Hulu made a bunch of updates to its video player today, making it bigger, adding adaptive bitrate streaming, improving content recommendations and enabling users to receive more personalized ads. But there’s one thing that Hulu won’t be adding any time soon: support for HTML5. Read More »
Archive for May 2010
Netflix is finally making some of its streaming titles available in HD on the PC, a full 18 months after the subscription rental service first announced support for HD on the Xbox 360, Blu-ray players and other connected devices. Read More »
BT, a British telecom, said today it would spend an additional £1 billion ($1.49 billion) to deploy fiber to up to two-thirds of the homes it serves by 2015, up from 40 percent by 2012 that BT said it would reach late last year. Read More »
The reality sets in once you start getting busy. What once what once seemed like a badge of honor starts resembling a ball and chain. Even if you thoroughly love your work, you can see the billable hours trap you’ve set for yourself. Read More »
Gateway has introduced a new line of notebooks aimed at providing affordable performance for multimedia enthusiasts. The NV series comes in two sizes — 15.6-inch and 17.3-inch, and is available with Intel or AMD processors. A unique social networking button provides one-touch access to social networks. Read More »
Ed Crawford, CEO of Philips Lighting North America, tells us Philips new LED bulb that can replace a 60-watt incandescent will likely retail around $60 and will be available in the U.S. in the fourth quarter of 2010. Here’s 5 questions from an edited interview with… Read More »
SAP says it is buying Sybase for $5.8 billion or roughly $65 a share. The deal highlights the growing importance of the mobile Internet & how smartphones are becoming the all important remote terminals of today’s modern enterprise, in the process supplanting the PCs. Read More »
The startup SCVNGR is getting one step closer to creating a game layer on top of the world. Tonight it is releasing applications for iPhone and Android that allow users to build geo-targeted challenges for each other to play, just as its customers already do. Read More »
The Sprint EVO 4G is definitely looking like one hot smartphone, and I am jonesing for one. I was bouncing around the web and found a blog by John Taylor from Sprint. The EVO 4G data plan information is up and looks pretty darn competitive. Read More »
A leaked build of Android 2.2 shows benchmark gains of up to 450 percent for Android applications. With a JIT compiler for Android’s Dalvik VM, even older Android handsets could see better performance. This and fragmentation reduction efforts are expected at next week’s Google I/O event. Read More »
Former Nerf Herder front man Parry Gripp has become Internet famous for his clever tunes riffing on videos of adorable animals — but it turns out that the songs are great even when performed live. Read More »
Presenters at the Smash Summit on social media marketing in San Francisco today offered up a few solid case studies about tweaks that worked. Here are some of the ones I picked up from Facebook, YouTube, Wildfire Interactive and Digg. Read More »
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