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Google embraces virtual worlds with new chat tool
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A new tool developed by the search giant will allow people to have conversations with one another in "themed rooms" online using an avatar - a persona that looks like a cartoon character. (article 3)
About 750,000 books and 80 million journal articles scanned by Microsoft were removed from its servers, but many remain accessible elsewhere, including on servers maintained by the Internet Archive, which has about 440,000 books online. (article 4)
Ontario's information and privacy commissioner has asked Google Inc. to fight a U.S. judge's ruling requiring the disclosure of details about users of the video-sharing site YouTube. (article 2)
Ann Cavoukian said the ruling was "particulary disturbing from a privacy perspective" in a letter she sent Tuesday to Sergey Brin, Google's president of technology and one of the company's founders. (article 2)
On July 3, U.S. District Court Judge Louis Stanton ordered Google to give media company Viacom the records of every video that users have watched on YouTube. (article 2)
Stanton made the ruling in a case where Viacom is suing Google for not doing enough to keep copyrighted TV videos, such as The Daily Show with Jon Stewart which Google owns. (article 2)
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Source articles
- Food extravaganza for kids at Google HQ (sfgate.com, 07/12/2008, 185 words)
- Fight U.S. disclosure order, Ont. privacy advocate tells Google (cbc.ca, 07/10/2008, 223 words)
- Google embraces virtual worlds with new chat tool (technology.timesonline.co.uk, 07/13/2008, 392 words)
- Could Google Monopolize Knowledge? (ABCNews, 07/12/2008, 1015 words)
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