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T-Mobile Wastes No Time Taking A Shot At iPhone On Verizon (And AT&T)

admin — Wed, 12 Jan 2011 23:08:18 +0000

Well you have to give T-Mobile one thing: they sure are quick. It was only yesterday that Verizon announced that the iPhone 4 was coming to their network in a few weeks. That means that both AT&T and Verizon, the two largest carriers in the U.S., will now have the device

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YouTube Mobile Traffic Tripled In 2010, Android App Gets Music Videos (And Ads)

admin — Wed, 12 Jan 2011 22:00:11 +0000

Given how popular YouTube is on the web, it shouldn’t come as a big surprise that a lot of people also enjoy watching video clips from their phones. And, given the surge in Android, iPhone, and iPad sales, that adds up to a lot of videos

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¡Increíble! Google Turns Your Android Phone Into An On-The-Fly Conversation Interpreter

admin — Wed, 12 Jan 2011 18:30:24 +0000

When it came to translations, you used to either need an interpreter or a book to navigate another language. That was either costly or cumbersome, respectively

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¡Increíble! Google Turns Your Android Phone Into An On-The-Fly Conversation Interpreter

Microsoft Evangelist Brilliantly Slams Google’s Decision To Drop H.264 Support

ouiss — Wed, 12 Jan 2011 13:08:45 +0000

A lot has been written about Google’s decision to no longer support H.264 HTML5 video playback in Chrome, and we haven’t seen the end of opinions about it (here’s MG’s take ). Make sure you read this one from Tim Sneath, director of the Windows and Silverlight technical evangelism team, though.

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Google Goggles Can Now Read Print Ads. Oh, And Play Freaking Sudoku!

ouiss — Mon, 10 Jan 2011 19:07:21 +0000

Of all the mobile applications that Google has come out with in the past couple of years, Google Goggles is definitely one of the coolest. You point your smartphone at any object, and Google attempts to figure out what it is — and it’s actually pretty good at it. And now it’s gaining two pretty interesting features

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Prezi Launches A Precious Presentation App For The iPad

admin — Mon, 10 Jan 2011 16:59:38 +0000

If you haven’t yet checked out Prezi , one of the most innovative presentation tools I’ve ever seen, you’re totally missing out. Today, the young company behind the amazing product is ( finally ) launching the highly-anticipated Prezi for iPad, enabling users to show stunning live presentations straight from the tablet computer. Right off the bat: we all know the iPad doesn’t support Flash, so not all existing presentations can be viewed in full if they contain Flash material such as videos

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Khush Lands Funding To Help Wannabe Singers Create Music On The Go

ouiss — Mon, 10 Jan 2011 16:00:10 +0000

Khush, a startup that develops music applications, has raised a new round of funding from Dave McClure’s 500 Startups , angel investor Yee Lee , and Georgia Tech ATDC VentureLab. The startup declined to reveal how much money was raised in the round.

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YouTube to launch pay-per-view movies in deal with movie studios

admin — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 08:54:29 +0000

Google’s YouTube video site is negotiating with Hollywood’s top movie studios to launch a pay-per-view movie service by the end of this year, according to the Financial Times.

YouTube is the dominant online destination for user-generated content. But the Google division wants to turn it into an international on-demand movie service in an effort to head off Apple in the digital distribution of film and TV shows.

Google has been emphasizing its advantage of having the world’s most popular search engine and YouTube, the FT said, citing unnamed sources.

“Google and YouTube are a global phenomenon with a hell of a lot of eyeballs – more than any cable or satellite service,” one executive with knowledge of the plans told the FT. “They’ve talked about how many people they could steer to this … it’s a huge number.”

Negotiations have been taking place for a few months, but they have taken on more urgency because Apple could be launching its own counter-move this week. Rumors suggest that Apple will upgrade its ailing Apple TV service this week at a press conference in San Francisco on Sept. 1. Google will likely have to compete with Netflix and Hulu as well.

The Hollywood studios, meanwhile, want to launch new movie services to make up for the decline of DVD movie sales and rentals. The FT said viewers of the Google movie service would stream rather than download movies at a rate of $5 for new films. YouTube has been beta-testing a film rental service since January.

Source: MediaBeat

YouTube gets a refreshed ‘End of Video’ screen

admin — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 17:54:29 +0000

YouTube's new 'end of video' screen

Youtube is today rolling out a new-look screen which displays at the end of every video, showing related videos and further interactions including the ability to “like” and “share” the just-watched clip.

Capping off one of the biggest re-design periods in YouTube’s history, the YouTube team have reportedly begun the roll-out of a refreshed splash screen — which has remained largely unchanged for some time — that features the ability to interact further with the video, bringing it up to scratch with the rest of the new-look site.

The previous iteration of the screen showed less information and didn’t allow users to “like” videos, although the ability to comment and share the video (e.g. embed codes) were shown.

While it’s not showing on all videos just yet, and an official announcement is still pending, select videos across YouTube when visited are now displaying the new screen (there’s a screenshot of the screen below).

The past three months have been extremely hectic for the YouTube team. They’ve rolled out a new mobile site, launched the beta of YouTube Leanback, made the video pages cleaner and simpler, launched a new “Playlist Bar”, support for local music listings, upgraded support for annotations, a new video manager and promotional badges, new embed codes, and support for Google Buzz.

Source: neowin

YouTube Will Be Next To Kiss IE6 Support Goodbye

admin — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:19:01 +0000

Judging by this screenshot taken by an IE6 user who was watching some videos on YouTube, it appears the Google company will be phasing out support for the browser shortly. I don’t have Internet Explorer 6 installed on my computer, so I can’t verify this first hand, but illogical it seems not and a simple Twitter search shows multiple people confirming the news. Heck, some are even downright ecstatic over the news.

The online video behemoth is pointing to ‘modern’ browsers like Google Chrome (twice on the same page even, unsurprisingly), Internet Explorer 8 and Firefox 3.5 as alternatives.

With the impending move, YouTube follows in the footsteps of that other Web 2.0 poster child, Digg, which recently hinted at wanting to cut support for the browser too. Digg’s User Experience Architect Mark Trammell at the time wrote that the site is strongly considering removing essential features like digging and commenting for IE6 users. He explained that while IE6 users make up around 5% of site traffic, it only accounts for 1% of diggs, buries, and comments.

YouTube so far hasn’t officially communicated about the desire to drop support for IE6, but it’s conceivable that like Digg it would rather have its developers spend time optimizing the service for newer, better browsers than wasting man hours on the oft-despised Microsoft browser. We recently reported that Internet Explorer is losing market share to Firefox and Safari at a rapid pace.

Source: TechCrunch