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In the case of copyright infringement, which opposes the media group Viacom, YouTube feels compelled to provide its historical connection.

The case dates back to March of 2007. Viacom, a large group of American media holding, inter alia, Comedy Central, Dreamworks, MTV and Paramount, had filed a complaint against YouTube, the famous video portal owned by Google. The first accused the second violation of copyright with the dissemination of 160 000 videos that it owns the rights. These videos have been seen 1.5 billion times, which would consequently generating advertising revenue for YouTube, but also caused losses for Viacom.

A judge in a federal court in the city of San Francisco just to order YouTube to restore the historical connection of its users (4 TB of data) so that Viacom can prove that its videos were posted and views massively, in order to justify the billion dollars that is claimed as compensation. It has been clarified by Viacom that will not take the opportunity to identify users by their IP addresses.

However, Viacom has been dismissed for its request for obtaining the source code of the platform and tool for detecting illegal content.

Less than two weeks after the official end of negotiations with Microsoft, and the signing of an advertising partnership with Google, Yahoo! continues to lose its leadership.

The house Yahoo! does not decidedly so that, and the recently signed a partnership of advertising with Google has not stopped the bleeding currently afflicting the leadership of the group, quite the contrary. The Wall Street Journal and spoke of some fifty officers who left the firm in Sunnyvale last 12 months, and the meter does not seem ready to stop with a dozen freshly made hotel.

Yang pointed flee their leaders!
For more familiar to the general public, these departures concern founder of the couple sharing website Flickr photos, bought by Yahoo! in March 2005 and who turned to the videos there is little. Caterina Fake and Stewart Butterfield, also the couple lives, have decided to slam the door and to stay in the family’s social network, Joshua Schacter who founded the site sharing bookmarks goes Del.icio.us also.

This wind of revolt is not the prerogative of the precursors of Web 2.0 since there are almost at the same time, the departures of vice-president, an official of Yahoo! abroad, one of the architects of the highly popular Yahoo! Mail or Qi Lu who had been placed at the head of the advertising platform Yahoo!, Panama.

In short, very difficult time ahead for Jerry Yang, the current CEO of Yahoo! whose position looks increasingly fragile. It is within this context that an inevitable reorganization is expected to be announced this week, while the next general meeting of shareholders on 1 August 2008, promises to be bumpy for the co-founder of Yahoo!.

The neutrality of the Net continues to debate the USA, and it is in this context that Google has announced its intention to propose tools to the user so that it can control the actions of it’s ISP.

To emphasize certain information flows rather than others, Internet access providers of the USA are tempted by filtering, making hunting for large consumers of bandwidth. With nearly 13 million subscribers, cable operator Comcast, for example, is strongly suspected to have applied such measures affecting the exchange of files via P2P.

The climate is rather tight and therefore it is in this context that Google has indicated its intention to propose a series of utilities dedicated to the audit of the bandwidth of the user, who may actually confuse its ISP . With its multitude of sites including YouTube, it must be said that Google is particularly concerned by the question.

For a subscriber better informed about the activities of its ISP
“We try to develop utilities, software tools that allow users to detect what’s happening with their broadband connection. They can tell their ISP that they are not satisfied with their bandwidth, and that they believe that some services were affected,” said the director of policy Google, Richard Whitt, The Register.

No specific date for the availability of these utilities, and the rest said it was not one day they will cross the Atlantic. Yet, in these times of law Hadopi they would certainly be very welcome in our countries and would ensure once it enters into force planned for early 2009, a general screening is not done which should not be if … If we take the statements by Christine Albanel.

On the perimeter of sites audited by XiTi, Google continues to go it virtually alone in the field of web search.

The barometer XiTi search engines after another month after month and the finding is almost always the same, cold and implacable for competition. Google reigns supreme undisputed.

Google and then … Google
For the month of May 2008, all over 90000 sites audited by XiTi, Google registered a share of visits by 90.33% and the highest increase compared to April. The competition continues to pull the language, unable to follow the soaring Google. Yahoo! displays a small ironing 2.90% below 3%, while Microsoft’s Live Search is credited with 2.45%. The increase for Google, and therefore downwards to its closest competitors.

Google Earth offers to enter the gates of the complex recreation of Walt Disney in Florida to discover a world in 3D.

Visit free one of the most famous amusement parks in the world is what Google proposes free from Google Earth via the 3D modeling of Walt Disney World Resort. A project called revolutionary with more than 1500 3D models of the theme parks of Orlando and more than 20 hotels. The visit will be decorated with various types of content such as photos, videos.

In practice, it suffices to have the latest version of Google Earth. In the Layers Panel option 3D Buildings must be activated and about the user interface, it must be in the English language (U.S.). A change from the menu Tools, Options and General tab.

The context is ready, then that is left to take “Disney World” in the search box on Google Earth to be automatically directed to the large ears of Mickey Mouse, or more exactly an icon in the golden effigy of the famous mouse which it will click to start the visit.

Also in the field of 3D, Google has launched this week to several countries , a program previously reserved for the USA. The program Cities 3D is aimed at local communities who wish to add a 3D model of their city in Google Earth.