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3:40 PM ET, June 19, 2007

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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.
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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.
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.
Discussion: Search Engine Land and Googlified
Terrence Russell / Epicenter:
YouTube Goes International...Sans Germany.
Discussion: Reuters and Profy.Com
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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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?  —  In the latest salvo in the ink-jet consumables war, Epson has commissioned a study with TÜV Rheinland that purports to show that competitors' cartridges leave more ink in the tank when they're supposedly empty.
Marco / Consumerist:
Concessions: AT&T's Secret $10 DSL  —  As part of a concession made to the FCC in order to get its mitts on BellSouth, AT&T is required to offer basic DSL for $10 a month to its entire 22 state coverage area for a period of 2 years.  —  The plan provides download speeds of up to 768 kilobits per second …
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Eric Bangeman / Ars Technica:
AT&T launches $10 DSL it hopes no one signs up for
Nate Anderson / Ars Technica:
Appeals court: Feds can't secretly seize e-mail without a warrant  —  Steven Warshak, the man behind the "natural male enhancement" product Enzyte often advertised on late-night TV, has successfully challenged the government's ability to access his e-mails without obtaining a search warrant or giving notification to Warshak.
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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.
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.
Discussion: Engadget and Guardian Unlimited
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 …
Discussion: NewTeeVee, Daily Feed and Reel Pop
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: The Mac Observer and Macsimum News
Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft:
SharePoint: Microsoft's Web 2.0 hub  —  Web 2.0 means different things to different people.  —  To Microsoft's Office team, Web 2.0 does not mean a Web-centric version of Microsoft Office, a la Google Apps.  It does mean add-ons to SharePoint Server, Microsoft's back-end bundle of server applications …
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.
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
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
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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Michael Kanellos / CNET News.com:
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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 …
Richard MacManus / Read/WriteWeb:
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Vince Veneziani / CrunchGear:
Rock Band Fender Strat Unveiled
Discussion: CNET News.com and Kotaku
Peter Ha / CrunchGear:
Fring Coming To Windows Mobile Devices
Liana / StopBadware Blog:
Bundled Products: Where the heck did this new toolbar come from?
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Todd Bishop / Todd Bishop's Microsoft Blog:
Microsoft sues Immersion over Sony agreement
Terence Poon / Wall Street Journal:
Google Gets Regulatory Approval In China to Offer New Services
Discussion: WebProNews
Cory Doctorow / Boing Boing:
Video games hidden in the grooves of LPs
Discussion: CrunchGear and Kotaku
Brad Linder / Download Squad:
Tweak Windows Vista with Vispa
Robert Vamosi / CNET News.com:
HP acquires SPI Dynamics
Major Nelson / Xbox Live's Major Nelson:
Command and Conquer 3 Tiberium Wars content (some Free)
Discussion: Xbox 360 Fanboy and Kotaku
Variety:
HBO's digital shifts
 

 
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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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