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Article | 27/05/2010 Pakistan may relax bans on YouTube, Facebook
The Pakistan government is considering removing a ban on YouTube and Facebook, a senior minister said on Wednesday.
Article | 22/05/2010 Thai riots spark reporting via Twitter, YouTube
The serious riots in Bangkok this week have taken a tragic toll out on the streets, but have also sparked an unprecedented emergence of amateur news g...
Article | 21/05/2010 Pakistan extends Web site ban to include YouTube
Pakistan's telecommunications regulator, Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA), said on Thursday that it has directed ISPs to block YouTube after...
Article | 18/05/2010 Five years of YouTube: The ups, the downs
YouTube turns five today, and with 2 billion daily users to celebrate the birthday, is safe to say the video site is having a good life. Still, the ro...
Article | 19/03/2010 Google, Viacom snarl at each other over YouTube case
Google and Viacom exchanged corporate unpleasantries on Thursday after the release of previously sealed documents in Viacom's three-year-old lawsuit a...
Article | 5/03/2010 YouTube Offers Auto-Captioning to All Users
YouTube is opening up its auto-caption feature to everybody, a move that benefits not only deaf users, but also people who watch videos in really nois...
Article | 28/02/2010 The world flocks to the Web after Chile earthquake
After Chile's massive earthquake and potential Pacific Rim tsunami damage, relief organizations, government agencies, corporations and throngs of peop...
Article | 24/02/2010 Xerox sues Google, YouTube and Yahoo over search patents
Xerox has filed a lawsuit against Yahoo, Google and YouTube alleging infringement of Xerox patents on search and integration technology.
Article | 24/02/2010 YouTube sets March 13 IE6 kill date
Google's YouTube will drop support for Microsoft's nearly-nine-year-old Internet Explorer 6 (IE6) in just over two weeks, the popular video site has a...
Article | 11/02/2010 YouTube to filter sex, violence, foul language
YouTube today introduced a new content filter that helps users screen out offensive content, such as news videos with graphic violence, or sexually su...
Article | 2/02/2010 YouTube support of IPv6 seen in dramatic traffic spike
Google has quietly turned on IPv6 support for its YouTube video streaming Web site, sending a spike of IPv6 traffic across the Internet that has conti...
Article | 14/01/2010 Timeline: Google's growth and censorship woes in China
Google this week said it would stop censoring search results on Google.cn, its search engine for users in China, and that the company may exit China a...
Article | 31/12/2009 Google patent ties interactive gaming to Youtube
A patent application filed in February and released to the public this week reveals Google's attempt to build games on top of digital videos using an ...
Article | 21/12/2009 China video site Youku raises $40 million for expansion
Chinese video-streaming Web site Youku.com has raised US$40 million in new investment as the site, part of a hugely popular genre in China, looks to e...
Article | 21/11/2009 Google adding IPv6 to YouTube
Google plans to upgrade its YouTube video streaming Web site to provide support for IPv6, a long-anticipated upgrade to the Internet's main communicat...