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It’s the afternoon before a long 4th of July weekend here in the U.S. Typical prime “goofing off” time for many 9 to 5 white collar workers. So you fire up your browser and wander around on YouTube for a while…what’s it going to hurt, right?

Well today a U.S. court has ruled that Google (who owns YouTube) must divulge the viewing habits of every user who has ever watched any video on YouTube. Per this article, Google must provide Viacom (who won the lawsuit) a viewing log which “contains the log-in ID of users, the computer IP address (online identifier) and video clip details.”

Yikes.

Now this doesn’t mean all our YouTube viewing habits will be posted on …

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Anytime you invite dozens of the region’s most important media and analysts to come and talk to your senior execs, it’s probably a good idea to have a lot of news to talk about.

That’s exactly what Nortel is doing this week with a panoply of press releases related to the APAC region — all in support of this week’s Nortel Asia Summit in Sydney, Australia.

I’ve already talked about two of the releases, the 40gig win with Southern Cross Cables and the appointment of new leaders for the APAC region, but most of the week’s news has been focused on new unified communications deployments. While some of last year’s media hype about UC has quieted a …

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