YouTube to escape the clutches of the PC

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LG Electronics has signed a deal with Google to develop a special YouTube mobile phone that would allow users to create, upload, view and share video clips without ever using a PC, according to TechCrunch. The product will ship before year’s end and appears to be LG’s gambit to take on Apple’s iPhone, which allows its owners to view—though not create—YouTube videos on their handsets. The LG offering furthers my theory that every human being is now a node on the worldwide communications network, constantly generating and consuming media.

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