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BlackBerry Media Sync for Mac, Storm Announced Stateside

The Boy Genius Report brings word of relief in sight for Mac users with BlackBerry.  The official Research In Motion (RIM) application BlackBerry Media Sync for Mac will bring all the functionality of BlackBerry Desktop Manager to OS X users. Third party solutions like Read More »

Norway and iTunes: The DRM War

Norway has taken their two-year fight against iTunes and Apple’s FairPlay DRM to its next step, and will now ask the government to force Apple to open their iTunes music to other devices besides the iPod.  As background, this all began when Norway’s consumer ombudsman, Bjorn Erik… Read More »

 
 

Liberate Your Memories: Home Movies on Your Apple TV

I adore my Apple TV. Really, I absolutely would not want to give it up. My love affair with the Apple TV began when it gave me access to my entire (50+ GB) music collection on my “big” sound system. Then there’s the little things like… Read More »

I sometimes wonder if the folks over in the Googleplex ever sleep. It seems like we have a new product or service update every other day some weeks. Google is now getting even closer to Mac desktops with the release of Update-Engine, a Mac OS… Read More »

Modernizing Mail.app: The Solution

Mail.app is an imperfect beast. Thankfully, with a little modification and some extensibility, you can make Mail.app a more modern email management client. In my previous post, I criticized Mail.app for not providing modern tools to improve email management. Nevertheless, I was able to find a… Read More »

Bring Spotlight To The Cloud With Precipitate

If you are a heavy user of either Google Bookmarks or Google Docs, you now have a way of searching your content via the OS X built-in Spotlight tool. Written by Stuart Morgan and available for free (open source, in fact!), this simple application makes… Read More »

If you tuned into a recent episode of Indy Mogul last week you’d probably have seen host Erik Beck mention the show’s sponsor, Universal Studios’ Death Race. And if you tuned into a 2007 episode of Indy Mogul last week you’d also have seen… Read More »

ESPN signed a deal with Major League Baseball Advanced Media to live-stream games as well as put content from America’s past time across a wide range of digital outlets. Terms of the deal were not disclosed, but ESPN will get to simulcast Sunday, Monday and Wednesday… Read More »

Vid-Biz: CBS, Digital Day, Galactica

CBS Sports Upping NFL Web Vids; new programming will include Fantasty Football Today (which will have a 90 minute premier episode!), and other programming that will run seven days a week through the season. (MediaWeek) New York Television Festival to Have ‘Digital Day’; Will feature premiere… Read More »

Social media platform startup KickApps has signed on the content delivery network Akamai to try to take on Brightcove and Maven Networks and their high-end video publishing tools, the company is announcing Monday. KickApps’ core product is a platform for media publishers to build communities, like… Read More »

Defend Net Neutrality! Don’t force ISPs to spy on their customers in the name of copyright enforcement! Such are the demands of a European online video campaign called Throttle the Package that has recently been launched by — no, not the overseas bureau of… Read More »

More Must Reads

IOC Backs Down on Tibet YouTube Video Takedown; Olympics Committee withdraws complaint over protest video. (The Industry Standard) Katie Couric to host Special Web Vids for Political Conventions; CBSNews.com and CNET to host live, post-primetime web-only coverage, will incorporate audience questions. (Broadcasting & Cable) Shatner Adds… Read More »

No Live Streaming for YouTube? Sources tell SAI that despite Steve Chen’s previous comments, the company never seriously considered adding the service. From a YouTube spokesperson: “We have nothing more to share at this time.” (Silicon Alley Insider) Joost CEO on Net Neutrality; Mike Volpi writes… Read More »

LiveRail, a company that originally offered a video ad marketplace and has since changed tack to license its video ad server, has raised $500,000 from Pond Venture Partners. The company also announced today the release of a new free product, called Junction, for publishers… Read More »

YouTube, in its ongoing attempts to make money and appease Eric Schmidt, today on its homepage is sporting a new sort of ad unit, an expandable HD trailer for the movie Pineapple Express. After clicking, a video of the trailer expands to take up… Read More »

Too bad Stacy’s mom didn’t have a vlog, she would have stood a good chance of lining up some big name sponsors. As we mentioned today, hit podcast Mommycast signed with Procter & Gamble to create a new video series, and it’s just the… Read More »

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