Microsoft gives up YouTube chase

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Gmail To Get More Protection From Snoops
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Microsoft gives up YouTube chase
news.cnet.com 6/16/2009 — SAN FRANCISCO--In the coming months, Microsoft plans to significantly scale back Soapbox, the video site it once hoped might take on YouTube in the user-generated content arena. In an interview on Tuesday, Microsoft Vice President Erik Jorgensen ...

YouTube Blocked in Iran? Here's How to Circumvent an Internet Proxy
citizentube.com 6/16/2009 — Reports continue to circulate that YouTube and other social networking sites have been blocked in Iran - preventing the protesters there from sharing the footage of police violence from the streets of Tehran. When a country blocks YouTube, however, ...

Google Aims For Idiot Box Opposite With Citizentube — WebProNews Feed

VuNow's internet video-to-TV streamer finds a home in Sherwood receivers — Engadget

The Costs of SSL Encryption for Webmail & Other Cloud Services — Technology Liberation Front

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Microsoft To Scale Back Its YouTube-Rival Soapbox — paidContent

Yahoo-Microsoft deal less likely, analyst says — CNET News.com 6/16/2009
The likelihood of a search partnership has dropped in recent weeks and is now just 50-50, says an analyst at Collins Stewart said in a research note on Tuesday.

Guessing game: How much money is YouTube losing? — SFGate: Technology 6/17/2009
Internet video leader YouTube Inc.'s losses have been overblown by some analysts, but corporate parent Google Inc. doesn't mind the misperception, according to a study being released Wednesday. Technology consultants at RampRate Inc. project ...

Microsoft takes hatchet to YouTube clone — The Register 6/17/2009
Admitting Failure 2.0 Microsoft plans to "significantly scale back" its Soapbox service, the would-be YouTube challenger it launched in 2006. Whatever that means.… Video - Business Intelligence for mid-sized businesses

Would Google ever get rid of YouTube? — CNET News.com 6/17/2009
Speaking with AdAge, Fliqz CEO Benjamin Wayne says that he can't see how Google can make the YouTube numbers work over time.

Firefox 3.5 Release Candidate Out Now — InformationWeek - All Stories And Blogs 6/17/2009
Apple, Microsoft, Google, and Opera have also released significant upgrades to their browsers in the past few months.