March 2009


General28 Mar 2009 01:30 am

YouTube brings education to the masses - Daily Telegraph Blogs
The world’s favourite viral video repository is trying to bring together the best lectures from more than a 100 US universities, including MIT, Yale, Stanford and Harvard with the launch of its ‘educational hub’. YouTube EDU is a means to “collect

Cityscape | Bar and grill opens today downtown - Kansas City Star
Downtown s AMC Mainstreet Theatre won t open until May, but Kansas Citians can get a taste of what s to come at The Marquee . The theater s bar and grill will open for dinner at 4 p.m. today at the southwest corner of 14th and Main streets in

General23 Mar 2009 01:30 pm

Apple unveils new iPhone features - BBC Technology
Apple has unveiled what it calls a “major update” to the operating system that drives the iPhone and iPod Touch. Some of the 100 new features included in the update replicate those already offered by other smart phones. The new functions include cut

Flash Player Available Now on YouTube’s Mobile Interface - Softpedia
Mobile phone owners have been able to access videos on YouTube for quite a while now, as the site offered its own mobile interface for this type of users, and also had a mobile application to view the files, only that most of the times they would

General21 Mar 2009 03:30 pm

Mozilla Outs Fennec 1.0 Beta for Internet Tablets - Jkontherun.com
If you haven t been following the development of Mozilla s Fennec mobile browser, now s a great time to start. The team delivered Fennec version 1.0 in beta yesterday and it appears stable enough for everyday use on your Maemo-running Nokia

BOLT Mobile Browser Renders Its 15 Millionth Page As New Users Climb - MobileBurn
Cambridge, Massachusetts March 17, 2009 Less than one month after its public debut at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Bitstream Inc. (NASDAQ: BITS) today announced that BOLT, the company’s web browser for mobile phones of all types, has

Dell Steps Out in Style with New Thin Adamo Laptop - Top Tech News
Dell is going stylish with its love-named Adamo laptop, which is really thin, even thinner than Apple, Inc.’s MacBook Air. Dell says it wants Adamo to “disrupt the personal-computer space.” Dell’s Adamo is Onyx and Pearl, also known as black and

Flash Player Available Now on YouTube’s Mobile Interface - Softpedia
Mobile phone owners have been able to access videos on YouTube for quite a while now, as the site offered its own mobile interface for this type of users, and also had a mobile application to view the files, only that most of the times they would

Apple Lets IPhone Update Automatically, Cut and Paste (Update3) - Bloomberg
March 17 (Bloomberg) — Apple Inc. unveiled the third version of the iPhone operating system, adding long-requested features such as a cut-and-paste function and giving software developers new ways to make money on their applications. IPhone

Apple announces new iPhone features - Independent
Scott Forstall, Senior VP of iPhone Software, discusses the new cut and paste feature for iPhone during an event announcing the new operating system for the iPhone (Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images) Apple unveiled the third version of the iPhone

STREAMING FLASH VIDEO - Herald Times
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Flash & Search Engines : Indexed in a Flash - Searchengine Journal
When it comes to SEO, Flash can be a polarizing topic. Whenever I m speaking with clients about their SEO initiatives (along with their creative and technical staff), it only takes one mention of flash to suddenly get a mixture of angry, excited

Apple unveils new iPhone features - BBC Technology
Apple has unveiled what it calls a “major update” to the operating system that drives the iPhone and iPod Touch. Some of the 100 new features included in the update replicate those already offered by other smart phones. The new functions include cut

General20 Mar 2009 07:30 pm

Apple Shows Off Next Version of iPhone Software - New York Times Blogs
Robert Galbraith/Reuters Scott Forstall, senior vice president for iPhone software at Apple, discusses the new iPhone OS 3.0. CUPERTINO, Calif. In a shot across the bow of other mobile phone makers that are rushing to emulate aspects of its

BOLT Mobile Browser Renders Its 15 Millionth Page As New Users Climb - MobileBurn
Cambridge, Massachusetts March 17, 2009 Less than one month after its public debut at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Bitstream Inc. (NASDAQ: BITS) today announced that BOLT, the company’s web browser for mobile phones of all types, has

General16 Mar 2009 11:30 am

StudioNow’s Mason enlists video crew of thousands - Nashville Tennessean
Serial entrepreneur David Mason is at it again. With venture capital funding from several sources, Mason and his partners have taken Web-based video production company StudioNow past $1 million a year in sales. Mason’s eventual goal is to take the

WEB VIDEO OF THE DAY: World’s best pandhandler - KSDK
KSDK — An impressive panhandling routine is helping a man earn some extra money and is getting him attention on YouTube. In the video, the man makes a plastic skeleton sing and dance. Click on the video player below to watch the video

Charter Tier Blends Sports TV, Web Content - Multichannel Online
Charter Communications, in one of the first attempts to blend TV and Web-video access into a single bundle, is offering a $10-per-month package that includes a sports cable TV tier and access to additional premium-level sports content on the

General14 Mar 2009 02:30 pm

Scaleform Announces GFx 3.0 and New Video Solution - Earthtimes
GREENBELT, Md. , March 12 /PRNewswire/ — Scaleform(R) Corporation (Scaleform), the groundbreaking force in interactive entertainment middleware and user interface (UI) engines for video games, today announced Scaleform GFx(TM) 3.0, with powerful new

MLB Turning On HD Streaming, DVR For Today’s U.S.-Canada Game - CNN Money
Major League Baseball is turning on its high-def video feed for today’s U.S.-Canada World Baseball Classic game , which starts at 2:00 p.m. ET. ( Access it here . Subscription required.) This means that MLB.TV subscribers will be able to watch the

Promoters of all kinds take a shot at online video - MediaChannel.org
NEW YORK Media companies and people with camcorders and spare time the drivers of popular online sites including Hulu.com and YouTube are starting to face tough new competition for the attention of Web users who like to watch videos

Yahoo Announces Facebook, SearchMonkey Features - eWeek
Yahoo announced two new features for SearchMonkey and Facebook of particular interest to site owners and administrators. Yahoo s Messenger Pingbox for Facebook is a widget that allows administrators and social-networking users to keep in touch with

STREAMING FLASH VIDEO - Herald Times
Tom Weber is a sweet-talkin guy when it comes to maple syrup. His enthusiasm for the process seems endless. At this time of year he virtually lives at the remote maple sugar camp he operates with his brother Dan. Few people are better qualified to