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German Gmail could be a goner

GmailDespite the stupid alliteration in the title, German Gmail users could face a real threat to their service. The threatened shutdown is In response to a new German law that will require email services to keep personally identifiable information for account holders.

For all the information Google tracks about its users, the company doesn't require a home address, phone number, or anything else that can tie your email account to an individual person. Since Google makes its money off of advertising, anonymized and aggregated data is more useful.

The new law is framed as an anti-terrorism measure, but Google says it violates the company's privacy policy. What's funny is that Google's recently come under fire for holding too much private user data. Sometimes you just can't win.

Teenie Bopper social network site Piczo gets a larger vocabulary

piczo goes internationalOne thing that tends to take a while in the Web 2.0 market is the expansion to non-English speaking markets. Even Google is guilty of waiting a while to open up services for non-English speaking residents of the world.

Piczo, the social network that specializes in the teen market, has finally expanded to include other languages. The second place superstar in the social space for teens now has international versions for users in Germany, France and Spain.

It's a move that hasn't come soon enough for the over 1.2 million users in Germany alone. Piczo's current user base is approx. 25 million users worldwide.

[via webware]

Quaero: The official search engine of the European Union

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ChiracIn his 2006 New Year's address, French President Jacques Chirac apparently focused on Quaero, a new search engine being built by "some of the top tech labs in France and Germany." The project is ambitious, to say the least, reportedly providing "an array of multimedia tools for identifying and indexing images, sound and text," including "a powerful translating tool which will be able to 'understand' audio as well as text," and available on mobile devices and digital TVs. Beyond that, the article is tantalizingly vague, and includes this less-than-promising passage: "The ambitious project will probably not be available anytime in the near future. Quaero is still in the earliest stages of development, so early that none of the major players have yet ventured a guess as to how much the project might cost. When Quaero does launch, it will have a great deal of catching up to do." Good luck with that, Chirac.

[Via Slashdot]

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