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  • 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 noisy places, like airport terminals. And since the tool will be able to translate captions into your choice of 50 languages, it should be handy for viewing YouTube clips from around the world. For now, however, auto-captioning works only with videos in English.

  • 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 people are on Google, Twitter, Facebook, YouTube and other services to seek and provide information and help.

  • 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 announced.

  • 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 suggestive clips that don't exceed the service's Community Guidelines. The optional filter, named Safety Mode, also hides all text comments by default.

  • 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 altogether. Google has had a bumpy ride in China, where it trails leading search engine Baidu.com by a large margin and has faced tough government censors. The below timeline tracks Google's history in China:

  • Most watched YouTube videos in Australia

    Susan Boyle’s new album may be top of the ARIA charts in Australia right now, but it was a little video on YouTube that started it all. And when it comes to Australian-made YouTube clips, music artists dominate in the popularity stakes. Google has released its list of most-watched videos by Australians in 2009 and music dominates the lists of clips.

  • 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 communications protocol.

  • Blog: How YouTube can save the music industry

    Last week’s live stream of U2’s Rose Bowl concert is notable not only for the 10 million viewers who tuned in, and that fact that many people actually tuned in to a band of accelerating decrepitude, but for the fact that the event may well have sewn the seeds for a reflowering of the music industry.

  • YouTube competition highlights IT careers

    "What does information technology mean to you?" That was the question posed to Australian school and university students and young professional in a national competition hosted on YouTube and sponsored by the ACS Foundation.

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