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Darren Waters / BBC:
YouTube makes international move — YouTube has announced international versions of its web video service. — The video site, owned by Google, has launched nine versions across Brazil, France, Ireland, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, Poland, Spain and the UK.
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Robert Andrews / paidContent.org:
YouTube Launches Nine Country Sites; UK, Brazil, Japan Included — At a Paris press conference, YouTube unveiled localized versions for Brazil, France, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Holland, Poland, Spain and the UK (Germany is missing). Initially, the sites get translated homepages, search functions and interfaces.
Karen / Official Google Blog:YouTube in 9 more domains — Posted by Sakina Arsiwala, International Manager, YouTube
Joshua Zumbrun / Washington Post:
Small-Screen 'Prom Queen' Clicks With Online Audience — Whenever the season finale of a show has guns, pills, a crazy assistant principal, at least one knife and an auditorium full of improbably attractive teenagers in prom gowns and tuxes, you know it's going to be "good," at least in the sense that …
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Liz Gannes / NewTeeVee:Prom Queen Finale: Suspense, Another Season, and a Few Pineapples
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Ken Fisher / Ars Technica:
Study: Inkjet printers are filthy, lying thieves — A new study says that on average, more than half of the ink from inkjet cartridges is wasted when users toss them in the garbage. Why is that interesting? According to the study, users are tossing the cartridges when their printers …
Staci D. Kramer / paidContent.org:
Yahoo Shakeup: Why Now? Yahoo Execs Talk; Decker: No More Division Heads — Note: Full audio of the call can be downloaded from the link below. — The analysts/investors' call is underway and Terry Semel is framing that answer as a personal decision as much as a personnel decision …
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Jonathan Skillings / CNET News.com:Say what? Yang's right as Yahoo's CTO, Semel says
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Robert Vamosi / CNET News.com:
HP acquires SPI Dynamics — HP today announced its acquisition of SPI Dynamics. The company specializes in Web application security; and SPI Dynamics' technology is already integrated with HP Quality Center software. — According to HP, the acquisition adds quality management services …
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Peter Ha / CrunchGear:
Fring Coming To Windows Mobile Devices — Fring is getting ready to announce that the free VoIP service will be coming to Windows Mobile devices, but I felt like spilling the beans and letting you all know first. Let the Fringing begin! — Fring — This entry was posted on Tuesday …
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Microsoft SharePoint Products …:
Community Kit for SharePoint 2.0 Pre-Release announcement — About 3 months ago, I pre-announced the kick-off of the Community Kit for SharePoint (CKS) 2.0 effort, and fairly quickly, over 20 volunteers signed up to help. After just 2 months of work (mostly on nights and weekends) …
Sean / Community Group Therapy:
Customer Service Hell!! T-Mobile...Hot Spot? NOT!!! — "Stick Together" — The Irony is coming - read on!! — I can't believe it!!! Over the past few months I've launched a blog all about the power and value of the customer voice in the web 2.0 world.
Tony Ruscoe / Google Blogoscoped:
Google Press Day 2007 — Today (from 10:00 - 16.20 CET) Google is holding their press day event in Paris. Marissa Mayer, Eric Schmidt, Urs Hölzle as well as the YouTube founders will be there, and there may be some product announcements. I'm in Paris and will be live-blogging the event for you here.
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Hiroko Tabuchi / Associated Press:
Father of Sony PlayStation steps down — TOKYO - The chief architect of Sony's PlayStation game console stepped down Tuesday as the Japanese company struggles to defend its dominance in the video game industry and revive its reputation as an electronics pioneer.
iDefense Public Vulnerability Disclosures:
Cerulean Studios Trillian UTF-8 Word Wrap Heap Overflow Vulnerability — I. BACKGROUND — Trillian is a multi-protocol chat application that supports IRC, ICQ, AIM and MSN protocols. More information can be found on the vendor's site at the following URL. — II. DESCRIPTION
Stephen Shankland / CNET News.com:
Safari ushers in better browser colors — Safari may not be rewriting the rules for Web browsing on Windows just yet, but it's leading the way with one significant change: photographs with better color. — Unlike the prevailing browsers on the Internet, Microsoft's Internet Explorer and Mozilla's Firefox …
Variety:
HBO's digital shifts — Top execs leaving after consolidation — Several of HBO's top digital execs have ankled as the company is consolidating operations in its New York headquarters under its new leadership. — Digital initiatives prexy Jim Moloshok, business development VP John Penney …
Opera:
Opera Mini 4 beta now available — Opera Software today released Opera Mini 4 beta, codenamed Dimension, the much-awaited sneak preview of the newest version of Opera's pioneering Web browser for all mobile phones. Opera Mini 4 beta is a complete redesign of the world's most popular mobile Web browser.
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Business Wire:
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 — REDMOND, Wash. & DENVER—(BUSINESS WIRE)—Microsoft Corp. and Intermap Technologies Corp. today announced …
Todd Bishop / Todd Bishop's Microsoft Blog:
Microsoft sues Immersion over Sony agreement — Microsoft filed suit against Immersion Corp. today, and while legal disputes aren't out of the ordinary for the Redmond company, this one is unusual — apparently hinging on a disagreement over the meaning of the word "settlement."
Electronic Frontier Foundation:
Court Protects Email from Secret Government Searches — Landmark Ruling Gives Email Same Constitutional Protections as Phone Calls — San Francisco - The government must have a search warrant before it can secretly seize and search emails stored by email service providers …
Liana / StopBadware Blog:
Bundled Products: Where the heck did this new toolbar come from? — Having a need to consolidate all of my instant message friends, I recently downloaded Trillian v3.2.5.1 from www.download.com. — Of course, I quickly clicked past the license agreement. Who has time to read ALL that?
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Mike Masnick / Techdirt:
Feds Need A Warrant To Search Email — Remember just last week we were looking at a court case that was trying to work out whether social networking messages were more private than email? Well, now a federal appeals court has strengthened the privacy of good old email as well.
