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Yahoo2Go is good2go

Yahoo2Go 2.0 beta is pretty good for mobile access to email, calendar and search services. But wait, there is more, and its all good. Read More »

Sling Media is scheduled to announce tonight SlingPlayer Mobile support for the Palm Treo 700p, the new smartphone currently offered by Sprint and Verizon. The company is also expected to show a technology demonstration of Slingbox running on Microsoft’s Vista, with some snazzy controls … Read More »

 
 

The Iraqi government has arrested the person who used his cellphone to videotape Saddam Hussein’s execution, reports the Associated Press. The man, whose film disturbed the world and instigated Sunni protests around Iraq, “was an official who supervised the execution and now he is … Read More »

iTV Release Delayed, says AppleInsider

Further software testing might delay an early January launch of the iTV, according to unnamed sources who spoke with AppleInsider — though Steve Jobs is still scheduled to reveal more details soon, presumably at MacWorld. The AppleInsider report said the device should ship by … Read More »

Easier Login Items

Generally when adding a program to the list of items that starts when you log in to your Mac, you have to go through the Accounts item in System Preferences. Or some programs will give the options in their own prefs. Either way, it … Read More »

Getting a Handle on iTunes’ EQ

Lately I’ve been trying to weed out the over-grown garden that is my del.icio.us account. Going back to some of the original things I posted (from 2004!) I found one in particular that I thought may be of use to some of the readers of … Read More »

Three months ago in San Francisco, Steve Jobs did his “One last thing…” trick and the prototype Apple has codenamed the iTV emerged from behind the curtain. The world was assured they could get their grubby hands on them in the first … Read More »

Ever wonder how to save the videos you see on YouTube, MetaCafe, Veoh and the like so that you can store them or take them on the road? What used to involve some complicated steps is now as easy as copying and pasting a URL … Read More »

We’re not sure if this is a crossing the chasm moment, but reading a story about police putting surveillance videos on YouTube to solicit information is either A) proof that the small screen has come of age as an information-dissemination tool; B) just weird; … Read More »

Adobe stock Flashes up

Wall Street seems happy with the latest report from Flash purveyor Adobe Systems, with the stock jumping a couple bucks plus change (to about $43 per share in morning trading), a 52-week high. As Microsoft struggles a bit to get its creative-software act together, Adobe … Read More »

Attack of the fuzzy numbers

Don’t worry, nobody was snooping over your shoulder counting how many times you actually watched the Star Wars kid. In a WSJ column (free today), Carl Bialik picks apart the Viral Factory’s list of the top ten viral videos of all time. You might remember … Read More »

Google-Baidu-video: Where’s the story?

The headline catches the eye, don’t it? Google, Baidu Eye Online Video Business in China But read the linked story — a Reuters post carried by the venerable New York Times — and you wonder where the editors are in the process anymore. Saving you time: Nobody from … Read More »

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Chan Nai-ming lost the appeal of his 3-month sentence for his role in helping to distribute copies of Daredevil, Miss Congeniality and Red Planet. Slashdot has been watching the story since the Hong Kong film industry began its crackdown on BitTorrent users, then … Read More »

Yahoo Music will update its player for music videos at about 4 p.m. tonight. The site is currently fluky while it is being updated. The music video player is ad-supported, and not connected to Yahoo’s existing music subscription and Internet radio offerings. The improved interface has three … Read More »

We imagine that Evel Knievel invested most of his professional time and money in doctors instead of lawyers. How else to explain his questionable lawsuit against AOL for turning up links in its search engine to the Kanye West video that Evel … Read More »

Up in Redmond at Microsoft today, I just saw a demo of WPF/E, Microsoft’s pre-launch cross-platform web application builder, which has a lot of rich media support. Scott Guthrie, the general manager of the team creating WPF/E (which he promises will be renamed), showed it off … Read More »

After postponing rollout of its movie download service, Netflix has been tweaking its movie preview feature. Could Netflix be getting the download infrastructure in place using Netflix preview users as guinea pigs? After only recently adopting Flash video as the delivery medium, … Read More »

Feeling guilty about whiling away all your time watching YouTube? You’re not alone. Sixty percent of U.S. Internet users watch online video regularly, according to a report released today by eMarketer. That’s 107.7 million people, or 87 percent of U.S. broadband users (the 60 percent … Read More »

CEO, for now: Mobile TV network Modeo is still set to launch in New York by year-end, but will do so with an interim CEO, according to Telephony’s Kevin Fitchard. Taking the interim seat is Michael Ramke, an exec with Modeo owner Crown Castle. Cisco … Read More »

Not only does this conference bridge have Bluetooth support and Skype In / Skype Out compatibility, but it also comes back to you if you throw it. OK, maybe the last … Read More »

Want to make comments within an online video? Point to objects of interest? Insert snarky remarks? Simply explain what’s going on? A number of companies offer tools that will help you time words to specific moments within an online video. It’d be hard to prove such … Read More »

YouTube updated its UI and added new features over the last couple days, allowing users to upload directly from webcams and set up chatrooms. We’ve been playing around over the weekend and like what we see. These are YouTube’s most noteworthy feature additions since to it … Read More »

Microsoft is way behind the times on user-generated video, but it’s aiming to catch up. Its new Soapbox product is trying to gain an edge by learning from what’s out there and integrating with other internal products. And with 465 million monthly MSN users, Soapbox … Read More »

Journalist Scott Kirsner is writing a book about the effects of technology on Hollywood. When a section on internet video got cut, he decided to release it as a PDF, available for sale online for $14.95. Kirsner, a contributor to the New York Times and … Read More »

Mobile video provider TinyTube, which brings top videos from sites like YouTube and Google Video to the small screen, has been asked to take down its YouTube content. That comes in the same week YouTube announced a more limited deal with Verizon. Om writes … Read More »

According to Elinor Mills at CNET, Current TV and Yahoo’s recent pairing may already be nearing its end. “Current is exploring better opportunities to distribute our content,” Current TV spokesman Alex Dolan said on Friday. He declined to elaborate. When we first wrote about the Read More »

Google and Europe somehow don’t get along. A few weeks back, Google got into a spat with a Belgian company. Now, a French documentary producer has sued Google, both in US and France. Flach Film, producers of TK, a movie about George Bush and … Read More »

GigaOM technical architect Nitin Borwankar usually stays behind the scenes, but he got so excited about vertical code search he stepped in and wrote a post about it. STARTUP: Krugle ELEVATOR PITCH: “Find, fix, and learn.” Vertical search engine and web-based work support for developers. WHAT THEY DO: … Read More »

Orb has announced a new free service called MyCasting that would give mobile users access to online video from YouTube, Google Video, Guba, and Daily Motion. That’s right, mobile video can be yours if 1) your phone has a browser and media player 2) you … Read More »

Tivo customers can already access content from The New York Times, CNET, and Rocketboom via their shiny PVR boxes, but on Tuesday, the company announced it is expanding its web video lineup.  CBS Interactive, Reuters Group, and Forbes will be making new content available for … Read More »

Atheros announced today that their XSPAN 802.11n draft wireless chipsets will start appearing in Lenovo ThinkPads, specifically the T60, R60, X60 and Z61 notebooks. This follows Apple’s ever-so-sneaky inclusion of 802.11n pre-draft functionality in the new MacBook Pros, so we’re sensing a trend here. The … Read More »

More and more companies are looking to get a piece of the mobile social network market that has been growing in Japan, one of the world’s most advanced cellular markets. Mixi, with its mobile-friendly features went public earlier this year, and Rupert … Read More »

If you want to see how the game industry regularly acts as its own worst enemy, try and download the demo of a game that interests you. After getting several enthusiastic word-of-mouth recommendations for THQ’s Company of Heroes, a new WWII-themed real time strategy game, … Read More »

This is mobile tech news only because it can affect millions of travelers going to Mexico or Canada.  Currently you don’t need a US passport to travel to either of those countries but the rules change next year effective January 7.  US citizens can currently use … Read More »

Google and Earthlink are struggling to sell their San Francisco WiFi plan to residents and community activists. The duo held a community meeting on Tuesday, which Davis Freeberg says was populated by a circus of crazed gadflies — another meeting is Read More »

What’s a guy to do after vesting his options and leaving a hot startup? Tell all! Well, kinda. I was laid up in bed sick this week, and had the time to read Karel Baloun’s Inside Facebook: Life, Work and Visions of Greatness. Baloun is no … Read More »

Just so you don’t think I was kidding about the cellular and WiFi convergence, D-Link introduced their V-CLICK product that does just that. The V-CLICK is a tri-band (900/1800/1900 Mhz) … Read More »

I tried this once before and I’m blown away with how much better Vista is on the 900 MHz Celeron Samsung Q1. I’m sure the 1 Gigabyte RAM upgrade I did has something to do with it, but increased driver support and a better … Read More »

The super cool Nokia N93 phone has been awarded the European Media Phone of the Year 2006-2007 by the European Imaging and Sound Association (EISA).  The N93 is the innovative phone with the swivel screen and 3.2 megapixel camera that records video at 30 frames per second.  … Read More »

At WWDC a briefly mentioned major addition to Leopard is the new Xcode 3.0. Now, many users will find no use in this important feature except for the improvement of the applications they use. For developers it is a must have, and it is quite disappointing … Read More »

Hey TAB readers, I need your help. I need a PDA Cell Phone for my job, but I want to get one that will still work well with my [at-home] MacBook. I’m tied-in to Cingular, and have narrowed the field down to either the Treo 650, … Read More »

CLICK HERE to download the file and listen directly.MoTR 59 is 33:14 minutes long and is a 30.4 MB file in MP3 format.INTRO: Based on “Time v2.1″ by Meta … Read More »

iSkoot, a startup that connects Skype over regular cell phones, just upgraded beta software on its site that lets users receive Skype calls, add and remove contacts, and set an online status. The upgrade also adds support for phones like the Motorola RAZR, SLVR … Read More »

One of these days, we’ll let the "Dell Dude" die a quiet death. Not today though because Dell just released an EV-DO ExpressCard. Gnarly, dude! The Dell Wireless 5700 Mobile Broadband … Read More »

I’m feeling remorse for all of the folks that don’t have 700w’s and can’t get Sprite Backup for free, so here’s a shot at winning a copy of Sprite Backup for your … Read More »

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