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it's wednesday june nine I'm Natali del Conte and it's time to get loaded several big tech companies announced the broadband internet technical advisory group or bit tag today it's an advocacy group it will lobby for an open Internet participating companies include Google verizon AT&T Intel and others this is just the beginning formation of the group but one to keep an eye on china does not want to allow user generated or crowd-sourced maps the country has started to require online map providers to operate under licenses this means that images that are taken by users and uploaded to a public map will not be allowed the license would also require must be hosted on servers within China which would be bad news for Google since its maps are now hosted in Hong Kong and on Tuesday we reported that Ford SYNC users could email their in-car navigation directions straight from google maps GM OnStar customers can do the same later this month the OnStar system will let users download directions from google maps right to your in-car now system.currenttimemillis by any means that's your news for now I'll see you tomorrow thanks for watching I'm Natali del Conte be seen at TV and you've just been loaded