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  Anniversary special: 5 years of YouTube

• Google asks DOJ if it can release details on government data requests

  By Jaikumar Vijayan | 12 June, 2013 00:47

  Google has sent a letter to U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder and FBI director Robert Mueller seeking permission to disclose specific details about the information it is required to provide to the government in response to requests for user data from U.S. intelligence agencies.

• Stopwatching.us: Reddit, Mozilla, EFF and others join forces to fight for privacy

  By Jon Gold | 11 June, 2013 21:01

  A group of high-profile advocacy organizations, businesses, and important figures in the technology world have started a petition aimed at pressuring U.S. lawmakers into action over controversial digital surveillance activity undertaken by the government.

• Debate rages over revelation of NSA spying secrets

  By Ellen Messmer | 10 June, 2013 14:25

  Debate continues to rage today over the bombshell revelations that the National Security Agency collects intelligence on individuals via telecommunications and social-networking sites. The uproar has the U.S. government and private companies admitting to some aspects of the surveillance, while vehemently denying others. A former CIA agent working for Booz Allen Hamilton has revealed himself as the leaker.

• MAKE IT STOP! 'Facebook - The Musical' and more

  By Bob Brown | 07 June, 2013 19:17

  A cheery new YouTube video called "Facebook - The Musical" is on its way to going viral at more than 500,000 views during its first few days on the Web, thanks to a campy crew of crooners singing the praises of the social network.

• Samsung teases Premiere 2013 event with new Android and ATIV devices

  By Daniel Ionescu | 27 May, 2013 20:12

  How many hardware tricks can Samsung possibly have hidden up its metaphorical sleeve? After already debuting the Galaxy S4, Mega, Core, Win, and Galaxy Tab 3 in the early months of the year, Samsung has at least two more devices to launch this summer.

• Microsoft knuckles under, yanks YouTube app for Windows Phone

  By Gregg Keizer | 25 May, 2013 16:11

  Microsoft has bowed to pressure from Google and pulled the YouTube app from its Windows Phone Store that earlier this month triggered a cease-and-desist letter from the search giant.

• Google issues YouTube ultimatum to Microsoft as Hatfield-McCoy feud heats up

  By Gregg Keizer | 16 May, 2013 17:01

  Google yesterday sent a cease-and-desist letter to Microsoft, demanding that its rival remove the YouTube app built for the Windows Phone platform.

• German case on embedding YouTube videos referred to EU court

  By Loek Essers | 16 May, 2013 13:51

  Embedded YouTube videos don't infringe copyright under current German law, but they could violate European rules, the German Federal Court of Justice said on Thursday.

• Analytics boost social marketing efforts

  By Sandra Gittlen | 28 February, 2013 11:54

  Big-name companies including General Electric and Best Western are maturing their social marketing programs and integrating social metrics with back-end systems.

• Gartner: The top 10 strategic technology trends for 2012

  By Michael Cooney | 19 October, 2011 04:41

  ORLANDO -- The technology that makes up many of the systems in the ITworld today is at a critical juncture and in the next five years everything from mobile devices and applications to servers and social networking will impact IT in ways companies need to prepare for now, Gartner Vice President David Cearley says.

• Motorola Xoom: Tablet impresses, but drawbacks remain

  By Melissa J. Perenson | 25 February, 2011 01:21

  All eyes are on the Motorola Xoom tablet, and for good reason: It's the first device in an expected multitude to ship with Google's tablet-optimized Android 3.0 (Honeycomb). The Xoom has a lot of features to like, and a lot to set it apart from the ever-growing crowd of tablets; but it also has some drawbacks that temper my enthusiasm about it.

• YouTube 2010 'top videos' list ruled by music

  By John E Dunn | 14 December, 2010 05:18

  If YouTube started as a place for people to upload low-res videos, Google's global 2010 'most popular' video list shows just how fast the model is evolving into something nakedly commercial.

• Microsoft gives behind-the-scenes look at internal "YouTube" network

  By Bob Brown | 17 June, 2010 08:39

  Not that Microsoft has anything against e-mail – after all, it's made a killing on Outlook over the years – but the company realizes being too addicted to traditional messaging can bog you down.

• YouTube's anniversary: How HOTorNOT started it all

  By JR Raphael | 10 October, 2009 09:42

  YouTube is celebrating the third anniversary of its acquisition by Google by showing off an awful lot of O's.

• YouTube readies redesign amid chorus of complaints

  By Juan Carlos Perez | 01 July, 2009 09:16

  YouTube plans to soon switch all of its members to a redesign of its channel pages that it has been testing for several months, although many people want the Google video-sharing site to give them the option to keep the old layout.

• Hotspots in the online video underground

  By Jackson West | 14 May, 2009 02:54

  Once upon a time, it was easy enough to find your favorite clips and shows on YouTube. After all, the site owed its early fame in part to Lazy Sunday from Saturday Night Live.