Google Inc., racing to head off a media industry backlash over its video Web site YouTube, will soon offer anti-piracy technologies to help all copyright holders thwart unauthorized video sharing, its chief executive said on Wednesday.

“We are definitely committed to (offering copyright protection technologies),” Google Chief Executive Officer Eric Schmidt said in an interview. “It is one of the company’s highest priorities,” he said.

“We just reviewed that (issue) about an hour ago,” Schmidt told Reuters when asked what Google was doing to make anti-piracy technologies widely available to video owners. “It is going to roll out very soon … It is not far away.”

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It takes a bit of searching to find Sergey Brin’s office at the Googleplex.
Tucked away in a corner of Building #43 on this sprawling campus near the southern tip of San Francisco Bay, past rows of colorfully decorated cubicles and dorm-like meeting spaces, Office 211 has a nondescript exterior and sits far from the public eye. Although it takes several twists and turns to get there, his office is not protected—as you would expect for the cofounder of a $150-billion company—by a Russian nesting doll’s worth of doors and gatekeepers.

Sergey, 33, shares the space with his Google cofounder, fellow Stanford Ph.D. dropout and billionaire pal, 34-year-old Larry Page, an arrangement that began eight years ago in the company’s first humble headquarters in a Menlo Park, California, garage. Since then, Google has grown from just another Silicon Valley startup into the world’s largest media corporation; in fact, based on its recent stock price of $513 per share, Google, which has made searching the Web easy and even fun, is larger than Disney, General Motors and McDonald’s combined. It achieved these lofty heights by revolutionizing how people surf the Internet: Before Sergey and Larry analyzed the links between web pages to deliver search results speedily based on relevance, looking up information on the Web was a shot in the dark.

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Two minutes before his introduction on stage yesterday, Google chief executive Eric Schmidt walked across the ballroom of the Willard Intercontinental Hotel unnoticed by most of the pinstriped crowd dining on crab cakes and tenderloin.

Google has transformed the Internet. But the executives who have made billions from Internet searching — and who get mobbed by geeks in the San Francisco Bay area and praised by analysts on Wall Street — barely stir the kind excitement in Washington generated by, say, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and her outfit at the State of the Union address.

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Google lost another trademark battle against the German holder of the G-mail trademark, Daniel Giersch, The Register writes:

The Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (OHIM), the body which is responsible for European community trademarks, rejected Google’s appeal after a stiff battle with German-born venture capitalist Daniel Giersch.

Giersch, who has held his trademark for six years, has been fighting this battle since Google launched its email service in 2004.

Google already renamed Gmail to Google Mail for German users, though those who registered a *@gmail.com address early on didn’t need to switch to *@googlemail.com.

What’s G-mail anyway? Giersch wants to launch a “hybrid communication” solution at Gmail.de – you can register already to be informed when the service launches nationwide in Germany (right now it’s Beta-tested in the nice lil’ town of Itzehoe). With hybrid communication, G-mail intends to allow others to contact you in a variety of ways, like by fax, snail mail, or electronic mail, and they will then “channel” this message and output it into any other medium, as you prefer. For example, someone in the city of Hamburg can send off a message to Munich. The message will be entered electronically, then transmitted electronically, and then printed out in Munich and transported to the Munich recipient via a local courier service. As a bonus, you’ll even be able to collect a micropayment commission from the price the sender paid…

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Shortly after Neteller announced its decision to pull out of the US gaming market on January 18, the London-based technology company Seed Capital Ltd. introduced a new payment processing service ‘YouTeller.com’.

“We will start in March with a revolution in simplicity of worldwide online payments. Everybody who can download songs or play online games will now be able to pay for that instantly,” said Johannes Knierzinger, CEO and co-founder.

On Monday the British Financial Services Authority (FSA) granted YouTeller the “Small E-Money Issuer Certificate”, therefore making it possible to operate as an e-wallet. “The FSA has already given us the green light. We will begin services after the server-security testing period is completed,” said Florian Schweitzer, company spokesman and co-founder. It took three month to develop the new online payment framework.

“We have no overseas branch in a NAFTA-country like Neteller or Citadel, so we are not affected by US legislation,” underlined Schweitzer. YouTeller is part of an international lobbying task force that works on the issue ‘worldwide online payments’ with the World Trade Organisation (WTO) and the European Union.

The WTO has again ruled against the United States in favor of Antigua and Barbuda, this time for not taking “the necessary steps to comply” with the April 2005 WTO ruling to correct discrimination against foreign internet gambling operators, Reuters reported late last week.

Earlier this month, federal officials arrested the founders of Neteller, an Isle of Man-based online payment processor, while they were in the US to switch planes. John Lefebvre and Stephen Lawrence are set to fight the charges laid against them when they appear in court in February.

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