and Linspire have signed well publicized agreements with Microsoft. — Rumors on the Web have hinted that we might be next on the list. So we would like to clarify our position. — At Mandriva, we believe working in heterogeneous environments is essential to our customers.
Dave Winer / Scripting News:
What to doo with Yahoo? — The big win for Yahoo was My.Yahoo, it was the perfect example of send them away to get them to come back. Any comeback for Yahoo must include revitalizing this service, quickly, because this is yet another area where Google is gaining ground on the sleeping giant.
Stephen Labaton / New York Times:
Microsoft Will Alter Vista Operating System — Microsoft has agreed to make changes to its Windows Vista operating system in response to a complaint by Google that a feature of Vista is anticompetitive, lawyers involved in the case said on Tuesday. — The settlement, reached in recent days …
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BBC:
Censors ban 'brutal' video game — British censors have banned a violent video game from the UK for the first time in a decade. — The video game Manhunt 2 was banned for its "unrelenting focus on stalking and brutal slaying", the British Board of Film Classification said.
Ben Ames / InfoWorld:
Gateway recalls 14,000 notebook batteries — (InfoWorld) - Gateway Inc. is recalling 14,000 batteries used in its notebook PCs after four customers reported that their computers had overheated, a similar condition to the massive battery recall that swept the industry in 2006.
Microsoft:
Microsoft Enhances Virtual Earth Product in Great Britain With High-Resolution 3-D Height Data From Intermap Technologies — Update delivers a more seamless and accurate 3-D experience. — Microsoft Corp. and Intermap Technologies Corp. today announced the launch of Microsoft's enhanced …
