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6:55 PM ET, June 19, 2007

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Karen / Official Google Blog:
YouTube in 9 more domains  —  Posted by Sakina Arsiwala, International Manager, YouTube  —  The YouTube community began life speaking English, but thanks to the uniquely expressive medium of video, today there is a global village of content makers and viewers.
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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.
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.
Jacqui Cheng / Ars Technica:
YouTube begins rolling out international sites, new mobile support
Discussion: Neowin.net
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.
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Barry Schwartz / Search Engine Land:   Google Maps Adds User Generated Reviews
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.
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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."
Todd Bishop / Todd Bishop's Microsoft Blog:
Behind the scenes: Microsoft, Immersion and Sony
Discussion: DailyTech and Digital Trends
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 …
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Robert L. Mitchell / Computerworld Blogs blogs:   Ink jet cartridges not good to the last drop - so what?
Carlo Longino / Techdirt:   Inkjet Vendors — Yet Again — Look Scammy
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 …
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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.)
Discussion: Engadget, zedgeHeadz and Gizmodo
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Thomas Crampton / International Herald Tribune:
Europe opens the door to in-flight phoning
Wall Street Journal:
Companies Hang Up on Apple's iPhone  —  Workers Beseech Employers  —  To Add Device, but IT Units  —  Cite Email Incompatibility  —  While millions of consumers are eagerly anticipating Apple Inc.'s launch of its iPhone next week, Bill Caraher is bracing for the worst.
Discussion: MacDailyNews and The Apple Core
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Andy Greenberg / Forbes:
Is The iPhone Insecure?  —  With its science fiction features and high-end price tag, Apple's iPhone may be the ultimate executive toy.  All the uber-gadget lacks, according to some security professionals, is executive-level security.  And that, they worry, makes the iPhone a hacker's playground.
Matt Martin / GamesIndustry.biz:
Take 2 refuses to clarify $50 million GTA IV deal  —  Publisher quiet on exclusive episodic content  —  Take 2 has refused to clarify comments from chief financial officer Laine Goldstein that suggest the publisher received USD 50 million (EUR 37.3m / GBP 25.2m) from Microsoft for exclusive GTA IV episodic content.
Tom Krazit / CNET News.com:
Intel moving toward graphics hardware upgrade  —  Intel has released an early version of drivers for its G965 integrated graphics chipset, and is on schedule for an August release of the final version.  —  The G965, released last year, was supposed to be a huge leap forward in integrated graphics performance for the company.
Discussion: Inquirer and Macsimum News
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?
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.
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 …
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.
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.
Discussion: The Doc Searls Weblog
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 …
Discussion: Macsimum News and The Mac Observer
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
 
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Business Wire:
Kevin McClatchy Acquires Minority Stake in Gather.com
Discussion: paidContent.org and 901am
Jacqui Cheng / Ars Technica:
No crowding those AT&T stores before iPhone launch...
Eric Bangeman / Ars Technica:
AMD considering getting out of fabrication business
Discussion: InfoWorld
Adam Pash / Lifehacker:
Hack Attack: 13 book hacks for the library crowd
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Dean Takahashi / A+E Interactive:
Tanya reviews Pony Friends for the Nintendo DS From Eidos
Discussion: Game | Life and Go Nintendo
PR Newswire:
U.K. Internet Users Leading Consumers of Online Video
Jeremy Kirk / InfoWorld:
Analysts: Microsoft flaw opened door to scammers
Om Malik / GigaOM:
Semel exit masks yet another bad quarter at Yahoo
 Earlier Items: 
The Macalope:
The Macalope Sells Out  —  The Macalope is pleased to announce …
Discussion: GracefulFlavor and MacUser
Clive Thompson / Wired News:
Voice Chat Can Really Kill the Mood on WoW
Matt Marshall / VentureBeat:
SupplyFrame, a search engine for gadgets, electrical components
Marguerite Reardon / CNET News.com:
AT&T's CEO touts a wireless future
Discussion: Macsimum News and mocoNews.net
Sumeethevans / Bink.nu:
Microsoft Enhances Virtual Earth Product in Great Britain …
Joshua Zumbrun / Washington Post:
Small-Screen 'Prom Queen' Clicks With Online Audience
Discussion: NewTeeVee, Daily Feed and Reel Pop
 

 
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Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette:
Ofcom rules that five GB News programs presented by Conservative politicians have broken its due impartiality rules and puts the channel “on notice”

Todd Spangler / Variety:
YouTuber MrBeast announces a deal with Prime Video for Beast Games, a reality-competition show with 1,000 contestants, promising the winner a $5M cash prize

 
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