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• YouTube appeals German content filtering verdict

  YouTube and German music royalty collecting society GEMA have appealed the outcome of a lawsuit filed by GEMA against YouTube, in which a German court ordered YouTube to inspect the titles of uploaded videos to filter out potentially copyright-infringing content.

• Angry Birds tops companies' app blacklist

  It seems that your boss doesn't want you to launch digital birds at evil green pigs during office hours.

• C keeps its lead over Java, but index's accuracy is questioned

  The C language, which displaced Java as the most popular language in the Tiobe Programming Community monthly assessment in April, has maintained its number 1 spot in the May report released this week. But a high-profile member of the PHP community is questioning the accuracy of the index itself.

• ACM user conference seeks the magic in user interfaces

  Echoing the words of science fiction author Arthur C. Clarke, former YouTube user experience director Margaret Gould Stewart advised an audience of design researchers to think about creating magical experiences for their users.

• Google Raises Bug Bounties to $20,000

  Google has dramatically raised the bounties it pays independent researchers for reporting bugs in its websites, services and online apps.

• Apple television may just be a transparent screen, report

  Apple may have a far more clever plan to take on the living room than just creating an Apple television set. One report discusses the idea that Apple will instead sell transparent screens with a glass bezel that you can fix to the wall in every room of your house.

• YouTube pushes original programming

  In a flashy presentation to advertisers, YouTube has promoted its new channels of original programming, while pledging to spend $US200 million ($A194.45 million) to help market them.

• YouTube must filter content, rules German court

  YouTube must filter content uploaded by users, a German court ruled on Friday.

• Yes, IT departments should worry about Google Drive

  Google Drive is poised to give IT departments yet another headache to deal with.

• Top mobile apps showcased at DEMO 2012

  As is generally the case at trade shows today, mobile technology has been top of mind at the DEMO conference in Santa Clara, taking up the first half of the event's first day. Here are some of the mobile apps that stood out.

• Amazon Cloud accessed daily by a third of all 'Net users

  The era of cloud hyper-giants, providers so big and so critical to the delivery of information and commerce, is clearly here. But unlike an electric utility, which can give an exact count of customers and power consumed, understanding the true size of a cloud provider hasn't been as easy.

• Some new devices to mess around with Wi-Fi

  The scoop: iZON Remote Room Monitor, by Stem Innovation, about $130

• Leaked Microsoft roadmap shows 2013 launch for Office 15

  A leaked Microsoft roadmap shows that the next version of Office won't ship until the first quarter of 2013, according to the Dutch developer who found the document.

• Google+ gets 'more functional, flexible' design

  Notice something different on your Google+ page today?

• Appeals court resurrects Viacom case against YouTube

  A U.S. appeals court has resurrected a US$1 billion copyright case filed by Viacom against YouTube by sending the case back to trial by a jury.