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Google has launched some new features for Google Translate, while altering the look of the service. In addition to redesigning the site,…
YouTube has launched a new video platform called YouTube Direct that allows users to submit relevant videos to participating news organizations for broadcast. All videos submitted to news organizations and approved by their editors will appear on YouTube with a link back to the news site. Key features of YouTube Direct include:
iPhone users with an interest in geography have a reason to cheer today: a certain search giant has released version 2.0 of Google Earth for iPhone, and the software has been improved in just about every way.
Facebook users will be familiar with the New Oxford American Dictionary's 2009 Word of the Year, "unfriend." Oxford says the term unfriend is a verb. Its definition of the word is "To remove someone as a friend on a social networking site such as Facebook."
YouTube's struck another content-sharing partnership, and it's a big one. Univision, which is the top Spanish-language broadcast network in America, has agreed to supply the video-sharing site with both short clips and full shows.
Egypt said Monday it is applying to use Arabic characters for the first time in its entire Internet domain name. The move by Egypt comes as the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) formally opens the process allowing countries to apply for "internationalized" domain names or IDNs, where scripts such as Arabic or Chinese will be used in the last part of an…
