Judge orders Google to give YouTube user data to Viacom (AFP)

July 3, 2008

A woman walks past the logo of Internet search engine giant Google at a trade fair. Google expressed disappointment and privacy groups voiced outrage Thursday after a judge ordered Google to give entertainment giant Viacom details of video-watching habits of visitors to its popular video-sharing website YouTube.(AFP/DDP/File/Michael Gottschalk)AFP - Google expressed disappointment and privacy groups voiced outrage Thursday after a judge ordered Google to give entertainment giant Viacom details of video-watching habits of visitors to its popular video-sharing website YouTube.


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Lenovo Seeks Prestige in Price-sensitive Market (PC World)

July 3, 2008
PC World - The perception of Lenovo as a laptop innovator has paid dividends in the enterprise space, but the reputation may not...No tag for this post.

A Tale of Two City Wi-Fi’s (PC World)

July 3, 2008
PC World - Different approaches to wireless Internet access in San Francisco and neighboring Silicon Valley are producing very different...No tag for this post.

Chipmaker Connects A Wireless World And Makes It Run Faster (Investor’s Business Daily)

July 3, 2008
Investor's Business Daily - Now televisions, digital cameras and game consoles commonly link to the world without those physical ties.No tag for this post.

‘Containers’ Out Perform Virtualization For KV Pharmaceuticals (TechWeb)

July 3, 2008
TechWeb - InformationWeek - With a container approach from Parallels' Virtuozzo, memory consumption and processor overhead are reduced through the use of one operating system per host.No tag for this post.

Internet addressing agency loses its own addresses (AP)

July 3, 2008
AP - This doesn't sound good: The nonprofit agency in charge of the Internet's addresses recently lost track of its own.No tag for this post.

Daily Debrief: Celebrating America’s independence, questioning our own online (CNET)

July 3, 2008
CNET - A day before the United States celebrates its independence, we continue to question our individual freedoms online. In Thursday's Daily Debrief, CNET News.com Editor in Chief Dan Farber and I discuss a federal judge's recent ruling in the ongoing Google-Viacom lawsuit that orders Google to turn over YouTube user activity. This will include videos watched, IP addresses, and usernames as part of an ongoing copyright infringement case.No tag for this post.

Court orders YouTube to give Viacom video logs (AP)

July 3, 2008

A web page from www.youtube.com displayed on a computer screen in Hong Kong. When Coroebus of Elis won the first Olympic sprint in 776 BC, the result was scratched on to parchment and read out in market places in the following days and weeks. The Olympic 100 metres champion will be announced immediately, to billions worldwide, via a click of the mouse or a curious buzzing in their pocket.(AFP/File/Samantha Sin)AP - Dismissing privacy concerns, a federal judge overseeing a $1 billion copyright-infringement lawsuit against YouTube has ordered the popular online video-sharing service to disclose who watches which video clips and when.


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Adobe to make searching easier on Flash sites (AP)

July 3, 2008
AP - Internet users will now have an easier time finding sites that rely heavily on the popular Flash video format.No tag for this post.

IBM Develops Audio Masking Technology To Protect Call Center Recordings (TechWeb)

July 3, 2008
TechWeb - InformationWeek - Using speech analytics, the technology identifies and masks credit card numbers and other sensitive information in audio recordings.No tag for this post.