It appears that YouTube is becoming the popular method for governments to reach out to the public. You may have heard that YouTube...

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One of the really cool capabilities of Android is its speech recognition. You can run a Google query by speaking the term or say a command like "call frank mcpherson" to control the phone. Unfortunately prior to today only Android users in the United States could use voice actions, but today Google has released an update to Voice Search so that users in the U.K, France, Italy, Germany, and Spain can now use them.


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Facebook today said that it would sign a voluntary code of conduct in Germany to protect user data, reported Egypt.com. This is the first time that Facebook has agreed to a code of conduct on privacy in a security-sensitive nation like Germany.Richard Allan, Facebook's director of European public policy met with Germany's Interior Minister Hans-Peter Friedrich and the site agreed to sign a voluntary self-regulation agreement that brought its policies more in like with German data protection laws [...]

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