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YouTube, the most famous video site in the world, is
planning to introduce full-length TV shows. Even if people are used to watching
short clips, to a maximum of 10 minutes, Google, YouTube has decided to sign a
partnership with CBS to broadcast TV shows like “Dexter,” “Star Trek” or “Beverly
Hills, 90210.”
This way, YouTube may finally achieve its expectations in
the financial plan. The long videos will include advertising before, during and
after each episode. Before the company was bought by Google, the YouTube
founders had resisted the so-called preroll, midroll and postroll...
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When the fruits of Google, HTC and T-Mobile’s collaboration
were unveiled last months in the persona of the HTC G1 Android Phone, the first
smartphone to use Google’s Android mobile OS, it got everyone excited. The
device did receive its fair share of critiques, and flaws were pointed out.
Nevertheless, everyone hailed it as an exciting newcomer to the land where the
iPhone is king. Just how excited, we couldn’t tell up until now.
HTC and T-Mobile felt confident that they could sell about
700,000 G1 units by the end of the year, but lo and behold their initial stock of
500,000...
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Google Labs, with its software engineer Jon Perlow, released
an application that can stop people under the influence of alcohol from sending
e-mails they normally wouldn’t send to their boss, ex-girlfriend and the list
can go on. The program consists of a few math questions that the user has to
answer in about one minute. If he passes the test, he can still forward the
e-mail. If the alcohol keeps him from doing the calculations, Google will briefly
tell him: “Water and bed for you. Or try again”.Of course, it’s an optional
application that can allow you to avoid it if you really don’t...
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Microsoft
has recently annouced that, on November 19, they would be launching an update
to their Xbox Live interface, called “New Xbox Experience.”
The company revealed the information during a keynote
address at the Tokyo Game Show, a video game exposition / convention
held in the Makuhari Messe, in Chiba, Japan, between October 9 and October 12.
Scheduled
to be released in 26 countries, the redesigned interface will be localized
in 19 languages and it will join another makeover, which the Xbox Live's
Marketplace has undergone. The latter is a virtual market that has...
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NASA said it is pushing ahead with the launch of the next Mars mission, but it will certainly need more funds to do it. The mission is scheduled to be carried out in 2009 and will launch the Mars Science Laboratory (MSL), the biggest planetary rover yet, and land it on the Red Planet. While NASA engineers are working hard to cope with the technical challenges of the mission, the space agency is considering another funds boost. The mission’s budged has already grown from $1.6 billion to $1.9 billion and now it will go even higher. NASA officials wouldn’t say how high. The agency’s...
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The upgraded iPod Nano which was unveiled at the “Let’s Rock” event on September 9 turned out to be...
Having almost unequivocally lost out to arch nemesis Google
in the internet search and services...
European Justice Commissioner Jacques Barrot welcomed Google’s
decision to cut in half the...
Google’s new beta version browser, Chrome, is out now for
all interested Windows users. The...
European device manufacturer Nokia announced it is expanding
its agreement with Microsoft,...
On Wednesday, AOL launched a new feature that allows users
to access multiple email services from...
Text messaging is as popular in the U.S. as it is expensive,
giving birth to a somewhat strange...
Yahoo joined today the large plethora of companies that
offers applications for iPhone through the...
Virgin Mobile USA has completed acquisition of Helio which they had bought in June for $39 million....
Research In Motion (RIM), the BlackBerry-maker, unveiled on Wednesday its first ever flip smart...
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