John’s Tech News

TiVo users will be able to watch YouTube clips on their televisions by year’s end, TiVo Inc. said Wednesday.
That’s the latest move by YouTube to reach beyond the Web’s regular boundaries. Fans of the popular online video provider can view its videos on their cell phones and Apple TV, a box that streams movies from [...]

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YouTube will be jumping into the live streaming video market later this year. Or at least that’s the plan according to YouTube co-founder, Steve Chen, who recently told video blogger Sarah Meyers, that “live video is just something that we’ve always wanted to do, we’ve never had the resources to do it correctly.”
Although YouTube may [...]

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Many users around the world could not access YouTube Inc.’s site for about two hours on Sunday. The video-sharing company blamed the outage on erroneous routing information introduced by a Pakistani Internet service provider. Pakistani authorities ordered ISPs there to block the site on Friday.Traffic to YouTube was misrouted for around two hours, rendering the [...]

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Pakistan’s attempts to block access to YouTube has been blamed for an almost global blackout of the video website for more than an hour on Sunday.
BBC News has learned that the outage was almost certainly connected to Pakistan Telecom and Asian internet service provider PCCW.
A leading net professional said the global outage was “probably [...]

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Pakistan’s government has banned access to the video-sharing Web site YouTube because of anti-Islamic movies that users have posted on the site, an official said Sunday.
The Pakistan Telecommunication Authority told the country’s 70 Internet service providers Friday that the popular Web site would be blocked until further notice.
The authority did not specify what the offensive [...]

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