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7:40 PM ET, June 19, 2007

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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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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.
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.
Discussion: WebProNews
Nick Gonzalez / TechCrunch:   Google Acquires Zenter; Y Combinator Gets Another Payday
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
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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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.
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.
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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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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Ed Felten / Freedom to Tinker:
Email Protected by 4th Amendment, Court Says
Discussion: WebProNews and The University …
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
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.
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Wall Street Journal:
Companies Hang Up on Apple's iPhone
Discussion: MacDailyNews and The Apple Core
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 …
Marguerite Reardon / CNET News.com:
AT&T's CEO touts a wireless future  —  CHICAGO—The new AT&T is all about wireless and mobility, the company's CEO said Tuesday during his first major keynote address since taking the helm earlier this month.  —  During his speech at the NXTcomm trade show here on Tuesday …
Discussion: Macsimum News and mocoNews.net
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.
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
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.
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?
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 …
Matt Marshall / VentureBeat:
IBM sees big future in 3D, but probably not in Second Life  —  IBM, one of the nation's largest companies, sees a big future in 3D worlds — but it probably won't be with Second Life.  —  IBM has been eager to try out 3D marketing, for reasons we'll get to.
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.
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
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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Gregg Goldstein / Hollywood Reporter:
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BBC:
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 Earlier Items: 
Jeremy Kirk / InfoWorld:
Analysts: Microsoft flaw opened door to scammers
Om Malik / GigaOM:
Semel exit masks yet another bad quarter at Yahoo
The Macalope:
The Macalope Sells Out  —  The Macalope is pleased to announce …
Discussion: GracefulFlavor and MacUser
Joshua Zumbrun / Washington Post:
Small-Screen 'Prom Queen' Clicks With Online Audience
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