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Google Sneak Views: Part I
Google has added St John’s, Sherbrooke, London, Sudbury, Winnipeg, Saskatoon, Edmonton, Nanaimo and Victoria to its list of Canadian cities spammed on its Google Street View, “a feature of Google Maps and Google Earth that shows high-resolution street-level images,” as Digital Homes sums it up. Other Google-stalked Canadian cities include Toronto, Calgary, Montreal, Quebec City, Halifax, Vancouver, Squamish, Whistler, Ottawa Kitchener and Waterloo. “The service which provides panoramic views of street from a height of about 2.5 metres was launched in May of 2007 and is now available over ten countries including the U.S., Canada, U.K., Australia and Japan,” says the story.
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p2pnet news view P2P | Politics:- What do Dutch Freedom Party leader Geert Wilder and US presidential wife Michelle Obama have in common? Oh, and her husband, Barack? They’ve all been compared to monkeys.
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We’ve had, “very few cases of people trying to exploit rights on other planets,” says Lynne Hale, a Lucasfilm spokeswoman on contracts the language of which is “standard in Hollywood”. She’s thus quoted in a Wall Street Journal story which kicks off »»» Decked out in sequined black and gold dresses, Anne Harrison and the other women in her Bulgarian folk-singing group were lined up to try out for NBC’s “America’s Got Talent” TV show when they noticed peculiar wording in the release papers they were asked to sign. Any of their actions that day last February, the contract said, could be “edited, in all media, throughout the universe, in perpetuity.” She and the other singers, many of whom are librarians in the Washington, D.C., area, briefly contemplated whether they should give away the rights to hurtling their images and voices across the galaxies forever.
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